Hi,
I'm Lars Klores, the singer for The 5th Day.
Our deal was that we played about 10 small shows in and around Washington, D.C. in 1984 and 1985. Some of these were in people's basements, some were at Community Centers in Northern Virginia. We're listed on the inside back cover of Banned in DC for a show we played with United Mutation and Mission Impossible in 1985.
We were first or second on the bill at these shows but aspired to be bigger, so we went into Black Pond in August 1985 to record an EP. We were happy with it, but didn't have the cash to mix or press it at the time, so the tape sat in my basement for 30 years. Last year, we got Chris Biondo, the original sound engineer, to mix it, and we had it pressed into a limited edition white vinyl 7-inch. I'm not sure why the vocals/arrangement don't sound finished to you. I can tell you that we definitely consider the whole EP a "finished" work, as opposed to a demo. We were careful in the mixing to put it together just as we would have in 1985, without using any modern techniques (other than what we had to in this digital era) and we wanted to retain the raw sound we had on the original recordings.
The EP is distributed by Dischord, not released by Dischord. When we released, I approached Dischord to distribute it, they asked to hear the songs, then agreed to distribute. You can find it on their site here:
http://www.dischord.com/release/f-tfd/e ... 3A31+-0400All the songs are original. "One-Way Ticket" is a bit of a metal parody similar to Minor Threat's "Cashing In" or Tesco Vee's "Dutch Hercules" stuff. The rest are the straight-ahead punk we listened to at the time. We were big into Marginal Man, Husker Du, and the Damned, so that probably comes through.
So, that's the deal. We weren't big, but we were around. We should have put out a record, but we were lame and didn't, until now.
Thanks for your interest. If you have any other questions, please let me know.