Artist: Rascal Reporters
Album: Redux, Vol. 2: Rascals Revenge and the Great Reset
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 01:08:12
Total Tracks: 7
Total Size: 802 MB

Tracklist:

01. Rascal Reporters – The Unfettered Way (04:07)
02. Rascal Reporters – Cashew Medley (16:34)
03. Rascal Reporters – Fallen Mind (04:03)
04. Rascal Reporters – Moments (09:13)
05. Rascal Reporters – Egg Soup (10:19)
06. Rascal Reporters – Hubert Greenery Peck (new mix) [bonus track] (14:07)
07. Rascal Reporters – Deep Dish Beaver Pies for Breakfast [bonus track] (09:46)

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Rascal Reporters return on March 5th with an album of new music for the Avant-progressive / Rock In Opposition canon – ‘Redux, Vol. 2: Rascals Revenge and the Great Reset’!This release follows on from 2019’s appropriately titled ‘Redux, Vol. 1’. The Redux series focuses on pieces written at various points of the band’s 30+ year career that remained incomplete, being finished with additional accompanying instrumentation by the current line-up of the band, which consists of Steve Kretzmer & James Strain.

With Redux, Vol. 2, the band took on the goal of presenting completed versions of many of Steve Kretzmer’s 1970s college recordings – long-form and intricate piano compositions like ‘Moments’, ‘Egg Soup’ & ‘Hubert Greenery Peck’, reminiscent of the likes of Henry Cow, Egg and National Health, but altogether something else entirely.

Complementing these tracks are two shorter Kretzmer pieces: the aggressive ‘The Unfettered Way’ & almost Prefab Sprout-like ‘Fallen Mind’. Between these lies the colourful 16-minute ‘Cashew Medley’, which is constructed from a collection of short Steve Gore ideas and songs, arranged and sewn together with additional instrumentation by James Strain. The album has been mastered by renowned engineer and musician Bob Drake.