Bombay Bicycle Club Reissue ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’
The London band’s fourth album, released in February 2014, became their first-ever UK No. 1.
Bombay Bicycle Club has announced a 10th-anniversary vinyl reissue of their fourth album, So Long, See You Tomorrow.
Released in February 2014, the record would become the band’s first-ever UK No. 1 album. So Long, See You Tomorrow is named after a William Maxwell novel. The album was heavily influenced by a peripatetic few years in lead songwriter Jack Steadman’s life, when he spent time in India, Japan, and Turkey. The recording process, supported by mixing engineer Mark Rankin, resulted in a record more steeped in electronica than Bombay Bicycle Club’s previous three releases.
To celebrate the milestone, UMR and Island are releasing the record on Zoetrope vinyl. Featuring original artwork, the new edition includes classic tracks like “Luna,” Carry Me,” Feel,” and “Home By Now.”
“We were probably, at least from our generation, one of the earliest genre-less bands,” guitarist Jamie McColl told The Independent in a 2023 interview. “Because we made four albums within five years that are all quite different to one another… we’re not bound down by genre in a way that a lot of our contemporaries were.”
Earlier this year, the group performed their biggest headlining show ever—a hometown performance at London’s Alexandra Palace on July 12th. The show made Bombay Bicycle Club the first ever group to perform live at all three of the sprawling complex’s stages: the Theatre, the Great Hall, and the Park. Next summer, they’re also set to support The Maccabees at a large-scale reunion gig at Victoria Park, which will also feature Dry Cleaning and Nilüfer Yanya.
