Astronauts Super Deluxe Triple Vinyl

Over three years in the making, Needle Mythology Records is delighted to announce a super deluxe, expanded remastered reissue of The Lilac Times 1991 masterpiece, Astronauts. Released as a triple vinyl, triple CD or single vinyl, only 1000 copies of each format will be produced, there will be no further pressings. Both the 3LP and 3CD editions will come with an extensive 11,000 word oral history of Astronauts and liner notes by Needle Mythology cofounder and longtime Stephen Duffy fan, Pete Paphides. All three albums including a 2024 remaster, a collection of works in progress entitledSoftened By Rain The Making Of Astronauts and a live compilation Any Road Up The Lilac Time Live 199091 have been mastered for vinyl by Miles Showell at Abbey Roadand will be housed in a triple gatefold sleeve with a colour inner sleeve and new artwork for each disc, which has been especially created by designer Mike Storey. The main sleeve for Astronauts itself will replicate the original artwork but with the four distinctive blobs rendered in a red foil texture. In addition to these three disc sets, 1000 single vinyl remastered copies of Astronauts will also be made available, in a cherry red vinyl edition to match the outer sleeve. With the shoegaze and baggy movements at their zenith, The Lilac Times fourth album was released at a moment when the leftfield music zeitgeist was shaped by the nascent shoegaze, baggy and grunge movements.