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Our latest exclusive vinyl variant is a new “frosted coke bottle” pressing of Hot Water Music‘s classic 2002 album Caution. That’s limited to 300 copies and up for pre-order in the BV shop.
For the uninitiated, here’s what we wrote about Caution in our list of essential 2000s melodic punk albums:
With their rugged blend of punk, emo, and post-hardcore, Hot Water Music had established themselves as a force to be reckoned with as far back as their 1997 debut album Fuel for the Hate Game. At first they had a loose, spindly sound, but they started to tighten things up on 2001’s A Flight and a Crash (their first for Epitaph and first with producer Brian McTernan) and then they fully streamlined things with the following year’s Caution (also on Epitaph and with Brian). All eras of Hot Water Music are good in their own ways, but there’s a reason that Caution (which the band played in full in 2019 on their 25th anniversary tour) remains a favorite for so many fans. This is the album where they had bottled up all the great ideas they’d had previously, and spit them back out into the most focused batch of songs they’ve ever released. It opens with the one-two punch of “Remedy” and “Trusty Chords” — two of the most iconic punk songs of the past 25 years — and it’s hard to go anywhere but down after that, but Hot Water Music keep the energy and the great hooks coming. Caution sneaks in the more intricate aspects of the band’s earlier work, but for the most part, this is Hot Water Music at their most direct and least frilly. These are fist-in-the-air, screamalong ragers that light up the crowd every time Hot Water Music break one out at their shows. The album is so urgent and inspired that, no matter how many times you listen, it always feels like the first time all over again.
Stream the album below, and pre-order our exclusive variant in the BV shop.
Hot Water Music have European shows with Dropkick Murphys, Terror, and more coming up this summer. See all dates below.
HOT WATER MUSIC: 2026 TOUR DATES
Jul 26 Sun Ruhrpott Rodeo 2026 Hünxe, Germany *#+
Aug 5 Wed Open Flair Festival 2026 Eschwege, Germany *~@
Aug 7 Fri Brakrock 2026 Duffel, Belgium ^%
Aug 11 Tue PUNK ROCK HOLIDAY 2026 Tolmin, Slovenia *=+
Aug 12 Wed Bellaria igea marina Verucchio, Italy *♦
Aug 13 Thu Dynamo Zürich, Switzerland +%
Aug 14 Fri Tells Bells Festival 2025 Villmar, Germany ^%♣
Aug 14 Fri Futurum Music Bar Praha, Czech Republic
* with Dropkick Murphys
# with Sondaschule
+ with Good Riddance
~ with Donots
@ with Shoreline
^ with Terror
% with A Wilhelm Scream
= with Less Than Jake
♦ with Therapy?
♣ with Stick to Your Guns
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