CURRENT 93 - Swastikas For Noddy (Reissue) - LP - Picture Disc Vinyl [AUG 30]

LP - Limited Edition Picture Disc Vinyl Remastered Reissue. Comes in a full-colour die-cut sleeve, which is printed on both the outside and inside. Limited to 1,000 copies, and the titles will not be repressed as picture-discs once they have sold out. 

SWASTIKAS FOR NODDY is possibly, probably, maybe, or not, a seminal and sidereal masterpiece, the inspiration for 93,000 Masks On Nothings, none of which were Groovy. For me, well, it was my first Hallucinatory PickNick, and the skies turned Pixie Red for it.

I was given the album’s title during an Acid Trip: seeing Noddy Crucified In The Sky, I asked God what the most inappropriate BirthDay present for Noddy might be. God answered me from the Acid Whirlwind: “Swastikas!”

I recorded her in a run-down basement studio in West London, whilst I was simultaneously recording IMPERIUM. On playing the finished album to certain well-chosen friends, I was told by them that I had “destroyed Current 93”, and that it sounded like “demented children on drugs singing Simon & Garfunkel in a playground”. I then knew the album sounded exactly as I had dreamed it to sound, and as God had intended it to sound. Had I ditched the earlier darkness, and skipped into flowered fields? Great Black Time had already told me “NO!—GO!”

Remastered by The Bricoleur at Bladud Flies!, and with the original artwork refreshed and reborn by Rob Hopeye, this 12” vinyl picture-disc comes in a full-colour die-cut sleeve, which is printed on both the outside and inside.

This is one of the first 4 reissues of the entire back catalogue of C93 on picture-disc and standard vinyl, in the lead-up to the publication of my autobiography at the end of 2025, whilst I also work on many other recording, publishing, and painting projects, and Watch And Pray! Each release in the picture-disc vinyl reissues series is limited to 1,000 copies, and the titles will not be repressed as picture-discs once they have sold out.

- David Tibet, Hastings, 3 July 2024.

Tracklist: 

Side A
1. Benediction
2. Blessing
3. North
4. Black Sun Bloody Moon
5. Oh Coal Black Smith
6. Panzer Rune
7. Black Flowers, Please
8. The Final Church

Side B
1. The Summer Of Love
2. (Hey Ho) The Noddy (Oh)
3. Beausoleil
4. Scarlet Woman
5. The Stair Song
6. Angel
7. Since Yesterday
8. Valediction
9. Malediction