Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
Sonic Youth
RELEASE: Daydream Nation
BACKSTORY: Sonic Youth begins reissuing its ’80s pre-Geffen releases with new CD and 2LP pressings of Daydream Nation as well as a new CD edition of Ciccone Youth’s The Whitey Album. (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Paul Westerberg
RELEASE: 14 Songs
BACKSTORY: Paul Westerberg’s post-Replacements solo debut — 1993′s 14 Songs, featuring “World Class Fad” — receives its first-ever vinyl release this week in an 180-gram pressing via Plain Recordings. (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.com
Marc Almond
RELEASE: The Dancing Marquis
BACKSTORY: The former Soft Cell frontman returns this week, in the U.K., with a brand-new studio album produced in part by Tony Visconti and featuring a song written by, and featuring, Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Half Japanese
RELEASE: Volume 1: 1981-85
BACKSTORY: Fire Records this week releases, in the U.K., a CD version of its 3LP Record Store Day box set, featuring three of Half Japanese’s albums: 1981’s Loud, plus Our Solar System and Sing No Evil, both from 1985.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
looking forward to getting that Westerberg LP, I have always loved that album.