Cult favourites Ultrasound share cut from renowned 1998 Glastonbury performance

Ultrasound   Deluxe reissue album ‘Everything Picture’ released September 24th via One Little Independent Records   Stream single ‘Stay Young (Live At Glastonbury Festival ‘98)’   Smartlink Spotify Soundcloud

“*The* greatest album of the nineties – a bombastic post-prog double LP of magnificently overreaching proportions and ambitions” – NME   “All the force of Definitely Maybe, all the smeared eyeliner of Generation Terrorists, a lot of the grandeur of Dog Man Star, and all the vulnerability of... well, no one was really doing vulnerable, but it had vulnerability too” – Drowned In Sound   On September 24th Ultrasound will reissue their ambitious debut album ‘Everything Picture’ via One Little Independent Records. The boxset will feature ‘Everything Picture’ the double album, an extra two records featuring a variety of B-sides and singles and a CD of live and session tracks. As well, a 26-page booklet and poster will be included.   Ahead of release the band have shared their live version of ‘Stay Young’ originally recorded at their renowned Glastonbury performance on June 26th 1998, during a torrential downpour. Frontman Andrew “Tiny” Wood recalls; “The whole place was a mud bath but spirits weren't at all dampened as the audience made a mud slide through the crowd and a feeling of elated celebration spread like wildfire around the ground as our sound burst into the skies in an attempt to dissipate the clouds. I spat on myself, Vanessa arched her back impossibly and Richard smashed a Rickenbacker guitar and threw it into the audience. This had little to no effect on the weather but a good time was had by all.”   ‘Stay Young’ is included in this deluxe edition alongside further tracks from the set as well as Reading Festival, Manchester Academy, Newcastle and Oxford Sound City.   Forming in 1996, British quartet Ultrasound gained quick notoriety, were eagerly courted by major labels and began making waves with their grandiose glam-meets-prog live performances. In 1999 they released their anticipated, monolithic and wildly creative ‘Everything Picture’ with Nude Records, a feat of considerable scale which may have failed to fulfil expectations they might be the next Oasis but ultimately earned them a dedicated cult following and the long-term critical acclaim they always hoped it would.   “Everything Picture was made with future generations in mind”, continues Wood, “so it is so appropriate that it should be re-issued, in a more complete form, to be discovered and re-discovered in future times. We were aware that the post Britpop present of the early millennium might not "get" it. Many did, and many more grew and developed with it as it grew and developed a life of its own”.   The uncompromising ‘Everything Picture’ soars from cinematic, layered textures to audacious rock n roll, with its raucously distorted guitars that sweep abrasively over anthemic choruses and a kinetic rhythm section. From the scopious opening of ‘Cross My Heart’ that makes the bands intentions perfectly clear from the offset, to the dynamic attack of blistering riffs and euphoric vocal harmonies of ‘Stay Young’, the vice-tight bass and darkly joyous ‘Fame Thing’, the pulsating electronics and searing lead of disc 2 opener ‘Aire & Calder’ and ahead, the LP is a far-reaching onslaught of powerful production, bristling with ideas and invention.   Quickly following the release of ‘Everything Picture’, and amidst a myriad of press attention, the band broke-up. Now, we’re given the opportunity to revisit this semi-forgotten, extensive classic alongside even more of their experimental catalogue.   Bassist Vanessa Best reflects; “Above my fireplace is the last remaining original canvas of the Everything Picture artwork. Painted by us all in Jane Savidge and John Bests (no relation) office in Camden. I have carried it around for nearly 25 years from storage lock up to garage, to every flat I have lived in and now it is in pride of place in my house by the sea. I suppose it is a kind of historical rock and roll cave painting, with pieces of our energy in it. I forgive all of its awkwardness, in favour of celebrating a truly heart stopping, courageous piece of work. Standing tall; exposed, vulnerable, defiant, proud and desperately trying to say… everything. Oh, my aching heart!”   Art credit: Ultrasound & Ellis Parrinder   Track listing   Cross My Heart Same Band Stay Young Suckle Fame Thing Happy Times (Are Coming) Aire & Calder Sentimental Song Floodlit World My Impossible Dream Everything Picture Best Wishes Kurt Russell, Eastwood & Me Black Hole Over There Football Meat I'll Show You Mine One Plus One Lovesick We Will Find Love (Demo) Underwater Love Story Can't Say No Death Of A Drag Racer Valencia Goodbye 25 Everything Picture (Demo) Same Band (Evening Session) Floodlit World (Acoustic) Suckle (Acoustic) Over There (Live At Reading Festival '98) Football Meat (Live At Reading Festival '98) I'll Show You Mine (Live At Manchester Academy '98) Floodlit World (Live At Glastonbury Festival '98) Sentimental Song (Live In Newcastle '98) Suckle (Live At Glastonbury Festival '98) Stay Young (Live At Glastonbury Festival '98) Everything Picture (Live At Oxford Sound City '98)   Follow Ultrasound     Website Twitter Facebook Spotify