Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
ARTIST : The Lords of the New Church
RELEASE: The Gospel Truth
BACKSTORY: The classic post-punk act this week is anthologized on a new 4CD/1DVD box set that includes a disc of 16 studio rarities recorded in 1987 and 1988 plus, on three subsequent CDs, live concerts recorded in 1982, 1983 and 1986. The fifth disc is a DVD featuring songs performed at a 1988 concert in Vienna.
BUY: Amazon.com (Box set)
I kinda want this. Didn’t Stiv die in Paris after being hit by a taxi or something?
Pretty cool but would prefer their catalog be remastered and released as well. Some of their early albums are out of print still.
Track Records out of England did remaster their studio albums. They sounded great. I got their debut. They are out of print now and expensive.
It’s 3CD & a DVD, not 4CD (I have it).
Agree I would like to see the canonical catalogue out again – but not, please, after getting killed by brickwall limiting & overcompression.
“Is Nothing Sacred” should also have the proper version of “Dance With Me” as on the vinyl – not the one on the CD I have.
(I have all CD’s available as far as I can tell except for the 13 track version of the debut – my CD is just t he 10 original tracks)