The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything Savage Gestures for Charm’s Sake (people forget about this one!)

To pick up from some earlier comments re: clicks and skips, there’s quite a bit of surface noise at the beginning of “Dream Car Romantics” that is either from vinyl or from an old tape. Once the big string synths kick in the track sounds just fine. The three instances noted earlier notwithstanding, I‘m still very grateful for this set, and think it sounds great—way better than the vinyl ripped MP3s I played to death over the last 20 years. Happy to have it. Now bring on the remaining b-sides from this era!

So pumped for this. Like others, I have vinyl rips from the old singles, but have long wanted hi-fi versions of these irresistible lo-fi gems. Already pre-ordered. Can we now hope that a reissue of The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything is forthcoming? The 2005 Mercury CD reissues of Quit Dreaming, Love that Whirls and Chimera gave us roughly half of that compilation in remastered form. The new release adds two more ("Konny Buys a Kodak" and "When the Birds Return"). Going by the original vinyl release, that still leaves the following tracks unreleased in remastered form: Acceleration (Single Remix) Eros Arriving (Single Version) Ideal Homes Instantly Yours Atom Man Loves Radium Girl The Burning Question Touch and Glow Love Without Fear Dada Guitare Turn to Fiction Hers is a Lush Situation With those 3 2005 CDs and the new Transcorder release, we can almost compile a complete remastered Two-Fold, but it nags at the completist in me to have the above tracks orphaned into temporary oblivion. BTW, I'm lucky that I have the increasingly rare Engima 2CD edition from the late 80s, which substitutes "The Beat That Can't Go Wrong Today" for "Acceleration (Single Remix)" and "Daily Bells" for "Hard Facts from the Fiction Department," which already appeared as a bonus track on the 2005 "Chimera" and reappears on Transcorder" alongside its fellow tracks from the original Cocteau EP. That CD sounds just fine, but falls short when compared to the remastered editions on the 2005 CDs. And so a beautiful bright red digipack re-issue of Two Fold, with Savage Gestures tacked onto CD2, would be a godsend.