Third Man Records is reissuing the ultimate album from the Elliott Smith band Heatmiser forward of its thirtieth anniversary. The brand new version of 1996’s Mic City Sons is out July 25. It features a remastered model of the unique 12-song report, together with 12 rarities and beforehand unreleased tracks (reminiscent of 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 acknowledged in a press launch. “It introduced me again to that point in a extremely visceral method. It made me recognize this artistic house and artistic life that we have been in a position to maintain there for slightly bit. If solely we might have one way or the other labored our method via all of the interpersonal points. I believe the report reveals that we could possibly be a extremely good band.”
Heatmiser launched three studio albums—Lifeless Air (1993), Cop and Speeder (1994), and Mic Metropolis Sons—earlier than disbanding, partially, as a consequence 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 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest,” that includes Mic Metropolis Sons at No. 30.
