Dear 23
June 29, 2018

Description
The major-label debut from alternative/power popsters, remastered from original tapes.

We began our career exactly 30 years prior by releasing a home-recorded cassette called Failure, which to our complete surprise became an instant favorite around the Northwest, earning us critical accolades, radio airplay, and major label interest all in a very short time. We were lucky to find ourselves living just a few doors down the road in Seattle from Arthur “Rick” Roberts and Mike Musburger, who agreed to join our band on bass and drums, respectively.

Signed to Geffen Records, we recorded our second album Dear 23, and toured the U.S., including support tours for both Redd Kross and The Replacements.

These three albums on Geffen remain beloved by our fans; our most popular, most often cited, most requested works. However, over the years, the CDs have been in and out of print, there have been inconsistent presences on streaming, the LPs either long out of print or not issued at all depending on the territory. Dear 23 on CD came out in the early days of the format, and the older CDs are not exactly true to the analog masters the albums were made on.

Good news: all that’s about to change. Dear 23 will be re-issued by Omnivore Recordings (who have, among many releases new and old, reissued our first album Failure plus releases by Big Star, Game Theory, etc).

Each album will be released as a double CD set: one CD containing the original album, remastered from the original analog tapes, plus enough bonus material to fill out the rest of the CD; and one full CD of more bonus material. Don’t expect just a repackaging of material already available on our 2000 boxed set of outtakes—nearly all of the bonus tracks on these new reissues have never been heard!

Dear 23 will now stretch across two LPs and will be mastered at 45 RPM. We made the decision to stick to just the original albums for the vinyl release, and give it room to breathe across two glorious slabs of wax. So if bonus tracks are your thing, the 2-CD set will have you covered.

Catch The Posies on their 30th Anniversary tour in 2018 too!

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. My Big Mouth
2. Golden Blunders
3. Apology
4. Any Other Way
5. You Avoid Parties
6. Suddenly Mary
7. Help Yourself
8. Mrs. Green
9. Everyone Moves Away
10. Flood Of Sunshine
Bonus Tracks:
11. My Big Mouth (Demo)*
12. Golden Blunders (Demo)*
13. Any Other Way (Demo)*
14. Suddenly Mary (Demo)*
15. Help Yourself (Demo)*
16. Mrs. Green (Demo)*
17. Flood Of Sunshine (Ken Edit)*

[CD2]
More Bonus Tracks:
1. Apology (Jon Demo)
2. Golden Blunders (Jon Demo)*
3. What Am I Supposed To Do? (Demo)
4. I Don’t Want To Talk To You (Jon Demo)
5. Apology (Ken Demo)
6. Thinking Outloud (Jon Demo)*
7. Something That You’ve Never Done (Jon Demo)*
8. Magnifying Mirror (Ken Demo)*
9. Diary Of An Insecure Girl (Ken Demo)
10. Now They Want Your Head (Jon Demo)
11. Boy In The Plastic Bubble (Jon Demo)*
12. Will You Ever Ease Your Mind? (Jon Demo)
13. The Only Ones (Demo)
14. This One’s Taken (Demo)*
15. Saying Sorry To Myself (Demo)*
16. King Midas In Reverse (John Leckie Mix)*
17. Keep Me Guessing (Demo)
18. Feel
19. Spite & Malice
20. I Am The Cosmos

* Previously unissued.
LP consists of Tracks 1–10 from Disc 1
Due to licensing restrictions, the LP does not include a download card.

2CD Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5S33FK/?tag=imwan-20

2LP Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B5Y3PP5/?tag=imwan-20

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Frosting On The Beater
September 7, 2018

Description
Alternative/power poster’s third full-length, remastered from the original tapes.

We began our career exactly 30 years prior by releasing a home-recorded cassette called Failure, which to our complete surprise became an instant favorite around the Northwest, earning us critical accolades, radio airplay, and major label interest all in a very short time. We were lucky to find ourselves living just a few doors down the road in Seattle from Arthur “Rick” Roberts and Mike Musburger, who agreed to join our band on bass and drums, respectively.

Signed to Geffen Records, we recorded 3 releases, 1990’s Dear 23, Frosting On The Beater in 1993, and Amazing Disgrace in 1996.

