Belly - King (30th Anniversary Edition) - 1LP - Green Vinyl [Record Store Day 2025]

This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order. • Available to buy in-store from 8am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day). • Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 14/04/2025.

Belly's second album, King, celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special vinyl pressing on Record Store Day 2025. Belly found themselves at something of a crossroads when it came to following up their 1993 debut album Star - a wildly successful record that earned the band two GRAMMY nominations including the coveted Best New Artist award

With bassist Gail Greenwood having joined the ranks in between, she plus the trio of Tanya Donelly and brothers Chris and Tom Gorman rented a house in rural Rhode Island to write collaboratively before heading to Nassau in the Bahamas to record in Island Records founder Chris Blackwell's legendary studio Compass Point (a place famed for where AC/DC, Grace Jones, Tom Tom Club, and countless others recorded major works)

Away from industry pressure and guided by veteran producer Glyn Johns (Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who), they made the most of the relaxed surroundings, recording live in the room and minimising overdubs so to capture as much of the band's chemistry on tape as they could. Featuring singles "Now They'll Sleep", "Seal My Fate", and "Super-Connected", the resultant King was a step on, a deceptively complex album where the quartet had chosen artistic growth over commerciality

Their lyrics took more of a political and personal bent, while musically it was heavier, in part due to Gail's muscular playing style and more deft guitar interplay between Tanya and Tom

SPIN Magazine saying at the time that it marked their evolution from "indie darlings to rock contenders." Having been out of print on vinyl since its release 30 years ago, 4AD are delighted to be working with both the band and Rhino in North America to finally put it back on the shelves on Record Store Day 2025

Keeping its original sleeve design by Chris Bigg (v23), this long demanded repress is coming on limited green vinyl with the album having been remastered by Kevin Vanbergen.

Side A
A1. Puberty
A2. Seal My Fate
A3. Red
A4. Silverfish
A5. Super-Connected
A6. The Bees

Side B
B1. King
B2. Now They'll Sleep
B3. Untitled and Unsung
B4. L'il Ennio
B5. Judas My Heart