Pink Floyd compilation album ‘Relics’ gets vinyl re-release
Pink Floyd’s compilation album ‘Relics’ is being re-released on vinyl 47 years on from the original pressing.
Remastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman, the album will be available to buy on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl on Friday 18th May 2018.
Released way back in May 1971, ‘Relics’ includes singles, B-sides and tracks from their first three long-players ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’, ‘A Saucerful of Secrets’ and ‘More’.
The then previously unreleased Roger Waters track ‘Biding My Time’ featured on the record, and it was the first album to include ‘Arnold Layne’ and ‘See Emily Play’, which previously had only been released as singles.
All tracks are the original stereo versions, which sit alongside the Syd Barrett-era, mono mixed singles Arnold Layne and See Emily Play.
The 2018 also features the original black and white drawings by Nick Mason on the sleeve, carrying the subitle ‘A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios’. Storm Thorgerson created a new cover for the 1996 CD re-release featuring a real-life version of the contraption on the cover.
The ‘Relics’ track-listing is as follows:
SIDE ONE
Arnold Layne
Interstellar Overdrive
See Emily Play
Remember a Day
Paint Box
SIDE TWO
Julia Dream
Careful with That Axe, Eugene
Cirrus Minor
The Nile Song
Biding My Time
Bike