{"id":6249,"date":"2018-03-29T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progradar.org\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:55:03","slug":"mansun-announce-attack-of-the-grey-lantern-deluxe-remastered-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/29\/mansun-announce-attack-of-the-grey-lantern-deluxe-remastered-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansun announce ‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’ deluxe remastered reissue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deluxe remastered reissue of the classic debut album. Kscope, June 8th<\/sup>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Stunningly remastered from the original multi-tracks \u2013 this incredible album will be available on all digital platforms and as a media book CD, a 2 x black gatefold vinyl, a very limited 2 x purple gatefold heavyweight vinyl(complete with original design printed inner bags) and a lavish four disc limited book(3CD+DVD) including remastered album, DVD (including 5.1 mix, original videos and hi-def mix), a 70 page book with a new extended essay on the making the record and its impact, a CD of never before heard demos, rarities & outtakes and a CD of selected Mansun<\/strong> BBC Sessions.<\/p>\n

Mansun<\/b> – one of the most iconic bands of the late ?90s – have announced details of a huge remastered reissue of their 1997 debut album, Attack of the Grey Lantern<\/i>. It will be released via Kscope on June 8th<\/sup> 2018.<\/p>\n

The album will be released on multiple formats including limited coloured vinyl, standard black vinyl, single CD and super-deluxe four-disc book set (including unreleased material on CD and a new 5.1 mix on DVD). It will also be available to stream on all digital platforms.<\/p>\n

For most rock?n?roll bands, the debut album is a chance to properly record their nascent songs \u2013 those scrappy, speedball numbers often written in the white heat of formation. For Mansun<\/strong>, back in 1996, things were a little different. Formed in Chester before coming of age at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool, the band\u2019s early ambitions marked them out as a very different prospect to their supposed peers. Their songs were mini-symphonies filtered through their perfectly British eccentricity, worked out in painstaking detail in the studio before ever being played on the stage. The lyrics told elaborate stories, followed paths and planted signposts.<\/p>\n

When it emerged, Mansun\u2019s debut – Attack of the Grey Lantern<\/i> \u2013 was the complete picture. A record that opens with a Bond theme like orchestral overture before opening out as an interconnected voyeuristic, curtain-twitching concept album about a smalltown superhero, AOTGL <\/i>was an almost incomprehensibly melodic work that embraced intelligence and nuance over the brute force and beery bonhomie of their contemporaries. When it was released at the height of Britpop, AOTGL<\/i> reached No 1 (in February 1997) and achieved platinum sales thanks to a hugely dedicated fanbase.<\/p>\n

Now twenty-one years on, the album has been fully overhauled for a gloriously deluxe reissue package remastered from the original multi-tracks by Jon Astley and with the band and Paul\u2019s longtime studio collaborator PDub creating the 5.1 remix. The CDs of extra material include previously unheard demo recordings, studio outtakes and long unheard BBC sessions recorded prior to the album\u2019s release. This reissue campaign also sees the record remastered for vinyl for the first time since its original release.<\/p>\n

Pre-order now – http:\/\/found.ee\/AOTGL_21ST_ANNIVERSARY<\/a><\/p>\n