LOVE AND ROCKETS - Sweet F.A. (Expanded 2023 Reissue) - 2LP - Gatefold Vinyl

2LP - Black Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. Expanded Edition featuring four previously unreleased tracks.

Rick Rubin guided Love and Rockets to a return to more guitar-based songs for 1996’s Sweet F.A. While the band were living and working at Rubin’s studio mansion, a fire broke out, which resulted in the band losing all of their gear, some of their demo recordings, and nearly their lives as well. A burnt guitar plucked from the debris is on the album’s cover. The resulting album was inspired by some of their earliest influences – The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Can. It spins tales of passion and loss, carried on a fluid, moody throb. Undulating, hypnotic rhythms twine around melancholy lyrics which examine life at a primal level, as ethereal electronic effects play counterpoint to earthquake reverberating guitars. The reissue features four previously unreleased tracks.

Tracklist:

A1. Sweet F.A.
A2. Judgement Day
A3. Use Me
A4. Fever
A5. Sweet Lover Hangover

B1. Pearl
B2. Shelf Life
B3. Sad And Beautiful World
B4. Natacha

C1. Words Of A Fool
C2. Clean
C3. Here Comes The Comedown
C4. Spiked
C5. Sweet F.A. Reprise

D1. My Dark Twin *
D2. Venus Child *
D3. Butterfly *
D4. Pick Yourself Up *

* = Bonus Tracks