ac acoustics Victory Parts Reissue – One Little Indian, 24th June

ac acoustics Victory Parts is to get ‘the re-issue treatment; via One Little Indian, 24th June, Full tracklisting below.

CD and download Cat. No. tplp1173cd/ tplp1173dl

CD1: Victory Parts
1. Hand Passes Empty
2. Hammerhead
3. I messiah am Jailer
4. Stunt Girl
5. Ex Quartermaster
6. Continuity Freak
7. Shoka
8. High Divers
9. Kill Zane
10. Absent Luck Liner
11. Fast
12. Violent Peep
13. Admirals All
14. Can’t See Anything
15. Hand Passes Plenty
16. (Red Not Yellow)

CD 2: The Silver Echo and The Golden Echo
(BBC Live At Reading Festival)
1. Hand Passes Empty
2. Shoka
3. Sister Grab Operator
4. Stunt Girl
5. I Messiah am Jailer
6. Hammerhead
7. Continuity Freak
8. Absent Luck Liner
9. Can’t See Anything

“Victory Parts is a near masterpiece.” MOJO, 1997
“Forever undervalued” NME, 1999

One Little Indian re-issue ac acoustics much revered second album, Victory Parts in re-mastered form including thee extra tracks – Shoka, Violent Peep and 1994’s long out of print Hand Passes Plenty- in a re-ordered track list. CD2 includes a live set, The Silver Echo & the Golden Echo – recorded live at Reading Festival in 1996.

Says lead singer Paul Campion of the re-issue, “I’m particularly pleased that additional rarer tracks have been included with this release and that a live concert recording is available at last. In this case from the Reading Festival and one of the many live recordings we were fortunate enough to make for the BBC. Turn the lights down, turn the volume up and hopefully you will get some small sense of what I’m told was often a formidable live experience. Whether these recordings come to you as a first encounter or as a point on a return journey, I sincerely hope they bring you much pleasure.”

Formed in Glasgow in 1990, ac acoustics original sound took its lead from the wave of mid-late 80s noise bands like JAMC and MBV. Their first release 1992s Wrist Eye EP – featuring backing vocals from Teenage Fanclub’s Gerry Love – and a show opening for PJ Harvey brought the band to the music press’ attention and won them a session with John Peel. It also brought a record deal with Elemental who released their debut mini album Able Treasury to ecstatic reviews in 1994, NME discovering a “mixture of the instantly recognisable and the frankly lunatic that makes AC Acoustics such a vital prospect”.

By the time of its follow up, 1997’s Victory Parts, the band had evolved a more complex hook-heavy sound overlaid with Paul Campion’s intriguingly cryptic lyrics. The band toured heavily with the likes of Embrace, Stereophonics, dEUS and Placebo (Brian Molko a big champion of the band) but despite this and glowing accolades for Victory Parts in the music press ac acoustics were apparently destined to remain a cult act, ultimately calling it a day in 2003 after two further albums, Understanding Music (2000) and O (2002).

ac acoustics:
Paul Campion – Vocals and guitar
Caz Riley – Bass guitar
Mark Raine – Guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals & Hammond
Dave Gormley – Drums, percussions & vocal