Comsat Angels being ressiued!

[Adam Crocker]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-03/27.shtml#comsatangels

Now, eleven years after the band's demise, the UK reissue label Renascent will release the Comsat Angels' first three albums (Waiting for a Miracle, Sleep No More, and Fiction), as well as the BBC sessions comp Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, all on April 3. They'll begin taking orders on their online shop a few weeks earlier, lest that pesky distribution problem prevents anyone from hearing these albums again.

Renascent has stuffed each reissue (except for the BBC LP, obvs) with bonus tracks, demos, and outtakes, adding to the bonuses already included on those 1995 CD releases.

Comsat Angel were a Sheffield post-punk band that existed from 1979 to 1995, but their heyday was '79 to '82 where they released some great dark post-punk. Unfortunately their music has been out of print for years.

So Johnathan, Zombie, and uh...Zhaki...have you heard them as well? Let's all break out the dark trench coats and skulk the city the ill lit streets.

[zombie]

I listened to Waiting For A Miracle a lot last year. Good album.

[Cash Lone]

There was a "box set" of their material that was floating around '03 or so. It had all 3 albums, but Im pretty sure it wasnt an official release

[Jonathan Bogart]

Heh. I'm listening to them closely for the first time now (a big listening-and-box-setting project inspired by the recent New Wave thread), and they're pretty great.

It's unfortunate in some ways that all the cool post-punk acts are getting reissued in high-quality formats with tons of bonus tracks; they're starting to price themselves out of my "hey, I'll pick that up sometime" range, and there's simply too much of it to go out of my way to buy it.

You should have seen my face when the T. Rex reissues came out. On the one hand, those albums are finally available in good sound; on the other, they're over $20 each.

[Patient Boy]

I'm not actually familiar with them (although I think you've mentioned them before). It's kind of a busy period for me right now but I guess I'll check them out.

[Harry]

Sounds up my alley. Are they of the A Certain Ratio, Joy Division ilk?