Record Store Day 2018 Highlight: The Cure

Vinyl Bay 777, Long Island’s music outlet, takes a look at The Cure’s remix-heavy Record Store Day releases

Having already spent a good part of the late 1980s accruing a series of massive hits, The Cure decided to give fans a new perspective on their work. In 1990, the band released ‘Mixed Up,’ an album featuring remixes of some of their biggest hits from their then decade-long career.

Now nearly 28 years later, the album is getting a new lease on life. ‘Mixed Up’ is being rereleased this spring for Record Store Day. Remastered by Robert Smith himself, the album features updated remixes of hits like “Love Song,” “Pictures of You” and “Lullaby.” This is the first time the album will be available on vinyl in more than two decades.

In addition to the remastered main LP, The Cure is also releasing a second album of remixes, ‘Torn Down (Mixed Up Extra).’ Also mixed by Smith, the new album will feature sixteen more remixes, this time delving even deeper into the band’s classic catalog. This includes tracks that were released post-1990, such as “It’s Over” and “Want,” as well as a new remix of “Never Enough.”

Both ‘Mixed Up’ and ‘Torn Down’ will be available this Saturday for Record Store Day before being released together as a three CD set on June 15. But act fast, only 7750 copies of each album are being released worldwide.

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