Description
- Limited Edition 4LP Box Set
- Four Album Box Set Tracing the Innovative Process of Pere Ubu 2006-2014
- 3 Albums Remixed & Carnival of Souls Remastered
- 1st Vinyl Release For Why I LUV Women
Rewriting the history of music, Pere Ubu continue to confound convention and shift personnel. The next box set in Fire Records' reissue series,
Nuke the Whales, houses 4 LPs originally released between 2006 and 2014:
Why I LUV Women, Carnival of Souls, Lady of Shanghai and
"Long Live Pere Ubu!". Nuke the Whales is a nod of respect to a couple in Cleveland who would daub such messages over the big news stations' advertising boards.
Three albums have been remixed by David Thomas in 2021 with
Carnival of Souls being remastered; the renamed
Why I LUV Women, originally released on Glitterhouse in 2006, bore the line, "This is an irony-free recording"; it gains its first vinyl release. David Thomas says "I did an album of love songs. I studied the question of why I love women and I was concerned of people not accessing the deeper level on the songs, so I threw in the Jim Thompson-esque title to throw people off - or on to - the scent. It ended up in garbage bins in radio stations despite a full explanatory press release. You need me to spell it out? I spell it out for you on this release."
And
Lady from Shanghai, their Fire debut from 2013. Originally released on the 35th anniversary of the group's debut,
The Modern Dance, the album is a latter-day re-evaluation of the unprompted dance genre.
And its follow-up,
Carnival of Souls, a haunting "underscore" to a tale of alienation, it "combines metallic percussion, spare guitars and David Thomas' muttered vocals into something rustic and rickety, yet threatening at a moment's notice."- AllMusic
