Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
ARTIST: Sonic Youth
RELEASE: SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu
BACKSTORY: Already available digitally, the New York noise-rock legends’ instrumental soundtrack to the French film “Simon Werner a Disparu” (aka “Lights Out”) arrives on CD this week as the ninth installment in the band’s ongoing, experimental Sonic Youth Recordings series. A vinyl edition also is due for release. (See full tracklist here.)
BUY IT: SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu via Amazon.com
ARTIST: The Godfathers
RELEASES: Birth School Work Death, More Songs About Love and Hate
BACKSTORY: Currently on tour in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years, the reunited U.K. rockers this week release expanded reissues of their second and third albums, originally released in 1988 and 1989, respectively.
BUY IT: Birth School Work Death, More Songs About Love and Hate via Amazon.com
