A Certain Ratio Reissues

Here's some exciting news: Mute is releasing three A Certain Ratio cds in late November.  They are:

The Graveyard and The Ballroom

To Each

Force

LTM Records had released Force back in 2009, but it's gone out of print, so it's good to have Mute reissuing the album (albeit, with what looks to be a slightly different track list if the Amazon listing is accurate.)

The other two albums, To Each and The Graveyard and The Ballroom, were issued in 2004 by Universal Sound, but those editions have been out of print for some time as well, though two songs from Graveyard showed up on the Soul Jazz compilation A Certain Ratio.

LTM put out a couple of other ACR albums along with Force (I'd Like To See You Again, which came out on the Factory Benelux imprint, and Mind Made Up, which came out on LTM proper) that are both deleted, though Factory Benelux did release a double cd edition of Sextet that contains both the issued album and some non-album sides and Peel sessions.

If you're a fan of Factory Records or post-punk funk, ACR are highly recommended. A few years ago, I got into a Factory Records obsession and began buying up as many LTM and Factory Benelux reissues as I could.  If you can get your hands on them, they have excellent sound and great packaging.

Hopefully some of the other ACR albums that are out of print will get reissues, but for now, we have these three Mute releases to look forward to.