Tag: Red Mecca

New releases: Grant Hart, Curt Smith, Julian Cope, Cabaret Voltaire, The Birthday Party

New releases: Grant Hart, Curt Smith, Julian Cope, Cabaret Voltaire, The Birthday Party

This week’s new releases include new studio albums from Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart, Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith and The Teardrop Explodes’ Julian Cope, plus vinyl reissues from Cabaret Voltaire, The Birthday Party and Deacon Blue, a new remix collection from Section 25 and an Icehouse best-of.

Cabaret Voltaire reissuing 'Red Mecca' on vinyl; giant box set, new comp on way

Cabaret Voltaire reissuing ‘Red Mecca’ on vinyl; giant box set, new comp on way

Mute Records is embarking on a new series of Cabaret Voltaire releases that will begin this summer with a vinyl reissue of the group’s 1981 album Red Mecca, to be followed this fall by a new box set collecting four early- to mid-’80s albums “alongside bonus CDs and DVDs” and, in early 2014, a new compilation.