Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
Trip Shakespeare
RELEASE: Applehead Man, Are You Shakespearienced?
BACKSTORY: Omnivore Recordings this week reissues Minneapolis alt-rockers’ 1986 debut and 1988 follow-up in expanded form with a combined 16, mostly unreleased, bonus tracks between the two titles.
BUY: Amazon.com
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
RELEASE: From Her to Eternity, Firstborn is Dead, Kicking Against the Pricks, Your Funeral… My Trial
BACKSTORY: The first batch of Bad Seeds 180-gram vinyl reissues arrive this week, with a second round of titles coming in February.
BUY: Amazon.com
The Melvins
RELEASE: Hold It In
BACKSTORY: Released earlier this fall, the Melvins’ latest album — which finds Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover joined by the Butthole Surfers’ Paul Leary and JD Pinkus — arrives on 180-gram vinyl this week.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Misfits
RELEASE: Project 1950
BACKSTORY: The Misfits’ 2003 collection of ’50s-era covers gets an expanded reissue this week on 180-gram vinyl with three more never-before-released bonus tracks and all new cover art.
BUY: Amazon.com
Omnivore Records seems to be the go-to label for great reissues – I’ve been following their Game Theory re-releases and they are produced with amazing care, with lots of previously unreleased tracks, great liner notes and sound as good as it possibly can be.