Saves The Day – Through Being Cool (Red LP Vinyl)

Saving Through Being Cool arrived in 1999 as a defining document of melodic hardcore's transition into something more emotionally raw and nakedly vulnerable. Chris Conley's vocal delivery and confessional lyricism pushed the New Jersey band into a class of their own among the Equal Vision roster, and tracks like "Rocks Tonic Juice Magic" and "Freakish" still hit with the same urgent ache they did a quarter century ago. This flame red pressing is a fitting way to revisit one of late-'90s punk's most enduring statements.