{"id":8697,"date":"2018-03-27T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2018-03-27T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:02:03","slug":"relics-re-release-coming-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2018\/03\/relics-re-release-coming-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Relics re-release coming in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pink Floyd Records will re-release its 1971 compilation album &#8220;Relics&#8221; on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl on May 18.<\/p>\n<p>The album was remastered was <strong>James Guthrie<\/strong>, <strong>Joel Plante<\/strong> and <strong>Bernie Grundman<\/strong>, the same team responsible for the spate of other recent Floyd re-issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relics&#8221; includes singles; B-sides; and tracks from the band&#8217;s first three albums: &#8220;The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn&#8221; (1967), &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; (1968) and the soundtrack to the film &#8220;More&#8221; (1969).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its original release, it boasted a previously-unreleased number written by <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>, &#8220;Biding My Time,&#8221; recorded in July 1969.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relics&#8221; was the first album to include the Floyd singles &#8220;Arnold Layne&#8221; and &#8220;See Emily Play&#8221;; and the original studio recording of &#8220;Careful with That Axe, Eugene,&#8221; originally the B-side of &#8220;Point Me at the Sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sleeve features the original black and white drawing by Floyd drummer <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong>, with the subtitle &#8220;A Bizarre Collection of Antiques &amp; Curios.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All tracks are the original stereo versions, except for &#8220;Arnold Layne&#8221; and &#8220;See Emily Play,&#8221; which are the original mono mixes.<\/p>\n<p>The label has been busy re-releasing the Floyd catalog on vinyl. A re-issue of &#8220;Pulse&#8221; was announced earlier this week (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2018\/03\/pulse-to-be-reissued-on-vinyl\/\">Pulse to be reissued on vinyl<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd Records will re-release its 1971 compilation album &#8220;Relics&#8221; on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl on May 18. The album was remastered was James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman, the same team responsible for the spate of other recent Floyd re-issues. &#8220;Relics&#8221; includes singles; B-sides; and tracks from the band&#8217;s first three albums: &#8220;The Piper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}