Grinderman are pleased to announce the release of ‘Grinderman 2 RMX’ – a collection of remixes, reinterpretations & collaborations based on the songs contained in the band’s 2010 critically celebrated album ‘Grinderman 2’.
Out on Mute on 12th March, ‘Grinderman 2 RMX’ marks the first time all these tracks have been collected together. The album will be available in a deluxe double vinyl edition with CD insert, as well as CD and digital formats.
To mark the announcement Mute are exclusively streaming a previously-unreleased remix of ‘Bellringer Blues’ by Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ guitarist Nick Zinner on their Soundcloud page here:
Grinderman – Bellringer Blues (Nick Zinner Remix) by Mute UK
‘Grinderman 2 RMX’s many outstanding tracks include “Super Heathen Child” – a collaborative version of Grinderman’s “Heathen Child” (MOJO Honours Song Of The Year 2011) which teams the band up with legendary guitarist Robert Fripp (King Crimson, David Bowie, Eno); an exclusive previously unreleased remix of “Bellringer Blues” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ guitarist Nick Zinner (about which Grinderman enthuse “It shits all over the original!”) a remix of “Mickey Mouse & the Goodbye Man” by producer/-musician Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age); “When My Baby Comes” by Cat’s Eyes (a duo consisting of Horrors’ front-man Faris Badwan and soprano Rachel Zeffira); “Evil” reinterpreted by Silver Alert (Grinderman’s Jim Sclavunos) and The National’s front man Matt Berninger; and Grinderman’s original demo version of “Evil”, “First Evil”.
‘Grinderman 2 RMX’ tracklisting:
Grinderman / Fripp – “Super Heathen Child”
A Place to Bury Strangers – “Worm Tamer”
Nick Zinner – “Bellringer Blues” (exclusive)
UNKLE – “Hyper Worm Tamer”
Joshua Homme – “Mickey Bloody Mouse”
Cat’s Eyes with Luke Tristram – “When My Baby Comes”
Barry Adamson – “Palaces Of Montezuma”
Silver Alert (featuring Matt Berninger) – “Evil”
SixToes – “When My Baby Comes” (exclusive)
Andy Weatherall – “Heathen Child”
Factory Floor – “Evil”
Grinderman – “First Evil”
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