November 6 street date. On the 15th anniversary of its original release, Rough Trade Records are excited to announce that a reissue of British Sea Power's majestic second album, ‘Open Season’, will be released on 6th November, 2020. The expanded limited edition release will include additional live sessions, B-sides and rarities from the period and extensive new sleeve notes. The limited edition CD replicates the LP track listing.
November 6 street date. On the 15th anniversary of its original release, Rough Trade Records are excited to announce that a reissue of British Sea Power's majestic second album, ‘Open Season’, will be released on 6th November, 2020. The expanded limited edition release will include additional live sessions, B-sides and rarities from the period and extensive new sleeve notes. The double LP is a one-off pressing, housed in a gatefold sleeve, the first disc on blue vinyl, with the second being a zoetrope picture disc. LP is limited to 2500 copies and will be numbered.
August 25 street date. Rough Trade Records present Sea Power's "Man Of Aran" score, pressed on vinyl for the first time. In 2009 the band, then known as British Sea Power, were commissioned by the Edinburgh Film Festival to create their own soundtrack for the 1934 quasi-documentary, which they premiered by playing along live during a screening at the event. The resulting mainly instrumental score proved to be a true artistic collaboration that stretched across the decades, earning the group widespread acclaim upon its release, both for the music's simpatico relationship with the original film and as a stand-alone work in its own right. It was also declared by The Quietus on release as a "perfect symbiosis that should rightly be regarded as something of an understated classic".
February 9 street date. Rough Trade Records present the 15th anniversary reissue of Sea Power's Mercury Prize nominated record, "Do You Like Rock Music?". The album has been expanded with radio sessions, B-sides, and extensive new sleeve notes written by Roy Wilkinson. This kaleidoscopic record encapsulates Sea Power's true heart. "Easy, easy..." Only Sea Power could turn a football chant into art - with ease. From this bounding refrain of ‘No Lucifer’, via the serenity of ‘Waving Flags', the balm-like ‘No Need To Cry’ and the joyous ‘Trip Out’, the 2008 album "Do You Like Rock Music?" reflects the band's ability to find glacial beauty in the commonplace, making soul-stirring epiphanies an everyday occurrences.
February 9 street date. Rough Trade Records present the 15th anniversary reissue of Sea Power's Mercury Prize nominated record, "Do You Like Rock Music?". The album has been expanded with radio sessions, B-sides, and extensive new sleeve notes written by Roy Wilkinson. This kaleidoscopic record encapsulates Sea Power's true heart. "Easy, easy..." Only Sea Power could turn a football chant into art - with ease. From this bounding refrain of ‘No Lucifer’, via the serenity of ‘Waving Flags', the balm-like ‘No Need To Cry’ and the joyous ‘Trip Out’, the 2008 album "Do You Like Rock Music?" reflects the band's ability to find glacial beauty in the commonplace, making soul-stirring epiphanies an everyday occurrences.
May 31 street date. Released on British Sea Power's own Golden Chariot Records label comes this lovingly rendered reissue of ‘The Decline of British Sea Power’, the band's debut album, originally released in June 2003 to huge critical acclaim and available now on limited edition coloured vinyl for the first time. Over the course of their five studio LPs and three award winning film soundtracks, British Sea Power have become a true British institution: Top 10, Mercury nominated LP, three UK silver discs, and renowned for their astonishing live shows in unique and unlikely locations.