Third Man Records is reissuing the ultimate album from the Elliott Smith band Heatmiser forward of its thirtieth anniversary. The brand new version of 1996’s Mic City Sons is out July 25. It features a remastered model of the unique 12-song document, together with 12 rarities and beforehand unreleased tracks (comparable to a “Rock Model” of the Elliott Smith basic “Christian Brothers”). See the tracklist and a teaser video for the reissue beneath.
The surviving members of Heatmiser—vocalist and guitarist Neil Gust, bassist Sam Coomes, and drummer Tony Lash—determined to reissue Mic Metropolis Sons after working with Third Man on the Music of Heatmiser anthology. “I began to undergo and located stuff that was just about completed, however simply by no means combined, and another issues that we had run out of time to completely develop,” Lash said in a press launch. “It introduced me again to that point in a extremely visceral manner. It made me respect this inventive house and inventive life that we have been in a position to maintain there for a bit of bit. If solely we may have in some way labored our manner by means of all of the interpersonal points. I believe the document reveals that we may very well be a extremely good band.”
Heatmiser launched three studio albums—Lifeless Air (1993), Cop and Speeder (1994), and Mic Metropolis Sons—earlier than disbanding, partly, as a result of Elliott Smith’s rise as a solo artist. “He turned such a factor on his personal, after which simply disappeared from the plans we’d made collectively,” Neil Gust stated. “It sucked.”
Take a look at “The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest,” that includes Mic Metropolis Sons at No. 30.
