Pylon’s 1983 sophomore album ‘Chomp’ to be reissued with four bonus tracks

The second album from Pylon — beloved early-’80s Athens, Ga., post-punk contemporaries of R.E.M. and the The B-52’s — will be reissued next week in digitally remastered and expanded form by LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy’s DFA Records.

Originally released in 1983 as Chomp, the now-retitled Chomp More features the album’s original 12 tracks, plus four bonus cuts, including the original 7-inch mix of “Crazy” — which R.E.M. covered for the B-side of “Driver 8” — as well as the band’s own mixes of “Yo-Yo” (the so-called “male version”) and “Gyrate” and the 1982 single “Four Minutes.”

The Chomp reissue is the second from dance-punk label DFA, which similarly re-released 1980’s Gyrate as Gyrate+ in 2007. Unfortunately, however, the new reissue comes eight months after guitarist Randy Bewley died of a heart attack at age 53.

Meanwhile, Pylon’s singer, Vanessa Briscoe Hay, has a new band, Supercluster, that just released its debut CD, Waves. The album features some of Bewley’s final guitar work.

See full tracklist for Pylon’s ‘Chomp More’ after the jump…

Tracklist: Pylon, Chomp More

1. “K”
2. “Yo-Yo”
3. “Beep”
4. “Italian Movie Theme”
5. “Crazy”
6. “M-Train”
7. “Buzz”
8. “No Clocks”
9. “Reptiles”
10. “Spider”
11. “Gyrate”
12. “Altitude”
13. “Crazy” (Single Version)*
14. “Yo-Yo” (Male Version)*
15. “Gyrate” (Pylon Mix)*
16. “Four Minutes”*

*Bonus tracks

PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS

• Pylon’s Randy Bewley, 1955-2009