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Gimme Fiction - Deluxe Reissue

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Record Label
Matador

About this item

Spoon’s classic ‘Gimme Fiction’ celebrates its 10th anniversary with a deluxe version released on Matador Records.

The reissue contains the original album newlyremastered by Howie Weinberg from the original tapes, a second disc with 12 previously unreleased demos from the era, a digital download of nine additional bonus tracks and a full colour book containing photos and an extensive oral history of the making of the album by The AV Club’s Sean O’Neal. The deluxe LP package also includes tipped sleeves, a 24” x 36” poster and a digital download of all songs.

‘Gimme Fiction’ dragged the sonic pointillism of ‘Kill The Moonlight’ further into dub-influenced weirdness as the increasingly confident Spoon went crazy in the studio, experimenting with everything from warped hip hop samples to horse whinnies. Whatever digging or strange alchemy had to go into it, they only produced more gold.

‘Gimme Fiction’ deserves special recognition as the album where Spoon took creative and stylistic quantum leaps that resulted in classics ‘I Turn My Camera On’, ‘The Beast And Dragon Adored’, ‘My Mathematical Mind’, ‘I Summon You’ and so many more. 10 years later, ‘Gimme Fiction’ gets the deluxe release it so richly deserves.

TRACK LISTING

The Original Album
The Beast And Dragon, Adored
The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
I Turn My Camera On
My Mathematical Mind
The Delicate Place
Sister Jack
I Summon You
The Infinite Pet
Was It You?
They Never Got You
Merchants Of Soul

Home Demos
I Summon You (First Demo)
Was It You?
I’ve Been Good Too Long
Sister Jack (Piano Demo)
The Beast And Dragon, Adored
My Mathematical Mind
They Never Got You
The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
The Delicate Place
The Infinite Pet
Merchants Of Soul
Dear Mr. Landlord

Digital Bonus Tracks (With Vinyl Only)
The Beast And The Dragon, Adored (Rehearsal)
Sister Jack (Up Demo)
I Turn My Camera On (First Demo)
My Mathematical Mind (First Rehearsal)
The Delicate Place (Vanderslice & Solter Version)
I Wanna Go (Demo)
Tear Me Down (Demo)
I Summon You (Electric Demo)
My Mathematical Mind (Vanderslice & Solter Version)

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