Tough’s 1995 debut album Maxinquaye is being reissued in 3LP, 1LP, 2CD and digital codecs.
Launched on 13 October, all codecs can be found to pre-order now and ‘Pumpkin (Reincarnated)’ is out there to stream from right here.
‘Maxinquaye (Reincarnated)’ incorporates rarities and model new variations of tracks lots of which haven’t been formally launched earlier than.
The only LP incorporates the unique album remastered at Abbey Street Studio whereas the tremendous deluxe triple-LP set and double-CD incorporates six new “Reincarnated” variations of tracks recorded by Tough in 2022, beforehand unreleased BBC session tracks recorded with a full stay band within the autumn of 1995, in addition to ‘Black Metal’ carried out stay at Glastonbury that very same yr.
The digital model additionally consists of all of the remixes from the unique single releases plus eight remixes initially unreleased together with one from Leftfield.
All variations of ‘Maxinquaye (Reincarnated)’ include model new paintings containing a uncommon picture of the musician’s late mom, whom the album is called after.
The picture was just lately found by Tough’s cousin and is the one one which exists of the 2 of them collectively.
With artistic management on the mission, Tough began remodeling tracks from the unique album in 2022.
“When you’re an artist or a musician and also you look again at your previous stuff,” he says, “in case you don’t suppose it’s dated you then’re both stood nonetheless otherwise you’re happy with what you’ve completed.”
“I hadn’t listened to it for years!” he continues. “And ‘Aftermath’ was the plain one [track] to start out with as a result of that was my first launch with none label. So it was like, ‘Okay, I’m not going to cowl this.’ It’s nearly like I simply considered that track after which ‘Aftermath Reincarnated’ – simply the way it ought to have sounded to me now. So I redid it because it ought to sound now. It’s not a canopy, it’s a reminder.”
In its yr of launch, NME, Melody Maker and The Wire all named Maxinquaye their album of the yr and it was nominated for a Mercury Prize (shedding out to Portishead’s ‘Dummy’).
MAXINQUAYE (REINCARNATED)’ TRACKLIST
3LP SET
A1 Overcome (Abbey Street remaster)
A2 Ponderosa (Abbey Street remaster)
A3 Black Metal (Abbey Street remaster)
A4 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Street remaster)
B1 Pumpkin (Abbey Street remaster)
B2 Aftermath (Abbey Street remaster)
B3 Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Street remaster)
B4 Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Street remaster)
C1 Suffocated Love (Abbey Street remaster)
C2 You Don’t (Abbey Street remaster)
C3 Strugglin’ (Abbey Street remaster)
C4 Feed Me (Abbey Street remaster)
D1 Strugglin’ (Reincarnated)
D2 Aftermath (Reincarnated)
D3 Ponderosa (Reincarnated)
D4 Hell is not far away (Reincarnated)
D5 Pumpkin (Reincarnated)
D6 Little Aftermath
E1 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (1995 BBC radio session)
E2 Strugglin’ (1995 BBC radio session)
E3 Ponderosa (1995 BBC radio session)
E4 Pumpkin (1995 BBC radio session)
E5 Black Metal (Stay at Glastonbury, 1995)
F1 She Satan (Tough Monitor combine)
F2 Simply For The Hate Of It (Tough Monitor Combine)
F3 Overcome (Acapella – Tough Monitor Combine)
F4 Black Metal (Tough Monitor Combine)
1LP SET
A1 Overcome (Abbey Street remaster)
A2 Ponderosa (Abbey Street remaster)
A3 Black Metal (Abbey Street remaster)
A4 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Street remaster)
A5 Pumpkin (Abbey Street remaster)
A6 Aftermath (Abbey Street remaster)
B1 Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Street remaster)
B2 Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Street remaster)
B3 Suffocated Love (Abbey Street remaster)
B4 You Don’t (Abbey Street remaster)
B5 Strugglin’ (Abbey Street remaster)
B6 Feed Me (Abbey Street remaster)
2CD SET
1 Overcome (Abbey Street remaster)
2 Ponderosa (Abbey Street remaster)
3 Black Metal (Abbey Street remaster)
4 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Street remaster)
5 Pumpkin (Abbey Street remaster)
6 Aftermath (Abbey Street remaster)
7 Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Street remaster)
8 Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Street remaster)
9 Suffocated Love (Abbey Street remaster)
10 You Don’t (Abbey Street remaster)
11 Strugglin’ (Abbey Street remaster)
12 Feed Me (Abbey Street remaster)
1 Strugglin’ (Reincarnated)
2 Aftermath (Reincarnated)
3 Ponderosa (Reincarnated)
4 Hell is not far away (Reincarnated)
5 Pumpkin (Reincarnated)
6 Little Aftermath
7 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (1995 BBC radio session)
8 Strugglin’ (1995 BBC radio session)
9 Ponderosa (1995 BBC radio session)
10 Pumpkin (1995 BBC radio session)
11 Black Metal (Stay at Glastonbury, 1995)
12 She Satan (Tough Monitor combine)
13 Simply For The Hate Of It (Tough Monitor Combine)
14 Overcome (Acapella – Tough Monitor Combine)
15 Black Metal (Tough Monitor Combine)
16 Model New You’re Retro (Leftfield remix)
Digital Launch
Half 1
Overcome (Abbey Street remaster)
Ponderosa (Abbey Street remaster)
Black Metal (Abbey Street remaster)
Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Street remaster)
Pumpkin (Abbey Street remaster)
Aftermath (Abbey Street remaster)
Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Street remaster)
Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Street remaster)
Suffocated Love (Abbey Street remaster)
You Don’t (Abbey Street remaster)
Strugglin’ (Abbey Street remaster)
Feed Me (Abbey Street remaster)
Half 2
Strugglin’ (Reincarnated)
Aftermath (Reincarnated)
Ponderosa (Reincarnated)
Hell is not far away (Reincarnated)
Pumpkin (Reincarnated)
Little Aftermath
Half 3
She Satan (Tough Monitor combine)
Simply For The Hate Of It (Tough Monitor Combine)
Overcome (Acapella – Tough Monitor Combine)
Black Metal (Tough Monitor Combine)
Half 4
Ponderosa (Da Beat Terrorists Ghetto funk remix)
Tonite Is A Particular Nite (Chaos Mass Confusion Combine)
Slick 66
Suffocated Love (Combine 2)
Ponderosa (Ultramagnetic’s Terrorist Energy Membership Combine)
Model New You’re Retro (Blacksmith Dance Corridor Remix (Censored)
Aftermath (Model 1)
Ponderosa (Dobie’s Rub Half 2)
Psychosis
Moody Broody Buddhist Camp
She Satan (Combine 1)
Ponderosa (Dobie’s Rub Half 1)
Half 5
Model New You’re Retro (Leftfield remix)
Pumpkin (Badja Remix)
Overcome (Bungle Combine)
Model New You’re Retro (Alex Reece Remix)
Hell Is Spherical The Nook (The Hell & Water Combine)
Suffocated Love (Combine 1)
Overcome (2009 remix)
Black Metal (In The Draw Combine)
Ponderosa (Authentic Instrumental)
Hell is not far away (2009 remix)
Black Metal (2009 remix)
Overcome (Zippy Combine)
Black Metal (Been Caught Steeling Combine)
Pumpkin (Ambient)
Black Metal (The Stay Remix)
