LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Cherry Red is delighted to announce the next releases for the rejuvenated Turpentine Records, the label founded by the late singer-songwriter/author/artist KEVIN COYNE.
SIREN was the debut album by Kevin Coyne with Siren, the band he founded with former Bonzo Dog Band bassist Dave Clague and pianist/guitarist Nick Cudworth.
The LP was originally issued on John Peel’s Dandelion label in 1969.
SIREN has been out-of-print on CD for many years.
This deluxe 2-CD edition has been re-mastered, with a whole bonus disc of rare home and studio recordings from the period, previously only available on fanclub-style releases.
Also boasts the band’s first demo for Blue Horizon Records and non-album singles for Dandelion.
The booklet features new and insightful sleeve-notes written specially for this release by Nick Cudworth, and a rare piece by Kevin Coyne from 1970, written for the underground magazine KLAP.
Includes rare and previously unseen photos and cuttings of Siren in their heyday.
An in-depth look at an underrated band, and a fascinating glimpse at the formative recordings of an artist who would inspire John Lydon, Sting, Ben Watt and Will Oldham and would collaborate with Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Dagmar Krause, Brendan Croker, Gary Lucas and The Mekons’ Jon Langford.
"Most of the album is good time rock-on-out-music a la the Flamin’ Groovies… one of those (albums) you keep coming back to when the night gets cold and the wine is almost out. I play it a lot, and that’s the nicest thing I can say about an album.” Ed Ward - Rolling Stone
"Siren just came as a breath of fresh air really, in the same way that like a generation later The Ramones did. When you just thought 'Thank God for that!' You hadn't realised how bored you'd become…”

Track Listing

DISC ONE
SIREN
1. Ze-Ze-Ze-Ze
2. Get Right Church
3. Rock Me Baby
4. Wake Up My Children
5. Wasting My Time
6. Sixteen Women
7. First Time I Saw Your Face
8. Gardner Man
9. And I Wonder
10. The War Is Over
11. Asylum
12. Bertha Lee
13. I Wonder Where
14. Mandy Lee (A-Side)
15. Bottle Up And Go (B-Side)
16. The Stride (A-Side)
17. Mandy Lee (Blue Horizon Demo)
18. Sixteen Women
19. Mandy Lee (Blue Horizon Version)
20. Bottle Up And Go
21. The Stride (Radio Version)
22. Sixteen Women Ii (Radio Version)

DISC TWO
BONUS SESSIONS
1. BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE
2. HUSH YOUR MOUTH
3. START WALKING
4. TILL THE END OF TIME
Tracks 1-4 live at Roger’s, March ’69
5. I’M SO HAPPY
6. WHAT IS YOUR NAME
7. I DROVE YOUR CAR
8. IN MY ROOM
9. I’M GOING
10. SANDY
11. ONCE
12. MARRIED WOMAN
13. LET’S DO IT
14. MONEY (Spoken Word)
15. BLACK MINNIE
16. SET ME FREE
17. ANYBODY KNOW ME
18. JOHN THE BAPTIST (Acoustic Version)