TISM To Reissue Music On CD & Vinyl (Including A New LP That Is Just 100 Minutes Of Silence)

TISM are back - well, kinda. 

The group have reemerged today announcing that they'll be reissuing their back catalogue on CD and vinyl, in addition to two new releases. 

Along with a statement from founding member Ron Hitler Barassi, dubbed The Right Wing Guide To Pleasuring (which you can read here), the group announced that they'll also be sharing two previously unreleased albums. 

The first, On Behalf Of TISM I Would Like To Concede We Have Lost The Election, is a recording of the band's final show, taken from their performance at Earthcore Festival on 27 November 2004. The live album is 31 tracks and will be available on CD and vinyl. 

The second is The TISM Delux Omni-Album, which "contains 100 minutes of total silence". It's better if TISM just explain it themselves...

"Why pay for multiple TISM albums in vinyl format when you can buy only one? The TISM Omni-Album is an all-purpose album cover containing liner notes, artworks and song listings that are suitable for all six TISM album releases. The Standard Edition Omni-Album has no vinyl at all; but, even better, this Deluxe Version of the TISM Omni-Album comes with an actual vinyl disc, filled with total silence, so as not to detract from the sound quality of the music," said the band. 

"With its lesser dynamic range, worse signal-to-noise ratio, inferior channel separation, variation in playback speed, limited sound capacity, and susceptibility to heat, dust and damage, vinyl is an inexplicably re-emerging gimmick for pox-addled hair-lipped shut-ins who are trying too hard to compensate for their goitered lives. 

"The TISM Deluxe Omni-Album’s disc contains 100 minutes of total silence, allowing you to savour the full vinyl experience: you will extract the soon-to-scratched disc from the soon-to-be bent cover, place it on a revolving turntable powered by latest in 1920’s technology, and then attempt to drop a tiny, fragile and expensive needle onto an inconsistently revolving wax groove. With the TISM Deluxe Omni-Album, all the features of analogue listening are yours: turntable rumble, extraneous cartridge noise, clicks and pops as the stylus hits dust, and, of course, the repetitive insanity of a needle endlessly skipping over the permanently damaged surface. 

"And remember: with the TISM Deluxe Omni-Album’s carefully mastered total silence, you can listen to TISM's music in any non-analogue format you choose. (These formats are available for separate purchase.) The TISM Delux Omni-Album is the ultimate TISM listening experience.

"Even better there is a version with no vinyl at all! Why put up with second best? THE TISM OMNI-ALBUM gives you the vinyl experience, without the crap sound. 

"(The TISM Ultra Deluxe Double Omni-Album – with its two completely silent vinyl discs – has been banned by the Victorian Department of Consumer Affairs because, according to their spokesperson, “surely there’s no deadshit stupid enough to buy it.”)"

Head here to order the new releases.