Camper Van Beethoven - II & III: 40th Anniversary Edition (Colored Vinyl LP)

Camper Van Beethoven's Second Album II & III: 40th Anniversary Edition on Colored LP.

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“Do not eat or drink anything past midnight prior to your appointment - NO FOOD, NO LIQUID.”

Non-sensical, un-user friendly, at times half finished. Camper Van Beethoven’s second album II & III saw the folk-punk of the band’s debut LP morphing into an even wider array of stylistic influences and (un)ironic contradictions, all rolled up into a coherently incoherent collection of some of the band’s most defining songs.

Originally released in 1986, the follow up to Telephone Free Landslide Victory did much to develop an already iconoclastic Camper Van Beethoven idiom. II & III ranges from alt-country ballads (“Sad Lovers’ Waltz”) to call-backs to the European folk instrumentals of their earlier work (“No Krugerrands For David,” “4 Year Plan”). Also featured is the band’s bluegrass-Americana take on Sonic Youth’s “I Love Her All the Time,” satiating their appetite for cover songs.

This reissue features a newly revisited collage version of the artwork, plus a reproduced 11”x11” insert, designed by Victor Krummenacher using original photos, lithograph prints, lyrics and leaflets.