These three albums remain beloved by our fans; our most popular, most often cited, most requested works. However, over the years, the CDs have been in and out of print, there have been inconsistent presences on streaming, the LPs either long out of print or not issued at all depending on the territory.

Good news: all that’s about to change. Frosting On The Beater is back, re-issued by Omnivore Recordings (who have, among many releases new and old, reissued our first album, Failure, plus releases by Big Star, Game Theory, etc).

The album will be released as a double CD set: one CD containing the original album, remastered from the original analog tapes, plus enough bonus material to fill out the rest of the CD; and another full CD of more bonus material. Don’t expect just a repackaging of material already available on our 2000 boxed set of outtakes—15 of Frosting On The Beater’s 31 bonus tracks on this reissue have never been heard!

Frosting On The Beater will now stretch across two LPs and will be mastered at 45 RPM from the original tapes. We made the decision to stick to just the original albums for the vinyl release, to give it room to breathe across two glorious slabs of wax. So, if bonus tracks are your thing, the 2-CD set will have you covered.

Catch The Posies on their 30th Anniversary tour in 2018 too!

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Dream All Day
2. Solar Sister
3. Flavor Of The Month
4. Love Letter Boxes
5. Definate Door
6. Burn & Shine
7. Earlier Than Expected
8. 20 Questions
9. When Mute Tongues Can Speak
10. Lights Out
11. How She Lied By Living
12. Coming Right Along
Bonus Tracks:
13. Looking Lost
14. Flavor Of The Month (Jon Demo)
15. Grow
16. Open Every Window
17. Solar Sister (Ken Demo)
18. Ever Since I Was Alone (Ken Demo)
19. Start A Life
20. Burn & Shine (Jon Demo/Mix 3)
21. Finally See It Right (Jon Demo)
22. Earlier Than Expected (Ken Demo)

[CD2]
More Bonus Tracks:
1. This One’s Taken
2. 20 Questions (Jon Demo/Alternate Version)
3. Fall Song
4. Going Going Gone (Jon Demo/Mix 2)
5. How She Lied By Living (Ken Demo/Alternate Version)
6. When Mute Tongues Can Speak (Ken Demo)
7. Ladies & Gentlemen (Jon Demo)
8. Lights Out (Jon Demo)
9. Farewell Typewriter (Ken/Mike Musberger Demo)
10. Dream All Day (Jon Demo)
11. Sullen Waistcoat (Jon Demo)
12. 21
13. Love Letter Boxes (Ken Demo)
14. Watermarks (Jon Demo/Mix 3)
15. Magnifying Mirrow
16. Depression Child (Jon Demo/Alternate Version/Mix 2)
17. To Whom It May Concern (Jon Demo)
18. Crossword (Jon Demo)
19. Velvet Monkey Theme
20. Fete Le Muzz
21. Coming Right Along (Full Band Version)

LP consists of Tracks 1–13 from Disc 1
Due to licensing restrictions, the LP does not include a download card.

2CD Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D57L7CH/?tag=imwan-20

2LP Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DKMRMK8/?tag=imwan-20

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Amazing Disgrace
November 16, 2018

Description
The Posies’ final Geffen full-length, remastered from original tapes.

Signed to Geffen Records, we recorded 3 releases, 1990’s Dear 23, Frosting On The Beater in 1993, and Amazing Disgrace in 1996.

These three albums remain beloved by our fans; our most popular, most often cited, most requested works. However, over the years, the CDs have been in and out of print, there have been inconsistent presences on streaming, the LPs either long out of print or not issued at all depending on the territory.

Good news: all that’s about to change. Amazing Disgrace returns, re-issued by Omnivore Recordings (who have, among many releases new and old, reissued our first album, Failure, plus releases by Big Star, Game Theory, etc).

The album will be released as a double CD set: one CD containing the original album, remastered from the original analog tapes, plus enough bonus material to fill out the rest of the CD; and another full CD of more bonus material. Don’t expect just a repackaging of material already available on our 2000 boxed set of outtakes—10 of Amazing Disgrace’s 23 bonus tracks on this reissue have never been heard!

Amazing Disgrace will now stretch across two LPs and will be mastered at 33 RPM from the original tapes. We made the decision to stick to just the original albums for the vinyl release, to give it room to breathe across two glorious slabs of wax. So, if bonus tracks are your thing, the 2-CD set will have you covered.

