One of Final Exit's best releases gets a sweet vinyl release via Maryland noisepunk label SPHC, newly re-mastered and presented on a single-sided 12" in gatefold packaging that replicates the design of the original release. The short, twelve-song EP originally came out back in 2008 as a 3" CD on the American label Rage For All, and quickly became one of our favorite noisecore releases of the decade; nearly ten years later, Seasons still delivers an ecstatic frenzy, a mini-masterwork from this long running Japanese band that showcases their often-humorous, always intense rapid-fire cutup compositions at their finest. Limited to five hundred copies.

      Here's our original review of the CD: It's wild to see that this Japanese noisecore band is still around - the guitar and drums duo of Hisao and Ryohei have been at it since 1994, surely outliving almost every other band that formed in the wake of Anal Cunt. They even appeared on the double CD compilation Not Without A Fight that Crucial Blast released at the beginning of the decade. Final Exit are still raging though, and they've dropped this eleven minute EP on us to prove that they are one of the best blurrcore outfits in the biz. Unlike most bands that took cues from Anal Cunt and the early noisecore scene, Final Exit have evolved beyond the pure grinding blur of their earlier releases and have taken a more experimental, genre-hopping approach to their micro-blasts that takes its cues from Naked City's classic Torture Garden album. On this new 3" CD, all kinds of musical clusterbombs are tossed in with their blown out grindnoise; surf rock, electronica, infectious indie-pop jangle, covers of Iron Maiden's "Aces High" and Complex's "Be My Baby", gooey doom, No Neck style clatter, hardcore punk, 50's greaser vibes, jazz chords, and stretched out spans of Cageian silence are all interspersed with their savage blurry blasts of Anal Cunt style grindnoise and harsh Japanoise skree. Weird, spastic, glorious stuff, issued in a beautiful miniature gatefold jacket with full color photos of seasonal landscapes and Japanese folks on vacation in keeping with the seasonal theme of the EP.