PERE UBU - New Picnic Time (2024 Repress) - LP - Vinyl [MAY 24]

LP - Black Vinyl Repress. Includes download code.   

Initially released in 1979, New Picnic Time is weird, wonderful and so far beyond the expected that these deconstructions of popular music are as charmingly retro as the Beatles and as modern as today's blendings of funk, hip-hop and alt-rock.

Revolutionary and demented yet full of fun, Pere Ubu are indispensible to any collection of 20th century rock. New Picnic Time was the last Ubu record with guitarist Tom Herman, and for many Ubu fans this signals the end of Pere Ubu phase one (or phase two, depending on one's feelings for the Datapanik-era band). New Picnic Time also finds David Thomas' lyrical explorations reflecting his religious involvement with the Jehovah's Witnesses, pieties that are stated quite emphatically on the record's closing track, Jehovah's Kingdom Comes.

Tracklist: 

A1. Have Shoes Will Walk (The Fabulous Sequel) [3:16]
A2. 49 Guitars And One Girl [2:51]
A3. A Small Dark Cloud [5:49]
A4. Small Was Fast [3:39]
A5. All The Dogs Are Barking [3:03]

B1. One Less Worry [3:46]
B2. Make Hay [4:03]
B3. Goodbye [5:18]
B4. The Voice Of The Sand [1:28]
B5. Jehovah's Kingdom Comes! [3:17]