Interscope Vinyl Collective celebrates Hole’s ‘Celebrity Skin’

The latest release of the Interscope Vinyl Collective is Hole’s Celebrity Skin. The IVC edition marks the 1998 record’s first 2LP gatefold release and features exclusive alternate cover art and a lithograph of the original artwork.

The release features the original tracklist as well as the bonus track “Best Sunday Dress.” There is also a bonus 12” x 24” fold-out poster. The Celebrity Skin reissue was produced by Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson. It was mastered for vinyl and lacquers were cut by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering. The IVC edition of Celebrity Skin is limited to 3,000 individually numbered copies globally. Existing IVC subscribers are guaranteed to receive this title and will have first access to shop past titles if and when reserves are released. Subscribers also receive free shipping and no additional subscription fees.

Hole’s third album diverged from their previous sound of noise and grunge. Instead, it channeled the gloss of Los Angeles. “I wanted to marry great hooks with a dense vision,” the band’s frontwoman Courtney Love said at the time. “I want to be as perverse as I’d like to be — while making you hum along with it.” The lyrics were inspired, in part, by T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan co-wrote five songs, including the blistering title track, while Go-Go’s guitarist Charlotte Caffey helped with “Reasons to Be Beautiful.” The album would become Hole’s most commercially successful record and it peaked at number nine on the US Billboard 200.

Celebrity Skin has proven to be a prophetic and timeless record. “Given the fires in Los Angeles in January, there’s an uncanny correlation with the apocalyptic version of the California dream we were going for in Celebrity Skin,” says Erlandson. “Yet, it also included the idea of rebirth, regeneration, revival…which perhaps is a helpful message for these times.”

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