Expert Work Records To Release Orwell’s Complete Discography On Vinyl

Expert Work Records are happy to announce the 30th Anniversary/special edition pressing of Orwell’s- “1995”, the complete discography from the Chicago band Orwell. Slated for release on Friday April 4th, with pre-orders for the limited edition vinyl starting on March 7th.

For one brief year from 1995-1996 there was a short lived band called Orwell. While all the members had  other musical projects going on (Gainer, Braid, The Sky Corvair, Hubcap), college, and were running  record labels (Divot Records & Actionboy Records). They somehow found time to take on one more  project. Though Orwell only lasted a year, they managed to record 8 songs, and play a handful of shows.  3 of those song managed to get released, 4242 on the “Emo Schmeemo” 7”, Angular Momentum on the  Polyvinyl “Direction comp” (but only the CD version), and Bandsaw Architecture on the Divot/Actionboy  “Ground Rule Double comp”. The other 5 songs had never been released.  

-Orwell were a five-piece post-hardcore/emo band from Chicago, Illinois. For many years, they were really  known as being another project Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes) was involved in, as their official  releases were limited to sporadic compilation tracks and a handful of unreleased bootleg recordings  circulating the internet. Finally, in 2020 an official discography was released, including all recorded  material, as well as some live tracks and demos. The result was Orwell 1995, which is titled as such since  everything on it was recorded that year. It sold out immediately! So, we now present a re-press  celebrating 30 years since this music was written and recorded. Sonically, fans of Nanna’s other work will  dig this, though it does have a more raw, aggressive sound in comparison to the usually melodic works of  Braid.