Electronic | Photo by Todd Fath
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.
Electronic
RELEASE: Get the Message: The Best of Electronic
DETAILS: The 2006 best-of celebrating the Manchester supergroup — featuring New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr of The Smiths — is reissued this week on vinyl and an expanded 2CD set, featuring a disc of B-sides, remixes and rare tracks.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
XTC
RELEASE: The Big Express
DETAILS: The band’s 1984 album is reissued in a two-disc set — on CD and all-region Blu-ray — featuring the record newly mixed by Steven Wilson in stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio, with bonus tracks.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Green Day
RELEASE: Dookie: 30th Anniversary
DETAILS: The punk trio’s smash third album, originally released in 1994, receives a massive reissue this week in a variety of formats, including 6LP and 4CD super deluxe editions with a heap of rare and unreleased material.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project
RELEASE: The Task Has Overwhelmed Us
DETAILS: The 10-years-in-the-making fourth volume of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute series features covers of the Gun Club frontman’s songs by Dave Gahan, Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Alejandro Escovedo and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Duran Duran
RELEASE: Pop Trash
DETAILS: Duran Duran’s 10th studio album, originally released in 2000, is released this week on vinyl for the first time. It was Warren Cuccurullo’s last album as a member of the band, which would reunite its original lineup for the next one.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- New releases: Replacements, Devo, Breeders, Pretenders, Teenage Fanclub, Andy Taylor + more
- New releases: The Cure, Kristin Hersh, Rain Parade, The Folk Implosion
- New releases: Slowdive, Nick Cave, Belinda Carlisle, Love Tractor, Missing Persons
- New releases: R.E.M., Cindy Wilson, Elizabeth Fraser, Catherine Wheel, Stone Roses, Ocean Blue
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GREEN DAY IS NOT PUNK, and no one into alternative music in the 80s that I ever met wanted anything like them to ever happen
@Matt — I agree.
Exactly, it’s a band for 8 year old boys who don’t know any better
I think they mean the formula, @Matt
I’m also pretty sure everyone you ever met would love the fact they are still being spoken for by you.
yeah, ‘pop-punk’ not punk
Green Day is way overrated.
RIP Jeffrey Lee Pierce.