Tears For Fears/The Tipping PointCD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
Tears For Fears release The Tipping Point, their first studio album in over 17 years, and it’s a cracker. The SDE-exclusive blu-ray and deluxe CD have sold out but watch out for an SDE interview with Curt and Roland this week.
Scottish band Hipsway’s 1986 debut is reissued and repackaged in a gatefold vinyl LP. This features the hit ‘The Honeythief’ and has been remastered for vinyl by Paul McGeechan and comes with extensive new sleeve notes. It’s reissued by indie label Last Night From Glasgow.
Delayed from a few weeks back. The one and only album from The Madness is reissued on 180g black vinyl with new sleeve notes. It was originally issued in 1988 and it’s fair to say was not very well received critically or commercially. ‘The Madness’ were four of the original members: Suggs, Lee Thompson, Chris Foreman and vocalist Cathal Smyth.
Paul McCartney has announced a new North American tour which will kick off in Washington, in April. He’s calling it the ‘Got Back’ tour which, while not exactly grammatically correct, obviously piggy-backs off the massive interest and success in the Peter Jackson-directed Disney+ ‘3-Part Event’ that was The Beatles Get Back. Let’s not forget that the home video release of Paul’s 1989/90 Flowers in the Dirt tour was also called Get Back. And it was directed by Richard Lester for a bonus Beatles connection.
When Paul walks out on stage for the first gig, in just over two months, it will have been nearly two and a half years since the last full gig to the paying public (23 November 2019 in New Jersey). You have to go back all the way to the mid-to-late 1990s when Paul didn’t really have a band, and Linda McCartney was ill, to find a gap that big.
“I said at the end of the last tour that I’d see you next time. I said I was going to get back to you. Well, I got back!”
Paul McCartney
Paul will turn 80 two days after this 14-date tour ends and while it’s fantastic that he has the energy and motivation to get back out on the road, one has to question whether he is still capable of properly singing his truly amazing back catalogue of songs. On the 3-2-1 documentary (also available on Disney+) Paul is embarrassingly croaky the odd time he goes to the piano to demonstrate something to Rick Rubin. The last time I saw McCartney live, at the snowy Hammersmith Odeon gig of December 2010, I was worried about how well he’d sing the songs, but while his voice has obviously degraded, he still had more than enough to put on a spectacular and memorable show. 12 years, and literally hundreds of gigs later, he’s back for some more!
I guess the sheer wonderment of seeing an ex-Beatle play live, and the power of Paul’s band with backing vocal support available from more or less all the members, will mean most fans will go home happy, regardless, but it would be nice to see Paul for once rethink his entire setlist and perhaps retire some of the songs he struggles with most, irrespective of how great the numbers may be. It won’t happen, because Paul is too much of a crowd-pleaser and he wants to deliver hits, and not just perform tracks that are more suited to his ageing vocal chords.
Next week is all about Tears For Fears and their new album ‘The Tipping Point’. We have already started international shipping for the SDE-exclusive CD and blu-ray and it’s a gargantuan task, as the picture above showing me next to some of the boxes, shows! UK shipping will happen around Wednesday next week with the hope that most of you will receive your orders on Friday.
I’ll be publishing my interview with Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – In Search of The Tipping Point – early next week and I’ll also be popping along to the event (“Tears For Fears In Conversation“) at Hackney Earth on Monday evening. On Friday 25th, which is album release day, I will also be at a special playback event in London where the Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix of The Tipping Point will be blasted out in a special theatre setting for a select few. Roland and Curt are going to be there and you can win tickets to come along. Five SDE readers will win a pair of tickets so if you haven’t already entered the competition, then here’s the post! The competition ends at midnight GMT tomorrow night (20th) so don’t delay.
Garbage Deal
Not literally a garbage deal, but a very good deal for the 2LP white vinyl edition of Beautiful Garbage! This album was reissued back in November and this coloured vinyl 2LP set is just £16 at the time of writing via Amazon UK. That’s already a great deal, but there’s more!
Although the physical vinyl product is just album-only (13 tracks) it comes with a 64-track MP3 autorip! This is effectively the 48-tracks from the 3CD set (including B-sides, rough mixes and remixes) plus 16 further bonus remixes. Admittedly the extra remixes might be the kind of thing the SAS use for advanced interrogation techniques (“Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) [Roger Sanchez Tha S-Man’s Release Dub]”) but hey, it’s a free bonus. If you want to buy the same 64-track download it costs you £17.99 – go figure. I think you only get the autorip if you are in the UK.
