Over thirty years since their debut single on XL Recordings, Liquid’s legacy is clear. In 1992, Richard Russell made his first signing to XL with Liquid, who debuted on the label with ‘Sweet Harmony’, an anthemic track that has become one of the most iconic dance songs of all time and remains a staple on dancefloors worldwide. Liquid went on to release five EPs and one album on the label, including the beloved Future Music EP and Liquid...
To celebrate Frank Black’s landmark solo album, Teenager Of The Year turning 30, 4AD release a one-time vinyl pressing on 17th January. This special vinyl tour edition of Teenager Of The Year, has been remastered for the first time from its original analogue studio tapes. Sounding as essential as the day it was released, the LP is is cut at 45 rpm for optimum playback with liner notes by both...
Philadelphia group Bardo Pond release a much overdue reissue of Set and Setting (1999) to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. The record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl. Set and Setting is accompanied by a new double LP compilation, Melt Away, cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex in the band’s career, and released together on vinyl for the first time. Of these, album highlight ‘The Trail’, originally recorded...
Interpol celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics (first released on September 27th, 2004) with a newly expanded reissue – now available on digital services, which includes the record, the new-to-streaming b-side ‘Direction’ (digital-exclusive), and a complete live recording and video of the band’s legendary 2005 performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes, “never before heard or seen”. A limited-edition red vinyl reissue will be available at record stores...
Philadelphia group Bardo Pond announce a much overdue reissue of Set and Setting (1999) to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. Out October 25th, the record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl. Watch a previously unseen video for the song ‘This Time (So Fucked)’ below! Set and Setting will be accompanied by a new double LP compilation, Melt Away, cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex...
To celebrate 10 years after its original release, Spoon reissue their beloved eighth album They Want My Soul on all digital platforms, with a 2xLP gatefold vinyl / 2xCD release to follow on November 8th. Along with the record’s original 10 tracks – including all-time Spoon classics ‘Inside Out’, ‘Do You’, and ‘Rent I Pay’ – They Want My Soul: Deluxe More Soul Edition features 11 demos and alternate versions, almost all of them previously unreleased....
On August 23, almost forty years after it was initially released, The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself. Cocteau Twins have also shared, for the first time, a full HD library of their music videos, upgraded using original masters from the vaults. These new uploads span the...
Remote Control are excited to announce the reissue of Sea Power’s Mercury Prize nominated Do You Like Rock Music? album on Feb 9th, 2024. The album will be expanded for this 15th anniversary reissue with radio sessions and B-sides and extensive new sleeve notes. The album will be released on CD, Double LP (Ltd. Ed. Picture Disc) and digitally. Pre-order / Pre Save Do You Like Rock Music 15th Anniversary Reissue? here.
Brendan Perry announces the reissue of his 1999 album, Eye of the Hunter, expanded for its first ever repress to now include a bonus live album Live at the I.C.A., recorded during 4AD’s infamous 13 Year Itch residency at the storied London venue in 1993. A record that has been out of print on vinyl since its release in 1999, people have been asking for it to be repressed for long enough. Having been...
Today, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pretty Girls Make Graves’ sophomore album, The New Romance. Originally released in 2003, this was the Seattle punk band’s Matador Records debut. After more than a decade out of print, the album will return to us in a limited edition white vinyl pressing in stores on November 3. A deluxe digital version also lands and features two b-sides ‘Magic Lights’, newly available on...
Pale Saints announce an expanded reissue of their 1992 album In Ribbons, featuring previously unreleased demo’s and two reworks by The Tintwistle Band to be released October 6th. Missing its original release date last year due to Covid delays and production plant woes, the record, which Pitchfork named one of The Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, is finally getting the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves with a special double LP / CD release. Pre-order In Ribbons 30th Anniversary Reissue: https://4ad.ffm.to/inribbons30
This spring, Matador / Remote Control will reissue Liz Phair’s iconic debut album Exile in Guyville , a record whose impact and resonance has only grown more profound over the last three decades on limited-edition purple vinyl. The 2xLP is available for pre-order now and will be out October 20th. To celebrate, a long-lost studio outtake is available to stream. ‘Miss Lucy’ was recorded with Brad Wood during sessions for Exile in Guyville but left off the album. An 18-track double...
Almost three decades after its release, Air Miami’s first and only studio album, Me. Me. Me., is finally being reissued on 28 July. Made up of UNREST’s Mark Robinson and Bridget Cross, Air Miami formed shortly after the D.C. indie rock mainstay’s demise in 1995, and together with drummer Gabriel Stout and producer Guy Fixsen (The Breeders, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab), they travelled to their namesake land of Miami to record the entirety of Me. Me. Me. over the month of May at the famed Criteria Studios; a place where James Brown, Aretha Franklin, the...
Friendly Fires have announced the 15-year anniversary reissue of their seminal debut Friendly Fires and ‘Paris’. The album Friendly Fires will come on silver vinyl, whilst a 12” of the ‘Paris’ remixes by Aeroplane and Justus Kohncke will come on gold vinyl. These will both be released by XL Recordings / Remote Control on 8th September. On the reissues the band say: “We’re going to mark the occasion with 15th anniversary re-issues of the vinyl edition of the ‘Friendly Fires’ LP, and the ‘Paris’ 12”...
Iconic co-founder of arguably the most significant Australian band, The Saints (‘I’m Stranded’), and of the post-punk era-defining Laughing Clowns, Ed Kuepper launches an extensive catalogue campaign with the reissue of his long-out-of-print, seminal debut solo album Electrical Storm (1985) and Honey Steel’s Gold (1990) through Remote Control Records. Both will be available on vinyl on Friday, 9th June for the first time in 30 years. Digitally remastered and available on streaming services for the very first time today, Electrical Storm is a brooding statement of...
In 2023, Kurt Vile is making numbers count. We’d like to draw your attention to a significant KV digit: The 10th anniversary of his fifth full-length and first 2xLP, Wakin on a Pretty Daze (2013), out August 25th. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve brought the record back as a yellow vinyl. Where previous albums alternated between gorgeous fingerpicking and heavy guitar workouts, Wakin blended the two into dreamy and expansive songs that frequently stretched well out beyond the five-minute mark. Pre-order...
