The Teardrop Explodes
This is 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 coming Friday unless noted. May also include some other titles released in recent weeks but not previously featured.
The Teardrop Explodes
RELEASE: Culture Bunker 1978-82
DETAILS: These very limited-edition, new 6CD and 7LP box sets collect all of the Julian Cope-led band’s singles and B-sides, plus four CDs/five LPs of unreleased studio outtakes, previously unreleased live material and more.
BUY: The Sound of Vinyl (UK)
Chapterhouse
RELEASE: Chronology
DETAILS: This 6CD boxset chronicles the output of the shoegaze favorites, collecting their albums, EPs, singles, remixes and demos — including 20 previously unreleased recordings. Comes in a hard slipcase box with mini-LP sleeves and a 64-page booklet.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Cowoby Junkies
RELEASE: Such Ferocious Beauty
DETAILS: The Canadian alt-folkies are back with a new studio album this week, a 10-song collection that is the group’s fourth album since ending a six-year break in recording in 2018. Features the lead-off single “What I Lost.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire
RELEASE: Wronger
DETAILS: Tommy Stinson’s long-gestating project Cowboys in the Campfire — a duo with Chip Roberts born between Stinson’s stint in Guns N’ Roses and the reunions of The Replacements and Bash & Pop — releases its debut album this week.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Various Artists
RELEASE: Keeping Control: Independent Music From Manchester 1977-1981
DETAILS: This 3CD, 76-track box set from Cherry Red Records offers a comprehensive look at Manchester’s musical output in the late ’70s and early ’80s, including tracks by Joy Division, New Order, The Fall, A Certain Ratio, Magazine and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
RELEASE: Mainstream
DETAILS: Lloyd Cole’s third and final album with the Commotions, released in 1987, is reissued this week in a new 180-gram vinyl pressing with packaging replicating the original Polydor Records UK release. Features “My Bag,” “Jennifer She Said” and more.
BUY: Amazon.com
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Out this week: Sparks, Pere Ubu, Wedding Present, Danny Elfman, Waterboys, Suicide
- Out this week: Lemonheads, XTC, Ministry, Duran Duran, John Robb’s goth book — and more
- New releases: Depeche Mode, Joy Division, The Pretenders, Wire, Big Country, Go-Go’s
- New releases: 11 discs of Mojo Nixon, plus Matthew Sweet & Susannah Hoffs, Robert Forster
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