Feelies Albums Out Tomorrow!

Helping to kick off the reissues due tomorrow, one track at a time.

By Fred Mills

A coupla months ago we brought you word of the first two, classic, Feelies albums, 1980's Crazy Rhythms and 1986's The Good Earth, getting the expanded remaster treatment by the Bar/None label.

They're due in stores tomorrow, Sept. 8, on both CD and vinyl - although, caveat emptor, the slew of bonus tracks attached to each album will NOT be part of the physical package. Instead, the label circulated this somewhat cryptic note on the project (so you can make what you will, a case of "artistic integrity" weighing in or, um, simply a cost-saving strategy):

"As the band considers each album to be a discrete aesthetic artifact, the copious bonus material including demos, b-sides, EP tracks and some new live recordings from the re-united group will be included on digital download cards."

Uh-huh. At any rate, we'll have a full review in the upcoming issue of BLURT, due on newsstands at the end of the month. "A wonderfully tightly-wound, tense sound," say we of the first album; "mellower and beautifully breezy but still plenty tuneful," of the latter.