Really pleased to see that The Bevis Frond reissues have moved to Fire Records, with the following albums being released on 29th July 2016.
The Bevis Frond
New River Head
Fire Records
29 July 2016
THE BEVIS FROND
Reissue: ‘New River Head’
2LP/CD/DL
Out 29th July On Fire Records
“Within such an impressive body of work, New River Head is certainly the crown jewel. One of the headier agglomerations of the past decade, it’s non-grasping pace and epic palette issue the breezy confidence of an unmistakable classic” Pitchfork
“New River Head winds up being a slice of Frond at his high-powered best” All Music
Following this year’s Record Store Day reissues of ‘Miasma’ and ‘Inner Marshland’, The Bevis Frond will be reissuing their catalogue in the lead up to the 30th Anniversary next year.
“The perfect point of entry into his catalogue”(Popmatters),‘New River Head’ is the second studio album and seventh full length release which is widely regarded as the finest.‘The Miskatonic Variations II’ is a 17-minute psychedelic noise rock odyssey with exhilarating guitar solos and features guest vocals from Current 93’s David Tibet. ‘Undertaker’ and ‘Chinese Burn’ bursts with garage-rock and ‘Waving’ delves more into British folk-rock territory.
‘New River Head’ is released on double vinyl with gatefold sleeve and CD alongside ‘Any Gas Faster’ and ‘London Stone’ which are released in July 2016.
Track list CD 1:
1. Intro
2. White Sun
3. Drowned
4. She’s Entitled To
5. Waving
6. Down In The Well
7. New River Head
8. Solar Marmalade
9. Wild Jack Hammer
10. He’d Be A Diamond
11. Undertaker
12. Stain On The Sun
13. It Won’t Come Again
14. Blurred Vision
15. Son Of Many Mothers
16. God Speed You To Earth
CD 2
1. Motherdust
2. Cuvie
3. Chinese Burn
4. Thankless Task
5. The Miskatonic Variations II
6. Snow
7. My Little Empire
8. Cracked Universe
9. Stain On The Sun (demo)
10. Ageing Freak
11. Drowned (demo)
12. Son Of Many Mothers
13. Heavy On You
14. High In A Flat
Any Gas Faster
Fire Records
29 July 2016
Double LP includes live material from from ‘Ear Song’ and tracks from ‘Acid Jam’.
“The main strength of the Bevis Frond is the exquisite songwriting, with pithy and poignant lyrics delivered in a very uncompromising English roots accent. Artists such as Teenage Fanclub, Elliott Smith and Mary Lou Lord have covered their songs, while he’s played with Current 93, The Hawklords, Oneida and Arthur Lee of Love, amongst many others.” The Quietus
Following this year’s Record Store Day reissues of ‘Miasma’ and ‘Inner Marshland’, The Bevis Frond will be reissuing their catalogue in the lead up to the 30th Anniversary next year.
Originally released in 1990 ‘Any Gas Faster’ on Reckless Records, the album features fellow Room 13 musician Martin Crowley on drums and with Nick on everything else. Replacing his trademark epic guitar workouts in favour of more song-orientated psychedelic rock.
“The fourth ‘proper’ Bevis Frond album and the first to be recorded in a ‘proper’ studio’… the title came from an advert I wrote for industrial gas when I was a trainee copywriter at an ad agency” Nick Saloman, Hastings 2016
The ‘Any Gas Faster’ reissue includes bonus recordings from one of The Bevis Frond’s first gigs as a band recorded in Copenhagen supporting The Hothouse Flowers – these tracks are taken from EP ‘Ear Song’. Also included are tracks from ‘Acid Jam’ (CD does not include Acid Jam).
Track list
1. Lord Plentiful Reflects
2. Rejection Day (A.M)
3. Ear Song
4. This Corner Of England
5. Legendary
6. Then You Wanted Me
7. Lost Rivers
8. Somewhere Else
9. These Dark Days
10. Head On A Pole
11. Your Mind’s Gone Grey
12. Old Sea Dog
13. Rejection Day (P.M)
14. Good Old Fashioned Pain
15. Olde Worlde
16. I’ve Got Eyes In The Back Of My Head (Live In Copenhagen)
17. Mediaeval Sienese Acid Blues (Live In Copenhagen)
18. Olde Worlde (Live In Copenhagen)
19. Radio Bloodbeast (Live in Copenhagen)
London Stone
Fire Records
29 July 2016
“So many of his songs still thrill in their own right” Pitchfork
Following this year’s Record Store Day reissues of ‘Miasma’ and ‘Inner Marshland’, The Bevis Frond will be reissuing their catalogue in the lead up to the 30th Anniversary next year.
Lost masterpiece ‘London Stone’ (1991) was the follow-up to ‘New River Head’. Opening with traditional violin piece ‘Stonedance’ by Barry Dransfield it leads into the impressive ‘Coming Round’. “That Same Morning” ‘can stand proudly beside contemporaries like Teenage Fanclub’ (Pitchfork) whilst ‘Living Soul’ sees Saloman waxing Hendrix and ‘Lord Of Nothing’ revisits the folk rock side of Nick’s song writing.
The ‘London Stone’ double LP and CD reissue includes bonus tracks ‘Another Song About Dying’, ‘Coming Around (demo), ‘Scavenger’, ‘And Now She’s Gone (demo), ‘I Am Just A Child’ and ‘Hail The Child Philosopher’.
Track list
1. Stonedance (Trad.)
2. Coming Round
3. That Same Morning
4. Living Soul
5. Still Trying
6. Well Out Of It
7. A Most Singular Hole
8. Freedom Falling
9. London Stone
10. Lord Of Nothing
11. And Now She’s Gone
12. On A Liquid Wheel
13. Another Song About Dying
14. Coming Round (demo)
15. Scavenger
16. And Now She’s Gone (demo)
17. I Am Just A Child
18. Hail The Child Philosopher
News Submitted: Fire Records
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