Hüsker Dü - Everything Falls Apart (1983, Remastered 2017)

The reissue record label Numero Group has digitally released a newly remastered edition of an album by local punk/alternative rock legends Hüsker Dü. The album in question is Everything Falls Apart, Hüsker Dü’s debut studio album which was originally released in 1983. The release comes as yet another teaser for a much larger Hüsker Dü project Numero Group is suspected to be working on.

The Chicago-based, archival record label got its start in 2003 with a specific mission in mind. The label strives to research, preserve, and restore obscure recordings and ephemera, especially ones that only received minimal commercial success. Numero Group has released several genre-specific series — such as Eccentric Soul, a collection of recovered soul labels. Their 2013 compilation Purple Snow, along with Secret Stash’s Twin Cities Funk & Soul, helped inspire a new surge of interest in local soul and R&B from the 1960s and ’70s.

For a while now, Numero Group has been dropping hints about an extensive Hüsker Dü project the label claims to be working on. The label released a reissue of Hüsker Dü’s debut single, “Statues,” in 2013 as a Record Store Day limited-edition release, but up until now hadn’t gone any further with the the band’s catalog. The first mention of this new project reportedly happened in September 2016 when the label tweeted a picture of what looks like a Hüsker Dü demo tape with the caption, “Seven years in the making. It begins.”