Third Man Data is reissuing the ultimate album from the Elliott Smith band Heatmiser forward of its thirtieth anniversary. The brand new version of 1996’s Mic Metropolis Sons is out July 25. It features a remastered model of the unique 12-song document, together with 12 rarities and beforehand unreleased tracks (similar to a “Rock Model” of the Elliott Smith traditional “Christian Brothers”). See the tracklist and a teaser video for the reissue under.
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 blended, 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 very visceral method. It made me respect this artistic area and inventive life that we had been capable of maintain there for a bit bit. If solely we might have someway labored our method via all of the interpersonal points. I feel the document exhibits that we might be a very good band.”
Heatmiser launched three studio albums—Lifeless Air (1993), Cop and Speeder (1994), and Mic Metropolis Sons—earlier than disbanding, partly, on account 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 mentioned. “It sucked.”
Take a look at “The 50 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest,” that includes Mic Metropolis Sons at No. 30.
