Tough’s 1995 debut album Maxinquaye is being reissued in 3LP, 1LP, 2CD and digital codecs.

Launched on 13 October, all codecs can be found to pre-order now and ‘Pumpkin (Reincarnated)’ is out there to stream from right here. 

‘Maxinquaye (Reincarnated)’ comprises rarities and model new variations of tracks a lot of which haven’t been formally launched earlier than.

The only LP comprises the unique album remastered at Abbey Highway Studio whereas the tremendous deluxe triple-LP set and double-CD comprises six new “Reincarnated” variations of tracks recorded by Tough in 2022, beforehand unreleased BBC session tracks recorded with a full dwell band within the autumn of 1995, in addition to ‘Black Metal’ carried out dwell at Glastonbury that very same 12 months.

The digital model additionally consists of all of the remixes from the unique single releases plus eight remixes initially unreleased together with one from Leftfield.

All variations of ‘Maxinquaye (Reincarnated)’ include model new paintings containing a uncommon picture of the musician’s late mom, whom the album is known as after.

The picture was not too long ago found by Tough’s cousin and is the one one which exists of the 2 of them collectively.

With inventive management on the mission, Tough began remodeling tracks from the unique album in 2022.

“When you’re an artist or a musician and also you look again at your previous stuff,” he says, “for those who don’t assume it’s dated then you definitely’re both stood nonetheless otherwise you’re glad with what you’ve performed.”

“I hadn’t listened to it for years!” he continues. “And ‘Aftermath’ was the plain one [track] to begin with as a result of that was my first launch with none label. So it was like, ‘Okay, I’m not going to cowl this.’ It’s virtually like I simply thought of that music after which ‘Aftermath Reincarnated’ – simply the way it ought to have sounded to me now. So I redid it because it ought to sound now. It’s not a canopy, it’s a reminder.”

In its 12 months of launch, NME, Melody Maker and The Wire all named Maxinquaye their album of the 12 months and it was nominated for a Mercury Prize (shedding out to Portishead’s ‘Dummy’). 

MAXINQUAYE (REINCARNATED)’ TRACKLIST

3LP SET

A1 Overcome (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A2 Ponderosa (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A3 Black Metal (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A4 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Highway remaster) 

 

B1 Pumpkin (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B2 Aftermath (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B3 Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B4 Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Highway remaster) 

 

C1 Suffocated Love (Abbey Highway remaster) 

C2 You Don’t (Abbey Highway remaster) 

C3 Strugglin’ (Abbey Highway remaster) 

C4 Feed Me (Abbey Highway remaster) 

 

D1 Strugglin’ (Reincarnated)

D2 Aftermath (Reincarnated)

D3 Ponderosa (Reincarnated)

D4 Hell is not far away (Reincarnated)

D5 Pumpkin (Reincarnated)

D6 Little Aftermath

 

E1 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (1995 BBC radio session)

E2 Strugglin’ (1995 BBC radio session)

E3 Ponderosa (1995 BBC radio session)

E4 Pumpkin (1995 BBC radio session)

E5 Black Metal (Dwell at Glastonbury, 1995)

 

F1 She Satan (Tough Monitor combine)

F2 Simply For The Hate Of It (Tough Monitor Combine)

F3 Overcome (Acapella – Tough Monitor Combine)

F4 Black Metal (Tough Monitor Combine)

 

1LP SET

A1 Overcome (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A2 Ponderosa (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A3 Black Metal (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A4 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A5 Pumpkin (Abbey Highway remaster) 

A6 Aftermath (Abbey Highway remaster) 

 

B1 Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B2 Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B3 Suffocated Love (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B4 You Don’t (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B5 Strugglin’ (Abbey Highway remaster) 

B6 Feed Me (Abbey Highway remaster) 

 

2CD SET

1 Overcome (Abbey Highway remaster) 

2 Ponderosa (Abbey Highway remaster) 

3 Black Metal (Abbey Highway remaster) 

4 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Highway remaster) 

5 Pumpkin (Abbey Highway remaster) 

6 Aftermath (Abbey Highway remaster) 

7 Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Highway remaster) 

8 Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Highway remaster) 

9 Suffocated Love (Abbey Highway remaster) 

10 You Don’t (Abbey Highway remaster) 

11 Strugglin’ (Abbey Highway remaster) 

12 Feed Me (Abbey Highway remaster) 

 

1 Strugglin’ (Reincarnated)

2 Aftermath (Reincarnated)

3 Ponderosa (Reincarnated)

4 Hell is not far away (Reincarnated)

5 Pumpkin (Reincarnated)

6 Little Aftermath

7 Hell Is Spherical The Nook (1995 BBC radio session)

8 Strugglin’ (1995 BBC radio session)

9 Ponderosa (1995 BBC radio session)

10 Pumpkin (1995 BBC radio session)

11 Black Metal (Dwell at Glastonbury, 1995)

12 She Satan (Tough Monitor combine)

13 Simply For The Hate Of It (Tough Monitor Combine)

14 Overcome (Acapella – Tough Monitor Combine)

15 Black Metal (Tough Monitor Combine)

16 Model New You’re Retro (Leftfield remix)

 

Digital Launch

Half 1

Overcome (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Ponderosa (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Black Metal (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Hell Is Spherical The Nook (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Pumpkin (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Aftermath (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Abbaon Fats Tracks (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Model New You’re Retro (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Suffocated Love (Abbey Highway remaster) 

You Don’t (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Strugglin’ (Abbey Highway remaster) 

Feed Me (Abbey Highway remaster) 

 

Half 2

Strugglin’ (Reincarnated)

Aftermath (Reincarnated)

Ponderosa (Reincarnated)

Hell is not far away (Reincarnated)

Pumpkin (Reincarnated)

Little Aftermath

 

Half 3 

She Satan (Tough Monitor combine)

Simply For The Hate Of It (Tough Monitor Combine)

Overcome (Acapella – Tough Monitor Combine)

Black Metal (Tough Monitor Combine)

 

Half 4

Ponderosa (Da Beat Terrorists Ghetto funk remix)

Tonite Is A Particular Nite (Chaos Mass Confusion Combine)

Slick 66

Suffocated Love (Combine 2)

Ponderosa (Ultramagnetic’s Terrorist Energy Membership Combine)

Model New You’re Retro (Blacksmith Dance Corridor Remix (Censored)

Aftermath (Model 1)

Ponderosa (Dobie’s Rub Half 2)

Psychosis 

Moody Broody Buddhist Camp 

She Satan (Combine 1)

Ponderosa (Dobie’s Rub Half 1)

 

Half 5

Model New You’re Retro (Leftfield remix)

Pumpkin (Badja Remix)

Overcome (Bungle Combine)

Model New You’re Retro (Alex Reece Remix)

Hell Is Spherical The Nook (The Hell & Water Combine)

Suffocated Love (Combine 1)

Overcome (2009 remix)

Black Metal (In The Draw Combine) 

Ponderosa (Authentic Instrumental)

Hell is not far away (2009 remix)

Black Metal (2009 remix)

Overcome (Zippy Combine)

Black Metal (Been Caught Steeling Combine)

Pumpkin (Ambient)

Black Metal (The Dwell Remix)