Third Man Information 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 file, together with 12 rarities and beforehand unreleased tracks (resembling a “Rock Model” of the Elliott Smith traditional “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 blended, and another issues that we had run out of time to totally develop,” Lash said in a press launch. “It introduced me again to that point in a extremely visceral approach. It made me admire this inventive area and artistic life that we had been in a position to maintain there for somewhat bit. If solely we might have by some means labored our approach by way of all of the interpersonal points. I feel the file reveals that we might be a extremely good band.”
Heatmiser launched three studio albums—Useless 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 grew to become 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 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest,” that includes Mic Metropolis Sons at No. 30.
