Hard-Fi announce deluxe 20th anniversary reissue ‘Stars Of CCTV’

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Hard-Fi have announced a deluxe reissue of their ‘Stars Of CCTV’ album to celebrate the 20th anniversary. Find out the details below.Set to arrive on July 4, the new release will celebrate the indie band’s iconic debut album with a limited edition yellow gatefold 2-LP vinyl, as well as through two CDs.

It comes 20 years after the four-piece shared the era-defining breakthrough album, and celebrates how the record “transformed four working-class lads from Staines into one of the UK’s most vital bands of the ‘00s”.With the anniversary edition, Hard-Fi will include the original tracklist in full, along with never-before-heard demos of ‘Hard To Beat’, ‘Move On Now’ & ‘Gotta Reason’.Also included are various live versions of the original tracklisting, alongside B-sides and a host of special remixes.When ‘Stars Of CCTV’ was first shared in 2005, it was only ever available as a limited run on vinyl, meaning that the 20th-anniversary version will give most fans their first opportunity to own the record on vinyl.“We were skint, recording in a freezing old minicab office, but we knew we had something raw and real,” said Richard Archer, reflecting on the breakthrough LP. “‘Stars’ was our life – watching mates struggle in dead-end jobs, police mobile surveillance vans parked up watching our every move, but still finding the thrill in a night out, music, street culture and celebrating a lifestyle familiar to anyone stuck on the outskirts, in satellite towns up and down the country”.Visit here to pre-order the 20th-anniversary reissue, and check out the tracklisting below.CD1 ‘Cash Machine’ ‘Middle Eastern Holiday’ ‘Tied Up Too Tight’ ‘Gotta Reason’ ‘Hard To Beat’ ‘Unnecessary Trouble’ ‘Move On Now’ ‘Better Do Better’ ‘Feltham Is.