Reincarnated INCA BABIES head to the Candy Mountain

MANCHESTER’s post-punk outfit INCA BABIES announce the release of a reworked ‘Candy Mountain,’ the opening track from November’s ‘Reincarnation’ album (via Black Lagoon Records) and originally included on the 1986 ‘This Train’ long-player.

Disbanding having recorded four sessions for John Peel’s BBC show, the Incas reformed in 2007 and now line up as the classic four-piece led by Harry Stafford (guitar/keys/vocs), joined by Jim Adama (guitar), Dave Carmichael (bass), and Rob Haynes (drums/percussion).

Directed by Stafford, the ‘Candy Mountain’ video was filmed in Manchester, Bala, North Wales, and the Bwlch Mountain pass in Gwynedd.

‘Reincarnation’ is a collection of re-invented Inca Babies tracks, mixed and recorded at 6Db Studios in Salford by Stafford and Simon ‘Ding’ Archer (The Fall, PJ Harvey), and mastered by Marco Butcher at Boombox Studio, North Carolina.

“Looking through our back catalogue, it occurred to me that there were tracks that should again be made available in some manner and others that would benefit from reinvention,” said Stafford. Last year’s ‘Ghost Mechanic Nine’ album was an opportunity to create new music for our fans, who would like this music in the form of digital downloads and, for the truly hardcore, as a 12” vinyl album.

“But it was also a realisation that we could invigorate old tunes. We already had a ‘best of’ compilation in ‘Plutonium’ released in 2006, so we embarked upon a new quest, to inject new life into our favourite back catalogue. This whole project was to be an innovative re-imagining of old tunes, re-invented for contemporary consideration.”

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