A Day To Remember – Attack Of The Killer B’s – RSD Vinyl Review
12th April 2025I wandered through a record shop on RSD, boxed in by carefully arranged people who looked less like individuals and more like curated exhibits—assembled in low light, heads wrapped in decorative wool scraps pretending to be hats. The kind that warms nothing but the ego.
In their hands: meticulously brewed oat milk creations priced like controlled substances, sipped with the same grave attention one might give to blood during a transfusion.
The air carried the stench of synthetic confidence—grooming products with names that sounded like they’d been written during a midlife crisis—and the quiet judgement of people who treat band knowledge like a competitive sport. The speakers spat out a tangle of sound that resembled someone trying to exorcise a demon using broken audio equipment.
I moved through it all like a medic in a ward where no one wants to be saved. We weren’t shopping—we were foraging for proof that something still resonates. Vinyl wasn’t about sound; it was about weight. Tangible, dense, and pretending to mean more than it probably did.
I grabbed A Day To Remember’s Attack of the Killer B-Sides 15th anniversary pressing with the urgency of someone stealing antibiotics during a blackout. It practically vibrated in my hands—screaming orange, like a flare from a sinking ship.
It’s a limited run, of course. This means that in a few months, someone with disposable income and no one left to talk to will pay triple retail just to shelve it between unopened collectibles and the urn they silently suspect holds the wrong ashes.
The B-sides hit hard. Their version of “Since U Been Gone” takes a polished pop track and drags it through gravel until it bleeds something new. It’s abrasive in a good way—like sandpaper to nostalgia.
“Another Song About the Weekend” lingers like a Sunday night you can’t shake, the kind that makes you stare at your phone, crafting excuses to avoid another week. “Can’t make it in—emotional static, signal’s down, try again never.”
If you find this record, take it. Don’t wait. Don’t wonder. Just act. Regret is a slower poison than hesitation, and this thing—this heavy, beautiful, oil-born relic—is proof that something loud and flawed can still cut through the silence.
Score 9/10
Tracklist
SIDE A:
1. Right Where You Want Me To Be
2. Since U Been Gone
SIDE B:
3. Another Song About The Weekend (Acoustic)
4. Over My Head (Cable Car)
Label – Craft Records
Release – 12th April 2025
