In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remastering and reissuing nine of the bands classic albums.The reissues will be released by Neil’ s own label Divine Comedy Records on August 21st, 2020.Casanova was the bands third album and the first to bring real success. First released in 1996 it explored and dissected a world of casual affairs, loose morals and a thousand anxieties in between. From the NME ’ Casanova’ fairly teems with sex, with suppressed desires.. with &le evidence of what dicks men can be. Mojo described it as a glorious.. sumptuous paean to life, love and longing. Select said Only a barren heart could resist it.. Sensible people simply swooned. Singles Something For The Weekend, Becoming More Like Alfie and The Frog Princess became chart hits and airplay staples while an alternate version of Songs Of Love became the theme music for legendary Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.The album has been remastered from the original tapes at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Frank Arkwright Blur, The Smiths. Overseeing the audio throughout the c&aign is engineermixerproducer Guy Massey, whose work on the Beatles Stereo Remasters won him a Grammy Award.The LP release consists of the original remastered album, cut at Abbey Road, packaged with a download code for the album and bonus tracks. The LP is heavyweight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve accompanied with photos, credits and Neils liner notes.
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Bang Goes The Knighthood (Remastered) LP by The Divine Comedy
In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remastering and reissuing nine of the bands classic albums.The reissues will be released by Neil Hannon’ s own label Divine Comedy Records on August 21st, 2020Bang Goes The Knighthood was first released in 2010. Written in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Bang.. took an acerbic look into the lives of the rich and powerful, and their impact on the rest of us “down in the street below.” It was described in the Sunday Times as a collection worthy of Randy Newman at his best while Pitchfork said, Neil Hannon continues to quietly and effectively operate his own oneman niche, thanks to impeccable arrangements and tightropewalking songwriting. Includes the singles At The Indie Disco and I Like, and live favourites Assume The Perpendicular and The Complete Banker.The album has been remastered from the original tapes at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Frank Arkwright Blur, The Smiths. Overseeing the audio throughout the c&aign is engineermixerproducer Guy Massey, whose work on the Beatles Stereo Remasters won him a Grammy Award.The LP release consists of the original remastered album, cut at Abbey Road, packaged with a download code for the album and bonus tracks. The LP is heavyweight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve accompanied with photos, credits and Neils liner notes.
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Absent Friends (Remastered) LP by The Divine Comedy
In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remastering and reissuing nine of the bands classic albums.The reissues will be released by Neil Hannon’ s own label Divine Comedy Records on August 21st, 2020Absent Friends was first released in 2004. Describing the album, Neil said The songs use stories and characters as a framework to pin my ideas on. Its mostly about the eternal battle between the pull of personal freedom and the comfort of domesticity”. The album was recorded by Guy Massey, mixed by Nigel Godrich and features guest appearances by 6 Music DJ Lauren Laverne and French multiinstrumentalist Yann Tiersen. “The whole album is rich, beautiful and can make you smile and cry on the turn of a chorus” stated Phill Jupitus in the Radio Times, while the Guardian described it as an “ornate gem” and Word magazine said, “it’ s Neil Hannon’ s best yet”. Stand out tracks from the album include singles Come Home Billy Bird and Absent Friends, as well as fan favourites Our Mutual Friend and Charmed Life.The album has been remastered from the original tapes at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Frank Arkwright Blur, The Smiths. Overseeing the audio throughout the c&aign is engineermixerproducer Guy Massey, whose work on the Beatles Stereo Remasters won him a Grammy Award.The LP release consists of the original remastered album, cut at Abbey Road, packaged with a download code for the album and bonus tracks. The LP is heavyweight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve accompanied with photos, credits and Neils liner notes.
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A Short Album About Love (Remastered) LP by The Divine Comedy
In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singersongwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remastering and reissuing nine of the bands classic albums.The reissues will be released by Neil Hannon’ s own label Divine Comedy Records on August 21st, 2020A Short Album About Love was conceived as a companion piece to the bands previous album Casanova. It was recorded live at the Shepherd’ s Bush Empire in London in 1996 with a 30piece orchestra, and was released in time for Valentine’ s Day 1997, charting at 13 in the UK. NME described the show where the album was recorded as an evening when dreams finally come true a night of costume changes, classical kisses and in time honoured tradition of drinking and dressing up hugely sophisticated fun… One suspects it wouldnt be too hazardous to suggest that Neil Hannon is having by far the finest night of his entire sodding life. Time Out, reviewing the album, said Seven of the most heartstoppingly gorgeous, romantic smoochers you have ever heard, all drenched in strings and emotion. The single Everybody Knows Except You reached 14 in the UK chart.The album has been remastered from the original tapes at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Frank Arkwright Blur, The Smiths. Overseeing the audio throughout the c&aign is engineermixerproducer Guy Massey, whose work on the Beatles Stereo Remasters won him a Grammy Award.The CD release consists of 2 discs the original remastered 7 track album, with an additional 12 tracks of Bsides, demos and alternate versions lovingly curated by Neil Hannon, much of which has never been heard before. The 2nd disc is the DVD A Short Film About A Short Album About Love – a previously unreleased 50minute film of the Shepherd’ s Bush Empire concert at which Short Album.. was recorded. The CD comes with a booklet of photos, credits and extensive liner notes written by Neil covering the context and inspiration behind the album and its songs.The LP release consists of the original remastered album, cut at Abbey Road, packaged with a download code for the album and bonus tracks. The LP is heavyweight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve accompanied with photos, credits and Neils liner notes.To mark the release, The Divine Comedy play five nights at the Barbican in London in early September and then later the same month, five nights at the Cite de la Musique in Paris. Performing as an elevenpiece ensemble, the band will play two albums from their catalogue in full each night. Casanova and A Short Album About Love will be performed on the 3rd September in London and the 26th Sept in Paris.The reissues will be supported by a fan focused social media and email database c&aign plus broader PR and marketing c&aigns.
