Excessives, The
Instant Vinyl Depression

Listening notes

The Excessives released Instant Vinyl Depression on Boom! Records (catalog number Boom 21) in 1990. The release is a vinyl single or EP comprising three tracks: "Bargain" on the A-side, with "Soul Aside" and "On All Fours" sharing the B-side. The record falls within the indie rock and rock genres.

Beyond what the release itself documents, relatively little has been widely catalogued about The Excessives or this particular record in the years since its appearance. What can be said is that Boom! Records, identified here as Boom! Records (2) to distinguish it from other labels sharing that name, served as the release vehicle for the record at a moment when independent labels were an important part of the infrastructure supporting acts working outside mainstream channels.

The three-track configuration — one song leading the A-side and two songs splitting the B-side — was a common format for independent vinyl releases of the period, offering artists a modest but tangible physical presence in a market that still relied heavily on the format. The title Instant Vinyl Depression has a self-aware quality that sits comfortably alongside the indie sensibility the genre tag suggests, though reading too much into a title without additional context would be speculative.

Track durations are not documented in the available data, so nothing further can be confirmed about the running time or structure of individual songs. Similarly, personnel, recording location, and production credits are outside the scope of what the available facts support.

This draft is unreviewed and should be verified against additional primary sources before publication. Any details beyond the label, catalog number, year, format, genre classifications, and tracklist positions and titles have not been confirmed and should not be assumed accurate.