Viva Voce to re-release dual-CD set

So let's say you're cruising the local record shop, looking for a few albums. You've prepared to be there: thick-framed Rivers Cuomo eyewear? Check. Plaid cowboy shirt with pearl snaps? Check. Holding a vinyl copy of Ege Bamyasi under your arm to show you "know" music? Check.

Now, you just need to pick up the second and third Viva Voce albums you've wanted but never got your hands on, Lovers, Lead the Way! and The Heat Can Melt Your Brain. You ask the unkempt guy behind the counter, who you assume is an employee, where these albums are. Out of print, he says? But how could this be? You sulk all the way home.

Long-winded scenarios aside, fret not, oh depressed one! The two musicians that became lovers that became partners that became a band plan to re-release the aforementioned albums (which were originally released in 2003 and 2004 respectively) on their label, Amore!Phonics. Along with additional live tracks, demos and remixes, previously unreleased material will be added to each of the new-to-you LPs. Here are the new tracklists:

Lovers, Lead the Way!
1. Fashionably Lonely
2. One in Every Crowd
3. Red D-lish
4. Wrecking Ball
5. That's Right,...Watch Out!
6. Birds On the Wing
7. N Luv w/ U
8. Brightest Part of Everyone
9. Yr Epic Heart
10. Best Thing Ever (Maybe Not)
11. The Tiger and How We Tamed It
12. Perpetual No
13. Salsalito
14. Someplace Worth Being
15. Let's Bend Light

The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
1. Alive with Pressure
2. Lesson No. 1
3. Business Casual
4. The Lucky Ones
5. High Highs
6. Daylight
7. The Center of the Universe
8. Free Nude Celebs
9. Mixtape = Love
10. They Never Really Wake Up

Bonus Tracks:
Paper Doll (unreleased)
Wrecking Ball (Tunng remix)
Lesson No. 1 (original demo)
Red D-lish (live)
Fashionably Lonely (live)
Wrecking Ball (live)
Doo-wap Death Trap (unreleased)
Tonight You Belong to Me (live)

Here are Viva Voce's remaining tour dates for the year, opening for Jimmy Eat World:

October
26 - Atlanta, Ga. @ Center Stage
27 - Myrtle Beach, N.C. @ House of Blues
28 - Raleigh, N.C. @ Disco Rodeo
29 - Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club

November
6 - New Brunswick, N.J. @ State Theater NJ
9 - New York, N.Y. @ Terminal 5
15 - Chicago, Ill. @ Riviera Theater
16 - Champaign, Ill. @ Assembly Hall - University of Illinois
17 - Omaha, Neb. @ Kiewit Fitness Center

Related links:
VivaVoce.com
Viva Voce on MySpace
Barsuk Records

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