I've been listening to this year's reissue/reimagining of 1986's "New Wind" a lot in recent months; specifically, the "Change In My Head" remastering and resequencing undertaken by Kevin Seconds and Ian MacKaye. It's probably my favorite reissue of the year, and possibly my favorite HC release of 2025. To say I'd given "New Wind" short shrift is to assume I'd ever really given it a go in the first place. And I very clearly blew it, because there are real songs here, a progression that you'd naturally assume out of a band entering its third or fourth full-length these days, but was absolutely unheard of in 1986 when 7 Seconds released "New Wind" on BYO.
It also led me to pull this one back out of the stacks. It was a CD-only release on the Dutch label Reflections Records, coming a mere 13 years after "New Wind", which, at the time, felt like a million years proceeding, but it's been twice as long since this came out. There are no great surprises to be found here, with 7 Seconds' stylistic descendents paying tribute. There were A LOT of bands on the East Coast carrying that banner in '97/'98: Good Clean Fun, H2O, Ray Cappo's Better than a Thousand, and Fast Times all played fast, positive, sing-along hardcore in basements, VFW halls, libraries and wherever else we could carve out a space temporarily.
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