Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Year (#9-#12 Collection)

https://youtu.be/sRDrJkaA70o

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In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Atmosphere’s iconic Sad Clown Bad Summer, Fall, Winter & Spring EP’s, they are now available in one complete vinyl package for the first time ever! Consisting of 20 songs, encompassing fan favorites such as “Don’t Forget” , “The Rooster”, “Not Another Day”, “Happymess”, and most notably, “Sunshine”, arguably Atmosphere’s biggest song to date.
 
This special edition vinyl comes packaged with half black & half white double vinyl, colorable gatefold vinyl jacket housing 6-custom made crayons, an 8-page activity and coloring booklet, and a free digital download card. Completely illustrated and designed by original Sad Clown artist Adam Martin.

https://rhymesayers.com/releases/sad-clown-bad-year

used to absolutely love these guys - especially around the time they released lucy ford but i haven't listened to them in ages. this packaging is just amazing to my eyeballs; might have to see if i can pony up enough dough and snag one of these just for the memories 

any other atmosphere fans around these jawns?

As a Minneapolis native I'm gonna self=proclaim myself the Atmosphere expert of watmm. While I'll always have respect for Ant and Slug and what they did for the local hip-hop scene (and the entire midwest really,) his later stuff is just SO boring compared to the early days. When Life Gives You Lemons was the beginning of the downfall for me, however the Sad Clown series is some of the better stuff not released on an album.

Seven's Travels era stuff is amazing (anything up to and including You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having really), and I also highly recommend some of Slug's early  non-Atmosphere works i.e The Dynospectrum and Deep Puddle Dynamics, there's also this comp:  https://www.discogs.com/Mr-Dibbs-Atmosphere-Random-Vol-3-Sad-Clown-Bad-Dub-7/release/1359279 that serves as an awesome mixtape mixed by Mr. Dibbs of live Seven's Travel era stuff and alt-takes/b-sides and rarities from the era.

 

for me personally it was around god loves ugly that i began to hear things getting boring. that was also around the time i stopped listening to hiphop altogether

also- agree on deep puddle dynamics. the scarecrow speaks still makes me smile. only problem: one album? why not more?