Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
Robyn Hitchcock
RELEASE: The Man Upstairs
BACKSTORY: Robyn Hitchcock this week releases a new collection that’s “part well-known favorites, part personal discoveries, and part originals.” It includes his cover of The Psychedelic Furs’ “The Ghost in You.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
J Mascis
RELEASE: Tied to a Star
BACKSTORY: The Dinosaur Jr frontman returns this week with his second solo album for Sub Pop Records, a 10-song set that features guest turns by Miracle Legion’s Mark Mulcahy, Cat Power and Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins.
BUY: Amazon.com
Wire
RELEASE: Document and Eyewitness
BACKSTORY: Wire’s fourth album, released in 1980, and comprised mostly of live material recorded the year before, is reissued this week in the U.S as an expanded 2CD set with unreleased tracks. It came out in the U.K. last week.
BUY: Amazon.com
Eyeless in Gaza
RELEASE: Original Albums Collection
BACKSTORY: Cherry Red Records this week issues a 4CD box set collecting the experimental post-punk act’s first four albums, released in 1981 and 1982, plus a band-compiled set of “non-album essentials and oddities”
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard
RELEASE: Shotgun Wedding
BACKSTORY: The only album recorded by Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard, original released in 1991, gets a vinyl reissue this week. Produced by Foetus’ J.G. Thirwell with drums by the Bad Seeds’ Jim Scalvunos.
BUY: Amazon.com
