Clip drops head of In Utero‘s 30th anniversary celebration
Geffen/UMe celebrates the forthcoming release of Nirvana’s In Utero multi-format reissues with a quasi-psychedelic visualizer for the newly remastered track “Dumb.” The clip was directed and created by RuffMercy from hand-painted Super-8 mm film.
In September, “Pennyroyal Tea (Live in Los Angeles)” and “Scentless Apprentice (Live in Seattle)” were released as digital singles. These live renditions of In Utero classics are the first of 53 previously unreleased tracks included in the three Super Deluxe editions of the In Utero 30th anniversary multi-format reissues arriving on October 27th. Configurations include a limited edition 8 LP Super Deluxe box set, 5 CD Super Deluxe box set, single LP with 10-inch edition, 2 CD Deluxe edition, and a Digital Super Deluxe edition.
The three Super Deluxe Edition releases comprise a total of 72 tracks with 53 previously unreleased tracks. Among the unreleased material, two full In Utero-era concerts, namely Live In Los Angeles (1993) and the band’s final Seattle performance, Live In Seattle (1994), are included in addition to six bonus live tracks from Rome, Springfield, and New York. Seattle producer and engineer Jack Endino—who helmed the band’s 1988 debut Bleach—reconstructed the live tracks from stereo soundboard tapes for this year’s reissue. Additionally, In Utero’s original twelve songs, along with five bonus tracks and B-sides, have been newly remastered from the original analog master stereo tapes by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Services—who assisted Albini as the only other engineer at the original sessions.
The physical Super Deluxe Edition box sets also boast a removable front-cover acrylic panel with the album’s iconic Angel; a 48-page hardcover book with unreleased photos; a 20-page newly designed fanzine; a Los Angeles tour poster lithograph by hot rod artist Coop; replicas of the 1993 record store promo Angel mobile, three gig fliers, two ticket stubs for Los Angeles and Seattle, an All-Access tour laminate, and four cloth sticky tour backstage passes: Press, Photo, After Show, and Local Crew.
Originally released September 21, 1993, In Utero was Nirvana’s third and final studio album, its first No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, and has since been certified 6x platinum in the United States.
