Topshelf Records

Tour Dates:

• Diamond Youth full US tour in support of Make Do and Mend, Cheap Girls »
• A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Weatherbox to tour in support of The Front Bottoms »
• Have Mercy full US tour with Koji, Turnover & Ivy League »
• Pianos Become the Teeth, Tigers Jaw US tour with Sainthood Reps & Dad Punchers »
• Slingshot Dakota US summer tour with Owen, Allison Weiss & Taking Meds »
• Caravels US tour dates with Octaves, Frameworks, I Kill Giants & Old Gray »
• You Blew It! tour dates with Light Years, Mixtapes & Modern Baseball »
• The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die announce May tour with Dads, Cerce »
• Fake Problems tour with The Menzingers, Restorations & Captain We’re Sinking! »
• A Great Big Pile of Leaves record release show details »
• Pianos Become the Teeth Australian tour supporting La Dispute »
• As always, see all tour dates for all of our roster on our site’s tour page »

News:

• Into It. Over It. / Hilary J. Corts // Life Is Suffering 7” and 200-page book »
• New shirts in the store from You Blew It!, TWIABP & Weatherbox »
• Pre-orders are now up for A Great Big Pile of Leaves’ You’re Always On My Mind »
• Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) has finished recording music for LP2 »
• Enemies // Embark, Embrace »
• Good news for toe fans »
• Video of You Blew It!’s set at Fest 11 »
• Crash of Rhinos // Knots »
• The Saddest Landscape // Exit Wounded »
• Read a great Prawn interview »
• Watch Slingshot Dakota play in a parking lot at Fest 11 »
• The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die // Whenever, If Ever »

The World is a Beautiful Place & I am no Longer Afraid to Die’s Whenever, If Ever is #1 on bandcamp! Thanks, everyone!

• stream it on Youtube for free.
• download it on bandcamp immediately for just $7.
• listen to it on bandcamp for free.
• listen to it on soundcloud for free.
• and, of course, order it physically on CD or vinyl.

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Whenever, If Ever

• stream on Youtube for free.
• download on bandcamp immediately for just $7.
• listen to on bandcamp for free.
• listen to on soundcloud for free.
• and, of course, order physically on CD or vinyl.

Sharing is caring.

Today was an exciting one here at our office as it saw the unveiling of two very special, near and dear records and our first foray into putting out a book (even if it has 200 pages and probably less than 200 words, haha). The humbling feeling of validation when you see something you believe in getting such widespread praise and support is something I hope everyone gets to experience at some point or another, even if in just some simple small way. The response to these records going on sale today — the culmination of years of planning, writing, setbacks, collaborating, personal sacrafice, etc. — is just that. So I’m sure when I say thank you for your support I speak for Hilary, Evan, everyone here at Topshelf and everyone in The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, collectively.

So now, I am faced with the difficult decision of acknowledging that Whenever, If Ever is actively leaking a month before it’s release date. You can probably Google for it right now and get it.

This is arguably the biggest release we’ll have all year as a label and this spoils a lot of planning we had in place over the last few months, but these things happen. This also forces me to acknowledge the real-world truth that yes, records cost money. This oft-avoided subject in our community is a reality for everyone who tours or postpones real life to make music in nearly any capacity. It’s a thing. This record is no different.

So against my better judgement, we’ve made Whenever, If Ever available to:

• stream on Youtube for free.
• download on bandcamp immediately for just $7.
• listen to on bandcamp for free.
• listen to on soundcloud for free.
• and, of course, order physically on CD or vinyl.

Anyone who has pre-ordered the record already — thank you, sincerely — you’ll be getting downloads as soon as I can get everything set up (we weren’t planning on sending them for another month after all).

So, I’m appealing to you all to please use the above URLs to share, acquire and experience this record. I understand it’s 2013 and you can download and share this for free (and we’re not going to stop you) but I’m not doing my job if I don’t ask. Heh, I don’t have a job if I don’t ask.

Thanks, you guys.

“Let’s hope that this works out; this has got to work out”

-The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, “Fightboat”

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - “Picture of a Tree That Doesn’t Look OK” from Whenever, If Ever — which will be out June 18, 2013 and is available for pre-order now in our store.

Read Purevolume’s post with a quote from Greg about how the song came together along with the band’s upcoming tour dates here.

propertyofzack:

I (Zack) stopped writing reviews for the site in the fall of 2011, and have had no true desire to start again; frankly, we have better people for that. I obviously do enjoy writing about music though, and have had the urge over the past few months to give my thoughts on albums once again: just not in typical review form. 

The World Is A Beautiful Place - Whenever, If Ever (6/18)

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Whenever, if Ever

Easily one of our most anticipated releases of this year — and certainly one that’s long overdue — Whenever, If Ever will mark The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die’s first foray into releasing a full length record. It’ll be released by us on CD, vinyl and digitally on June 18, 2013. So, I dunno. about time, right?

photo by Carly Hoskins.

I think this band has evolved into something that demands to be heard over the course of a full length record; and we’ve all been given glimpses of the potential of what that can be over the last few years’ EPs and splits — but believe me, they fucking deliver, you guys.

We’ve been listening to demos, roughs, instrumentals, mixes — and finally — masters. It’s been a thrill to see this record get made and will be well worth the wait.

• See them on tour right now with Hostage Calm and Turnover.
• See them on tour soon with Dads and Cerce.
• Listen to their new song, “Beverly Wyatt”, from their split with Code Orange Kids, Tigers Jaw & Self Defense Family.

We’ll have more details on pre-orders, album art and track listing in the coming weeks.

Thanks, y’all.

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die. By the way, they’re recording their debut full length right now.

@sethdecoteau & I discussing how this weekend’s recording sessions went with @twiabp.

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die has entered Format Audio Studio in Haverhill, MA with engineer Ryan Stack (My Heart To Joy) this week to begin recording Whenever, If Ever, their debut LP due out this fall. The band will be documenting the recording process with a series of video journals along the way on their tumblr, as well as on some partner sites that will be revealed shortly.  

TWIABP will take a break from recording to play a series of dates in July and August. Dates’re below: 

• July 5 - New Brunswick, NJ @ Bath Haus w/ Souvenirs, Ex Wife, Dads
• July 6 - Wallingford, CT @ Secret Location (Meet at Redscroll Records) w/ Souvenirs, Self Defense Family
• July 7 - Providence, RI @ Blood Drive Co Op w/ Souvenirs
• July 8 - Garden City, NY @ Today’s Mixtape Fest w/ Iron Chic, Such Gold, Front Bottoms, Souvenirs
• July 13 - Springfield, MA @ Bramble Jam
• Aug 10 & 11 - Blacksburg, VA @ I Got Brains Fest
• Aug 14 - Hamden, CT @ The Space w/ Joyce Manor, Algernon Cadwallader