The American Analog Set - Know by Heart [Deluxe Reissue] (2014)

Austin's American Analog Set have had their 2001 outing Know By Heart out of print for a number of years, but anyone who missed out on the vinyl pressing the first time around won't have to hunt down a used copy on Discogs for much longer. A new vinyl reissue is due through Barsuk Records this June.

Previously issued by now-shuttered Tiger Style imprint, the Barsuk version of Know By Heart — the ensemble's fourth and arguably finest full-length — will be served up on 180-gram wax, with a gatefold jacket flaunting previously unseen, era-appropriate photos and liner notes.

As for the music, the physical record contains the album proper, but a download code will give listeners an additional 21 previously unreleased demo recordings tracked during the Know By Heart sessions. As you will see in the tracklist below, three tracks have not appeared in any other form or on any other release.

Recorded between the Austin homes of frontman Andrew Kenny and Tom Hoff, Know By Heart has become a fan favourite over the years, with devotees including Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Death Cab for Cutie leader Ben Gibbard, who covered the set's "Choir Vandals" for his HOME: Volume V split EP with Kenny in 2003. Arts & Crafts also went on to issue American Analog Set's swan song, 2005's Set Free.

"Know By Heart is a criminally underappreciated indie rock classic of the last decade," Gibbard said in a statement, adding, "Death Cab would not be where we are today without the influence of this great Austin band."