BASEMENT
COLOURMEINKINDNESS (DELUXE ANNIVERSARY EDITION) - LP

UPC: 199438001076
Label: RUN FOR COVER
Format: LP
Release Date: October 21, 2022
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The Colourmeinkindness Deluxe Anniversary Edition features:
- Colourmeinkindness in it’s entirety on disc 1
- Four alternate versions of classic album tracks as well as a d-side etching on disc 2
- New insert with photos and liner notes from band members about the making of CMIK
- New slipcase cover with embossed band & album name
- Gatefold jacket with original album art, lyrics & album credits

It didn’t take long for the title of Basement’s debut record, I Wish I Could Stay Here, to seem like something of a misnomer. Just a year after the album’s release, it was already becoming clear that the group had no intention of staying there–whether that just meant their historic port town home of Ipswich in Suffolk, England; or the relative confines of the turn-of-the-century emo sound they’d already deftly mastered. The promising young band was setting their sights somewhere else as they prepared to make their landmark sophomore album, Colourmeinkindness. The record started to carry Basement to the brink of wider success, only to find the band announcing a hiatus months before it even came out–but a decade later the album’s clear influence, and Basement’s triumphant return, are proof of Colourmeinkindness’ era-defining impact.

Back in the summer of 2012, however, Basement found themselves on the west coast of America for the first time, beginning to record their hotly anticipated new album. But the band had arrived slightly unprepared; guitarist Ronan Crix claims the band only had half the songs written for the soon-to-be massive album. His bandmate and other guitarist, Alex Henery, claimed it was “the most chaotic process we have ever gone about writing a record.” Henery recalls that the band managed to “work as hard and as quickly” as they could to finish writing the other half of the album, including staying up until 4 a.m. their first night in the studio. But the hectic pace and intense focus paid off, resulting in an ambitious musical evolution that drew together the threads of modern punk and emo with past widescreen guitar rock to create something that felt urgent and new.

TRACK LIST:

1. Whole
2. Covet
3. Spoiled
4. Pine
5. Bad Apple
6. Breathe
7. Control
8. Black
9. Comfort
10. Wish
11. Covet (Alt Version)
12. Pine (Alt Version)
13. Bad Apple (Alt Version)
14. Breathe (Alt Version)