The August 2nd 2017 installment of Cherry Red Records' Residents email newsletter was sent to subscribers with the subject line "The Residents announce 80 Aching Orphans – 45 Years Of The Residents: 4CD Anthology Book Set 👀🎩".
The below text has been transcribed from a copy of the original newsletter kept in the personal archives of a Mysterious Spanish Lady.
The newsletter
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'80 Aching Orphans' – a new 4CD Residents anthology - released October 13th
A brand new, hard-backed book package featuring – you guessed it – eighty tracks hand-picked by The Residents and those who love them. The most comprehensive, career-spanning compilation of the Eyeball Oddballs ever conceived, covering over forty five years of singles, album highlights, fan favourites, live renditions and obscurities. A hardback book package, featuring page after page of Residents imagery old and new, track-by-track sleevenotes and an introduction from Mr Homer Flynn of The Cryptic Corporation (he's still around). We'll have a very limited supply of 100 copies SIGNED by The Residents and available exclusively from our own webstore - you can grab one of these extremely artefactual artefacts right here:smarturl.it/80AchingOrphans
Otherwise available at all good record stores, online and everywhere in-between...
Announcing ‘The Residents….. pREServed?!’
A brand new Residents reissue series digging deeper than anybody dared dig before…… 2CD sets showcasing the albums, singles, b-sides, related odds and ends, live evolutions, outtakes, never-before-heard material and anything else that puts itself in our path. Beginning at the beginning, with ‘Meet The Residents’ in late 2017…..
"Following the recent acquisition of over one hundred boxes packed full of their own, long-forgotten pasts, The Residents have been spending their summer exhuming their own archive. In the process, countless reels of tape containing long-forgotten and unreleased artefacts The Residents consider worthy of preservation have come to light and, as we speak, are being treated to ancient analogue restoration processes in the depths of Inuit country. What they contain, nobody really knows, but if the handwritten notes and semi-legible scrawls accompanying each tape are to be believed, treasures abound."
Watch this space and bug your local Rez retailer.
Coming Soon - Mailing List Vinyl Exclusives!
For years they’ve asked for it, and now they can have it. Over the coming months we’ll be announcing a number of never-before-on-vinyl releases, available in advance and with exclusive, artwork collectables directly by mail order. Rumours persist of a double LP ‘Gingerbread Man’ set, or why not a triple LP ‘Bad Day’ bonanza?! Tell your friends, tell them to tell their friends, and tell those friends of friends to tell their friends. These will be limited and must-have! Expect an offer or two to fall gently onto your digital doormat sometime in August.
