20th Anniversary 180g Vinyl 2LP Reissue Remastered from New Transfers of the Original 4-Track Tapes by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road and Manufactured by MPO

Mercury prize winning, British band Gomez present a 20th anniversary reissue of their triumphant second album Liquid Skin. The 180g vinyl 2LP-set features the original album remastered from new transfers of the original 4-track tapes by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road and was manufactured by MPO. Surrounded by instruments, broken toys and a four-track recorder, Gomez recorded large parts of their debut album Bring It On in a garage in their hometown of Southport. To create its follow-up, Liquid Skin, the group would expand their horizons sonically and geographically, visiting America, an ill-fated English stately home and some of the finest recording studios in the world between 1998 and 1999.

There was no pause between Bring It On and Liquid Skin – the records were released just 518 days apart. "The first album and this one merge into one in a lot of ways. A lot of the tracks were written at the same time," explains singer/guitarist Ben Ottowell. "There's a song called "Bring It On" on Liquid Skin, which says it all really. They were made very closely together, so it seemed like part of the same process. We were constantly making records." As a result, writing and recording for Gomez's second album did not so much have a definitive start but instead it emerged out of the same creative energy as their debut, although it soon took its own distinctive path.

Drummer Olly Peakcock comments: "Liquid Skin was the step from the four track and recording in a garage to us accepting – in the most ridiculous way – that we were now doing music professionally. 'Oh shit we somehow got our record deal, we are a band and we go to the studio now. We're not going to be hacking it all together.' There was an excitement because there were less limitations." "We were just using things we had access to...and for this album we had access to an orchestra! We just had a broader palette and we were getting more confident," adds Ottowell.

Climbing to No. 2 in the UK Album Chart on its release in September 1999, Liquid Skin not only justified the label's faith to allow the band to work how and where they wanted, but it saw the British band crystallize their unique sound and grow audiences in America, Australia and other parts of the world, confirming that their Mercury Prize-winning debut was indeed no fluke.