Clan of Xymox
This is 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. May also include some other titles released in recent weeks but not previously featured.
Clan of Xymox
RELEASE: She
BACKSTORY: Clan of Xymox this week releases a new six-track EP that offers the first taste of its planned 2020 studio album. The EP features five versions of the title track, plus a new mix of “Loneliness,” off 2017’s Days of Black.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Erasure
RELEASE: Chorus: Expanded Edition
BACKSTORY: Erasure reissue their fifth studio album in an expanded three-disc edition, supplementing a remastered version of the original with two discs of new and classic remixes, B-sides and a live version of the album.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Lexer Music
Jane’s Addiction
RELEASE: Alive at Twenty-Five: Ritual De Lo Habitual Live
BACKSTORY: The alt-rock legends this week release a 2LP vinyl pressing of their 2016 performance of 1991’s Ritual de lo Habitual at Irvine Meadows in Southern California. Previously released as a Blu-ray/DVD/CD package.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Bryan Ferry
RELEASE: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974
BACKSTORY: The Roxy Music frontman issues a new live set recorded in 1974 on multiple formats this month. The set includes “Baby I Don’t Care,” “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” “Another Time, Another Place” and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- New releases: Wire, Marc Almond, Happy Mondays, Howard Jones, Vaselines, Neneh Cherry
- New releases: Depeche Mode box set, plus Pet Shop Boys, Innocence Mission, Electronic
- New releases: Pale Saints’ ‘Comforts of Madness,’ plus Breathless, The Smithereens
- New releases: The Replacements, Ramones, Thurston Moore, KMFDM, Prefab Sprout, Midge Ure
