The Dream Academy

Religion, Revolution & Railways (The Complete Recordings) indeed offers everything you could want from The Dream Academy.  In addition to remastered versions of their studio albums for the Blanco y Negro and Warner Bros. labels - The Dream Academy (1985), Remembrance Days (1987) and A Different Kind of Weather (1990) - there's four bonus discs of material: two collections of B-sides and demos, a disc of instrumentals and all the group's 12" mixes. Frontman Nick Laird-Clowes has been intimately involved in the set's creation: not only did he write liner notes for the box and approved the mastering and artwork, but he also helped comb the Warner vault to include more than a dozen unreleased tracks on the bonus disc, diving even further than the double-disc collection The Morning Lasted All Day - A Retrospective, issued nearly a decade ago.