Format Details: Xvi Anniversary Edition
Release Date: 16 September 2022
Label: Coursegood
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5060356470693
Description
SUITE XVI builds on the more traditional trademark sound of THE STRANGLERS that was rediscovered on the commercially successful NORFOLK COAST and was further galvanized here by the new, lean, stripped-down fourpiece.
Many of the songs - or at least the initial ideas - were conceived when JJ and Baz decamped to Looe in Cornwall, in 2005 to focus on the writing. In WARNE, BURNEL had found a new partner with whom he had truly gelled. Later returning to their West Country studios, the whole band then developed and recorded SUITE XVI which was produced by Louie Nicastro.
For Louie, who had worked with THE STRANGLERS for some years by this time, this was his first role at the helm and this fruitful union would see him go on to produce everything by the band since.
In this new 2CD Edition, CD1 features the original eleven track album. The songs cover a real range from the full-on exuberance, bouncy, infectious melody contrasts, to aggression, and topical tracks covering many, sometimes dark, subject matters within the writing and meaning of the song.
CD2, titled SUITE XVI - EXTRA SUITE includes EIGHT previously unreleased recordings. There are blistering live takes of seven of the album tracks; six of which are previously unreleased on CD. They were mostly recorded in the UK between 2007 and 2019. The three live acoustic tracks include an unreleased solo performance by Baz of BLESS YOU (SAVE YOU, SPARE YOU DAMN YOU) at THEWEEKENDINBLACK in London in 2011. As well as some previously unreleased tracks and an album Talk Through by the band with Journalist John Robb.
Tracklisting
The Stranglers
The Stranglers
The Stranglers
