On her eponymous debut LP released earlier this year, Francis graced us with a deeply intimate self-portrait—thoroughly glittered with samples from her favorite 1970’s Hong Kong Venom Mob films. The album’s complex sensitivities address themes across the spectrum of her experience, from anxiety to citrus taxonomy; from cancer to, indeed, kung fu.
For the tenth anniversary of their seminal 2006 album Pink, the sludgy Japanese band pulled out all the stops. A redesigned, die-cut record sleeve houses the album’s three LPs, the third of which contains never-before heard songs from the Pink cutting room floor. These aren’t demos, live cuts, acoustic versions, or incomplete ideas—they’re nine fantastic songs that are just as good as the original album.