Catch The Posies on their 30th Anniversary tour in 2018 too!

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Daily Mutilation
2. Ontario
3. Throwaway
4. Please Return It
5. Hate Song
6. Precious Moments
7. Fight It (If You Want)
8. Everybody Is A Fucking Liar
9. World
10. Grant Hart
11. Broken Record
12. The Certainty
13. Song #1
14. ¿Will You Ever Ease Your Mind?
Bonus Tracks:
15. Terrorized
16. Sad To Be Aware
17. Daily Mutilation (Demo)
18. World (Demo)
19. Throwaway (Demo)
20. Fight It (If You Want) (Demo)
21. Hate Song (Demo)
22. Broken Record (Demo)

[CD2]
More Bonus Tracks:
1. Sad To Be Aware (Alternate Version)
2. Sad To Be Aware (Demo)
3. Limitless Expressions Home Alive
4. The Certainty (Demo 1)
5. Please Return It (Demo)
6. Precious Moments (Demo)
7. Song #1 (Demo)
8. Terrorized (Demo)
9. Grant Hart (Demo)
10. Pay You Back In Time (Demo)
11. Everybody Is A Fucking Liar
12. Oh Michael
13. Every Bitter Drop
14. Please Return It (Original Drums)
15. Hate Song (Animals Version)

LP consists of Tracks 1–15 from Disc 1
Due to licensing restrictions, the LP does not include a download card.

2CD Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HC8LPFZ/?tag=imwan-20

2LP Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GW3PL1B/?tag=imwan-20

The Posies have announced that 2CD expansions of their three Geffen albums will be released during the course of 2018. There are early pre-order packages listed at Pledge (autographs, handwritten lyric sheets, Posies-branded socks and other froof), but the CDs will also be available in general release via Omnivore.

Dear 23 and Frosting On The Beater are absolute classics. I'll be in for those two for sure. Omnivore does nice work.

Totally agree on both the Posies and Omnivore!! Hopefully we get them sooner rather than later!

Very interested especially in the 2nd & 3rd depending on price & bonus tracks.

This such great news right out of the gate of the New Year. I really love the Posies and the John Leckie produced 'Dear 23' is a true power-pop classic. It would easily make my Top 50 albums list for the decade of the 90's, it's that Great! They sound like 'the son of The Hollies'. I'm in for all 3, Thanks Omnivore, my favorite U.S. reissuer.

Note to Ringo, please keep clear of any other Auer/Stringfellow compositions, you f*cked up one and that is too many.

I will be all over these sets, huge fan here.

They're coming ...

So excited to see the Frosting on the Beater line-up is touring

Curious where they're playing in Seattle. They have played Tacoma (where I live) in the past; hopefully they'll add a Tacoma date. I haven't seen them. Hopefully they've also backed off on the drinking at gigs! (I have heard several live albums & read liner notes!)

Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
And the last couple times I saw them, they didn't appear drunk. Or if they were, it didn't show in their playing.

Being sober is good news!

Dear 23 is now available for pre-order from Amazon:

2CD Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5S33FK/?tag=imwan-20

2LP Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B5Y3PP5/?tag=imwan-20

In anticipation of next week's release (on June 15th), the price for the 2CD expanded edition of Dear 23 has been reduced by $5, down to $16.99:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5S33FK/?tag=imwan-20

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And the Frosting On The Beater 2CD set is now available for pre-order, with its release date pushed back to August 24th:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D57L7CH/?tag=imwan-20

Better check the price I locked in, maybe time to cancel and reorder Dear 23.

Nope price guarantee comes through.

Off topic maybe but Amazon.ca has the last Posies CD for $3.97 Canadian, unbelievable bargain.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01CZ7OMN6/?tag=imwanca-20

Thanks Barry, didn't have this one. Ordered!

It's a strong album. You are sure to like it.

I liked it also.

Dear 23 has now been pushed back to June 29th:

2CD Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5S33FK/?tag=imwan-20

2LP Set
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B5Y3PP5/?tag=imwan-20

The vinyl version of Frosting On The Beater has appeared too:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DKMRMK8/?tag=imwan-20

We just had The Posies in at the club I work at, and their show was stunning. I'd highly recommend catching them in concert on this tour.