Sparks
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 coming Friday unless noted. May also include some other titles released in recent weeks but not previously featured.
Sparks
RELEASE: The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
DETAILS: The brothers Mael this week release their 25th studio album, a 14-track collection they’re calling a “modern masterpiece” that features the songs “The Mona Lisa’s Packing, Leaving Late Tonight” and “Gee, That Was Fun.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Wedding Present
RELEASE: 24 Songs
DETAILS: The Weddoes’ new collection of each of the singles and B-sides the band released each month through 2022 — a reprise of the Hit Parade project — is out this week in the U.S. on CD, though the vinyl/DVD edition won’t arrive until June 9.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Danny Elfman
RELEASE: Big Mess: Deluxe Edition
DETAILS: This mega deluxe edition of the ex-Oingo Boingo frontman’s 2021 solo album, originally out last year, is available again this week, featuring four LPs, an art print, a book and a “life-sized light-up model of Danny’s peculiar hand.”
BUY: Amazon.com
Danny Elfman
RELEASE: Summer School: Music From the Motion Picture
DETAILS: Speaking of Elfman, this week also sees the arrival on CD and vinyl of the only one of his film scores that had never been released: the music he composed for “Summer School.” A soundtrack was issued back in 1987, but not the score.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Waterboys
RELEASE: A Rock In The Weary Land: Expanded Edition
DETAILS: Mike Scott and Co.’s 2000 album is reissued this week in an expanded 2CD, 34-song edition with 14 unreleased tracks, as well as a double-LP set on blue vinyl that includes a 16-minute live version of “Savage Earth Heart.”
BUY: Amazon.com. Amazon.co.uk
Pere Ubu
RELEASE: Trouble On Big Beat Street
DETAILS: The band’s 19th studio album is out this week in a 10-song vinyl edition of a 17-song CD release. “Those extra seven tracks were too good to lose but took up too much time to fit on a vinyl release,” the band says.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Suicide
RELEASE: A Way of Life: 35th Anniversary Edition
DETAILS: The third album by the electro-punk pioneers, in 1988, is remastered and reissued this week on limited-edition trans blue vinyl, as well as on CD and digital. Several bonus tracks, including live version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Out this week: Lemonheads, XTC, Ministry, Duran Duran, John Robb’s goth book — and more
- New releases: Depeche Mode, Joy Division, The Pretenders, Wire, Big Country, Go-Go’s
- New releases: 11 discs of Mojo Nixon, plus Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs, Robert Forster
- New releases: Cocteau Twins, Game Theory, Heaven 17, The Damned, Primitives, Morrissey
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