Primal Scream reissue details

Primal Scream’s two 1987 EPs are coming back as a single Record Store Day release on April 18, with 3,500 copies pressed worldwide. (recordstoreday.com) The package combines *Gentle Tuesday* and *Imperial* on a 12-inch, 45 revolutions-per-minute Record Store Day exclusive credited to Rhino. The official listing says the two releases are being collected together for the first time. (recordstoreday.com) The track list keeps the original 1987 material split by side: “Gentle Tuesday,” “Black Star Carnival,” and “I’m Gonna Make You Mine” on Side A, then “Imperial,” “Star Fruit Surf Rider,” “So Sad About Us,” and “Imperial (Demo)” on Side B. Retail listings in Britain describe the disc as blue vinyl and limit purchases to one copy per customer. (recordstoreday.com) (roughtrade.com) Those songs came out before Primal Scream became identified with *Screamadelica* and the band’s early-1990s dance-rock turn. Record Store Day’s notes place the EPs in the run-up to the group’s 1987 debut album *Sonic Flower Groove*. (recordstoreday.com) (readdork.com) Record Store Day’s U.K. listing dates “Gentle Tuesday” to June 1987 and “Imperial” to September 1987, and describes that period as Byrds-influenced indie pop rather than the later groove-heavy sound the band became known for in the 1990s. The same notes identify covers of songs first recorded by The Shadows of Knight and The Who among the non-album tracks. (recordstoreday.co.uk) Primal Scream formed in Glasgow in 1982 around Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie, and *Sonic Flower Groove* remains the band’s first full-length snapshot from that lineup and era. AllMusic lists the album as a 1987 release in jangle-pop and alternative-pop territory. (allmusic.com) (wikipedia.org) Glide Magazine’s review of the reissue called attention to the small pressing and framed the set as a look back at the group before its better-known reinventions. With Record Store Day four days away, the release is positioned as a scarce physical-only stop on that earlier chapter. (glidemagazine.com) (recordstoreday.com)