{"product_id":"virgin-prunes_a-new-form-of-beauty-1-4_2024_uni","title":"A New Form of Beauty 1-4","description":"'A New Form of Beauty' (1981) by Virgin Prunes includes the titles of the first 4 parts of what was a 5-part project. Part 1 was a 7\" single, Part 2 a 10\" record, and Part 3 a 12\" record, recorded between July and October '81. The 4th part, \"Din Glorious\", released as an audio cassette, was a live recording from November 8, 1981, at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. The 5th part was intended to be a film of the \"performance, exhibition, event\" held at the Douglas Hyde Gallery on November 7 and 8, 1981. This deluxe edition includes all four remastered parts. Deluxe edition available on 3LP or 2CD. The Virgin Prunes were masters of strangeness, juxtaposing nightmares with lullabies, beauty with cruelty, combining soft vocals and spoken word with anguished wails from purgatory itself. This debut album powerfully charted that territory. Its themes ranged from sad tales of unrequited love, frustrated sexuality, morbid eroticism, and wasted youth, to aspirations for distant dreamlands juxtaposed with macabre visions of dystopian societies, dominated by dark forces where demons run wild. Guggi's artwork for 'A New Form of Beauty', which evokes a heartless transaction in a setting, This deluxe edition includes all four parts remastered from the original tape in a deluxe reverse-board three-fold 3LP sleeve with an 11-inch 16-page deluxe artbook featuring brand new liner notes by Jon Wood and original artwork by Guggi.","brand":"Virgin Prunes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55350890856792,"sku":null,"price":20241025.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/4050538925418_01e8f79f-0b74-4b3c-bcc5-ad07e4d0a847.jpg?v=1760468780","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/virgin-prunes_a-new-form-of-beauty-1-4_2024_uni","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}