Name: Voids
Brand: Have a Nice Life

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FR145LPX

Colour

Brown

Colour details

Cornetto

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-05-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

657628443230

Total Cap

Brown LPx2

FR145LP

Black

Extended format: No

2024-05-24

657628443216

Black LP

FR145MC

Tape

657628443247

9999

FR145CD

657628443223

Artist

Have a Nice Life

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Flenser

The Flenser is a San Francisco label specializing in releasing black metal, doom, and other dark music. With a reputation for pushing boundaries and exploring the depths of sonic darkness, The Flenser has become a go-to destination for fans of heavy and atmospheric music. Whether you're looking for haunting melodies or bone-crushing riffs, The Flenser offers a diverse roster of artists that will satisfy your darkest cravings.

Known by many simply as "Flenser," this label has established itself as an authority in the underground music scene. From its humble beginnings to its current status as one of the most respected labels in the genre, The Flenser continues to curate and release groundbreaking albums that challenge conventional notions of what heavy music can be.

With an impressive catalog spanning multiple genres within the realm of dark music, The Flenser is dedicated to supporting both emerging talent and established artists who push boundaries. Explore their extensive discography and discover new sounds that will transport you to realms unknown.

Newest Listed Items

For fans of Duster, LSD and The Search for God, The Microphones. First official physical copy of fan-made compilation of alternate tracks and demos from cult phenomenon album Deathconsciousness. Freshly remastered. With the broader adoption of the internet around the turn of the century, how people would engage with and discover underground music would change forever. As a result of the new digital era, DIY was now worldwide, and no band embraced this new frontier better than Have A Nice Life.

Formed in 2000 by duo Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga, the Middletown, CT-based pair would, throughout the 00s, self-release and share a number of demos and home recordings via early social media channels as well as establish its in-house label Enemies List Home Recordings. These first steps set in motion Have A Nice Life’s rise to renown as an icon of underground music in the internet age, culminating with the release of its pivotal 2008 debut album, Deathconsciousness. Through word of mouth and online discussion, Deathconsciousness became subject to viral praise thanks to its synthesis of bleak post-punk, lo-fi shoegaze, and carpets of hypnotic drone music. Eventually, this humble self-released project would attain the status of a post-internet cult classic, amassing Have A Nice Life a fervent online following that the band would interact with in kind.

In an effort to thank and continue to engage with Have A Nice Life’s internet cult following, Barrett and Macuga would regularly share links to old demos, works in progress, and outtakes from the recording of Deathconsciousness. Over time, a group of fans would compile these demos into an unofficial release. Dubbed Voids, this fan-made compilation several alternate takes of tracks from Deathconsciousness, as well as a handful of early versions of songs that would appear on Have A Nice Life’s two following albums, The Unnatural World and Sea of Worry. While undeniably reminiscent of their final album version counterparts, the earlier versions of these tracks each feel distinct in a way that makes the moody, decidedly lofi aura of Voids an essential slice of the Have A Nice Life discography. Hungry for more from the enigmatic duo, fans swarmed around this compilation, accompanied by loud calls for it to receive a physical release. Seeing that demand and with the band’s blessing, a pair of fan-made tape pressings of Voids would be released via Music Ruins Lives, a DIY label run by Have A Nice Life superfan Thom Wasluck, also known for his band Planning for Burial. Between both instances of the tape swiftly selling out and the compilation’s long absence from streaming services, Voids has historically been an elusive release to track down, only available in the obscurest corners of the internet or physically on the secondary market at eye-wateringly high prices.

Voids

Music GB

Discover Have a Nice Life by Have A Nice Life on vinyl. This double LP features alternate tracks and demos from the cult album Deathconsciousness, freshly remastered by Flenser. Explore this underground music phenomenon.