Velour 100’s Fall Sounds Is Getting a 30th Anniversary Reissue
Lost in Ohio is doing the Lord’s work remastering and reissuing long-lost classics. To date, they’ve released new editions of beloved albums by Aunt Bettys, Fluffy, The Julies, Love Spirals Downwards, and L.S. Underground, to name a few. Their next reissue, however, is an album that’s truly near and dear to my heart: Velour 100’s Fall Sounds.
Originally released in 1996 by Tooth & Nail Records, Fall Sounds stood out amidst the label’s other releases that year, which included MxPx’s Life In General, Overcome’s Blessed Are the Persecuted, Plankeye’s Commonwealth, Stavesacre’s Friction, and The Supertones’ Adventures of the O.C. Supertones. Embracing a dreamy sound highlighted by Amon Krist’s clear, gentle voice, Fall Sounds had much more in common with classic 4AD than anything remotely resembling punk, hardcore, or ska.
As I wrote in my review from way back in the day, “Fall Sounds is the perfect name for this album, because the music somehow conjures up images of falling leaves, grey skies, and beautiful sunsets.” To this day, Fall Sounds remains of my favorite releases from T&N’s ’90s heyday, an album that I reach for whenever the air starts to cool and the leaves change color, and it brings back a lot of great memories. (Case in point, one of my favorite Cornerstone memories was seeing Velour 100 perform an impromptu and intimate acoustic set in the lull before P.O.D. and MxPx took the stage.)
To mark the album’s 30th anniversary, Lost in Ohio and Burnt Toast Vinyl are collaborating to reissue Fall Sounds on vinyl for the first time. From Lost in Ohio’s official announcement:
In 1995 at Eastern Michigan University, two people made a record: Trey Many (drummer for 4AD’s His Name Is Alive) and Amon Krist (an art student and daughter of celebrated folk singer Jan Krist). Warren Defever recorded it, bringing the same atmospheric instincts that had made His Name Is Alive one of the most singular acts in the 4AD catalog. In 1996, Tooth & Nail released the result: Fall Sounds.
Comparisons were made to bands like Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, and Low, but were incomplete. Fall Sounds had something those records didn’t have, a folk-like earthiness beneath the shimmer. The songs move from the reverie of “Stare Into Light” through the gorgeous, sun-catching acoustic strum of “Evergreen,” to “Flourish,” the album’s most kinetic moment. The closer, “Dub Space,” runs over eight minutes of guitar fingerpicking and cymbal wash, landing like a long exhale.
The album lived for 30 years on CD and cassette, gathering a devoted following that described it in quiet superlatives, with an increasing demand for a vinyl release. In the fall of 2026, on the album’s 30th anniversary, the wait is over. This limited vinyl pressing was made in direct collaboration with Trey Many, who has gone on from Velour 100 to drum for Pedro the Lion, Starflyer 59 and Lo Tom. The album has been thoughtfully remixed by James McAlister (Sufjan Stevens, The National) and freshly remastered by Warren Defever himself, now a celebrated mastering engineer at Third Man in Detroit. Lacquers were cut by Lex van Coeverden in the Netherlands. A reimagined layout was provided by Jason71.
The 2026 edition of Fall Sounds will be released this autumn; click here to preorder. Watch the video for “Flourish” below.
