Picked up the debut full-length from High Places a few weekends ago. Both the CD and LP come in nifty gatefold packaging, which is definitely a plus. What threw me momentarily, though, was the lack of any sort of band information inside. I was reminded of picking up the second Sunny Day Real Estate album thirteen* years ago and thinking that its über-minimal design (if memory serves: a photo of a fly, the song titles, and Sub Pop’s address) was a trick of some sort — that if I looked under the CD tray, I’d see the usual list of credits. My inner nineteen-year-old still feels a little baffled at it.  And while my current thirty-one-year-old understands a little better that pretty much anyone with an internet connection could find a list of who did what on the High Places album, there’s still some obsessive part of me that wants to be able to pull up, say, engineering credits even if my internet connection goes down.

*-whoa.