At long last, we've got the Envy back catalog on Japanese label HG Fact back in stock. Due to the crazy upward rise of the yen, these titles are more expensive now than the last time that we had them in stock, and it also looks like we're one of the only U.S. shops that have these on the shelves right now.

5 song CD from this AMAZING Japanese band, who have been around for almost 15 years and are just now beginning to get noticed here in the US. Actually, they'll probably be all over the place in the near future, as it appears post-rock imprint Temporary Residence Limited (Mono, Explosions In The Sky, Bellini) has signed Envy for their upcoming 2006 full length. Excellent. SO here we are with this MCD from a few years ago, and is filled with their ultra powerful combination of beautiful, anthemic indie rock and crushing metallic hardcore, moving between emotional, intense melodic, jangly, pretty passages and bombastic heaviness, like Mogwai if they were a mid-90's "screamo" band, and with noisy, swirling Sonic Youth-ish guitars, a maximum melodic noise wall, and technical, brutal song structures sort of like Botch, but WAY heavier, and WAY more intense and beautiful and EPIC than that comparison might suggest. The singing on this switches back and forth from teeth-gritting screaming, full on ferocity, to passionately sung clean vocals. It's AWESOME stuff.