Sebadoh - Harmacy (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition, 2LP Red & Blue Vinyl)

Harmacy (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition) finally makes Sebadoh's seminal 1996 indie-rock album available again, and adds 16 bonus tracks, including alternate versions, rare B-sides, BBC sessions, and live material from the Harmacy era.

Sebadoh was formed in 1986 in Northampton, Massachusetts, by Eric Gaffney and Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr., The Folk Implosion), with multi-instrumentalist Jason Loewenstein completing the line-up in 1989, and Bob Fay taking Gaffney's spot in 1994. By 1994, the band had released five albums and more or less changed the pockmarked face of indie rock. Their albums were mostly home recordings, decried for their lack of sharp production, but embraced by fans of Barlow's intimate songwriting style, which owed as much to Joni Mitchell as Bob Mould. In 1996 Harmacy, their breakout sixth album, arrived, finding Sebadoh as conflicted as ever: torn between screaming punk and gentle crooning, replete with highly personal songs guaranteed to bring down even the most super-charged midnight ravers. Released in the wake of The Folk Implosion's Top 40 hit "Natural One," Harmacy became Sebadoh's first charting album in the U.S., and yielded the hit "Ocean." Interview said, "Harmacy is nothing short of a masterpiece." The New Yorker called it a collection of "perfectly crafted, honest (read: ambiguous and emotionally twisted), impassioned songs about love and hate." Harmacy was hailed as one of the best albums of 1996 by Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and NME.

1 On Fire
2 Prince-S
3 Ocean
4 Nothing Like You
5 Crystal Gypsy
6 Beauty of the Ride
7 Mind Reader
8 Sforzando!
9 Willing to Wait
10 Hillbilly II
11 Zone Doubt
12 Too Pure
13 Worst Thing
14 Love to Fight
15 Perfect Way
16 Can't Give Up
17 Open Ended
18 Weed Against Speed
19 I Smell a Rat
20 Willing to Wait (Alternate Version)
21 Worst Thing (Alternate Version)
22 Beauty of the Ride (Alternate Version)
23 Too Pure (Alternate Version)
24 Real Deal (Studio B-Side)
25 Real Deal (BBC Live Version, Radio 1)
26 It's Gonna Be Loud (BBC Live Version, Radio 1)
27 I Feel O.K. (BBC Live Version, Radio 1)
28 Open Ended (Acoustic Demo)
29 Crest (BBC Live Version, John Peel)
30 Willing to Wait (Live)
31 Psyched to Die (Live)
32 Mind Reader (Live)
33 Can't Give Up (Live)
34 Worst Thing (Live)
35 Love to Fight (Live)