AGAINST ME is releasing again on FAT WRECK? Aren't they with a major label? Yes, both times. No, FAT WRECK has not become a major label. The head of the label is still Fat Mike, and everything is as it has been. The album “THE ORIGINAL COWBOY” includes recordings from a demo session that took place shortly before the recordings of the second album “As the Eternal Cowboy.” At that time, the band was still with FAT WRECK. The recordings only took a few hours and then disappeared into the archives. Only now has mastermind Tom Gabel listened to the material again and found it so good that he didn't want to withhold it from the public. Thus, with this album, you can essentially hear the album between the debut and the second album now. The songs are nicely raw and have a hardness that is partly missing from the band's newer songs. The recordings were not remixed extensively. That is their great advantage. Here, the rough edges and corners of the folk punk of AGAINST ME! can be heard excellently. This gives the songs a charm of rebellion that is compelling. It simply sounds more honest. As an introduction to the world of AGAINST ME!, this album is definitely recommended and certainly for the big fan and collector as well. However, there remains a certain bitter aftertaste, as almost all the songs on “THE ORIGINAL COWBOY” are already known. So, you don't get a truly new album, but rather a raw second album.
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