Grinderman Grinderman 2 RMX 2LP (Eco-Vinyl)

Grinderman 2 RMX is a collection of 12 remixes, re-interpretations and collaborations based on the songs contained in the band's 2010 critically celebrated album Grinderman 2. Released in the spring of 2012, the many outstanding tracks include "Super Heathen Child" – a collaborative version of Grinderman's "Heathen Child," which teams the band up with legendary guitarist Robert Fripp; a remix of "Hyper Worm Tamer" by UNKLE, an exclusive remix of "Bellringer Blues" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' guitarist Nick Zinner; a remix of "Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man" by producer/musician Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age); "When My Baby Comes" by Cat's Eyes (a duo consisting of Horrors' front-man Faris Badwan and soprano Rachel Zeffira); "Evil" reinterpreted by Silver Alert (Grinderman's Jim Sclavunos) and The National's frontman Matt Berninger; and Grinderman's original demo version "First Evil."

This stellar lineup of collaborations and remixes is available on black eco-vinyl 2 LP.

A side project isn't customarily known to overshadow a primary band. With Grinderman, however, Cave rediscovered his dirtier, darker muse and became inspired enough to release two albums that overshadow more recent Bad Seeds offerings. So good was Grinderman's second and (allegedly) final album, Grinderman 2, that not even something as expendable as a remix compilation can sully its artistry. Although not the first artists one would expect to release a remix album, Grinderman 2 RMX encourages the listener to revisit the source material and be pummeled into submission and wowed all over again.

The already scuzz-walled now has Josh Homme, UNKLE and Andrew Weatherall paying respects by making swaggeringly squalor-fuelled intrusions, as if they've cut the breaks on the originals for them to hurtle towards a sticky rockstar end. Barry Adamson offers a more come together joy, with folkish witch-hunting from SixToes doing bleak and scaly from a different direction. A quality accompaniment and memorial.