Ultravox Exclusive: Lament Deluxe Edition Preview
By Classic Pop | July 17, 2024
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In collaboration with Chrysalis Records, Classic Pop can share an exclusive Ultravox lyric video of Steven Wilson’s Remix Edit of White China.
This White China Steven Wilson Remix Edit offers a sneak preview of the exceptional extended remix disc that accompanies Lament 2024 Deluxe Edition.
Watch the lyric video below:
Lavish Affair
Following the success of the deluxe reissues of Vienna, Rage In Eden and Quartet albums, Chrysalis Records will release a 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the band’s hugely successful fourth album with Midge Ure, on 6 September.
With the experience gained from working with legendary producers Conny Plank (1981’s Rage In Eden) and George Martin (1982’s Quartet), 1984’s Lament was a self-produced album.
An emotionally darker, more melancholic affair than its predecessor, in the context of the times and with the world at the height of the Cold War, the album deals with themes such as paranoia, the fear of nuclear annilation and creeping communism.
The final album of this incanation of Ultravox (until 2012’s Brill!ant), Lament went on to sell over 100,000 copies in the UK and whilst full of desolate themes, it was once again a lavish musical affair which captivated fans and sounds as contemporary today as it did 40 years ago.
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Exhaustive Edition
This new eight disc boxset contains 72 tracks in total, with 45 previously unreleased recordings. CDs 1-6 contain the original 1984 album production master, a new stereo mix by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), a newly mixed Extended Re-Mix of the album comprises new remixes by Moby, Blank & Jones, Steven Wilson and Midge Ure, A-sides, B-sides and rarities, while CDs 7-8 comprise Ultravox’s previously unreleased Set Movements concert recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in 1984.
The new 5LP Limited Edition Clear Vinyl box set contains 34 tracks in total, with a previously unreleased recordings. LP1 is the original album remastered, LP 2+3, the newly mixed Lament Extended Album Re-Mix comprises new remixes by Moby, Blank & Jones, Steven Wilson and Midge Ure, whislt LP 4+5 comprises Ultravox’s Set Movements 1984 concert recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in 1984.
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Limited Issue
The new 2LP vinyl was mastered from the original ½” masters by Phil Kinrade and cut at half-speed by Barry Grint at AIR Studios, London. The limited edition pressing features 2LPs with two etched, housed in a ¾ length slipcase and with a four-panel insert inside.
All formats of the reissue have been designed replicating designer Peter Saville’s original black-print-on-black-card artwork and include a booklet featuring band interviews with Classic Pop’s John Earls.
For full details and track listings click here.
Ultravox release the Lament 40th anniversary edition on 6 September. To pre-order click here
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