The Pop Group - Y: Definitive Edition [3LP/12" - GOLD VINYL] (LP Box Set)

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Y is the highly influential and innovative debut album by The Pop Group, released in 1979. In the same year The Pop Group released their single She is Beyond Good & Evil / 3:38.

The band went on to release two further singles, We Are All Prostitutes and Where There Is a Will (a split single with the Slits) and one further studio album, For How Much Do We Tolerate Mass Murder, before splitting up in 1981.

This new Definitive Edition box set includes the debut single She Is Beyond Good and Evil, as well two bonus discs featuring the 10-track album Alien Blood and the live album Y Live.

Alien Blood is the result of the band's meticulous process of revisiting the original 2" tapes of their studio sessions and recordings, unearthing never-before-heard material, including the studio recording of Kiss the Book, gloves off version of We Are Time (Ricochet), and Words Disobey Me (Dennis the Menace Mix) whilst exposing the raw skeletons of iconic tracks such as the original velocity of Thief of Fire (Bass Addict). Alien Blood reveals the life of Y before everything was finalized, exposing revelatory dimensions within these iconic works.

The Y Live album is an essential addendum to the original release, one that captures all the fierce urgency of The Pop Group's live performances at the time. Comprised of Y era recordings captured at a variety of locations including New York, Manchester and Brussels - the latter on a bill with William Burroughs and Joy Division - Y Live exemplifies what had proved so thrilling about The Pop Group. A snapshot of a time when the group were sharing stages with future acolytes including Cabaret Voltaire, Linton Kwesi Johnson & Public Image Ltd, Mark Stewart describes the recordings as attempts to "paint the impossible."

This limited edition format is pressed on gold coloured vinyl, and also includes a signed art print.

- 3LP / 12"
- GOLD VINYL
- 180G VINYL
- INCLUDES SIGNED ART PRINT
- INCLUDES BOOKLET