The Verve - A Northern Soul 2LP (30th Anniversary Brick Red Colour Vinyl) [National Album Day 2025]

Out October 18th

2LP - Limited NAD 2025 30th Anniversary Edition: This pressing, using the acclaimed 2016 remaster, is on brick red vinyl, chosen for its proximity to the colour of the corduroy trousers worn by bassist Jones on the reverse of the sleeve.

Subsumed in myth and hearsay, the backdrop to the making of The Verves second album, issued in July 1995, has been thoroughly documented. It is a matter of record that the turbulent chemistry within the band Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Pete Salisbury - during its making forced the first fracturing of their union shortly after its release, but listening now it is also clear that it is one of the finest rock albums of the era.

As such it is a worthy addition to the UK National Album Day 2025 celebration of the genre; a record of towering musicianship on which four lads from Wigan delivered more than an hour of frequently heavy, brooding and confessional grooves, wit