Earlier this month, SDE informed you of the reissue of The Audience album from Scottish independent label Last Night From Glasgow. This is a 2LP set and the original plan was to include the six bonus tracks that were included on the original bonus CD. However this has now changed as original band member Billy Reeves confirmed on twitter.
He said “LNFG [Last Night From Glasgow] were kind to let me pile in. I reckon better value for money than the “piano” versions of stuff already on. IMO works better as a double vinyl album with this track listing.”
Prince’s 1995 album The Gold Experience (his first to be credited to that unpronounceable squiggle) will be reissued on CD in June, a day prior to a special 2LP gold vinyl edition being made available for this year’s Record Store Day.
The album features the UK number one single ‘The Most Beautiful Girl’ in the World’ and this reissue does indeed include that song after the resolution of a legal dispute. Two further singles, ‘I Hate U’ and ‘Gold’ were both top 20 singles in Britain. In fact, ‘Gold’ peaked at number 10 and was therefore Prince’s last top ten single in the UK, in his lifetime, if we don’t count the reissue of 1999 (which we don’t).
It was a confusing time for the record-buying public. Prince was in dispute with his label, had an enormous hit (‘The Most Beautiful Girl In The World’) on his own NPG Records label and wrote ‘Slave’ on his cheek. The chart-topping single was issued in February ’94 but The Gold Experience wasn’t issued until September 1995. In between the album Come was grudgingly put out, along with the rather good single ‘Letitgo’.
It’s a little surprising that there’s no word of a retail black vinyl to go with the CD reissue but we’ll see what happens. Meanwhile the video to ‘The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” has been newly-restored to HD and you can watch it above.
The Gold Experience CD reissue is released on 17 June 2022. The the gold vinyl 2LP set is only available via participating indie retailers on Record Store Day (18 June).
Almost ludicrous price for the excellent PrinceWelcome 2 America box set. When you consider that this set was £150 initially in the UK, and even now is still £85. Whereas $38 is £27!!
The Beatles/Let It Be 5CD+blu-ray super deluxe5CD+blu-ray super deluxe
If you are buying from the UK this Bowie box sneaks in at just under £70, making it as cheap as SDE has seen it. Shipping is negligible and there’s no Brexit-related fees for items under £130!
The Who/The Who Sell Out super deluxe boxSuper Deluxe Edition
Great price for the 4CD+LP super deluxe edition. CD1 – 2021 remaster (+B-side), CD 2 – 25 demos/rehearsals, CD 3 – 29 outtakes, alternates & home demos, CD 4 – Lost KFAI concert. The vinyl LP is the alternative Sorry Ma... album.
Cat Stevens /Mona Bone Jakon 4CD+blu-ray+2LP super deluxe4CD+blu-ray+2LP super deluxe
The 1992 PoliceGreatest Hits is being reissued on vinyl for its 30th anniversary. The 16-track compilation (it features five UK numbers ones) was a little more expansive that 1986’s Every Breath You Take: The Singles and included songs like ‘The Bed’s Too Big Without You’, ‘Synchronicity II’ and ‘Tea in the Sahara’. ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ (the original one) is back, with the ’86 re-recording apparently consigned to history.
Greatest Hits becomes a 2LP set and is half-speed mastered (click image to enlarge)
The original vinyl pressing saw everything squeezed onto one record, but this reissue is a 2LP set and has been half-speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios, by Miles Showell. The artwork is also expanded and this now comes in a gatefold sleeve.
Greatest Hits will be reissued as a 2LP half-speed mastered set on 15 April 2022.
Eighties music fans were pleasantly surprised when the Now That’s What I Call Music team stepped back to 1982 for the latest in their Yearbook series, but perhaps will not be shocked to read that a ‘second helping’ of pop hits from that year will follow next month via Now Yearbook ’82 – Extra.
As usual, this is a 3CD set and unlike the ‘main’ Yearbooks there’s no vinyl and no deluxe hardcover option, just a six-panel gatefold card sleeve presentation.
There are 62 tracks in total and it features some big names and big songs, such as Paul McCartney (‘Take It Away’), ABBA (‘Head Over Heels’), Duran Duran (‘Rio’), ABC (‘Poison Arrow’) and Hall & Oates (‘Maneater’).
