Description

Mute present A Certain Ratios next phase of reissues with Good Together and Up In Downsville.

The reissues are part of the ongoing collaboration with Mute that started with The Graveyard And The Ballroom, To Each and Force. The current and forthcoming releases, including the long out of print albums acr:mcr and Good Together will be followed by Sextet, Mind Made Up, Change The Station and a new compilation with recently recorded tracks plus various box sets that will include rare and previously unreleased material, in a campaign that is set to run over three years.

A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late Seventies post punk explosion but sounded like nothing else around them and refused to fit in. Formed in 1978, the band had various members throughout their career and a core line-up of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson.

Hailed universally as pioneers of what became known as punk funk thanks to the success of Shack Up on both sides of the Atlantic, their sound is not easily pigeon holed and their influence can never be understated. The band introduced the avant-garde elements of funk, jazz, electronics, tape loops and technology to the pop song, wrapping it in a post punk aesthetic, adding great clothes and the coolest haircuts.

They have gone on to influence generations of musicians from LCD Soundsystem, Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, ESG, Factory Floor and Andrew Weatherall, who will appear at the bands sold out Hebden Bridge performance in May.

The Guardians Dave Simpson paid tribute to the band (once described as James Brown on acid) in a recent Cult Heroes piece: Once you start listening to A Certain Ratio, its difficult to stop.

Good Together is on white double vinyl. Up In Downsville is on light blue double vinyl. Both vinyl formats include digital download codes.