This Super Deluxe Edition is destined to celebrate the album's twentieth anniversary and naturally it is stuffed with bonus tracks and rarities.
In its romantic postures, Urban Hymns is an almost peerless dandy of an album, which ages with grace and ease. And there are certainly plenty of solid themes and strong melodies ( Sonnet, The Drugs Don’t Work, Lucky Man…). There is something in Ashcroft's voice that hypnotises the ear from start to finish on this record. Everything is judged tastefully in the third album from the then-seven-years-old Wigan band. But this is sophisticated pop, finely gilded with divine arrangements. It's all there, in the compelling single Bittersweet Symphony and its equally compelling string sample from a version of the Rolling Stones' The Last Time! A refined approach to music which never stopped Richard Ashcroft's band from making real pop. With Urban Hymns, which came out in September 1997 at the height of the Britpop era, The Verve brought luxury, elegance and sophistication. There is also a download card entitling the purchaser to all of the audio and the further music included on the 5CD + DVD Box Set edition.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. The box also comes with a 20-page booklet book including a selection of unseen photographs by Chris Floyd, who travelled with the band and was granted unprecedented backstage and offstage access. Re-mastering was undertaken by original co-producer Chris Potter and the original album, spread over two vinyl discs, comes supplemented by a double album of B-sides and sessions, plus a further double set containing the previously unreleased concert at Haigh Hall. Now, exactly twenty years on, comes this 3 double-LP box set version of ‘Urban Hymns’ containing a host of special features. Eleven times platinum in the UK and with ten million copies sold worldwide to date, it also delivered four of the era’s most iconic tracks – ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’, ‘Lucky Man’ and ‘Sonnet’. Expertly catching the mood of the late-‘90s upon its release in September 1997, The Verve’s third studio outing went on to become one of the all-time classic British albums.
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