Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
Soft Cell
RELEASE: Keychains & Snowstorms: The Soft Cell Story
BACKSTORY: The classic synthpop due this week releases, in the U.K., a massive, 9CD/1DVD career-spanning box set, to be followed later this month by a single-disc hits compilation that features two brand new songs.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, uDiscoverMusic, iTunes
Spiritualized
RELEASE: And Nothing Hurt
BACKSTORY: Jason Pierce returns this week with his eighth album under the Spiritualized banner, a nine-song record recorded largely at home by himself. Features the songs “The Morning After,” “Let’s Dance” and “A Perfect Miracle.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
The Durutti Column
RELEASE: Without Mercy
BACKSTORY: Vini Reilly and Co.’s 1984 album is expanded into a 4-disc set. Bonus tracks include the original recordings of several songs, plus a companion EP and two previously unreleased live sets.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Posies
RELEASE: Frosting on the Beater
BACKSTORY: The alt/power-pop outfit’s third album, originally released in 1993, is reissued this week in a 2CD package with with 31 bonus tracks, 15 of which are previously unreleased. Contains demos, alternate versions and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: Depeche Mode vinyl box sets, plus Pet Shop Boys, Morrissey
- This week’s new releases: James returns with 15th album ‘Living in Extraordinary Times’
- This week’s new releases: ‘C89’ box set, U2, Thomas Dolby, Art of Noise, The Colourfield
- This week’s new releases: Public Image Ltd. box set, Soul Asylum expanded reissue
Posies’ “Frosting On the Beater” crushes anything Nirvana ever put out. Best Seattle-scene record from that period by a mile.