Career Suicide - Cherry Beach EP

Year: 2008
Label: Sewercide Records, Red Rum Records

Tracks:

1. Cherry Beach

2. Double Life
3. Your Body, Not Your Soul (Cuby & The Blizzards cover)


Along with their SARS EP and the Attempted Suicide LP, Career Suicide’s Cherry Beach EP is one of their strongest releases. For me, this record goes hand-in-hand with the SARS EP for a number of reasons. Both songs demonstrate Career Suicide’s songwriting at its absolute finest with a strong pop sensibility guiding the band’s snotty hardcore appeal. In addition both Cherry Beach and SARS come in seemingly innumerable variants. 

In the case of the Cherry Beach EP, 300 copies were pressed on Sewercide Records for a UK/Ireland tour in 2008.  The B-side tracks on the 7" are also noteworthy, the ultra-snotty Double Life and the raw garage lunacy on Career Suicide's cover of Cuby & The Blizzards' Your Body, Not Your Soul.

This 7" was made into a Toronto bootleg around the same time and put out by the mysterious Red Rum Records (a "label" frequently used in bootleg KBD records), limited to 100 copies.










Year: 2011
Label: Dirtnap Records

Tracks:

1. Cherry Beach
2. Means To An End

3. Double Life
4. Things Take A Turn

In 2011, Dirtnap Records did an official release of the Cherry Beach EP, with 1300 on black vinyl, 200 on red vinyl for mail-order, and 40 test presses which were sold at Career Suicide shows in Montreal and Toronto. Cherry Beach and Double Life were rerecorded for this pressing, along with two new songs. Unfortunately, the Cuby & The Blizzards cover was abandoned.

Both the SARS EP and Cherry Beach EP are distinctly Torontonian through their lyrical content. In the case of the Cherry Beach EP, the song Cherry Beach is an homage to Toronto new wave band, Pukka Orchestra’s 1984 track, Cherry Beach Express, which is about the Toronto Police Department’s several decade long history of picking up drunk, drug-addicted, homeless, and queer folks off the streets, beating and raping them, and leaving them alone on the desolate Cherry Beach in the early hours of the morning. ACAB, man.
Year: 2012
Label: Nada Nada Discos, Spicoli Discos

Tracks:

1. Cherry Beach
2. Means To An End

3. Double Life
4. Things Take A Turn

Finally, 50 copies of this 7” were pressed on a co-release from two Brazilian labels in 2012, which I don’t think the band members have even seen physically. God damn, I wish I had one of these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6vpYaL-V34