2023 sees Altered Photos’ Chunk celebrating its 40th anniversary, and to marks its birthday, it is going to be reissued in two restricted version codecs, a half-speed mastered 180-gram black vinyl with a signed print and a double CD in a singular gatefold 7” packaging.

It’s out there 27 October by way of Edsel and Demon Information and is out there to pre-order right here.

Initially launched in the summertime of 1983, Chunk was an enormous leap ahead for the band. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex) and Mike Chapman (Blondie), it featured lush preparations, dancefloor-friendly singles, and the long-lasting Audrey Hepburn-inspired {photograph} of singer Clare Grogan on the quilt taken by Neil Kirk, finest identified for his work on the Roxy Music albums Manifesto, Flesh And Blood and Avalon.

The 40th-anniversary version of Chunk can be out there as a 2CD set in 7″ deluxe gatefold packaging, with an 8-page booklet.

CD1 options the unique album, whereas bonus CD2 comprises three non-album B-sides, two prolonged 12” variations together with the 8-minute 30 second model of Don’t Speak To Me About Love, a dwell observe and three single edits.

The half-speed mastered 1LP on 180-gram black vinyl has an outer sleeve with obi strip, a poly-lined interior sleeve, and a 4-page insert.

This half-speed mastered version of the vinyl has been mastered by Barry Grint, who has labored on data by Prince, Madonna, Robbie Williams and Noel Gallagher, to call a couple of, at AIR Mastering from the unique stereo tapes utilizing precision half-speed mastering.

Half-speed mastering is a vinyl slicing approach that improves groove accuracy and transient info creating an extremely detailed stereo picture with a pure excessive frequency response.

Altered Photos may even be taking part in Chunk dwell in London on 26 October. Tickets might be purchased right here.

ALTERED IMAGES – BITE 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION 

CD1: BITE

1. Carry Me Nearer
2. One other Misplaced Look
3. Love To Keep
4. Now That You’re Right here
5. Don’t Speak To Me About Love 
6. Stand So Quiet
7. Change Of Coronary heart
8. Considering About You

CD2: BONUS DISC

1. I Don’t Need To Know
2. Final Goodbye
3. Shock Me
4. One other Misplaced Look [Recorded Live] 
5. Don’t Speak To Me About Love [Extended Version]
6. Carry Me Nearer [Extended Version]
7. Don’t Speak To Me About Love [Single Edit] 
8. Love To Keep [Single Edit]
9. Change Of Coronary heart [Single Edit]

SIDE ONE

1. Carry Me Nearer
2. One other Misplaced Look
3. Love To Keep
4. Now That You’re Right here

SIDE TWO

1. Don’t Speak To Me About Love 
2. Stand So Quiet
3. Change Of Coronary heart
4. Considering About You

ALTERED IMAGES – BITE 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION 

LIMITED EDITION 1000 ONLY 180 GRAM HALF SPEED MASTER 

BLACK VINYL LP WITH SIGNED PRINT 

 & 2-CD EDITION IN 7” PACKAGING

RELEASED ON EDSEL RECORDS AND DEMON RECORDS OCTOBER 27th 2023

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER HERE 

https://alteredimages.lnk.to/Chunk

A VERY SPECIAL BITE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

LONDON, 229

OCTOBER 26th 2023

TICKETS ON SALE ON FRIDAY 11TH AUGUST

https://www.seetickets.com/occasion/altered-images-bite-Fortieth-anniversary/229/2740528