A New Form of Beauty 1-4 2024 Deluxe 3LP + Deluxe 2CD
Merchant: Townsend Music
Merchant's Category: music
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. Guggirsquos art work fornbspA New Form of Beauty, which intimates a heartless transaction within a domestic setting, is in keeping with this sensibility.A New Form of Beautynbspnbsp1981 was recorded and produced by the band itself. It includes the tracks of the first four parts of what was a fivepart, mixedformat project with Rough Trade Records. Part 1 was a 7rdquo record, Part 2 was a 10rdquo, Part 3 was a 12rdquo these were recorded between July and October 1981. Part 4 was lsquoDin Gloriousrsquo, 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 lsquoPerformance, Exhibition, Event staged at the Douglas Hyde Gallery on 7th and 8th November 1981.This deluxe edition features all four parts remastered from original tape in anbsp3LP Trifold reverse board sleeve deluxe package with a 16 page 11 inch deluxe artbook containingnbspbrand new sleevenotesnbspby Jon Wood and original Guggi drawings.This deluxe edition features all four parts remastered from original tape withnbspbrand new remixes and tape loop mashup by Apparition and Gavin Fridaynbspin anbsp2CD deluxe mediabooknbspwithnbspa 16 page bookletnbspcontainingnbspbrand new sleevenotesnbspby Jon Wood andnbsporiginal Guggi drawings.
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