Comfortable Cell will reissue their second full-length album, The Artwork Of Falling Aside, as a brilliant deluxe 6CD boxset, double LP, and double CD on 31 October.
Freshly remastered by Barry Grint from the unique tapes, the reissue displays the duo’s darker tackle pop music in all its textured, gothic-tinged glory. Following immediately on from 1982’s seminal remix album Non-Cease Ecstatic Dancing, The Artwork Of Falling Aside initially reached No.5 on the UK charts.
For a taster of what’s to come back, a gothic visualiser for Ghost Rider, created by Paul Inexperienced, has been shared. This unique observe is featured throughout all three codecs of the reissue.
Initially a canopy of observe by the long-lasting New York duo Suicide, Ghost Rider has been recorded for the primary time with model new vocals from Marc Almond, visitor vocals from Jim Thirlwell from Foetus and saxophone from long run Comfortable Cell collaborator Gary Barnacle. Beforehand Ghost Rider solely existed as a part of the band’s stay exhibits throughout The Artwork of Falling Aside period in 1983. It was carried out for the primary time in practically 40 years at Comfortable Cell’s present at New York’s legendary Beacon Theatre in 2022, with Jim Thirwell duetting with Marc as soon as once more.
Watch the visualiser, beneath:
A Darker Facet
The LP was recorded throughout a interval of stress from then-label Phonogram to observe the success of 1981’s debut Non-Cease Erotic Cabaret and its chart-topping single Tainted Love. The fact of pop stardom for Marc Almond and Dave Ball was unwelcome and fairly uncomfortable.
Almond stated: “Our angle on the time of The Artwork Of Falling Aside may need alienated a few of our youthful and extra middle-of-the-road followers, however we had been being sincere with ourselves. Dave was listening to a lot of new music. He was revisiting his soundtrack influences and digital roots. I’d been going to The Batcave, the membership in Soho, and was hanging out with Nick Cave and Siouxsie Sioux. I’d sung on a Psychic TV album and carried out stay within the collaborative band The Immaculate Consumptive with Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch and Clint Destroy. I used to be an art-school punk who loved experimentation and confrontation, and all of that got here to the fore on this report.”
Lavish Boxset
The expanded tremendous deluxe model options 36 beforehand unreleased tracks and follows within the footsteps of the massively profitable Non-Cease Erotic Cabaret fortieth anniversary boxset in 2023. All is housed in a lavish 10″ × 10″ bundle, that includes the prolonged album, plus bonus 12″ tracks, B-sides, rarities, remixes, instrumentals/dubs, brand-new remixes, and a full disc of demos, in addition to audio from stay TV appearances from the time.
This re-creation additionally features a 60-page hardback e book, new notes from Adrian Thrills, and pictures from long-term collaborator, photographer Peter Ashworth. Double LP and double CD packages, that includes highlights from the 6CD field, may also be accessible.
