A Place To Bury Strangers have announced details for an expanded and newly remastered 13th anniversary edition of their 2009 sophomore album, Exploding Head, due out October 21 on Mute/BMG and available to pre-order beginning today (9/7) in Deluxe 2-LP, 2-CD, and digital formats.
Exploding Head (13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) features newly remastered audio by band vocalist and guitarist Oliver Ackermann, plus ten bonus tracks featuring rarities, unreleased material, and three blistering covers of tracks by Love & Rockets, The 13th Floor Elevators, and David Bowie. In addition, the newly remastered original 10-track album Exploding Head (13th Anniversary Edition) is being offered as a single LP on transparent red wax.
The 2-LP set (available exclusively at the band’s web store) is pressed on transparent clear wax and housed in a numbered gatefold sleeve, featuring newly designed artwork, 12” original cover art card, and new liner notes by renowned music journalist Tris McCall. The 2-CD set is housed in a reverse board 6-panel DigiFile and features a 16-page booklet with newly designed artwork, as well as McCall’s liner notes.
In conjunction with today’s announcement, the band released a new music video for the previously unreleased B-Side, Take It All, the first instant grat track (available now to stream/download) being offered off the upcoming release. In his liner notes, McCall writes, “On ‘Take It All,’ the absence of midrange guitar opens space for Ackermann’s vocals, and allows him the sort of expressive latitude uncommon in noise-rock.”
