Blitzen Trapper Announces Deluxe Edition For Furr For September 2018 Release And Releases New Single “Booksmart Baby”

Blitzen Trapper’s Furr: Deluxe Edition will release worldwide for purchase on September 14th. The original version of Furr was the group’s breakthrough and label debut for Sub Pop in 2008. The album was met with universal acclaim, going on to earn the no. 13 spot on Rolling Stone’s “50 Best Albums of 2008,” later that year.

The expanded deluxe edition of Furr encases two LPs worth of material, including the original album and twelve rare and previously unreleased tunes. The reissue also features updated cover art, track by track descriptions of the bonus songs, and a Q&A with Blitzen Trapper fan, Rainn Wilson (of The Office, Six Feet Under and The Blitzen Trapper Massacre fame).  The deluxe edition also includes the rare track “Booksmart Baby.” The song was the B-side of the limited edition “War Is Placebo” Record Store Day single, originally released in 2009.

“One of those weird haunting songs I wrote in the middle of the night in the telegraph building on the poppy couch, those lyrics are some kind of riddle I think,” front man Eric Early said of the song.

Blitzen Trapper are supporting the release of Furr: Deluxe Edition with fall North American tour, beginning September 14th at Victoria’s Rifflandia Festival. The band will be playing Furr in its entirety, followed by set of fan favorites from throughout the band’s discography.  The latest information on tickets can be found on the band’s official website.

Furr: Deluxe Edition is available for pre-order here.

Listen to “Booksmart Baby” here:

The album cover art and tracklist are below.

Blitzen Trapper
Furr: Deluxe Edition
Tracklisting

1. Sleepytime in the Western World
2. Gold for Bread
3. Furr
4. God & Suicide
5. Fire & Fast Bullets
6. Saturday Nite
7. Black River Killer
8. Not Your Lover
9. Love U
10. War on Machines
11. Stolen Shoes & a Rifle
12. Echo/Always On/Easy Con
13. Lady on the Water
14. War Is Placebo **
15. Simple Tree *
16. Booksmart Baby **
17. Heroes of Doubt *
18. Maybe Baby ^
19. Ballad of Bird Love *
20. Hard Heart *
21. Other People’s Money *
22. On My Way to the Bay *
23. Rent-a-Cop *
24. God & Suicide (Live at KCRW)
25. Furr (Live at KCRW)

* = Previously unreleased
** = 2009 Record Store Day single
^ = 2011 Record Store Day single A-side