New releases: New Prefab Sprout album, reissues from The Feelies and The Fall
Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Prefab Sprout
RELEASE: Let’s Change the World With Music
BACKSTORY: For the reclusive U.K. sophisti-pop act’s first new album in eight years, bandleader Paddy McAloon delivers the long-lost follow-up to 1990’s Jordan: The Comeback. The new album, however, does not feature re-recordings of the old songs McAloon began in the early ’90s, but, rather, what are being referred to as “finished” versions.
BUY IT: Amazon.co.uk
ARTIST: The Feelies
RELEASE: Crazy Rhythms, The Good Earth
BACKSTORY: The first two albums from the hugely influential college-rock act are reissued as remastered CD and vinyl editions. However, in a somewhat unusual move, the bonus material — five tracks for 1980’s Crazy Rhythms, and three cuts for 1986 follow-up The Good Earth — will be made available only be digital download, “as the band consider each album to be a discrete aesthetic artifact.”
BUY IT: Amazon.com
ARTIST: The Fall
RELEASE: Hex Enduction Hour: Deluxe Edition
BACKSTORY: Released in 1982, the fourth studio LP from Mark E. Smith and Co. receives the two-disc reissue treatment this week, with a second CD that features tracks recorded for John Peel in 1981, the single “I’m Into C.B.” and six live songs taped between November 1981 and August 1982.
BUY IT: Amazon.co.uk
ARTIST: The Stone Roses
RELEASE: The Stone Roses
BACKSTORY: They’ve been out for a month already in Europe, but the U.S. editions of the 20th anniversary reissue of the Roses’ debut finally arrive this week in four formats: a single-disc “Special Edition,” a 2CD/1DVD “Legacy Edition,” a 3CD/1DVD/3LP/USB drive “Collectors’ Edition” and a gatefold vinyl edition.
BUY IT: Amazon.com
ARTIST: The Cribs
RELEASE: Ignore the Ignorant
BACKSTORY: The fourth album from the U.K. guitar band is the first to feature a new six-stringer: Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths and, more recently, Modest Mouse.
BUY IT: Amazon.com
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS:
- Prefab Sprout’s new album, ‘Let’s Change the World With Music,’ due in September
- The Feelies to reissue ‘Crazy Rhythms,’ ‘The Good Earth’ with digital bonus tracks
- The Stone Roses’ 20th anniversary round-up: Video, audio, links, interviews, podcasts
- New releases: The Smiths vinyl reissues, new Fall live CD, New Order re-reissues
- Bauhaus, Pixies, The Fall up for ‘Omnibus’ reissues from new Beggars Archive imprint
Tags: Crazy Rhythms, Hex Enduction Hour, Johnny Marr, Let's Change the World With Music, Mark E. Smith, Modest Mouse, Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout, The Cribs, The Fall, The Feelies, The Good Earth, The Smiths, The Stone Roses












