Pulp announce Different Class – 30th Anniversary Edition reissue
Pulp have announced a reissue of their 1995 Mercury Prize winning and chart topping album, Different Class, which is expanded to include their 1995 Glastonbury Festival set in full.
"This 45rpm double album version of “Different Class” will make it sound a whole lot better. We were obsessed with the fact that this was our “Pop” album (we had finally achieved some “popularity” when “Common People” was a hit) &, as everyone knows, all pop albums have 12 songs on them: 6 tracks per side," Jarvis Cocker explains how this new edition presents the album in an improved format.
"Only problem: this took the running time of the record to 53 minutes. We were told this would compromise the audio quality of the vinyl record - but we were more bothered about not compromising the quality of our Pop Dream. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for “Different Class” to be heard in all its glory. Different Class indeed."
The deluxe 4LP set is presented in a sturdy slipcase with a comprehensive, 28-page booklet featuring a newly commission essay based on new interviews with the band members, plus many previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the band’s own archives.
The original ‘aperture’ sleeve design, which encouraged purchasers to “Choose your own front cover”, came with six double-sided inserts/art cards of alternative cover images depicting cardboard cutouts of the band members captured in a variety of situations. This has been fully recreated for the LP set, which will also include a 12” by 12” poster featuring miniatures of the cutouts themselves, which fans can excise if they wish and place in the settings of their choice. The 2CD set comes housed in a digi-sleeve with 28-page booklet.
Different Class is set to be released on 24 October, via Universal Music Recordings on behalf of Island Records.
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