INSPIRAL CARPETS: "COOL AS"
RELEASE DATE: out now

The Inspiral Carpets have released a deluxe three CD package, "Cool As", containing two audio CDs and a DVD on the respected Mute Label.

The album coincided with a tour featuring the definitive band line-up of Tom Hingley/vocals, Clint Boon/keyboards, Craig 'Noddy' Gill/drums, Martyn Walsh/bass and Graham Lambert/guitars.

The "Cool As" package contains a CD of all the band's singles, Including their first two releases (on Playtime and Cow) and the unreleased, new track 'Come Back Tomorrow' while the second CD features the three unreleased tracks, 'Iron', 'I Don't Want To Go Blind' featuring Basil Clark and 'You've Got What It Takes'. CD2 also contains B-Sides, rarities and mixes never before released on CD as well as their take on '96 Tears'; the Northern soul classic 'Tainted Love', most famously recorded by Soft Cell and Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid'. The DVD contains all the Inspiral Carpets' promo videos, live tracks, a new exclusive interview with the band plus hidden extras - all for the first time on DVD.

The Inspiral Carpets' music and spirit epitomised the creativity of the early 90's, and together with the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses brought psychedelic indie-guitar "Madchester" kicking and screaming into the mainstream. The Inspiral's achieved huge success in the 90s, earning.13 Top 40 singles with the likes of 'Joe, 'Dragging Me Down', 'Saturn 5', 'This Is How It Feels' and 'She Comes In The Fall' and four Top 20 albums including "Life" (1990) "The Beast Inside" (1991), "Revenge Of The Goldfish" (1992) and "Devil Hopping.
This is an excellent look back over their career.