Of course that’s only half the story and there’s plenty of other great selections from the likes of Japan, Spandau Ballet, Blondie, Culture Club, A Flock of Seagulls, Visage, Roxy Music, Dexys Midnight Runners, Heaven 17, Simple Minds, Thompson Twins, Echo & The Bunnymen, U2, XTC, The Stranglers and many more.
Now Yearbook 1982 – Extra will be released on 18 March 2022.
Last year we told you aboutThe Wedding Present’s24 Songs initiative. The band are issuing a physical seven-inch single every month in 2022 with a new song on both sides of each record.
The January single featured the songs ‘We Should Be Together’ (Featuring Louise Wener) and ‘Don’t Give Up Without A Fight’ and it’s now the eve of release of single #2. February’s seven-inch has the romantically titled ‘I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You’ on the A-side and ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’ on the flipside.
SDE can exclusively bring you the video for ‘I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You’ which you can watch below. You can subscribe to 24 Songs or just buy the singles individually by visiting the band’s 24 Songs website. The new single is officially released on 18 February 2022.
In collaboration with Concord Records, we are excited to offer five SDE readers the chance to attend a very special Tears For Fears playback event in Central London.
On the evening of release of the album – 25th February 2022 – the winners of this competition will have the chance to hear the Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix of the new album, TheTipping Point, in full, and Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith will be there, in person!
This is open only to UK residents (apologies to our international readership) but the good news is, if you do live in the UK and you have already pre-ordered ANY format of The Tipping Point via the SDE shop, then you are already entered into the competition!
If you haven’t purchased the album from SDE yet, then you can do so below and you will also be entered into the competition (if you’re in the UK). We are sold out of the SDE-exclusive formats (13-track deluxe & blu-ray audio) but the standard CD and black vinyl LP are now available. Use this link to the pre-order via the SDE shop or simply make use of the buttons below. Your pre-orders will ship next week and best of luck! All five winners will have a ‘+1’ to bring a partner or friend along with them.
THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW ENDED. Winners will be informed today (21 Feb 2022)
The competition closes at midnight (GMT) on 20 February 2022 and winners will be randomly selected and informed the next day, on Monday 21 February.
Original Propaganda vocalists Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag reunite with A Secret Wish producer Stephen Lipson for an incredible new album called The Heart Is Strange, released under the banner xPropaganda.
xPropaganda actually formed back in 2018 and toured in the UK in November of that year after two showcase dates at London’s Garage eight months earlier (SDE gave away a couple of tickets, if you recall).
Inspired by this experience, Brücken and Freytag reconvened with Stephen Lipson to write new music and more than two years later, The Heart Is Strange is the result.
Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag are xPropaganda
It seems wholly appropriate that the record will be issued on the iconic ZTT label (now owned by Universal Music). You could say that this new album is the follow-up to A Secret Wish that we were denied all those years ago, and that the duo have come full circle – it’s that good. Electronic, epic and an emotional listen, The Heart Is Strange is full of pulsing widescreen soundscapes and home to great songs, such as the dynamic driving opener ‘The Night’, the defiant pop of ‘Don’t (You Mess With Me)’, the yearning ‘No Ordinary Girl’, and the moving, near 10-minute denouement ‘Ribbons of Steel’. Take my word for it, you will love this album! I’ve been lucky enough to have had early access and have been playing it non-stop, for weeks.
The 2CD edition of The Heart Is Strange features a bonus disc of instrumentals (click image to enlarge)
The Heart Is Strange will be released on CD, and as a two-CD set with a bonus disc featuring an instrumental version of the entire album. There will also be black and limited coloured vinyl editions and one very special format, more of which below!
SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio
Remember last month when we declared that purchasing the SDE-exclusive Tears For FearsThe Tipping Point blu-ray “could lead to similar collaborations with labels/artists”? Well, thanks to your enthusiasm and support this has transpired and I’m thrilled to announce that a new collaboration between SDE and ZTT has resulted in a blu-ray audio of The Heart Is Strange which is now available to pre-order only from SDE, via the SDE shop!
