40 Years of Chaos · EP.30 — The Vinyl Edition

Leave to Nowhere came out on CD, digital and vinyl on 10 October 2024 — and the vinyl is the version that turns the album into an object.

Rude Awakening catalogue number RA-015ILP: gatefold sleeve, transparent vinyl, numbered limited edition of 200 copies. The back carries the Side A and Side B tracklist together with the credits, so the journey of the record is literally split in two halves you have to turn over. The concept, pressed on wax.

Open the gatefold and you find the inner spread: the line-up and the thank-yous, the people and the names behind a record that took years to reach the light. Inside the packaging, the lyrics for all ten tracks — music by AydrA, words by Mauro Pacetti — because on an album built entirely around a story, the text is not a bonus.

The credits stay the same as the album: recorded and mixed at WR Studios in Ancona by Marco Bianchella, mastered by Paolo Ojetti at Castaway Studios, artwork from Luca Morici's Delirio.

For a band born in the era of cassettes, stamps and letters, seeing the comeback record pressed and numbered on transparent vinyl closes a circle that had stayed open for a very long time.