Sparks - Present TenseA brand new career spanning best of collection featuring all the bands hits and best loved recordings across their impressive 50 year career. Up to date to include some of the bands most recent work from the critically acclaimed Hippopotamus. Past Tense includes a very rare early recording of Computer Girl (1967) and a previously unheard unreleased original version of Piss Off (2004) which would latterly be recorded with Franz Ferdinand and appear on

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Barrence Whitfield & The Savages - Dig Thy Savage Soul on Bloodshot

which has been re-cut features a cover image of the DC Flag stars and bars (on a red field)

Album opens to unsteady breathing

For over 30 years it was stored in the archive of record producer and musician Dave Hamilton

and a ‘60s masterpiece

acoustic guitar ode to meeting Smith

and brand new self-produced material throughout 2014

Manchester 1980 07/Punished-Sheffield University 1980 08/Tortured Smiles-Sheffield University 1980 09/We Said No-Sheffield University 1980 10/SubhumanåÊ- 7" Single 11/AdrenalinåÊ- 7" Single

this edition re-unites the album with the large poster that accompanied original pressings

producer and champion for some of the most boundary-pushing artists of the post-punk era

though the road to its fruition stretched over six months and several locations