Sound of Vinyl

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their first single release with Fierce Panda Records, Brothers & Sisters is now getting a limited edition release on genre stereotype-bashing 7" vinyl: Brother Edition Pink and Sister Edition Blue.

The original ‘Brothers & Sisters’ release was a two-track 7” (‘Brothers & Sisters’ and ‘Easy To Please’) and a three track compact disc single, with ‘Only Superstition’ as the third song. Both limited edition formats sold out immediately, with ‘Brothers & Sisters’ roaring into the charts at number 92. Recording cost a total of £400 over four days, with atmospheric sounds created on 'Easy To Please' by setting up microphones on a wet road outside the studio.

Aside from a version of ‘Brothers & Sisters’ appearing on their ‘Trouble’ single a year later on Parlophone, legend (and the global internet) has it that these three tracks have barely been touched by the hand of Coldplay since released. In which case 7” single aficionados may like to know that this is the first (and quite possibly only) time that ‘Only Superstition’ has ever been, or indeed ever will be, released on vinyl.