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Menswe64rs second record Hay Tiempo is the great lost album of Britpop.It saw the band absorbing influences from the US West Coast with a more widescreen and technicolour sonic template than heard on their Top 20 debut album Nuisance.Sessions started in 1997 with producer Chris Allison Coldplay, Shack, The Beta Band, Emmanuel Jal and ran famously over time and hugely over budget. The band worked in Van Morrison039s studio, the iconic Rockfield Studios and the River Thames houseboat studio of Pink Floyds David Gilmour enlisting musicians including Pee Wee Ellis James Brown, Van Morrison, Sean O039Hagen from The High Llamas, and The Kursaal Flyers039 Vic Collins, with string arrangements by Nick Ingham Oasis. The final tracks were mixed by Dave Bascombe Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears.Despite the scale, ambition and huge evolution in Menswe64rs songwriting, a combination of shifting trends and the band reaching breaking point after such a rapid rise to fame meant the record was shelved, never to be released either physically or digitally except in the Japan where the band has always enjoyed huge popularity.Now, exactly 25 years since the release of Menswe64rs debut, Hay Tiempo is finally being rereleased. Fully remastered from the original tapes and featuring a detailed recreation of the artwork and sleeve, its featured in the new, careerspanning box set The Menswe64r Collection, out on Demon Records. Menswear Vinyl is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £19 +P&P