In true ZTT-style, the SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio has unique front cover artwork
The SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio will feature a Dolby Atmos Mix of the album, created by producer Stephen Lipson, as well as a 48k/24 bit stereo version. This will be the only way to get these mixes as a physical product and to hold the music in your hand. The blu-ray is limited to just 1500 copies worldwide. Please do not miss out. This blu-ray is #2 in the SDE Surround Series.
The Heart Is Strange will be released on 20 May, via ZTT Records. Pre-order the blu-ray and the other formats (except the coloured vinyl) by using this linkto the SDE shop or the buttons below. A specially-priced blu-ray+2CD bundle is available.
TECHNICAL NOTES: This blu-ray audio requires a blu-ray player. Decoding the Dolby Atmos mix requires a Dolby Atmos-certified soundbar or a Dolby Atmos-compatible AV Receiver/Amp. The Dolby Atmos mix will ‘fold down’ to 5.1 or stereo if a Dolby Atmos decoder is not detected.
EU SHIPPING NOTES: If you are ordering from the EU please be aware that that goods may be subject to import VAT when they arrive from the UK. The prices the SDE shop charge you do not include VAT.
Hall & Oates‘ 1997 album Marigold Sky will be reissued next month.
The legendary duo’s 15th studio long-player was issued independently, via Push Records in North America and Eagle Records in Europe. It features the single ‘Promise Ain’t Enough’ , ‘Romeo is Bleeding’ and ‘The Sky is Falling’.
The album is being reissued for its 25th anniversary, and will be issued on vinyl for the very first time as a 2LP set. While this double vinyl features just the 12 album tracks, a CD reissue adds three bonus tracks from the era. ‘Hold On To Yourself (Remix)’ was the original CD extra track back in ’97, while the radio edit of ‘Romeo Is Bleeding’ featured on a European CD single. The Hot Mix of ‘The Sky Is Falling’ completes the bonus offering and was originally on a Japanese CD single.
Marigold Sky is reissued on 25 March 2022 via BMG.
The ‘restored & re-edited’ concert film of Pink Floyd‘s 1995 live album, Pulse, is issued as a standalone blu-ray set for the first time and comes in new packaging featuring the iconic pulsing light.
Electribal Soul is the fabled, previously unreleased second album from UK electronic pioneers Electribe 101. Recorded in 1991 by the quintet of vocalist Billie Ray Martin and Birmingham–based electronic musicians Brian Nordhoff, Joe Stevens, Les Fleming and Roberto Cimarosti, Electribal Soul was conceived as the sequel to the band’s 1990 debut album, Electribal Memories. The CD version comes with two bonus tracks.
Parlophone issue the stereo remix version of Marillion’s second album as a standalone vinyl (and CD) release. It was originally featured on last year’s deluxe reissues.
All eight Roxy Music albums will be reissued as half-speed mastered vinyl pressings in 2022.
Back in 2015, the albums were cut at half-speed for the Complete Studio Albums 8LP box set, and in 2017 the debut album had a standalone vinyl release using the same metal parts that pressed the 2015 version.
However, these new 2022 pressings are brand new half-speed versions cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road (Miles did the 2015 versions as well!). If you are wondering why they’d bother to do them again, it’s a good question. It is likely to be either because the metal parts were not retained or had become damaged or worn out. These are cut from the same source as in 2015. They are likely to sound very similar (although I know Miles has upgraded his lathe since 2015).
Half-speed masters will have slightly revised artwork and a gloss laminated finish (click image to enlarge)
The albums are being issued in stages – in pairs – throughout the year starting with 1972’s Roxy Music and 1973’s For Your Pleasure in April. This is all to mark the 50th anniversary of the debut album. The artwork for these has been ‘revised’ with lyrics and a “deluxe gloss laminated finish”.
The first two are issued on 1 April 2022, via UMC/Virgin.
Broadcaster and journalist David Hepworth curates Deep 70s: Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade, a new 4CD various artists compilation from Demon Music.
Hepworth has probably forgotten more about music than most of us will ever know and has been involved in Goliath publications like Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word. He also presented The Old Grey Whistle Test and was one of the anchors for Live Aid in July 1985. With compadre Mark Ellen, David still co-hosts the Word in Your Ear/Attic podcast.
In more recent years Hepworth has authored some acclaimed books including 1971 –Never a Dull Moment: Rock’s Golden Year and Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America.
