Doesn't Exist II The Complete Recordings [3xLP+7" Box Set]

Fang Island - Doesn't Exist II The Complete Recordings [3xLP+7" Box Set]

Wooden Box: custom-built, hand-numbered, featuring laser-etched artwork.
Vinyl Included:
- Fang Island (on Daisy Pink Splatter Vinyl)
- Major (on Major Gray Splatter Vinyl)
- Day of Great Leap b/w Sky Gardens (2xEP on 1x12") (on Bone & Blue Splatter Vinyl)
- “Starquake” b/w “Patterns on the Wall” (7" Black Vinyl)

Doesn’t Exist II: The Complete Recordings collects the entire Fang Island discography including the eponymous self-titled, their sophomore LP, Major - their second LP, a 12” record containing both EPs Day of Great Leap and Sky Gardens with secret bonus tracks, an exclusive 7” with unreleased material AND a screen-printed poster, all housed within a Joyful Noise’s signature custom hand-made wooden box.

Doesn't Exist II: The Complete Recordings, serves as a comprehensive celebration of Fang Island’s playful and energetic style, from the the triple-tracked guitarmonies that fade in from the sound of fireworks on “Careful Crossers,” “the “Jack and Diane”-style acoustic riff that splits “Sideswiper” in half, the organ drone on “Daisy,” the wah-wah guitars of “Sisterly,” the country-fried licks of “Dooney Rock.” This collection captures the band’s distinctive approach to music, where anything that made them laugh was considered a success. Fang Island are self-admittedly nostalgic people, so it’s fair play if this vinyl reissue brings you back to a very specific period of indie aesthetics - the Dirty Laundry interview series, tall cans of Sparks Ultra, The Buried Life, Daytrotter, Billboard Heatseekers. But Fang Island’s music has been reanimated by a subsequent decade where their one-of-one output now sounds prescient - in 2012, Japandroids began their album with a recording of fireworks and created a genre name that would soon encompass Fang Island: “celebration rock.” As one of the first hits on Sargent House, Fang Island helped establish one of the label’s core tenets of hyper-melodic, technically proficient prog that included Tera Melos and TTNG. Meanwhile, if a record with as much finger-tapping and gang vocals as Fang Island were released in 2024, it’d be the toast of fifth-wave emo. But even if the whole of indie rock has caught up to the sound of Fang Island ten years after the fact, well…as divisions are driven deeper than ever, the spirit of “everyone high-fiving everyone” will forever remain insurgent.