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1.	Heartcheat Pop 03:53	buy track
2.	Days in the Trees – US remix 07:11	buy track
3.	Drink Judas 03:43	buy track
4.	Heartcheat Motel 04:39	buy track
5.	Kiss Me Stupid 04:43	buy track
6.	Colours 04:10	buy track
7.	Iris Murdoch Cut Me Up 05:20	buy track
8.	Days in the Trees – Reich 02:34	buy track
9.	Days in the Trees – Ives 03:16	buy track
10.	Days in the Trees – Bartok 06:16	buy track
11.	Walker 03:24	buy track
12.	Road 03:15	buy track
13.	Loveblow: Only Baby 05:10	buy track
14.	Only Baby (Breathe for Me) 04:32	buy track
15.	Housekeeping: Sweetheart Raw 11:35	buy track
16.	Lovecry 04:52	buy track
17.	Tulip 04:05	buy track
18.	Break Heaven 04:55	buy track
19.	Beautiful and Cruel 04:50	buy track
20.	Painting Paradise 07:31	buy track
21.	Heaven’s Break 04:00	buy track
22.	Taking It Like a Man 07:41	buy track
23.	Babyship Blue 04:59	buy track
24.	Tulip – unedited master 06:51	buy track
25.	Ocean Song 03:13	buy track
26.	Back to the Burning Shed 02:47	buy track
27.	Swirl 08:32	buy track
28.	Sweetheart Raw – full length version 09:16	buy track
29.	Bleed 06:53	buy track
30.	Only Baby – Be for Me 03:49	buy track
31.	Long Day Fall 05:21	buy track
32.	Painting Paradise – single re-recording 03:55	buy track
33.	Heaven Taste 22:30	buy track
34.	Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap 10:31	buy track
35.	You Grow More Beautiful 05:25	buy track
36.	Animal Ghost 06:09	buy track
37.	Soft Shoulders 03:53	buy track
38.	Shell of a Fighter 07:50	buy track
39.	Teardrop Fall 04:37	buy track
40.	Watching Over Me 04:44	buy track
41.	Simple 07:02	buy track
42.	Things Change 07:31	buy track
43.	Break Heaven – Nicky Campbell session 04:53	buy track
44.	Heartcheat Pop – Nicky Campbell session 04:06	buy track
45.	Housekeeping – Nicky Campbell session 05:10	buy track
46.	Ocean Song – Hit the North session 04:43	buy track
47.	Days in the Trees – Hit the North session 06:21	buy track
48.	Taking It Like a Man – Hit the North session 06:08	buy track
49.	Lovecry – GLR session 04:23	buy track
50.	Days in the Trees – GLR session 04:28	buy track
51.	Sweetheart Raw – The Way Out session 07:02	buy track
52.	Teardrop Fall – acoustic session 02:57	buy track
53.	Watching Over Me – acoustic session 03:31	buy track
54.	Shell of a Fighter – acoustic session 03:21	buy track
55.	You Grow More Beautiful – acoustic session 03:27	buy track

about

Somewhere (somehow) between the feverish grooves of Madchester and the anthemic charge of the Britpop brigade, musically eclectic mavericks No-Man made a small mark on the early 1990s UK Independent music scene.

The band released two albums and series of singles on the influential OLI label (Björk, The Shamen etc), which generated rave reviews (Singles Of The Week in Melody Maker, Sounds, and Hot Press) and radio/TV play aplenty (BBC Radio One sessions/playlist, appearances on MTV, Channel Four and ITV1).

‘Housekeeping’ is a comprehensive remastered collection of No-Man’s output for the OLI label between 1990-1994.

Featuring the band's first two albums ‘Loveblows & Lovecries’ (1993) and ‘Flowermouth’ (1994), along with the singles compilation ‘Lovesighs’ (1992), the deluxe 5CD bookset also contains outtakes, alternate versions and the band’s sessions for BBC Radio from the period (which reveal a very different, more visceral, side to the band).

Formed by Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson, the band also included violinist Ben Coleman and the albums featured notable appearances by Mick Karn and Steve Jansen (Japan), Robert Fripp, Ian Carr, Lisa Gerard (Dead Can Dance), and soon to be Porcupine Tree members Richard Barbieri, Chris Maitland and Colin Edwin.

Containing driving electronic pop music, epic ambient rock suites and emotive groove-enhanced ballads, ‘Housekeeping’ is a lovingly compiled tribute to the creative anomaly that is (and was) No-Man. Designed by Carl Glover, the hardback book includes essays by Matt Hammers (author of No-Man blog, All The Blue Changes), Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson, alongside rare photos and memorabilia.

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released January 31, 2024

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