the red scare/orchid split (2000)

this record was one of the handful of releases by hand held heart, who also released the orchid s/t ep, a few other red scare records, and had a few releases from bands such as chromatics and pretty girls make graves, much before their later success on idib and matador, respectively. founder of the label, brian roettinger, was also known for his part in the screamo/hardcore band this machine kills, who released splits with yaphet kotto, envy, and sissy spacek, as well as featuring now world famous dj, steve aoki. kip from trs, alongside jayson and geoff from orchid, also played together in the blues rock band panthers.

this split features 3 tracks from orchid and one from the red scare, and overall i think this is one of the better of the splits that orchid ever did (i think the cwv one is my personal favorite).

listen to the split here