The Virgin Prunes were masters of the uncanny, juxtaposing nightmares with lullabies, beauty with cruelty, combining gentle vocals and the spoken word with anguished wailing from purgatory itself. This first album powerfully laid out this terrain. Its themes ranged from mournful tales of unrequited love, frustrated sexuality, morbid eroticism and wasted youth, to yearnings for distant dreamlands which were juxtaposed with macabre visions of dystopian societies, overpowered by dark forces and where demons run amok. Guggi's art work for 'A New Form of Beauty', which intimates a heartless transaction within a domestic setting, is in keeping with this sensibility. This deluxe edition features all four parts remastered from original tape with brand new remixes and tape loop mashup by Apparition and Gavin Friday in a 2CD deluxe mediabook with a 16 page booklet containing brand new sleevenotes by Jon Wood and original Guggi drawings.
Disc One
1. Sandpaper Lullabye - Virgin Prunes
2. Sleep Fantasy Dreams - Virgin Prunes
3. Come to Daddy - Virgin Prunes
4. Sweethome Under White Clouds - Virgin Prunes
5. Sad World - Virgin Prunes
6. Beast (Seven Bastard Suck) - Virgin Prunes
7. Abb gall - Virgin Prunes
8. Brain Damage - Virgin Prunes
9. No Birds to Fly - Virgin Prunes
Disc Two
1. 'Din Glorious' - Virgin Prunes
2. Yesterday Is Tomorrow/Come to Daddy (2024 Remix By Apparition) - Virgin Prunes
3. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2024 Remix By Apparition) - Virgin Prunes
4. Yesterday Is Tomorrow/Come to Daddy (2024 Instrumental Remix By Apparition) - Virgin Prunes
5. Sweethome Under White Clouds (2024 Instrumental Remix By Apparition) - Virgin Prunes
6. Beauticide (2024 ANFOB Tapeloop Mash Up By Apparition) - Virgin Prunes