{"product_id":"velocity-girl_simpatico-remastered-and-expanded","title":"¡Simpatico! (Remastered and Expanded)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e¡Simpatico! (Remastered and Expanded)\u003c\/i\u003e gives Velocity Girl’s long out-of-print 1994 sophomore album, \u003ci\u003e¡Simpatico!\u003c\/i\u003e, an overdue refresh with a sparkling-fresh mastering job and a treasure trove of bonus tracks from the \u003ci\u003e¡Simpatico!\u003c\/i\u003e era. The original album sounds better than ever, and it’s complemented by a full album of B-sides and rarities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVelocity\n Girl formed in 1989 or so at the University of Maryland outside \nWashington, DC with guitarist Archie Moore (Black Tambourine), guitarist \nBrian Nelson (Black Tambourine), drummer Jim Spellman (Starry Eyes, \nFoxhall Stacks, High Back Chairs, Julie Ocean, Piper Club), bassist \nKelly Riles (Starry Eyes), and singer Sarah Shannon (Starry Eyes, The \nNot Its). The band combined English-inspired noisy shoegaze fuzz with \nscrappy US indie rock and classic ‘60s-style pop songwriting. A killer \nsingle on Slumberland and non-stop touring grabbed the attention of the \nindie-rock cognoscenti, and soon after Velocity Girl signed a contract \nwith Sub Pop on a car hood in Hoboken, New Jersey. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter touring in support of their debut, \u003ci\u003eCopacetic\u003c\/i\u003e,\n the band spent the better part of a year coming up with a batch of \nsongs for a second album. They had never worked that way before – having\n focused time, and a budget (from a label!), to make an album that \nwasn’t a self-produced, punk-rock studio thing was a fresh experience. \nHaving played their new material for months in the noisy style of \u003ci\u003eCopacetic\u003c\/i\u003e,\n the band found themselves excited about the tunes, but trying to move \naway from the scrappy, amateur vibe of their previous records. And their\n influences were a bit different this time around: less My Bloody \nValentine and Wedding Present, more New Order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomebody\n at Sub Pop connected the band with John Porter, the one-time Roxy Music\n member who had produced The Smiths, Billy Bragg, The Alarm, and a bunch\n of other 80’s stuff. They met up on a tour stop in Los Angeles, at a \nHamburger Hamlet. He agreed to produce the album, in a three-week \nsession at Cue Studios in Falls Church, VA. He was exactly what the band\n needed: an editor, arranger, and taskmaster. As he mercilessly excised \nevery unnecessarily repeated bar, the band realized they’d gravitated to\n a sound with cleaner lines, and almost entirely ditched the noisy \nguitar, no doubt influenced by Porter’s presence. Velocity Girl was \nextremely happy with the results, and \u003ci\u003e¡Simpatico!\u003c\/i\u003e came out in June of 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis\n expanded reissue adds eight songs recorded at Inner Ear Studios in \nArlington, VA, a few months after the album sessions. These sessions \nprovided playfully experimental B sides to the album’s singles, two \ncover songs (the New Order cover “Your Silent Face,” and a Beach Boys \ncover) for a single on Merge Records, and a compilation track. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Velocity Girl","offers":[{"title":"Loser (color) 2xLP","offer_id":46294462988463,"sku":"717030","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":46294463021231,"sku":"717032","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1527\/5174\/files\/VelocityGirl_Simpatico_Mockup_LP_US_2000x1417_8bafbd7d-6160-4d6c-a64c-27f4a57ff67c.jpg?v=1764133410","url":"https:\/\/direct.subpop.com\/products\/velocity-girl_simpatico-remastered-and-expanded","provider":"Sub Pop Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}