“Do not eat or drink anything past midnight prior to your appointment — NO FOOD, NO LIQUID”.
Non-sensical, un-user friendly, at times half finished. Camper Van Beethoven’s second album II & III saw the folk-punk of the band’s debut LP morphing into an even wider array of stylistic influences and (un)ironic contradictions, all rolled up into a coherently incoherent collection of some of the band’s most defining songs.
Originally released in 1986, the follow up to Telephone Free Landslide Victory did much to develop an already iconoclastic Camper Van Beethoven idiom. II & III ranges from alt-country ballads (“Sad Lovers’ Waltz”) to call-backs to the European folk instrumentals of their earlier work (“No Krugerrands For David”, “4 Year Plan”). Also featured is the band’s bluegrass-Americana take on Sonic Youth’s “I Love Her All the Time”, satisfying their appetite for inventive cover versions.
Celebrating the album’s 40th anniversary, this expanded reissue is available as a Limited Edition Teal Vinyl LP and a deluxe 2CD edition.
The Limited Edition Teal Vinyl features a newly revisited collage version of the artwork, alongside a reproduced 11”x11” insert designed by Victor Krummenacher using original photos, lithograph prints, lyrics and leaflets.
The deluxe 2CD edition pairs the original II & III album with a 17-track live bonus disc featuring recordings from Camper Van Beethoven’s 1986 tour supporting R.E.M. on the Life’s Rich Pageant tour. Recorded primarily at the Lincoln, Nebraska show on October 10th, 1986, the live material is supplemented with performances from other dates on the tour.
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Here is also draft copy for our social post tomorrow:
II & III (40th Anniversary Edition) out now!
Buy this record or you will have bad dreams. Victor once had a bad dream about this rug, a persian rug that turned into this giant eyeball and then started sucking everything in the room into it, it was like the eye of god or something.
Available now as a Limited Edition Teal Vinyl LP and deluxe 2CD featuring a bonus live album from our 1986 tour supporting R.E.M.
2CD edition includes the original album plus a 17-track live bonus disc recorded during the Life’s Rich Pageant tour
Limited Edition Teal Vinyl includes revisited collage artwork and an exclusive 11”x11” insert designed by Victor Krummenacher