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with disc one being the band's fifteenth studio album, composed entirely of

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(a sequel to their previous covers album ''

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''), and disc two consisting of the live performance given by the band at the Oxford O2 Academy on 22 April 2017. It was funded through a

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campaign and self-released directly to the campaign's backers.

Production

The band launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $30,000 in order to fund the album. It was successful with a total of $77,000 being raised. One specific pledge reward as part of the Kickstarter campaign was to choose a song to be covered on the album. The four songs chosen by fans through this method were "

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, "

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, " Nightclubbing" by

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, "

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" by David Bowie, "

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" by

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, "Seminole Bingo" by

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and " Last Night I Had a Dream" by

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. As stretch goals, the project's backers were given the option to vote for songs to be included in the live set recorded for the second half of the album. The songs selected by this method were "

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", " I Invented the Night" and " Randy's Hot Tonight". As additional stretch goals, funds were secured to produce music videos for songs from the band's previous album, '' Fresh Blood for Tired Vampyres''. These were "I'll Be In Touch" and "I Got the Box". By coincidence, the final album contained two covers of songs by Bowie, with a further cover of a song co-written by Bowie. The band previously covered Bowie's "

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" on their first cover album, ''

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'', and had also covered " Blue Jean" on the tribute album ''A Salute to the Thin White Duke: The Songs of David Bowie''.

Track listing

Personnel

* Dick Valentine - vocals * Tait Nucleus? - synthesizer * - guitar * Da Ve - guitar * Rob Lower - bass * Todd Glass - drums (tracks 5, 7-10) * Ray Kubian - drums (Live in Oxford) * Nickey Winkelman - background vocals (tracks 2, 7) * Scott Weinert - bass (track 3) * Daniel Ohlson - trumpet (track 3), background vocals (track 7) * Mel Caceres - background vocals (tracks 6, 23) * Sabina Alteras-Honig - drums (track 6) * Matt Tompkins - drums (track 6) * Benton Redmann - background vocals (track 10) * Benjamin Hurd - bass (track 10)

References

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