Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
Dead Can Dance
RELEASE: Dionysus
BACKSTORY: Dead Can Dance — led by co-founders Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard — this week release their ninth studio album, a song cycle of “seven movements representing different facets of the Dionysus myth and his cult.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Yazoo
RELEASE: Three Pieces and Four Pieces
BACKSTORY: The classic synthpop duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke – christened Yaz in the U.S. – this week release 4LP and 3CD (and digital) collections of their two albums, plus remixes and BBC radio sessions.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
RELEASE: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, Architecture & Morality, Dazzle Ships
BACKSTORY: OMD’s first four album are reissued on vinyl this week for the first time since the 1980s. They’re newly remastered at half speed.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Art of Noise
RELEASE: In No Sense? Nonsense!
BACKSTORY: The group’s third album originally released in 1987, this week receives an expanded 2CD reissue, with bonus seven-inch and 12-inch mixes, and 22 unreleased recordings from the sessions.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: Bauhaus, This Mortal Coil, Skinny Puppy, David Bowie
- New releases: R.E.M., Nitzer Ebb, Camouflage, Elvis Costello, Belly, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins
- New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Joe Strummer, Pixies, House of Love, Nick Cave, XTC
- This week’s new releases: Ramones’ ‘Road to Ruin’ box set, Felt, Butthole Surfers, The Cult
