Diverse Records announce their first ever LP reissue, marking the 20th Anniversary of this modern classic!

Giant Steps was the third album by The Boo Radleys, released in 1993. NME and Select named it as album of the year. It reached the UK Top 20, quite a mean feat for an indie band with a “difficult” concept album!
The title is inspired by John Coltrane’s album of the same name, and like its namesake was a similar watershed in popular music, challenging the indie pop scene of the time with an ambitious and progressive album with a huge array of influences.

Liverpool’s Boo Radleys were never comfortable fitting into any of the easily defined categories that Pigeon-holed so many British bands in the early 1990s. Arriving on the scene as shoe-gazing My Bloody Valentine wannabes, they signed to Alan McGee’s hip-to-the-times Creation Records, They surprised everyone by releasing Giant Steps in early ‘93. Living up to its title, the album is indeed a step above and away both from what their peers were doing and what was expected of the band themselves. The album is a cornucopia of varying influences from the Smiths-y Wish I Was Skinny to the lovely brass arrangement in Lazarus. The NME compared it to both Pet Sounds and Revolver.

Standing out at the time, the album has gone on to be considered “outstanding” with fans and critics alike, 20 years after its original release!

The original artwork has been lost to history so original sleeve designer Stephen Wood has lovingly recreated the sleeve from scratch. Stephen got the chance to make small changes to text and colour that he’s wanted to make for 20 years!

1993 Albums Of The Year #1 – Select Magazine

1993 Reader’s Poll Album Of The Year – NME

Available to buy

The Boo Radleys : Giant Steps

By diverse | Published: 29/08/2013

Polly Paulusma : Leaves From The Family Tree

Danny & The Champions of the World : Hearts & Arrows

Carrie Rodriguez : Love And Circumstance

Simone & Ian Felice : Lost Tapes Volumes I & II

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2 Comments

JHL

Posted 30/08/2013 at 11:57 AM | Permalink

Can you reveal what source you’re using for this reissue, and will it sound better than the original Creation pressing?
diverse

Posted 09/09/2013 at 9:01 AM | Permalink

We used the files from Sony that I assume were the ones used for the original vinyl pressing. We haven’t altered them in any way but it is on 180g vinyl and I don’t believe the original was. We’ve kept everything as faithful as possible.

The Boo Radleys : Giant Steps

Available to buy

Kris Drever : Where The World Is Thin

Georgia Ruth : Fossil Scale

Eleanor McEvoy : Out There

Kris Drever : If Wishes Were Horses

Kris Drever : Mark The Hard Earth

Amy Duncan : Undercurrents

Eleanor McEvoy : Naked Music

Paper Aeroplanes : Joy

Eddi Reader : Vagabond

Polly Paulusma : Leaves From The Family Tree

Roddy Woomble : Listen To Keep

Danny & The Champions of the World : Hearts & Arrows

Carrie Rodriguez : Love And Circumstance

Richmond Fontaine : The High Country

Simone & Ian Felice : Lost Tapes Volumes I & II

Joan Baez : Play Me Backwards

Fionn Regan : The Shadow Of An Empire

Mark Olson : The Salvation Blues

Dolly Varden : The Dumbest Magnets

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