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Virgin Prunes

Title: A New Form Of Beauty 1-4 - 2024 Deluxe Edition

    The Virgin Prunes were masters of the uncanny, juxtaposing nightmares with lullabies, beauty with cruelty, combining gentle vocals and the spoken word with anguished wailing from purgatory itself. This first album powerfully laid out this terrain. Its themes ranged from mournful tales of unrequited love, frustrated sexuality, morbid eroticism and wasted youth, to yearnings for distant dreamlands which were juxtaposed with macabre visions of dystopian societies, overpowered by dark forces and where demons run amok. Guggi’s art work for A New Form of Beauty, which intimates a heartless transaction within a domestic setting, is in keeping with this sensibility.

    A New Form of Beauty (1981) was recorded and produced by the band itself. It includes the tracks of the first four parts of what was a five-part, mixed-format project with Rough Trade Records. Part 1 was a 7” record, Part 2 was a 10”, Part 3 was a 12”: these were recorded between July and October 1981. Part 4 was ‘Din Glorious’, released as an audio cassette, was a recording of extracts of a live event on 8th November 1981 at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. Part 5 was to be a film of ‘Performance, Exhibition, Event staged at the Douglas Hyde Gallery on 7th and 8th November 1981.


    TRACK LISTING

    LP1
    A1. Sandpaper Lullabye (2024 Remaster)
    A2. Sleep Fantasy Dreams (2024 Remaster)
    A3. Sad World (2024 Remaster)
    B1. Come To Daddy (2024 Remaster)
    B2. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2024 Remaster)
    LP2
    C1. Beast (Seven Bastard Suck) (2024 Remaster)
    D1. Abbágall (2024 Remaster)
    D2. Brain Damage (2024 Remaster)
    D3. No Birds To Fly (2024 Remaster)
    LP3
    E1. Din Glorious, Pt. 1 (2024 Remaster)
    F1. Din Glorious, Pt. 2 (2024 Remaster) 

    CD1
    1. Sandpaper Lullabye (2024 Remaster)
    2. Sleep Fantasy Dreams (2024 Remaster)
    3. Come To Daddy (2024 Remaster)
    4. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2024 Remaster)
    5. Sad World (2024 Remaster)
    6. Beast (Seven Bastard Suck) (2024 Remaster)
    7. Abbágall (2024 Remaster)
    8. Brain Damage (2024 Remaster)
    9. No Birds To Fly (2024 Remaster)
    CD2
    1. "Din Glorious" (2024 Remaster)
    2. Yesterday Is Tomorrow / Come To Daddy (2024 Remix By Apparition) *
    3. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2024 Remix By Apparition) *
    4. Yesterday Is Tomorrow / Come To Daddy (2024 Instrumental Remix By Apparition) *
    5. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2024 Instrumental Remix By Apparition) *
    6. Beauticide (2024 ANFOB TapeLoop Mash Up By Apparition) *
    *previously Unreleased

    Virgin Prunes

    ... If I Die, I Die - 40th Anniversary Edition

      …If I Die, I Die was released only weeks before the Heresie box set. The two albums show very different faces of the Virgin Prunes – one that explored mythical worlds and another that showed their surrealistic interest in the creative power of insanity. They also highlight the ways in which the band enjoyed experimenting with different genres, sound forms and recording techniques. As Friday has commented recently, ‘The Virgin Prunes contained four different bands at the same time.’

      The album was recorded at the Windmill Studios in Dublin in the summer of 1982 and produced by Wire’s Colin Newman. Rather than adopt an A/B format, the sides of the 1982 vinyl and album cover, which was designed by Steve Averill, were given brown and blue colours, signalling earth and sky respectively. The art work on each side of the sleeve was also inverted so that either side could be read as the front cover. Ursula Steiger’s photography captured, on the brown side, the band running through a forest like a nomadic tribe. On the blue side we then find them in different costumes, performing with fire and mannequins within a derelict building.

      This 40th Anniversary Edition of the album sees a full remaster housed in a Limited Edition Special Finish Gatefold Sleeve on Transparent Vinyl. This Deluxe LP also comes with a 16 page booklet featuring sleeve notes by Dr. Jonathan Wood exploring the writing, recording and production of the record. Plus an exclusive 12x12 Art Print. The album is also available as 2CD Mediabook & Digital Deluxe.


      TRACK LISTING

      Vinyl Tracklisting:
      A1. Ulakanakulot (2022 Remaster)
      A2. Decline And Fall (2022 Remaster)
      A3. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2022 Remaster)
      A4. Bau-Dachöng (2022 Remaster)
      B1. Baby Turns Blue (2022 Remaster)
      B2. Ballad Of The Man (2022 Remaster)
      B3. Walls Of Jericho (2022 Remaster)
      B4. Caucasian Walk (2022 Remaster)
      B5. Theme For Thought (2022 Remaster)

      2CD Tracklisting:
      1. Ulakanakulot (2022 Remaster)
      2. Decline And Fall (2022 Remaster)
      3. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2022 Remaster)
      4. Bau-Dachöng (2022 Remaster)
      5. Baby Turns Blue (2022 Remaster)
      6. Ballad Of The Man (2022 Remaster)
      7. Walls Of Jericho (2022 Remaster)
      8. Caucasian Walk (2022 Remaster)
      9. Theme For Thought (2022 Remaster)

      1. Baby Turns Blue (Colin Newman Remix 2004) (2022 Remaster)^
      2. Chance Of A Lifetime (UK 12") (2022 Remaster)
      3. Yeo (UK 12") (2022 Remaster)
      4. The Faculties Of A Broken Heart (What Should We Do If Baby Turns Blue) (UK 12") (2022 Remaster)
      5. King Of Junk (Instrumental) (Rough Mix) (2022 Remaster)^
      6. Ballad Of The Man (Rough Mix) (2022 Remaster)^
      7. Fado (Rough Mix) (2022 Remaster)^
      8. Bau-Dachong (Rough Mix) (2022 Remaster)^
      9. Theme For Thought (Rough Mix) (2022 Remaster)^
      10. Pagan Lovesong (Demo) (2022 Remaster)^
      11. Pagan Lovesong (2022 Remaster)
      12. Dave-Id Is Dead (2022 Remaster)
      13. Pagan Lovesong (Vibeakimbo) (2022 Remaster)
      ^ Previously Unreleased


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