There’s a Star Above the Manger Tonight (2014 Reissue)

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Words from the band on their upcoming reissues:

“When we started this archival reissue series project it was simple: reissue our three original SubPop LPs, through our friends at Jealous Butcher, with a little digital bonus material. However, when we started to dig into Theres a Star Above the Manger Tonight, we realized it was too long to fit on a single LP, so we decided to recut it as a double LP. Still pretty simple, right? Except when we looked at the other 2 LPs, they were also too long to fit on single LPs. On top of that, our first record, Red Red Meat, had never been released on vinyl!

So we started brainstorming and talking with folks about it. Hey, [John Herndon] made some cool paintings, lets get [Steve Walters] to make some posters, and maybe theres some live material in the storage space, and what about making a book of all the records?!?! And well, things got more exciting and less simple really quickly.

This is why weve teamed up with PledgeMusic for the reissue series, starting with Theres a Star Above the Manger Tonight in November 2014 and ending with Red Red Meat in October of 2015. Our campaign has three goals 100%, 200%, 300% as we reach each goal we can begin working on each album and then send them out to you as theyre completed. Finally, when we make it to the end of the campaign, well be collecting all of the albums in a limited edition 8 LP hand-bound book.

Along the way, well be sending you updates, photos, snippets of songs, videos and more as we scour the archives looking for extra things to include on each album. You can even own some of these bits of ephemera posters, original artwork, test pressings, hand written lyric sheets, acetates, signed photos and well release more items as we come across them.

Putting together this collection of reissues is going to be an awesome journey and were looking forward to sharing the nuts and bolts of it all with you as we sort through the storage space, dig through our closets and wonder where the hell we set that thing 20 years ago looking for something new to bring into the light of day.