Name: Giant Steps (30th Anniversary Edition)
Brand: The Boo Radleys

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BN7LPX

Colour

Orange

Colour details

Orange and Purple

Discogs ID

[r28149154]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

With Bonus Black Vinyl 10” including 2 tracks – Lazarus (Saint Etienne Remix) Rodney King (Saint Etienne Remix)

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-09-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5053760103851

Total Cap

Orange LPx3

BN7LP

Black

Extended format: No

5053760103844

Black LPx2

BN7CD

Soft Pack with Three Extra Tracks.

5053760105855

Artist

The Boo Radleys

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Two-Piers Records

The Boo Radleys are an English alternative rock band that was founded in Wallasey, Merseyside, England in 1988. Although they disbanded in 1999, the group recently reunited in 2020 without original member Martin Carr.

Throughout their career, The Boo Radleys underwent a musical transformation, transitioning from nutty noise merchants to shoegazing dreampoppers and eventually becoming classic pop thoroughbreds who achieved Top 40 success in the UK. Despite their European stardom, the band never managed to break into the US music scene.

The current lineup of The Boo Radleys consists of Rob Cieka on drums, Simon "Sice" Rowbottom on vocals and guitar, and Timothy Brown on bass, guitar, and keyboards. Former members include Martin Carr (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Rob Harrison (drums), and Steve Hewitt (drums).

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The Boo Radleys reveal vinyl reissue to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their nineties genre-hopping masterpiece Giant Steps.

NME’s 1993 Album Of The Year, named in the Top 20 of Pitchfork’s The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time and lauded as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, The Boo Radleys’ classic album, Giant Steps is reissued, on special remastered vinyl almost 30 years to the day since its original release. The band’s genre-ambiguous and widely-acclaimed masterpiece is released via Two-Piers.&nbsp;

Only the second of their five albums to be released on the legendary Creation Records, at a time when label mates including Slowdive, Teenage Fanclub and Ride were also casting long shadows across the indie landscape, pre-the Oasis hurricane making landfall at the label, Giant Steps broke into the canon of great, experimental rock albums soon after its release. It’s first single, Lazarus, issued as a standalone release in November 1992, its blend of brass and guitar-squall and acutely introspective lyrics, gave a hint of what was to come and remains lodged in the band’s most-loved and best-known songs. For the 2023 reissue, Lazarus’ 12” version appears on the all-formats track listing for the first time.&nbsp;

Recorded at London’s Protocol Studios, where Carr and Brown took on self-production duties with support from engineer, Andy Wilkinson, The Boo Radleys set about responding to their shared sense of dissatisfaction with their 1992 album, Everything’s Alright Forever. Free to do as they please, they set about making a record of complete artistic freedom, bringing in reggae (Upon 9th And Fairchild), dance (Rodney King) and irresistible, warped indie pop (Barney And Me) influences into the studio and, without limitation, weaved them into the satisfyingly complex fabric of Giant Steps. Snapshot incidentals, intermissions and between-radio-station static intro/outros added to the sense of unrestrained exploration.&nbsp;

Writing about the album, drummer, Cieka reflected on Giant Steps, stating: “Creation loved it, people's reactions seemed really positive. I do listen to it from time to time and still find great moments I’d forgotten about. I think it stands up pretty well today. I'm always left feeling happy to have been a part of the record

Giant Steps (30th Anniversary Edition)

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