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Release Date Friday 8th November 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Charlatans’ third album Up To Our Hips, we are excited to announce the release of an expanded edition of the album. The 2LP/2CD/DIGITAL set will feature the original album in addition to 10 bonus tracks comprised of live session recordings, rare mixes and more, all curated by Tim Burgess. The special package has brand new reimagined artwork by Nik Void and the LP is pressed on petrol blue bio vinyl.
Released in 1994, Up To Our Hips was a new direction for the band. It leaned slightly away from the lighter pop songs of their previous two albums and is darker, heavier and organ led. At the time, they were listening to a lot of Small Faces, Beatles, and Dylan and watching David Lynch films all while navigating internal band stress, and many of the lyrics on the album reflect the stress of the band at the time. The tracks that have been added to the release include two live tracks recorded for the Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley Show, plus B-sides, alternate mixes and more.
The Charlatans - easily recognized by their hallmark sound of driving Hammond organs, northern UK soul and house-influenced rhythms, swaggering guitars and Tim Burgess’ sunny yet yearning vocals - are one of the most consistent British pop bands of the past 3 decades. The band has released an album every few years since 1989, each of which landed in the top half of the UK music charts, 3 of them hitting #1 and spawning 22 top 40 singles. The band has over- come obstacles from nervous breakdowns to addiction to near bankruptcy to the heartbreaking deaths of two founding members, all the while adapting, transforming and producing new music in spite of it all.
Tracklisting
A1. Come In Number 21
A2. I Never Want an Easy Life If Me and He Were Ever to Get There
A3. Can’t Get Out of Bed
A4. Feel Flows
A5. Autograph
B1. Jesus Hairdo
B2. Up to Our Hips
B3. Patrol
B4. Another Rider Up in Flames
B5. Inside-looking Out
BONUS TRACKS:
C1. Subterranean
C2. Full of Culture
C3. Out
C4. Up to Our Hips (Recorded Live For The Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley Show)
C5. Stir It Up (Alternate Instrumental Mix)
D1. Withdrawn
D2. Feel Flows (Alternate Mix)
D3. You & Everybody
D4. Don’t Let It Stand AKA Can’t Get Out of Bed
D5. Another Rider Up In Flames (Recorded Live For The Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley Show)
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