The Reatards - Grown Up Fucked UpShortly after the release of Teenage Hate, the debut album from the Reatards, an 18 year old Jay Reatard started working on a new album. He was spitting out punk rock anthems a mile a minute at this point, so a new record made sense. And what else was there to do? Hed quit school a couple years back so a normal day for Jay meant he was bumming around midtown Memphis winding people up. At this point, Eric Friedl had introduced Jay to Meghan Smith, via

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whilst soaring through an as yet unexplored sonic world

east to west coast

mixed in collaboration with Will Canzoneri

The third Kinks album

It‰۪s evident from the place they had all found themselves in their twenties however that they were in the mood for discovery: they regurgitated their tastes in Acid Folk and Noise and hurled them into the electric cataclysm too

songwriter and multi-instrumentalist a global cult following (and a cameo in Stephen Frears‰۪ ‰Û÷High Fidelity‰۪) long before director Roman Coppola tapped him to score last year‰۪s ‰Û÷A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III‰۪

and the last of their Big Music albums

With a much more aggressive sound than its distinctly poppier predecessor

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unreleased and great-sounding demo and live material‰ÛÓare collected here

CD - Deluxe CD with slipcase and outsize booklet