HEADS - Under Sided 2LP (colour vinyl)

Highly recommended.

Limited edition of 500 copies on colour-in-colour vinyl, housed in sturdy, tip-on gatefold sleeve.

Also available as Deluxe 2 x double LPs in gatefold sleeves, housed in premium box with remastered LP plus a second LP collecting Peel Sessions, demos and compilation tracks exclusive to the Deluxe Edition. Also comes with 150 minutes of Heads live recordings and rehearsal room tapes over 2x CDs (exclusive to this set), sheet of stickers, slipmat and 24-pg booklet. Limited to 1000 numbered copies.

Black wax also available.

Presenting a remastered, 20-year anniversary edition of The Heads’ third album proper, the under-rated gem in their canon that is Under Sided!

This is a pounding sike-nightmare that shows The Heads at the peak of their powers. There’s a flow throughout the album of melding psychedelic noise rock to battering rhythms and creating a bad trip for all listening—even the gentle soothe of “Energy” is enveloped by a white noise fury, and the intensity of some of the other tracks, like the terror inducing “Bedminster” or “False Heavy” (a tour worn riffmonger from 2000) and the Magnet-esque “Heavy Sea,” showed the band as ferocious as any of the insurgent “stoner” genre bands of that time.

For this reissue, the original recordings were remastered for vinyl and CD by long time Heads Masterer Shawn Joseph. The resultant eight tracks are some of the best music the band have ever recorded, occurring after a bit of a hiatus following their 2000 US tour / Peel session (included in the boxset, also available here). The band then regrouped and worked out the tracks for Undersided, relentless rehearsing for the recording.

Originally released in 2002 on Sweet Nothing.