500 copies of the 4CD set come with a signed print (click image to enlarge)
So probably no better man to put together this 4CD set. David explains his thoughts on the package here:
“The seventies were a grubby but glorious time for records. Many of those records never sullied a chart. Nor are they served up by the algorithms which rule retro radio today. These four CDs correct that oversight. Young Americans [CD 1] revisits classic rock icons in the fierce morning of their genius. Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers [CD 2] is unrepentant driving music from the days before the mandatory seat belt. Blue Boar Blues [CD 3] is dedicated to the legions of British groups who lived according to the white line on the M1. Finally, The Monstrous Regiment [CD 4] is a reminder of the female artists of the time, some of whom are just being recognised today. As my comprehensive notes modestly assert, more occurred between 1971 and 1979 than in any period of music before or since. This is not an opinion. This is a fact. This is a box set to prove it.”
You can browse the impressive track listing below. The 72-track, four CD set willcome packaged in a media book [like the Gary Crowley Lost 80s releases] and as Hepworth mentions, includes a 36-page booklet featuring an introductory essay followed by track-by-track annotation from David Hepworth, accompanied by a picture of the album from which the track is taken.
500 copies of this 4CD set is exclusive to Amazon UK and come with a print signed by David Hepworth. A 2LP clear vinyl edition offers a cut-down 24-track version, which maintains the four different themes. This vinyl edition with a signed print is only available via Rough Trade in the UK.
David Hepworth: Deep 70s: Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade will be released on 27 May 2022.
Falco’s fifth and six albums, Wiener Blut and Data De Groove, will be reissued as two-CD deluxe editions and coloured vinyl pressings in April.
Wiener Blutwas issued in 1988, three years after the international success of Falco 3. The initial plan had been to record songs with a new production team, with a more melodic and commercial musical direction. However, only four songs were ultimately used from these sessions and Falco returned to his former setup with the Bolland brothers (who worked on Falco 3 and Emotional) and produced a further six tracks. The album also features a cover of Steely Dan’s ‘Do It Again’, which was one of four singles. The record did well in Austria, Germany and Switzerland but it’s reach didn’t go much beyond that.
Tracks on the Falco reissues are taken from the original master tapes. These include all three Shep Pettibone mixes of ‘Do It Again’
Less than two years later, in May 1990, Data De Groove was released. This saw Falco reunited with producer Robert Ponger who worked on Falco’s first two albums and composed ‘Der Kommissar’. There were two singles from this record: ‘Data De Groove’ and ‘Charisma Kommando’.
Both albums are now reissued as expanded two CD deluxe editions with all audio taken from the original master tapes. Blank and Jones have worked on these reissues and were delighted to track down the elusive original master tapes of the Shep Pettibone mixes of ‘Do It Again’, all versions of which are all included on the reissue. Amongst all the mixes on CD are two previously unreleased versions of ‘Satellite to Satellite’.
The Wiener Blut 2CD deluxe edition (click image to enlarge)
Both 2CD sets include a wealth of remixes, single edits and instrumentals and come with booklets. Both albums are also being issued on limited edition coloured vinyl, although neither is officially available in the UK right now and even beyond that, the availability is a bit sketchy right now. Wiener Blut is pressed on orange vinyl and Data De Groove, blue.
Wiener Blut and Data De Groove are reissued as 2CD deluxe and coloured vinyl editions on 1 April 2022.
Around 10 days ago, back from our adventures at the IMAX ‘Rooftop Concert’ presentation of The BeatlesGet Back, SDE offered up for grabs an IMAX poster and lanyard only available at the special presentation on 30 January.
We had 400 entries, and have selected the winner at random. I’m pleased to announce that the person who has won is SDE reader ‘Uncle Albert’!
We’re not so sorry, Uncle Albert, to inform you of this news! We will be in touch to get your prize out to you. Thanks to everyone who took the time to enter. Another SDE competition is around the corner…
Goldfrapp’s debut album, Felt Mountain, will be reissued on gold-coloured vinyl next month.
The English electronic duo (Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory) released the record (via Mute) in September 2000 and while they weren’t rewarded with a hit (neither the album, nor the four singles broke into their respective top 40 charts) Felt Mountain was well received and ended up being nominated for the 2001 Mercury Music Prize.
Back in late 2019 there was talk of a 20th anniversary Felt Mountain box set and touring plans for 2020. The latter was clearly a victim of the pandemic, although over two years later they could have issued a box set, surely?
