Waxwing Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns (Color) vinyl is the third full-length from a band that connected two of the most significant names in Pacific Northwest post-hardcore. Released on Second Nature, this colored vinyl LP captures the band pushing further toward their harder edge, and the material holds up as a genuine document of what melodic post-hardcore sounded like when it was operating with real conviction.
Waxwing Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns (Color) vinyl
Rocky Votolato went on to a respected solo career in indie folk and Americana that many people follow independently of this band. Cody Votolato played guitar in The Blood Brothers, one of the most intense and influential post-hardcore acts of the early 2000s whose catalog still circulates among people who track the genre. Waxwing brought them together in a project that leaned harder than Rocky’s solo material without reaching the full chaotic energy of The Blood Brothers at their peak. The result occupied specific ground: melodic enough to hold the ear, heavy enough to mean business, and coherent enough to feel like a band rather than a side project.
What This Record Does
Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns is the band pushing toward the heavier end of their range with more confidence than earlier records showed. Second Nature Records backed a specific corner of Pacific Northwest post-hardcore, and Waxwing was one of their central acts. The production captures the band’s dynamics without over-polishing what should feel raw and direct in places. The colored vinyl pressing is the right format for music that rewards the closer attention that physical listening encourages.
For the Collector
If you have followed Rocky Votolato’s career in any direction or tracked The Blood Brothers’ influence on post-hardcore, Waxwing is a gap worth filling. Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns on colored vinyl is the version worth owning rather than streaming.
Second Nature Records built a catalog around bands doing serious work in post-hardcore without the benefit of major label resources, and Waxwing was one of the strongest acts on their roster. Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns on colored vinyl is the version of this record worth tracking down if you collect Pacific Northwest post-hardcore with any depth of attention or follow the Votolato brothers across their various projects.
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