SQUAREPUSHER to reissue debut album 'FEED ME WEIRD THINGS' for 25th anniversary on WARP

Squarepusher 

‘Feed Me Weird Things’
Special 25th Anniversary Edition

Released June 4th on WARP
Black vinyl / clear vinyl / CD / download / stream / ltd edition orange vinyl (Bleep exclusive) 
 

 

First time Squarepusher’s debut album will be available on streaming platforms.

 

Stream & share ‘Theme From Ernest Borgnine’ on all DSPs

 

 

Warp Records is delighted to announce the release of a very special anniversary edition of Squarepusher’s debut album Feed Me Weird Things, 25 years to the day from its original release in ‘96. First released on the now inactive Rephlex label, the album has not been available on streaming platforms until now and has been out of print for more than a decade. It will be reissued on vinyl (2 x 12” 1 x 10” + booklet), deluxe casebound book CD and all digital formats.

 

This complete edition has been remastered from the original DATs and features two extra tracks which were first released on the B-side of the Squarepusher Plays… EP and later featured on the original Japanese release of this album. The edition also includes a 16 page booklet with personal photographs, ephemera and candid notes from Tom Jenkinson, throwing light on the early days of his career.

 

The release follows Be Up A Hello, Squarepusher’s 2020 album that was filled with buoyant, dancefloor driven tracks which featured some of the same analogue and digital hardware that was used on Feed Me Weird Things. Be Up A Hello was also driven by the same hedonistic energy which is perfectly encapsulated in this pioneering album, the first tracks of which he recorded when he was only 19 years old.

 

Musically, Feed Me Weird Things is more expansive than the electronic sub-genres it was hemmed into at the time, as it was the first release where Tom Jenkinson highlighted his virtuosic bass playing. Like much of his output after, it also showcases disarmingly intricate melodic composition like on ‘Squarepusher Theme’ and extraordinarily complex rhythmic sequences i.e. on ‘Tundra’ whilst retaining an impressive cadence.

 

The album was a key release for Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) and Grant Wilson-Claridge’s Rephlex label and has gone on to be regarded as one of Squarepusher’s best. As well as a close friendship there was perhaps a bit of healthy competition between Squarepusher and Aphex Twin at the time (Hangable Auto Bulb was released in ‘95 and is cited as an influence).  However, strong jazz influences and accomplished bass playing set Tom apart from his contemporaries. Richard curated the track list for Feed Me Weird Things from tapes that Tom had given him and the record includes sleeve notes written by him too, the only time he has done so for another artist.

 

It was on strength of this record and Squarepusher’s early EPs on various labels that caught the attention of Steve Beckett who signed Tom to Warp. The Port Rhombus EP on Warp came out later the same year, with Vic Acid EP and the Hard Normal Daddy album following in 1997.

 

“The Squarepusher is someone who wonders what the holes of a flute sound like without the flute. Sound like sound never sounded before, Richard Rodgers and Julie Andrews gave us the Sound of music, John Cage and Simon and Garfunkel gave us the Sound of silence and now the Squarepusher gives us the SOUND of SOUND.” - Richard.D.Jams (taken from the original ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ sleevenotes)

 

TRACK LIST

01 Squarepusher Theme

02 Tundra

03 The Swifty

04 Dimotane Co

05 Smedleys Melody

06 Windscale 2

07 North Circular

08 Goodnight Jade

09 Theme From Ernest Borgnine

10 U.F.O.'s Over Leytonstone

11 Kodack

12 Future Gibbon

13 Theme from Goodbye Renaldo

14 Deep Fried Pizza

 

LIVE DATES
 

23/10/21 - Boiler Shop, Newcastle ** New date ** - TICKETS
25/10/21 - Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool - TICKETS 

26/10/21 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds - SOLD OUT
27/10/21- Concorde 2, Brighton - TICKETS  

28/10/21 - Metronome, Nottingham - SOLD OUT

29/10/21 - Roundhouse, London - TICKETS