Comedy Minus One’s long-awaited deluxe re-issue of the third Silkworm album “Libertine” is finally available in stores worldwide as of today.
This classic record can also be procured via your favorite digital providers.
iTunes : eMusic : Rhapsody : Amazon : Google Play
If you would rather pick up a 2×12″ + Cd pressing of “Libertine” through the Comedy Minus One shop, copies can still be ordered here.
Wondering Sound wrote of this expanded, definitive edition:
“Libertine, the third record from indie titans Silkworm, remains as riveting and peerless today as it did on its release 20 years ago. Its tangled guitars and plainspoken vocals feel more like narratives than rock songs, slim, moving short stories capturing odd, specific moments in time in rich, poetic language — journal entries and excerpts of lives in progress, presented with only hints at the surrounding details. The songs obey their own internal logic: guitars scramble and scrape, the bass lurches and collapses, the drums quiver and quake. Two decades later, it still sounds like little before or since: defiantly raw and unadorned, Libertine is indie rock verite. You enter its world according to its own rules, inside the parameters it has set. And once you do, you get lost inside it.”
In a 9/10 rave review, The Line Of Best Fit called it “46 minutes of the best US rock music you’ve never heard. Now it’s time to sort that out.”
LIBERTINE 2×12″/CD TRACKS
01 There Is A Party In Warsaw Tonight
02 Grotto Of Miracles
03 Cotton Girl
04 Yen + Janet Forever
05 Oh How We Laughed
06 The Cigarette Lighters
07 Couldn’t You Wait?
08 A Tunnel
09 Written On The Wind
10 Wild In My Day
11 Bloody Eyes
CD ONLY
12 Insider
13 Grotto Of Miracles (alternate)
14. Couldn’t You Wait?*
15. Scruffy Tumor*
16. Cotton Girl*
17. Raised By Tigers*
*Marco Collins Sessions