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Once upon a time, before she found her true calling in alt-country and New Porn, a spunky gal named Neko Case was drumming and singing up a ruckus with garage rock trio Maow. Even before that, she served behind the kit for a spell with cuddlecore cuties Cub.

Cub would go on to serve up several sugar-coated twee classics, including 1993's EP+ collection Betti-Cola and 1994's Come Out Come Out, while Maow dropped The Unforgiving Sounds of... back in 1996. Vancouver's longstanding Mint Records released all three, and it's Mint that will reissue this trio of notable albums on April 3.

The Betti-Cola and Come Out deluxe reissues boast a handful of additional 7" tracks, including "Chico", "Sweet Pea", "Summer Samba", "Hello Kitty", and "Radio Chinchilla", all the better to help you cuddle like you mean it.

Betti-Cola:

01 Go Fish
02 What the Water Gave Me
03 Motel 6
04 A Party
05 Flying Carpet
06 My Chinchilla
07 Electric Chair
08 Nicolas Bragg
09 Pretty Pictures
10 They Don't
11 A Picnic
12 It's True
13 Someday
14 Cast a Shadow
15 The Day We Met
16 Surfer Girl
17 Little Star
18 My Assassin
19 Tell Me Now
20 Lucky 7
21 Through My Hoop
22 Leap Frog
23 Backwoods
24 What the Water Gave Me
25 Chico
26 Sweet Pea
27 Summer Samba
28 Hello Kitty

Come Out Come Out:

01 Ticket to Spain
02 Everything's Geometry
03 My Flaming Red Bobsled
04 Isabelle
05 Your Bed
06 Tomorrow Go Away
07 Life of Crime
08 I'm Your Angel
09 Por Favor
10 New York City
11 Voracious
12 So Far Apart
13 Vacation
14 Your Bed (Yoyo Version)
15 Cast a Shadow
16 Radio Chinchilla

The Unforgiving Sounds of...:

01 Wank
02 Mean Mean Mean
03 Sucker
04 Ms. Lefevre
05 Rock 'N' Roll Boy
06 Very Missionary
07 Mommie's Drunk
08 Woman's Scorn
09 Showpie
10 J'Ai Faim
11 Man What's Got a Gun
12 How Does That Grab You, Darlin'?
13 Party Tonite
14 Cat's Neow
15 One Nite Stand
16 Catastrophie