…’Placebo RE:CREATED’ is a definitive celebration of the 30th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album. Conceived as a “director’s cut,” this project sees the band revisiting their original master tapes through the lens of three decades of live performance.
…The London-based three-piece, led by Brian Molko, caused a stir in the mid-’90s with a couple of singles on indies (‘Bruise Pristine’ on a Fierce Panda split 7” and ‘Come Home’ on Deceptive) before signing to Virgin subsidiary Hut. Placebo’s glammed-up image, post-grunge riffs and Molko’s distinctive vocals (not to mention the singer’s talent for promotion) quickly earnt them a besotted fanbase and in 1997 they broke through, with the spikey and sassy ‘Nancy Boy’…

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