Moreover, Comfortable Cell will launch the Martin EP digitally and as a restricted 12″. That includes Dave Ball’s Halloween Combine alongside the unique, the EP can be completely timed for 31 October – pre-order right here
Six-CD Tracklisting
CD1 – REMASTERED ALBUM, B SIDES, BONUS 12″
1. Ceaselessly The Similar
2. The place The Coronary heart Is
3. Numbers
4. Warmth
5. Kitchen Sink Drama
6. Child Doll
7. Loving You, Hating Me
8. The Artwork Of Falling Aside
9. Martin
10. Hendrix Medley
11. It’s A Mug’s Sport (7″ Model)
12. Boundaries (7″ Model)
13. Loving You, Hating Me – Particular Combine
CD2 – THE ART OF FALLING APART – EXTENDED ALBUM PLUS ORIGINAL 12″ B SIDES
1. Ceaselessly The Similar (Unique 12″ model) – beforehand unreleased
2. The place The Coronary heart Is (Unique 12″ model)
3. Numbers (Unique 12″ model)
4. Warmth (2018 prolonged model)
5. Kitchen Sink Drama (2018 prolonged model)
6. Child Doll (2025 prolonged model)
7. Loving You, Hating Me (Unique 12″ model)
8. The Artwork Of Falling Aside (2018 prolonged model)
9. It’s A Mug’s Sport (Unique 12″ model)
10. Boundaries (Unique 12″ model)
CD3 – CURIOS, RARITIES, REMIXES & NEW MIXES
1. Ghost Rider (New 2025 model that includes Jim Thirlwell) – beforehand unreleased
2. Martin (The Hacker Remix) – beforehand unreleased
3. It’s A Mug’s Sport (Dave Ball 2025 Re-Eq Model) – beforehand unreleased
4. The place The Coronary heart Is (The Grid Remix)
5. Child Doll (Nightwreckers Remix)
6. Boundaries (Dave Ball Damaged Down Angels Combine – Full Model) – full model beforehand unreleased
7. Martin (Dave Ball Halloween Combine)
8. The place The Coronary heart Is (Marcas Lancaster Remix)
9. The Artwork Of Falling Aside (Atomizer Remix)
10. Boundaries (Darkish Poets Remix)
11. Warmth (Yer Man 2025 Remix) – beforehand unreleased
12. Martin (Nightwreckers 2025 Remix) – beforehand unreleased
CD4 – THE ART OF FALLING APART (DEMOS & LIVE TV APPEARANCES)
1. Ceaselessly The Similar (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
2. The place The Coronary heart Is (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
3. Numbers (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
4. Warmth (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
5. Kitchen Sink Drama (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
6. Child Doll (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
7. Loving You, Hating Me (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
8. The Artwork Of Falling Aside (Unique 1982 demo) – beforehand unreleased
9. Numbers (Dwell on BBC ORS, 14/1/83) – beforehand unreleased audio
10. Warmth (Dwell on BBC ORS, 14/1/83) – beforehand unreleased audio
11. Ghost Rider (Dwell on CH4 The Tube) – beforehand unreleased audio
12. Numbers 7″ (DJ Model) – beforehand unreleased audio
13. Warmth (US Single Edit) – beforehand unreleased audio
14. Child Doll (Dave Ball Non-Cease Euphoric Dubbing model) – beforehand unreleased audio
15. Numbers (Dave Ball Non-Cease Euphoric Dubbing model)
16. Boundaries (Dave Ball Damaged Down Angels Dub model)
CD5 – THE ART OF FALLING APART (INSTRUMENTALS & DUBS)
1. Ceaselessly The Similar (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
2. The place The Coronary heart Is (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
3. Numbers (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
4. Warmth (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
5. Kitchen Sink Drama (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
6. Child Doll (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
7. Loving You, Hating Me (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
8. The Artwork Of Falling Aside (Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
9. It’s A Mug’s Sport (12″ Instrumental model) – beforehand unreleased
10. Martin (2025 Dub Combine) – beforehand unreleased
11. Hendrix Medley (Instrumental) – beforehand unreleased
12. Boundaries (Instrumental) – beforehand unreleased
13. Ghost Rider (Unique 1983 Backing Monitor) – beforehand unreleased
CD6 – THE ART OF TOURING APART (LIVE IN LONDON 2018-2021 + MORE)
1. Ceaselessly The Similar – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
2. The place The Coronary heart Is – Dwell at Hammersmith Apollo – sixteenth November 2021
3. Numbers – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
4. Warmth – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
5. Kitchen Sink Drama – Dwell at Hammersmith Apollo – sixteenth November 2021
6. Child Doll – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
7. Loving You, Hating Me – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
8. The Artwork Of Falling Aside – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
9. Martin – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
10. Boundaries – Dwell at The O2 Area – thirtieth September 2018
11. Hey Joe/Purple Haze – Dwell in USA, 1983
12. It’s A Mug’s Sport – Dwell at Hammersmith Palais, 1983
13. Ghost Rider – Dwell at Hammersmith Palais, 1983 and beforehand unreleased
14. Numbers – Dwell at Hammersmith Palais, 1983
For 2CD and 2LP tracklistings and to pre-order, click on right here.
Featured picture credit score Andrew Whitton
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