Published
Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 03:52
- The double-LP version of the well-loved album comes with two new tracks and other bonus material.
Nightmares on Wax will release an expanded version of his 1995 breakthrough LP, Smokers Delight, via Warp Records in April.
The influential full-length helped define the '90s trip hop and downtempo sound and featured George Evelyn accompanied by Hamlet Luton on bass, Chris Dawkins on guitar, Robin Taylor-Firth on keys and Shovell on percussion. "It was all the things that turned me on: reggae, soul, and through sampling and digging, hip hop was the backbone," Evelyn said in Joe Muggs' book Bass, Mids, Tops.
To mark the anniversary, Evelyn went back to the Smokers Delight headspace to produce two new tracks, "Let's Ascend" and "Aquaself." Those are included on the expanded vinyl reissue along with an alternative mix of "Dreddoverboard" and a 2014 live version of "Nights Introlude." The double-LP version will come on red and green discs with a gatefold, mirrored sleeve, a "roach material" insert and expanded liner notes. (It'll also come on CD and digital.)
The April release coincides with a European and American tour on which Evelyn will perform Smokers Delight in its entirety accompanied by a full orchestra.
Tracklist
01. Nights Introlude
02. Dreddoverboard
03. Pipes Honour
04. Me + You
05. Stars
06. Wait a Minute/Praying For A Jeepbeat
07. Groove St.
08. Time (To Listen)
09. (Man) Tha Journey
10. Bless My Soul
11. Cruise (Don't Stop)
12. Mission Venice
13. What I'm Feelin (Good)
14. Rise
15. Rise (Reprise)
16. Gambia Via Vagator Beach
'Sonic Buds' Bonus Tracks
01. Aquaself
02. Let's Ascend
03. Dreddoverboard (Funk Mix)
04. Nights Introlude (Live In Chicago)
Warp Records will release Smokers Delight on April 3rd, 2020.