HOLE - CELEBRITY SKIN - 2LP 180g VINYL (IVC LIMITED EDITION x/3000) PREORDER
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HOLE – “CELEBRITY SKIN” IVC EDITION
Ships from IVC on or before September 26, 2025. EXPECT EARLY OCTOBER SHIPPING TO AUCTION WINNER.
2LP Gatefold for the First Time
Exclusive Alternate Cover Art + Litho of Original Cover Art
Features the Album’s Original Track Sequence + Bonus Track “Best Sunday Dress”
Includes Bonus 12” x 24” Fold-Out Poster
Pressed on 180G Black Vinyl at RTI
Mastered for Vinyl and Lacquers Cut by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering
Strictly Limited to 3,000 Copies Globally
Individually Numbered
Reissue Produced by Eric Erlandson
Like the California the band dissects, Hole’s critically lauded third album drips with unbridled decadence and glossy shine. “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."
Inspired, in part, by T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” the band mostly scrap the noisy antagonism of past albums in favor of songs that Rolling Stone described as “accessible, fiery and intimate — often at the same time.” 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 1998 album would prove to be both prophetic and timeless in its message. “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 guitarist Eric Erlandson. "Yet, it also included the idea of rebirth, regeneration, revival…which perhaps is a helpful message for these times.”
“Hole act as though making big radio-ready hits smart now equals pure punk rock,” Rolling Stone wrote at the time. “Celebrity Skin is all minimalist explosion, idiomatic flair and dead-on rhythms.” Or as NME put in in simpler terms, “You may never need to hear a rock & roll record ever again."
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