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Sebadoh<\/a> have lined up an expanded reissue of Harmacy<\/em>, making the 1996 album internationally available after a period out of print. Sub Pop<\/a> will release the new edition in 2xLP and 2xCD formats, as well as digitally, on November 20. Appended to the record are 16 rarities, including five previously unreleased takes. Check out one of them, an alternate version of \u201cBeauty of the Ride,\u201d below, along with the Harmacy<\/em> (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition)<\/em> tracklist.<\/p>\n The remaining rarities comprise alternate versions of three songs, an acoustic demo of \u201cOpen Ended,\u201d\u00a0the B-side \u201cReal Deal,\u201d and a number of live recordings, including the band\u2019s BBC sessions from the period. JJ Golden at Golden Mastering retouched and remastered the album.<\/p>\n Harmacy<\/em> was a minor commercial breakthrough for Sebadoh, though Lou Barlow has not always been enthused about its reissue. \u201cI don\u2019t know how we could improve upon it unless we included the B-sides from that time,\u201d he told Stereogum<\/a>\u2019s T. Cole Rachel in 2012, when copies of the album were easier to track down. Barlow added that the record \u201cwas a real heartbreaker. It was meant to be the triumphant follow-up to Bakesale<\/em><\/a>, but in reality Sub Pop put an enormous amount of money into that record and they put us in a studio and immediately the guy we were working with was like, \u2018You\u2019ve got to fire your drummer.\u2019 And I was just like, \u2018Oh fuck.\u2019 He was telling us that the songs would never really explode unless we got a different drummer, which put us in the position of making this really difficult decision which, of course, we didn\u2019t make.\u201d<\/p>\n