Temporary Residence kündigt eine Neuauflage des 1993er Albums „Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly“ von Moss Icon an. „Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly“ war das erste und einzige Album der experimentellen Post-Punk-Innovatoren in voller Länge. Aufgenommen 1988, wurde Lyburnum erst 1993 veröffentlicht - mehrere Jahre nach dem Ende von Moss Icon.
"Unverzichtbar, weil sie wie Fugazi, Slint oder jeder andere wundersame Schmetterling im Kokon des Hardcore eine Band waren, die ihr eigenes Universum erschuf." – Pitchfork
Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly was the one and only full-length album by experimental post-punk innovators, Moss Icon.
Recorded in 1988, Lyburnum would not be released until 1993 - several years after Moss Icon 's demise. Originally released on Vermiform - the esoteric noise label founded by Sam McPheeters of Born Against (Born Against, Heroin, Citizen's Arrest, Rorschach, Econochrist, Man is the Bastard, Hail Mary - you name it!) - the vision that Moss Icon 's Tonie Joy had for Lyburnum failed to manifest in its finished product. Of the process of preparing Lyburnum for its eventual release, Joy recalls, "My creative mind was well into its next chapter, onto an apocalyptic order [referring to Joy's post- Moss Icon band, Universal Order of Armageddon ]. Getting Lyburnum to look like what I envisioned in my mind became an uphill battle that involved misplaced photos, misunderstood instructions by the printer, increasing apathy, and lack of advanced printing knowledge (on my part), amongst many other technical and creative issues. With a deadline near it ended up being an it-is-what-it-is situation. Some corrections were attempted for the second pressing the following year, but a further lack of coordination between various parties saw it losing even more of the original vision."
Despite these challenges and shortcomings, Lyburnum Wits End Liberation was instantly cherished as a feral masterpiece - a singular entity that would become a defining influence on post-hardcore and emo in the 1990s and beyond. Nothing before sounded like this, and nothing since has quite captured the same mysterious fury. Now, finally, Moss Icon 's seminal Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly LP will be released exactly as it was always intended to look, sound, and feel.
The artwork has been fully restored, and includes previously unpublished photos that were inadvertently missing from the original release. Brilliantly remastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, the vinyl has been newly cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, and pressed onto audiophile-grade vinyl at Record Technology Inc.
