Rooms of the House came out on 18 March 2014, and selected catalog entries give BL01, BL1, BL101, WH34, WH35, WH54 or BSM148. These numbers belong to different formats, territories and reissues of the same album. This page sorts them out.
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The band announced a label and a record on the same day
On 16 December 2013 the label put out a press release that named the album, the date and a new imprint at once: the third full length, out 18 March 2014, via the band’s own Better Living in partnership with Staple Records.
The release is unusually explicit about why the label existed. The announcement described Better Living as a home for collaborative creative work and community support. It also announced a companion book, Yesterday’s Home, which would document the writing and recording process. The book is a separate item to check when comparing a bundle with a copy of the album alone.
Written in a cabin, tracked at Studio 4
The same release records the method. The five of them went to an isolated cabin in Michigan’s upper peninsula and, in bassist Adam Vass’s words, spent a month “working on writing every single day” with almost the whole album coming out of those sessions. Will Yip recorded and mixed it, produced it with the band, and Emily Lazar mastered it at The Lodge.
The album credit and the edition credit answer different questions. Recording and mixing describe the sound captured for the record. A lacquer cutting or pressing credit belongs to the manufacture of a particular physical issue. Check those credits against the edition you are trying to identify, rather than applying one vinyl entry to a CD.
The blue vinyl entry records additional manufacturing credits: lacquers cut by Daniel Krieger at SST, manufactured by Noiseland Industries, pressed by MPO, with Rich Morales assisting the master.
One album, several catalog numbers
The standard black LP is entered as BL01/WH35 on release day. The US CD is BL1 with WH34, in a gatefold digisleeve, and its entry names a third rights holder the announcement never mentioned: Workhorse Music Group appears alongside Staple Records and Better Living on both the copyright and phonographic copyright lines.
The UK issues carry BSM148 for the CD and BSM148V for the LP. The 2024 reissue moved again, entered as BL101 with WH54 and a long barcode style number. Workhorse catalog numbers also appear on the Senses Fail editions covered in our guide to Senses Fail albums in order.
Three vinyl entries with stated quantities
The coloured pressings are where buyers get stuck, and three of them carry stated counts.
The European blue swirl translucent LP is entered at 500 copies in a full colour gatefold sleeve, dated to release day, with some copies sold in a bundle carrying a 12 inch screen print, a sticker pack, a 3 inch embroidered patch, the Yesterday’s Home book and a tote bag.
An opaque pink pressing followed on 9 December 2014, entered at 500 pieces and marked as a Newbury Comics exclusive with a download card. The entry for a blue and purple starburst records 1,000 copies and a date of 6 January 2015.
Compare the edition and the package separately
Start with the format. The US CD and standard black LP have different Workhorse numbers, even though both entries share the original release date. A seller copying the album’s general release information has not identified the physical edition. Ask for the catalog number on the offered copy and compare it with the entry for that format.
Then check the territory and colour description. A UK catalog number does not identify the Newbury Comics pressing, and the word blue alone does not distinguish the original translucent swirl from the later blue and purple starburst. A photograph of the actual disc is more useful here than a generic picture of the cover.
Finally, list what is included. The blue swirl entry describes some copies sold with a book and other extras. That does not establish that every blue copy came with those items, or that a secondhand copy still has them. Treat the record, its sleeve and any bundle items as separate parts of the listing. The stated edition quantity does not tell you how many copies survive or whether the offered package is complete.
Corrections and gaps
Built from four archived label posts and seven release entries read on 6 September 2026. No review score, chart position or sales figure appears, because none was checked against the outlet or chart that would carry it. No copy of any pressing was inspected, so every colour, count and credit here is what an entry records rather than what a sleeve prints, and the counts describe three entries rather than the whole pressing history. Our editorial standards cover how to send a correction.