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Verlaines - Hallelujah - All The Way Home + Juvenilia Re-Issues
Out December 6

Flying Nun are pleased to announce the first two re-issues from pioneering Dunedin band The Verlaines - their 1985 debut album, Hallelujah - All The Way Home and the Juvenilia compilation (1987).

Formed in 1981, The Verlaines have gone on to be one of Flying Nun's most important acts, releasing nine albums, countless singles while influencing musicians around the world. Now these two records will be available again on 12" LP, CD and Digitally. 

Both re-mastered and with bonus art-work, Hallelujah - All The Way Home will be re-issued in its' original gatefold format along with a replica album release poster, while Juvenilia features a full 10 page booklet with liner notes from songwriter Graeme Downes, plus lyric sheet reproductions and poster images. The CD version of Juvenilia also has the extra bonus tracks from the 1993 re-issue.

The records have been pressed and pre-orders are now available from Flying Out, with the albums out on December 6 in New Zealand.

Pre-Order Hallelujah - All The Way Home

Pre-Order Juvenilia

Pre-Order Verlaines Record Bundle

Watch the Death and the Maiden video here:

ABOUT THE RELEASES:

Hallelujah - All The Way Home

Stream Phil Too From Hallelujah All The Way Home 

The Verlaines 1985 debut album, Hallelujah - All the Way Home defined both the Dunedin band's style and much of the 'Flying Nun sound'. Grounded in songwriter Graeme Downes’ innate and inventive sense of melody, at the heart of these 8 songs are magnificent tales of drunkards and romantics all punctuated by guitar blasts and instrumental flourishes. 

Juvenilia

Stream Doomsday From Juvenilia

A compilation of the early singles and EPs, Juvenilia is the perfect introduction to the Dunedin band’s early history. From the irrepressible Death and the Maiden to the perfect love song Joed Out, these ten tracks wield pop hooks filled with all the elegant and magnificently moody elements of the Verlaines. First released in 1987 and reissued on CD in 1993 with bonus tracks, the album also features the band's first two songs, Angela and Crisis After Crisis, recorded on Chris Knox’s infamous four track and released on the Dunedin Double EP. 

 Hallelujah - All The Way Home

1. It Was Raining
2. All Laid On
3. The Lady and the Lizard
4. Don't Send Me Away
5. Lying in State
6. Phil Too?
7. For The Love of Ash Grey
8. The Ballad of Harry Noryb

Juvenilia

1. Death And The Maiden
2. Doomsday
3. Joed Out
4. Baud To Tears
5. Crisis After Crisis
6. Burlesque You Cheat Yourself of Everything That Moves
7. Pyromaniac
8. Windsong
9. Angela
10. You Say You
11. New Kind Of Hero (CD Version only)
12. Instrumental (CD Version only)
13. Phil Too? (CD Version only)
14. C.D. Jimmy Jazz and Me (CD Version only)

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