What we are left with is this coloured vinyl reissue which is fairly much in keeping with the other vinyl reissues of recent years (Seventh Tree and Supernature), although the album cover posters – included with the other releases – seems to have gone AWOL for Felt Mountain. This does however include “exclusive sleeve notes”. Perhaps surprisingly, there is actually a CD version of this reissue as well. Like the vinyl, it comes with no bonus audio.
Felt Mountain will be released on coloured-coloured vinyl and CD on 25 March 2022.
Duran Duran are promoting the song ‘Laughing Boy’ – a bonus track on the deluxe CD edition of last year’s Future Past – as a new streaming/download single.
This is unusual, as bonus tracks on physical media tend to be fairly much ignored and/or forgotten by artists, mostly because there is normally ‘better’ material to promote from the album-proper.
However, ‘Laughing Boy’ is actually very good and arguably deserves the spotlight, even if it feels like a high quality album track rather than any kind of single. Of course ‘single’ has rather lost all meaning these days, anyway.
The song is track 11 on the 15-track deluxe CD (and the 16-track Japanese CD). You may recall that the band rather confused fans last year by issuing a 10-track version of Future Past on vinyl, a 12-track edition on CD and then even bigger deluxe and Japanese deluxe CD editions. However, these bonus tracks are ‘mixed in’ with the album tracks and not tacked on the end, so all variants end with the song ‘Falling’. The other two bonus songs on the international deluxe are ‘Velvet Newton’ and ‘Invocation’. Japan add the Bowie cover ‘Five Years’ to these.
Back to ‘Laughing Boy’ and it’s frustrating that the band continue not to serve their largely physical-loving audience when it comes to singles. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the band’s last physical UK single – of a track pulled from an album (not RSD-related) – was over 14 years ago (Red Carpet Massacre’s ‘Falling Down’). How we’d love some kind of CD single EP with some remixes and rarities/ oddities.
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The third studio album from Liam Gallagher, C’mon You Know, will be released in May. The first single, ‘Everything’s Electric’, features a certain Dave Grohl on drums and Grohl also co-writes, along with Greg Kurstin who returns as a producer (and multi-instrumentalist) on the new album.
As you might expect, the album is available over a number of formats, including the usual coloured vinyl variants and a deluxe CD with bonus tracks and limited edition card packaging. The track listing hasn’t been revealed yet.
C’mon You Know will be released on 27 May via Warner Records. Liam will play the Brit Awards tomorrow night and tours the UK in June with two dates at Knebworth Park.
Scottish indie label Last Night From Glasgow will reissue The Audience’s self-titled album. The band featured a young Sophie Ellis-Bextor and the 1998 album delivered a couple of UK top 30 hits including ‘I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough’.
This new vinyl reissue features the original 14-track album across three sides of vinyl with six bonus tracks on side four. These are as follows: ‘Mr. Doasyouwouldbedoneby (original version)’, ‘I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough)’ (original version)’, ‘A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed (Blah St acoustic version)’, ‘You Get What You Deserve (piano version)’, ‘Keep in Touch (piano version)’ and ‘I Can See Clearly (piano version). All six were originally featured on a bonus CD as part of the original limited 2CD set.
The Audience will be released on 8 July 2022 (was 29 April).
Update 19 February 2022: Original band member Billy Reeves has stepped in and consulted with the label and changed the bonus material. The bonus tracks are now ‘Magna Carta vs Matthew Arnold’, ‘Boutique in My Backyard’, ‘Je Suis Content’, ‘I’m Always Ready’, ‘Helen & Polly’ and ‘You and Me On The Run’.
Bernard Butler’s debut solo album, 1998’s People Move On, is reissued as an expanded four-CD deluxe edition and 2LP vinyl set. Both include the album with newly recorded vocals.
The one and only album from The Madness is reissued on 180g black vinyl with new sleeve notes. It was originally issued in 1988 and it’s fair to say was not very well received critically or commercially. ‘The Madness’ were four of the original members: Suggs, Lee Thompson, Chris Foreman and vocalist Cathal Smyth.
Teenage Fanclub’s third album (originally issued on Creation in 1991) is reissued on black vinyl by Sony. Unlike the 2018 reissue campaign this doesn’t come with a bonus seven-inch single, but presumably uses the same band-approved remastering.
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