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 : Pulp
RELEASES: It
BACKSTORY: Fire Records this week reissues, in the U.K., the Brtipop act’s first three albums — from 1983, 1987 and 1992 — in expanded editions with B-sides, non-LP singles and a smattering of previously unreleased material; the It and Separations reissues remain single-disc affairs, while Freaks is a 2CD set (see full tracklists here).
BUY: Amazon.co.uk (It, Freaks, Separations)
ARTIST : Barry Adamson
RELEASE: I Will Set You Free
BACKSTORY: The former Magazine bassist, who also has played with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Visage, returns this week with his first solo album in four years. The record features tracks such as “Black Holes in My Brain,” “Get Your Mind Right, “Looking to Love Somebody,” “The Trigger City Blues” and “The Power of Suggestion.”
BUY: Amazon.com (CD)
ARTIST : The Flaming Lips
RELEASES: Hit To Death In The Future Head, Transmissions From The Satellite Heart, Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
BACKSTORY: The Lips’ first five Warner Bros. albums, released between 1992 and 2002, were assembled for the Heady Nuggs vinyl box set last year, and now are reissued on vinyl individually.
BUY: Amazon.com (See album links above)
