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Well, this certainly doesn't happen often: a previously-reported expanded edition of U.K. pop group Swing Out Sister's debut LP is undergoing some 11th-hour changes, actually picking up a few bonus tracks for good measure. When it was initially announced, the 25th anniversary edition of It's Better to Travel from Universal's U.K. arm featured the original nine-track LP and 11 bonus tracks over two discs. While there were plenty of B-sides and remixes to go around, many of them were previously
The term "sophisti-pop" may not be used much in rock criticism nowadays, but when they were, it was easy to acknowledge Swing Out Sister as a key artist of the movement. The Manchester-bred band stood head and shoulders above many of their keyboard-oriented contemporaries in mid-'80s England for mixing jazzy horn sections and lush synth-strings into their upbeat, snappy tunes. And this summer, the band's original label, Mercury Records, is commemorating the band's quarter-century mark with an