ELECTRONIC ANNOUNCE RAISE THE PRESSURE AND TWISTED TENDERNESS ON NEW VINYL FORMATS AVAILABLE AUGUST 22
Electronic are proud to announce new formats of their albums Raise The Pressure and Twisted Tenderness, to be released on August 22 via Warner Music and available now for pre-order. Twisted Tenderness is being released for the first time on vinyl and is available on 2LP. Raise The Pressure is being reissued for the first time on vinyl and is being made available on 2LP. Both of the albums are pressed on recycled black vinyl and have been mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Frank Arkwright.
Released in 1996, five years after their critically acclaimed debut, Raise The Pressure was the second studio album from Electronic. For their second release, Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr were joined by previous collaborator Denise Johnson on vocals and expanded the lineup to include Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk), who co-wrote six tracks on the thirteen-track album.
Twisted Tenderness was the band’s third and final studio album, originally released in 1999. It marked a return to a more urgent and visceral energy with tighter song structures. Capturing the spirit of late-'90s experimentation with Sumner and Marr’s unmistakable hooks, the record was co-produced by legendary DJ Arthur Baker. The lineup included Jimi Goodwin (Doves) on bass, Ged Lynch (Black Grape) and featured the singles “Vivid” and “Late At Night” and a cover of Steve Winwood’s “Can’t Find My Way Home.”
TRACKLIST
Raise The Pressure
Side A
- Forbidden city
- For you
- Dark angel
- One day
Side B
- Until the end of time
- Second nature
- If you’ve got love
Side C
- Out of my league
- Interlude
- Freefall
Side D
- Visit me
- How long
- Time can tell
Twisted Tenderness
Side A
- Make It Happen
- Haze
- Vivid
Side B
- Breakdown
- Can’t Find My Way Home
Side C
- Twisted Tenderness
- Like No Other
- Late At Night
Side D
- Prodigal Son
- When She’s Gone
- Flicker
About Electronic
Formed by Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner in 1988, Electronic released their iconic 1989 debut single “Getting Away With It” on Factory Records. The track featured Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant, the first of many guest vocalists, musicians, writers and producers that set them on a path for a run of singles and albums that gained both commercial success and critical acclaim, NME calling it “The most complete pop record of the week.”
Following early US success, Sumner and Marr played their first-ever live shows in front of 60,000 fans at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, supporting Depeche Mode in 1990.
The following year, the band released their debut self-titled album Electronic, peaking at #2 in the UK chart with Melody Maker calling it “One of the best long-playing records I’ve ever heard” and selling over one million copies worldwide. The album featured the band’s second single, “Get the Message,” charting at #8 in the UK, further cementing their status as one of the all-time great supergroups.
Electronic’s highest-charting single, “Disappointed,” came in 1992. Reaching #6 and featuring previous guest Neil Tennant back on vocals, it was released on Songs From the Cool World - the soundtrack to the film Cool World starring Gabriel Byrne and Kim Basinger, which also included tracks from Moby, David Bowie and Brian Eno.
There was a four-year wait for their follow-up album, Raise The Pressure, released in 1996 via Parlophone Records following the closure of Factory Records. The record hit the #8 spot in the UK and spawned the singles “Forbidden City” and “For You,” with six of the album’s thirteen tracks co-written with Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos.
The band’s third and final album, Twisted Tenderness, gave them their third Top 10 album in the UK, reaching #9 in April 1999 to more critics praise - Q Magazine “Twisted Tenderness is pop-rock of swaggering calibre.” Sumner and Marr were joined in the studio this time by the pioneering New York-based DJ and producer Arthur Baker, The Doves’ Jimi Goodwin on bass, Black Grape’s drummer Ged Lynch and the legendary Manchester singer, Denise Johnson.
In 2006, EMI Records released the band’s first career-spanning collection, Get The Message - The Best Of Electronic, featuring all their singles, two b-sides, four album tracks and seven music videos.