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This 40th Anniversary Edition of the album sees a full remaster housed in a Limited Edition Special Finish Gatefold Sleeve on Transparent Vinyl. This Deluxe LP also comes with a 16 page booklet featuring sleeve notes by Dr. Jonathan Wood exploring the writing, recording and production of the record. Plus an exclusive 12×12 Art Print. The album is also available as 2CD Mediabook amp Digital Deluxe.hellipIf I Die, I Die was released only weeks before the Heresie box set. The two albums show very different faces of the Virgin Prunes ndash one that explored mythical worlds and another that showed their surrealistic interest in the creative power of insanity. They also highlight the ways in which the band enjoyed experimenting with different genres, sound forms and recording techniques. As Friday has commented recently, The Virgin Prunes contained four different bands at the same time.The album was recorded at the Windmill Studios in Dublin in the summer of 1982 and produced by Wires Colin Newman. Rather than adopt an AB format, the sides of the 1982 vinyl and album cover, which was designed by Steve Averill, were given brown and blue colours, signalling earth and sky respectively. The art work on each side of the sleeve was also inverted so that either side could be read as the front cover. Ursula Steigers photography captured, on the brown side, the band running through a forest like a nomadic tribe. On the blue side we then find them in different costumes, performing with fire and mannequins within a derelict building. Track ListingA1. Ulakanakulot 2022 RemasterA2. Decline and Fall 2022 RemasterA3. Sweethome Under White Clouds 2022 RemasterA4. BauDachoumlng 2022 RemasterB1. Baby Turns Blue 2022 RemasterB2. Ballad of the Man 2022 RemasterB3. Walls of Jericho 2022 RemasterB4. Caucasian Walk 2022 RemasterB5. Theme for Thought 2022 Remaster The Virgin Prunes BUNDLE is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £50 +P&P