Forthcoming (March 2021) from Intervention Records, mastered by Ryan K. Smith (the new Steve Hoffman), expanded to a double LP.
The Church – Starfish expanded
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Bit of natter about this on various Church FB sites, extra tracks etc though I don’t think there’s anything not previously released . Lovely package, one I would go for if I had a record player.
Intervention Records does seem to be a bit of a paid hobby done for the right reasons. There’s no rhyme nor reason to the catalogue other than Shane likes it.
I have a couple, a Joe Jackson which sounds fab, a night and day (no pun intended) improvement, Big Audio Dynamite which is limited by 80s production, and Judee Sill’s first which is just… lush.
I don’t have any Church on vinyl, so I’m in for this if I can find it for a sensible price in the UK.
I seem to remember SK knowing nothing about the RSD Gold Afternoon Fix reissue, and he’s on record about what the heroin years did to his business decisions, so I’d be very surprised if this was ‘artist approved’. Pretty sure he’s said somewhere that the Plain Records reissues of Priest=Aura/Sometime Anywhere escaped his notice as well and that he receives no royalties. Nothing to stop people buying in good conscience, but worth noting that ‘artist approved’ seems a tenuous claim.
If nothing else, they seem to have used the original first-generation master tapes.
I often wonder quite how artists get into such a pickle with royalties, reissues, rip offs etc. Bad management decisions maybe or yes drucqs.
I has just occurred to me, ‘artist approved’ doesn’t specifiy which artist, does it?
This could be a profitable sideline for our own Mr Pencilsqueezer.
*This* is expanded –
I am conflicted. Rock Snob Completist me wants everything they’ve done, obvs. Rock Snob Purist me wants albums left in their natural state, obvs.
Luckily, A quick smoke at Spots hoovers up most of these extras, I can live without the acoustic versions and can probably get hold of Musk and Warm should I be bothered.
Most of these extra tracks were released as a mini-album packaged with the vinyl a while (decades, probably) back. This new re-release does nothing except for people who like to stroke cardboard. How can splitting the original album across three sides be a good idea? (Warm Spell and Musk are lovely, by the way).
3 sides = wider grooves = louder cut = sounds better.
My Judee Sill LP is a double 12″ 45rpm with 3 tracks per side. It sounds lush.
@h-p-saucecraft
Any more Churchy/Kilbey/new album titbits you can tease me with?
I have always loved this version of Under the Milky Way, by the late Jimmy Little:
https://youtu.be/62LMZHCVyq8
@steerpike
That’s quite a nice gentle jazzy version. Who is Jimmy Little, looks as bit like a long lost blues man?
Australian Aboriginal Musician from the Yorta Yorta people – sadly no longer with us. His version appeared on an album called ‘Messenger’ which features his take on a number of classic Australian/NZ songs from The Go Betweens, Crowded House, Nick Cave etc. Well worth shelling out for if you can find it.