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.
Ramones
RELEASE: Road to Ruin: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
BACKSTORY: Rhino Records this week releases a 3CD/1LP edition of the punk pioneers’ fourth album that includes two different mixes of the record, unreleased rough mixes and a full live concert.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Felt
RELEASE: Forever Breathes the Lonely Word, Poem of the River, The Pictorial Jackson Review, Train Above the City, Me and a Monkey on the Moon
BACKSTORY: Cherry Red this week reissues Felt’s second five albums — originally released between 1986 and 1989 — in newly remastered editions.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Butthole Surfers
RELEASE: Independent Worm Saloon
BACKSTORY: The Butthole Surfers’ 1993 major-label debut is reissued this week on translucent-blue, 180-gram vinyl. The album features “Who Was in My Room Last Night?,” “The Wooden Song,” “Tongue” and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Cult
RELEASE: Born Into This
BACKSTORY: The eighth album from Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, originally released in 2007, is reissued on pink vinyl this week. Features the songs “Citizens,” “Diamonds” and “Dirty Little Rock Star.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Paul Weller, The Chills, Devo
- 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’