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Why Call It Anything Gatefold Coloured Double LP by The Chameleons
The Chameleons fourth and final studio album receives its firstever outing on vinyl this December, with the initial pressing on 2 x heavyweight coloured discs presented in a gatefold sleeve.Why Call It Anything was produced by David M Allen Strange Times and was the band’ s first full studio recordings after a fifteenyear break. Featuring the rich guitars and powerful vocals associated with previous Chameleons albums WCIA is enriched by members solo pursuits throughout the 1990’ s, with some of the songs having an acoustic, almost folky feel. But fans of The Chameleons rockier side won’ t be disappointed with tracks such as Shades and Indiana packing an almighty punch. The remastered album was cut for vinyl at Abbey Road by engineer Geoff Pesche whose impressive CV includes cutting the lacquer for the best selling 12” of all time, New Order’ s Blue Monday.
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Reworked Double LP by Snow Patrol
Reworked is a collection of Snow Patrol’ s classics reimagined for the band’ s 25th anniversary. . Heavyweight black double vinyl format housed in reverse board gatefold sleeve with download code.
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Best Of Double LP by Reverend & The Makers
With six Top 20 albums already under their belts, Sheffield rocknroll radicals Reverend and the Makers release the Best of Reverend & The Makers through Cooking Vinyl on September 20th 2019. The double vinyl, double CD and Digital download album spans the bands career so far and includes singles and fan favourites from their debut release Heavyweight Ch&ion Of The World to their latest single Black Flowers. Rounding off both albums are two new songs, especially recorded for this compilation, Elastic Fantastic featuring Rich Westley from The Moonlandingz described by The Reverend Jon McClure as a fantasy about killing Donald Trump with a bow & arrow and Te Quiero Pero.
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The Singles Double LP by Bluetones
Released originally on CD in 2002, ‘The Singles’ is now available on vinyl for the first time pressed on 2 x 180g heavyweight blue vinyl and presented in a gatefold sleeve.The collection includes all of their singles from the period 1995 2002, from their debut ‘, Are You Blue or Are You Bind’ through to ‘The Bluetones Big Score’.This collection pulls together the bands incredible run of hit singles during the period, including Bluetonic 19, Slight Return 2, Cut Some Rug 7, Marblehead Johnson 7, Solomon Bites the Worm 10, If… 13, Keep The Home Fires Burning 13, Autophilia 18 and After Hours 26.
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Severed LP by Curse Of Lono
Includes download couponCurse Of Lono’ s criticallyacclaimed, fulllength debut, featuring the singles ‘Pick Up The Pieces’ and ‘Send For The Whisky’. Produced by Oli Bayston aka Boxed In. LP pressed on heavyweight 180g Vinyl 33RPM. Includes download coupon.
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Happy Birthday LP + Pinky Blue LP by Altered Images
middotReleased in May1982, Altered Images’ second album features one the band’ s biggest singles, “I Could Be Happy”, which peaked at number 7.It also contains the singles “See Those Eyes” and “Pinky Blue”, as well as their cover of Neil Diamond’ s “Song Sung Blue”. The album was produced by Martin Rushent Human League, Stranglers, Buzzcocks, and went on to earn a Silver Disc, selling in excess of 60,000 copies.middotReleased in September 1981, Altered Images’ debut album featured the band’ s biggest single, “Happy Birthday”, which peaked at number 2, produced by Martin Rushent Human League, Stranglers, Buzzcocks. The remainder of the album was produced by Steven Severin, cofounder of Siouxsie and The Banshees, and went on to earn a Silver Disc, selling in excess of 60,000 copies.middotThis halfspeed master edition is presented in its original sleeve, pressed on 180gram heavyweight black vinyl, featuring an obi strip, and housed in a polylined inner sleeve, with all the lyrics and credits on the 4 page insert.middotThis new edition has been expertly mastered by Barry Grint at AIR Mastering from the original stereo tapes using precision halfspeed mastering.middotHalfspeed mastering is a vinyl cutting technique that improves groove accuracy and transient information creating an incredibly detailed stereo image with a natural high frequency response.