"Wow, now THIS is what music can be!"
The Quietus on Giant Steps
“It deserved the accolades and praise heaped on its shoulders.”
The Line of Best Fit
“A masterwork...”
Pitchfork
"One of those rare treasures you find yourself putting on to shake off a bad day when normally only 'Pet Sounds' or 'Revolver' or even 'Bandwagonesque' will do."
NME
NME’s 1993 Album Of The Year, named in the Top 20 of Pitchfork’s The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time and lauded as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, The Boo Radleys’ classic album, Giant Steps will be reissued in three, special remastered vinyl editions almost 30 years to the day since its original release. With a clutch of rarities pressed onto bonus discs coming with limited, coloured variants of the three new vinyl editions, the band’s genre-ambiguous and widely-acclaimed masterpiece will become available to fans old and new on Fri 1 September 2023 via Two-Piers.
Strictly limited to 1000 copies, a soon-to-be-sought-after Dinked Edition, comprised of two marble-coloured discs with a special, bonus 12” featuring alternate, non-album mixes of four tracks, Lazarus, Rodney King and Peachy Keen leads in the collectors’ stakes. A deluxe, double LP on orange and purple-coloured vinyl, including a separate 10” record featuring remixes by fellow end-of-century voyagers in sound, Saint Etienne joins the running, 500 copy Boos Store-only edition comes with a special edition pin badge.
with a standard black double-vinyl edition, also on offer. which is just the same a the original release
All versions, comprising the same 17-track running order, have undergone remastering in a collaborative process undertaken by all four original band members, Simon ‘Sice’ Rowbottom, Tim Brown, Martin Carr and Rob Cieka.
Coming at the closing stages of a celebratory and dates-packed year for the band, the vinyl reissues are preceded by the band – touring without Carr – taking to the road for seven Giant Steps Tour live dates, opening with a SOLD-OUT warm-up date at Reading, South Street Arts Centre
Dinked x 2 LP Marble Coloured Vinyl with bonus 12” (1000 copies)
Includes two Saint Etienne remixes as well as Peachy Keen and Lazarus 7” edit / artprint and exclusive marbles vinyl
Deluxe x 2 LP Orange / Purple Coloured Vinyl with bonus 10” and ExclusIve badge
available via D2C and Independent Retail stores
includes two Saint Etienne remixes
* Band Official store www.thebooradleys.tmstor.es includes bonus Limited ‘Giant Steps black and white globe badge’
Deluxe CD
Includes two Saint Etienne remixes
Standard x 2 LP Black Vinyl
Perfection as per the original