VESTIGES

Album Cover

VESITGES was a compilation tape released by Rav on May 15th, 2019, being his first official release since BENEATH THE TOXIC JUNGLE. The project served as a finale to the B-Sides he had been releasing since 2012, compiling his favorite songs from the series along with new tracks. Many of the songs had been edited to better fit the compilation tape.

The project was never released officially on streaming services, this is due to most B-Sides never being uploaded there, and many of the tracks included having copyright issues associated with them, the exception being the tracks "and that's me", and "YOU FUCKERS WERE ASKING FOR THIS ONE (BOIN EDIT)", which were both placed on streaming services. To make up for it's limited availability, Rav made a spotify playlist compiling the tracks in order, that are included in the tape, and already on streaming services.

The album art was created by Don, channel artist of SuperMega, and creator of Cassette Girl, who was for a time also the channel artist for Bill and Rav's ChibiChubby, with Rav referencing that Don made the art in part as a send-off after they switched channel artists. The design of the art, featuring him vomiting from all three mouths, is similar in design to B-Sides 3, also carrying the same intended idea of it representing "brain vomit", as the project is a collection of various unrelated tracks.

### Official Description

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> *MOMMA SURE AIN'T RAISED NO PUNK
> NO, INSTEAD SHE RAISED SOMEONE INSECURE AS FUCK
> AND THAT'S ME
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> In addition to some previously unreleased music, this mixtape contains my personal favorite songs from all 7 installments of the b-sides & rarities series, which includes volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. This compilation release signals the end of said series, as going forward I intend to make a deliberate effort to complete an album that I’ve been sitting on for a while now.
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> When I was recording some of the oldest songs on here, going back nearly a decade now, I genuinely didn’t expect that anyone other than myself would ever end up hearing them. Some of these songs I wrote and recorded when I was still in high school, some when I was in college, some when I dropped out of college and couldn't get a job, some when I finally found employment and was working a 9 to 5 office job climbing up the corporate ladder, and some 4 years after I eventually quit said job to pursue a self-employed route, which brings us to now. All of these songs hold great significance to me for one reason or another. Entirely unintentionally, these throwaway, unfinished songs that I had recorded over the years ended up chronicling my journey into adulthood.
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> Going back to these songs now, one thing that I’ve taken away with regard to myself is that, although I’ve never quite figured myself out, my repeated efforts to keep pushing onward have all been valid.*
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### Tracklist

* and that's me
* Columbia
* Silent Pterodactyls
* Hypocrisy
* Invite
* Still Smoking
* Single Second
* Wings
* Blur
* Perfect Pieces
* Goodnight
* Nausicaä
* Hovercraft Flow
* Kumbaya
* I Digress
* YOU FUCKERS WERE ASKING FOR THIS ONE (BOIN EDIT)
* Gravity-Assisted Suicide
* Reef
* So Long!
* Soles

### Physical Editions

VESTIGES was released on CD the same day as the original album. They were designed by Ghostly Pixels who has been known for creating art assets for EXO. A second edition of the CDs were released a year later for the projects anniversary as a "limited final run", implying they may never be resold.