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
Georgia Ruth : Fossil Scale
DIV056LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve & download code.
3rd February 2017
Eleanor McEvoy : Out There
DIV010LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve & Hybrid SACD.
19th September 2016
Kris Drever : If Wishes Were Horses
DIV055LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve & CD.
3rd May 2016
Kris Drever : Mark The Hard Earth
DIV054LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve & CD.
3rd May 2016
Amy Duncan : Undercurrents
DIV053LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve & DL.
19th February 2016
Eleanor McEvoy : Naked Music
DIV052LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve & CD.
1st February 2016
Paper Aeroplanes : Joy
DIV050LP
Album Information
180g Gatefold LP & Download code.
6th April 2015
Eddi Reader : Vagabond
DIV049LP
Album Information
180g Gatefold LP & CD.
23rd April 2014
Polly Paulusma : Leaves From The Family Tree
DIV047LP
Album Information
180g Single LP & download code, Single Sleeve.
2nd September 2013
Eddi Reader : The Songs Of Robert Burns
DIV046DLP
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180g Double LP & CD, Gatefold Sleeve.
29th August 2013
Richmond Fontaine : Winnemucca
DIV045LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Printed Colour Inner.
29th August 2013
Roddy Woomble : Listen To Keep
DIV044LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Printed Colour Inner plus CD.
9th April 2013
Lau : Race The Loser / Ghosts EP
DIV042DLP
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180g Double LP, Gatefold Sleeve plus CD.
1st October 2012
Loudon Wainwright III : Older Than My Old Man Now
DIV040LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve.
24th July 2012
The Webb Sisters : Savages
DIV036LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve.
30th May 2012
Danny & The Champions of the World : Hearts & Arrows
DIV035LP
Album Information
180g Single LP.
6th February 2012
Carrie Rodriguez : Love And Circumstance
DIV032LP
Album Information
180g Single LP, Gatefold Sleeve.
10th November 2011
Richmond Fontaine : The High Country
DIV031LP
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180g Single LP.
26th September 2011
Simone & Ian Felice : Lost Tapes Volumes I & II
DIV030DLP
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180g Double LP, Gatefold Sleeve.
26th September 2011
Joan Baez : Play Me Backwards
DIV029LP
Album Information
180g Double LP, Gatefold Sleeve.
26rd May 2011
Fionn Regan : The Shadow Of An Empire
DIV026LP
Album Information
180g Single LP.
2nd February 2011
Mark Olson : The Salvation Blues
DIV014LP
Album Information
180g Single LP : Gatefold Sleeve
Eleanor McEvoy : Love Must Be Tough
DIV012LP
Album Information
180g Single LP
Dolly Varden : The Dumbest Magnets
DIV007LP
Album Information
180g Single LP : Gatefold Sleeve
2 Comments
Can you reveal what source you’re using for this reissue, and will it sound better than the original Creation pressing?
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.