Forty-five years on, Tuxedomoon’s Desire still feels like a transmission from a parallel era; an album that bent the rules of form and mood with an ease that startled even its contemporaries. Today, Crammed Discs marks the occasion with a newly remastered anniversary edition of the band’s pivotal 1981 creation, expanding the original with unearthed recordings, rare cuts, live takes, personal recollections, and a trove of photographs pulled straight from the group’s archives.
Released across vinyl, CD, and digital formats, the expanded edition was remastered from the original tapes and features three previously unheard tracks, two seldom-seen additions, and several vivid live versions. Steven Brown, Gareth Jones, and John Foxx contribute fresh liner notes, joined by writings from Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle (2015), anchoring the release in the group’s lived history as much as its restless inventiveness.
Desire caught Tuxedomoon mid-migration, written in the last gasps of their San Francisco years, recorded in the UK, and issued on Ralph Records before its later home on CramBoy. The album’s mood remains unmistakable: cabaret noir colliding with experimental electronics, jazz phrasing brushing past minimal forms, and a strange romantic charge humming at the center of it all. Decades later, its influence still cuts deep across fields that rarely touch, from rock’s outer fringes to avant-electronic exploration.
The 45th Anniversary Edition of Desire is out now on Double LP and CD. Order Here
Across sixteen albums, and with a new one underway, Tuxedomoon’s catalogue stands apart through instinct alone. No stylistic allegiance, no fixed map, just a wild devotion to lively ideas.
That same creative current is found with the solo work of the group’s co-founder, Steven Brown, who steps forward again with a new album, In This Very World, arriving February 20, 2026, via Crammed Discs.
The album’s first single, Pyramides, leads the way: an experimental piece shaped by Brown’s current life in Oaxaca, recorded with the city’s pulse as its quiet backdrop. Stripped down yet vivid, the track folds in fragments from a documentary on Monte Albán, turning them into a drifting, otherworldly tableau; an invitation into the landscape that now surrounds him.
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