Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: The Cult
RELEASE: Love: Expanded Edition
BACKSTORY: Beggars Archive releases a two-disc remastered edition of the band’s breakthrough 1985 album, featuring a second disc of B-sides and remixes from the record’s three singles (”She Sells Sanctuary,” “Rain” and “Revolution”). A four-disc box set — Love: Omnibus Edition — follows on Sept. 8.
BUY IT: Amazon.com
ARTIST: Various Artists
RELEASE: New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets
BACKSTORY: This 18-track compilation boasts cover art — featuring the iconic Love and Rockets logo — by Shepherd Fairey, creator of the famed Obama “Hope” poster, and covers of L&R classics by the likes of Black Francis, The Flaming Lips and The Dandy Warhols.
BUY IT: Amazon.com
ARTIST: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
RELEASES: Death Threat: Limited Edition Box Set
BACKSTOY: This expanded edition of TKK’s 2009 album features bonus mixes, postcards, stickers, a mini-CD and a skull pendant, according to the band’s Web site.
BUY IT: Amazon.com
ARTIST: Tears for Fears
RELEASE: Raoul and the Kings of Spain
BACKSTOY: Released in 1995, the band’s second post-Curt Smith album gets a U.K. reissue with seven bonus recordings, including “All of the Angels,” “The Madness of Roland,” “Queen of Compromise,” “Until I Drown,” “War of Attrition” and acoustic versions of the title track and “Break It Down Again.”
BUY IT: Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS:
- Daniel Ash closes door on Love and Rockets: ‘It’s boring for me to do those songs’
- The Cult’s ‘Love’ to be reissued in deluxe 4-disc ‘Omnibus’ box set in September
- Love and Rockets tribute album to feature Black Francis, The Flaming Lips
- The Cult to perform 1985’s ‘Love’ on upcoming world tour
