[NATIONAL ALBUM DAY 2023] TRANSPARENT WITH PURPLE SPLATTER VINYL out there start choppin’ what else is new on the way not the same get me drawerings hide goin’ home i ain’t sayin ‘where you been’, their fifth record, emerged in 1993, at the height of enthusiasm for grunge and the alternative american rock scene the band had long been part of. produced by a new line-up of the group (longtime drummer murph and new bassist mike johnson completing the three-piece), the album became the band’s most successful up to that point, reaching #50 in the us (where it sold over a quarter of a million copies) and #10 in the uk album charts, and spawning the hit single ‘start choppin’.