The Sisters Of Mercy have announced details of a new vinyl boxed set collecting material from their second album, Floodland. The set will be released by Rhino on September 25 and contains four LPs, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl. It will be released digitally on the same day, while all the songs wi...
The Sisters Of Mercy have announced details of a new vinyl boxed set collecting material from their second album, Floodland.
The set will be released by Rhino on September 25 and contains four LPs, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
It will be released digitally on the same day, while all the songs will be available for download individually.
The Floodland collection includes the band’s album, originally released in 1987, as well as the contemporaneous singles and b-sides.
This set follows on from the vinyl box set of the band’s debut album, First And Last And Always, which was released by Rhino in July.
After the dissolution of the First And Last And Always line-up, Floodland introduced a new configuration of the Sisters, with Andrew Eldritch and trusty drum machine Doktor Avalanche joined by former Gun Club bassist, Patricia Morrison.
Floodland yielded the band’s first top 10 single, “This Corrosion“.
The tracklisting for the Floodland boxed set is:
Floodland
Side A
“Dominion/Mother Russia”
“Flood I”
“Lucretia My Reflection”
“1959”
Side B
“This Corrosion”
“Flood II”
“Driven Like The Snow”
“Never Land (A Fragment)”
This Corrosion 12″
Side A
“This Corrosion”
Side B
“Torch”
“Colours”
Dominion 12″
Side A
“Dominion” (12″ Edit)
“Untitled”
Side B
“Sandstorm”
“Emma”
Lucretia My Reflection
Side A
“Lucretia My Reflection”
Side B
“Long Train” (1984)
This new boxed set marks the digital debut for all the songs featured on the 12″ singles.
Meanwhile, the Sisters play a run of UK dates in October.
They play:
October 12: Glasgow ABC
October 14: Leeds Beckett University
October 15: Nottingham Rock City
October 17: Manchester Ritz
October 18: London Roundhouse
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