Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
RELEASE: The Scream, A Kiss in the Dreamhouse, Peepshow, Superstition
BACKSTORY: This week sees the release of the second round of Banshees 180-gram vinyl reissues, remastered from the original ¼-inch tapes. (Join Hands, Juju, Tinderbox, Through the Looking Glass came out last month.)
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Paul Weller
RELEASE: True Meanings
BACKSTORY: The former Jam leader returns this week with his 14th solo album, a record that features “lush orchestration” and is being described as the “most singer-songwriter style album he has ever made.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
The Chills
RELEASE: Snow Bound
BACKSTORY: The New Zealand indie-pop legends return this week with their first new album in three years and sixth overall. Features the songs “Bad Suger,” “The Greatest Guide,” “Love of All I Survey” and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Devo
RELEASE: Total Devo
BACKSTORY: Devo’s 1988 album gets a 30th anniversary reissue this week on CD and vinyl, with the original album appended with a second disc filled with remixes, demos and unheard tracks unearthed from the band’s archives.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: Soft Cell box set, plus Spiritualized, Durutti Column, Posies
- This week’s new releases: Depeche Mode vinyl box sets, plus Pet Shop Boys, Morrissey
- This week’s new releases: James returns with 15th album ‘Living in Extraordinary Times’
- This week’s new releases: ‘C89’ box set, U2, Thomas Dolby, Art of Noise, The Colourfield
The bonus disc of Total DEVO is essentially the Disco Dancer EP with a few extra bits and bobs added in. “Repeat until he fails,” indeed.
Come on, lads. I know there’s more in the vaults at Mutato waiting for release!