Highly recommended.

Reissue of Holyoke, MA's minimalist post-punk band Landowner's first cassette, originally released in 2016. Landowner's debut album was very formative for what would become Born Yesterday, and this reissue will roughly mark the three year anniversary of the label. The album shines with raw and unfettered creativity, repetitive clean guitars, and disaffected yet deeply personal lyrics about society’s harmful disconnect from the ecological systems it depends on.

The band were responsible for our favourite punk-rock albums of 2018 (Blatant, click the Please Reorder For Me button to secure a copy) and 2020 (Consultant, ditto).

Impressive Almanac is the culmination of Dan Shaw's bedroom experiments making minimalist post-punk, guided specifically by the question, “what would it sound like if Antelope played Discharge songs?”. The entire album was tracked by himself at home shortly after moving back to Western Massachusetts after five years away. Dan did not yet have any backing band at the time.

Shaw says of the record “Sharing this tape with friends in the western Mass diy scene soon led to the formation of Landowner as a full band. Even though we're a real band now with a real drummer and everything, the drum machines and copy/paste repeating riffs of these songs still represent the near-impossible standard we strive for as a band.”