New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The
Chemical Brothers have announced details of the forthcoming twentieth anniversary reissue of their 1999 classic album Surrender. The deluxe versions will be available as 3CDs or 4LP box sets - each with a DVD, book and 4 art prints. It's released on UMC Virgin/Universal
Music on November 22. Two previously unreleased mixes of "Hey Boy Hey Girl" from the set- a new mix by KiNK and a recently unearthed alternate
Chemical Brothers "Secret Psychedelic" mix - are released today online (on streaming platforms everywhere and available as instant downloads with pre-orders).
By the time Surrender arrived in shops in the summer of 1999, The
Chemical Brothers had already created their own mythology. The single that preceded it - "Hey Boy Hey Girl" - was built around a fiercely addictive mantra that was both a ballsy calling card for the record's creators and readymade chant for the legions of hedonists consumed by a club scene that had finally gone global.
Surrender, though, offered the listener so much more than soundbites. It was truly the moment that everything around The
Chemical Brothers went full colour, whether through Kate Gibb's hallucinatory artwork or the wild and propulsive psychedelia of tracks like album centre piece The
Sunshine Underground. Elsewhere, singular talents Bernard Sumner, Hope Sandoval, Jonathan Donahue and Noel Gallagher were filtered into the band's sound, less like guest vocalists and more like moving parts of a bigger machine designed to make the listener… well… surrender.
Surrender went on to win Album of the Year at the 1999 Q Awards, and The
Chemical Brothers won Best Dance Act at the 2000 Brit Awards. One year on from release, they headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival, playing to the biggest crowd the festival had ever seen (this was prior to the fence going up when the festival had a massively exploded capacity).
The first
Chemical Brothers album to receive the deluxe album treatment, the twentieth anniversary deluxe edition of Surrender enhances the original eleven track album with two additional discs of rare and unreleased music and a DVD of remastered promos and footage filmed for the BBC live at Glastonbury Festival 2000 that hasn't been seen since original broadcast. It also comes with a set of exclusive Kate Gibb prints of original sleeve artwork and an exclusive colour book featuring testimonials from key collaborators and guest musicians as well as new liner notes from Jon Savage, the band's longtime visual collaborator Adam Smith and Alexis Petridis, who describes Surrender as'a snapshot of a moment in time that could've been released yesterday'.
CD BOX:
Disc 1 - Surrender
Music Response
Under The Influence
Out Of Control (featuring Bernard Sumner)
Orange Wedge
Let Forever Be (featuring Noel Gallagher)
The
Sunshine Underground
Asleep From Day (featuring Hope Sandoval)
Got Glint?
Hey Boy Hey Girl
Surrender
Dream On (featuring Jonathan Donahue)
Disc 2 - The Secret Psychedelic Mixes
Hey Boy Hey Girl
Let Forever Be
Out Of Control (21 Minutes Of
Madness Mix)
Flashback
Dream On
Disc 3 - B sides and Remixes as curated by The Chemical Brothers
Flashback
Scale
The Diamond Sky
Studio K
Power Move
Enjoyed
Electronic
Battle Weapon 4
Out Of Control (Sasha Club Mix)
Music: Response (Gentleman Thief Mix)
Music: Response (Futureshock Main Response)
Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
Hey Boy Hey Girl (KiNK Remix)
Disc 4 - DVD featuring remastered promo videos for Hey Boy Hey Girl (Dom & Nic), Let Forever Be (Michel Gondry) Out Of Control (Wiz) and Live At Glastonbury 2000 (featuring Hey Boy Hey Girl, Music: Response, Block Rockin' Beats, Song To The Siren, Under The Influence, Leave Home and The
Private Psychedelic Reel).
VINYL BOX
Disc: 1
Music: Response
Under The Influence
Out Of Control
Orange Wedge
Let Forever Be
Disc: 2
The
Sunshine Underground
Asleep From Day
Got Glint?
Hey Boy Hey Girl
Surrender
Dream On
Disc: 3
Hey Boy Hey Girl
Let Forever Be
Flashback
Dream on
Out Of Control (21 Minutes Of
Madness Mix)
Disc: 4
Flash back
Studio K
Enjoyed
Out Of Control (Sasha Club Mix)
Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
Disc 5 - DVD featuring remastered promo videos for Hey Boy Hey Girl (Dom & Nic), Let Forever Be (Michel Gondry) Out Of Control (Wiz) and Live At Glastonbury 2000 (featuring Hey Boy Hey Girl, Music: Response, Block Rockin' Beats, Song To The Siren, Under The Influence, Leave Home and The
Private Psychedelic Reel).
