Club 8 Back Catalog Gets Expanded Reissue Treatment

Perhaps recent offering The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming served as your entry point to the wonderful, winsome indie pop world of Club 8. Or perhaps you've worn down your copies of the duo's numerous releases with play after loving play. Either way, great news for you! A hefty portion of the Club 8 back catalog saw reissue this week, bolstered by bonus tracks galore.

Longtime fans and new converts alike now have cause to snatch up expanded editions of 1998's The Friend I Once Had, 2001's Club 8, 2002's Spring Came, Rain Fell, and 2003's Strangely Beautiful, available now via Labrador (and distributed by Darla in the U.S.). No fewer than 18 bonus tracks in all populate the extended tracklists, available for eager eyes below.

What's more, Club 8 have several live dates lined up, with the next happening right about now in Barcelona.

Meanwhile, Labrador-- run by Club 8's male half, Johan Angergård-- has kept plenty busy in 2008. Most recently the label signed another Swedish duo, the Sound of Arrows, who will unleash the nine-track EP Danger! this May. A Sound of Arrows full-length will follow in the fall, and 2008 should also hold new Labrador releases from the Radio Dept. and Suburban Kids With Biblical Names. That's enough to keep our twee hearts a-pitter-patterin' straight on till winter!

The Friend I Once Had:

01 Everlasting Love
02 All I Can Do
03 Someday
04 I Wish You'd Stay
05 Holiday
06 The End of the Affair
07 Summer Rain
08 Calcutta
09 Tomorrow Never Comes
10 Better Days
11 Karen
12 Missing You
13 Missing You (Permer Remix) *
14 My Heart Won't Break *
15 The Best of Seasons *
16 Missing You (Making Love to a Machine Mix by Junior Varsity) *
17 My Heart Won't Break (Minty Cut Mix by Sweet Trip) *
18 The Friend I Once Had *

Club 8:

01 Love in December
02 Boyfriends Stay
03 She Lives by the Water
04 The Sand and the Sea
05 Falling From Grace
06 Hope for Winter
07 London
08 Say a Prayer
09 A Place in My Heart
10 I Don't Need Anyone
11 Keeping Track of Time
12 Love in December (Remixed by Les Espions) *
13 A Place in My Heart (Remixed by Les Espions) *

Spring Came, Rain Fell:

01 We're Simple Minds
02 Spring Came, Rain Fell
03 Spring Song
04 Close to Me
05 Baby, I'm Not Sure If This Is Love
06 The Chance I Deserve
07 I Give Up Too
08 Friends and Lovers
09 Teenage Life
10 Karen Song
11 The Girl With the Northern Soul Collection
12 We Set Ourselves Free
13 Things We Share *
14 Mornings *
15 You and Me *
16 Don't Stop the Night *
17 Sounds From the Gulfstream *

Strangely Beautiful:

01 When Lights Go Out
02 What Shall We Do Next?
03 I Wasn't Much of a Fight
04 Stay by My Side
05 Cold Hearts
06 Between Waking and Sleeping
07 This Is the Morning
08 The Next Step You'll Take
09 The Beauty of the Way We're Living
10 Saturday Night Engine
11 We Move in Silence
12 I Have No Better Plan *
13 So Tied Up *
14 Giza *
15 People Who Would Go for You *
16 Sometimes I Felt Like a Loser *

* bonus track

Club 8:

03-07 Barcelona, Spain - Nitsa 2
03-08 Zaragoza, Spain - Auditoi CAI
04-03 Tokyo, Japan - O-Nest