For RSD 2020 Fire Records will be releasing new material from Black Lips featuring Kesha alongside special reissues from The Lemonheads, Throwing Muses, The Groundhogs and the third instalment of our Television Personalities singles collection.
We’ll also be unearthing Dennis Hopper‘s ‘The Last Movie’ OST for the first time with a special RSD release over at Earth Recordings.
New release dates and details here
The Lemonheads
‘Lovey’ 30th Anniversary Edition Reissue
2LP deluxe book repackaged with expanded liner note and unseen photos
Release date: 24th October
Deluxe 30th anniversary edition of The Lemonheads ‘Lovey’, this double LP deluxe book with expanded liner notes and unseen photos is the definitive document of Dando’s first steps towards the mainstream. Lovingly repackaged and remastered it’s accompanied by second vinyl ‘Triple J Live at the Wireless’ from their legendary 1991 trip to Australia.
“Like Hüsker Dü when they were at their most ferocious or REM when they were at their most Byrdsian hypnotic.” NME
Black Lips new single ft. Kesha
‘They’s A Person Of The World’
Limited edition 7″
Release date: 29th August
Black Lips and pop superstar Kesha join forces for on ‘They’s A Person Of The World‘, the lush country ballad is a fitting tribute to the traditions of Nashville and it’s rich musical history.
It’s a glorious, aching invocation of life. Worlds collide, styles cement, no-one goes home empty handed.
Released exclusively for Record Store Day 2020, the tracks on these LTD 7”s are not available anywhere else.
The Groundhogs ‘Split’ reissue
Limited edition double red vinyl with gatefold sleeve
Release date: 29th August
The second of three ground-breaking albums by the ultimate power trio who morphed blues into hard rock and spawned punk. The second side delivers the mighty ‘Cherry Red’, McPhee’s take on The Beatles’ ‘A Day In the Life’, a sideswipe at junk food and a glorious interpretation of John Lee Hooker’s ‘Groundhogs Blues’.
A much-loved opus with a side-long concept piece. A bona fide inspirational rock classic. Remastered and packaged with a second disc of out-takes from the original sessions that spawned this spontaneous monster. ‘Split’ is released on double red vinyl for Record Store Day.
“Tony McPhee has turned to anarchic paranoid battlegrounds of the mind for inspiration,” Melody Maker
“Supercharged, fractured and raging.” MOJO
Throwing Muses ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ reissue
Limited edition double LP gatefold sleeve
Release date: 29th August
Originally released in 2013, ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ gets reissued for the first time on double vinyl with die cut sleeve. Emerging ten years from a hiatus, it’s a formidable 32 track opus of tangible bliss from the alt-rock heroes. Devised as a book with essays by Kristin Hersh with art by drummer Dave Narcizo, it’s a fractured album about loss, most tracks are short, broken, some are reprises. It includes ‘Milan’ about a neighbourhood in New Orleans where Hersh’s house was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, ‘Static’ that deals with a close loss of a close friend and ‘Terra Nova’ an ode to the band’s first break up.
★★★★ Pitchfork
“The songs still bewitchingly combine beauty and tension.” The Guardian
Television Personalities ‘Some Kind Of Happiness?’
Singles 1994-1999
Limited edition double LP with gatefold sleeve
Release date: 26th September
A two-disc retrospective of every single track released by The Television Personalities between the tail end of 1994 and 1999. Featuring legendary songwriter Dan Treacy, a gifted storyteller who places the world in his own hazy shade of focus, heading deep into introspection.
Featuring all the EP and single tracks that originally appeared on a host of indie pop labels, it’s a cohesive trip into the mind of the songwriter along with a host of his favourite cover versions.
All in a lavish package with extensive sleeve notes and unseen photographs.
“Seen through this half empty glass, darkly, Dan Treacy is not Pete Doherty. He’s Elliott Smith, or Ian Curtis, but honestly, genuinely better and more gifted than either.” Pop Matters
