Visit to Oz by Unwritten Law

Visit to Oz is a short, strange little artifact in the Unwritten Law story: an EP put out by Interscope and Rapido Records only in Australia, timed to the band's first headlining tour down there, and long since out of print. The band, formed in Poway, California in 1990 by drummer Wade Youman, stuffed it with odds and ends.

Two songs come from their self-titled 1998 album, all snotty, sun-bleached skate-punk energy. The rest is a peek into the vault: a couple of 1993 demos, namely an early take on "Kill to Breathe", which turned up in finished form on the 1994 debut Blue Room, and "Driven", a song that had otherwise lived only on the band's 1992 demo tape and appears on no other release. For collectors, that alone makes it worth the hunt.

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