Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Magazine
RELEASE: Play: Deluxe Edition
BACKSTORY: The U.K. post-punk act’s 1981 live album gets the expanded 2CD reissue treatment in the band’s home country, with the first disc containing the original 12-track set recorded Sept. 6, 1980, at the Melbourne Festival Hall in Australia, and the nine-track second disc featuring a previously unreleased concert recorded July 21, 1978, at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall.
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ARTIST: Spacemen 3
RELEASE: The Perfect Prescription
BACKSTORY: The 1987 sophomore release from Jason Pierce’s pre-Spiritualized space-rockers gets reissued in the U.K. yet again, although without any apparent bonus material.
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ARTIST: Camouflage
RELEASE: Spice Crackers: Deluxe Edition
BACKSTORY: Still best — or perhaps only — known for its 1987 semi-hit “The Great Commandment,” the German synthpop outfit this week releases an expanded 2CD edition of its 1995 studio album with bonus remixes and outtakes.
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