Helium Announce Rarities Collection, Vinyl Reissues

Helium, Mary Timony's '90s band, is the subject of a new reissue campaign, coming May 19 via Matador. Two albums, 1995’s The Dirt Of Luck and 1997’s The Magic City, will be reissued, with the latter coming as a double LP with the No Guitars EP. Matador will also release Ends With And, a 19-track double LP containing the Pirate Prude EP, plus rarities, b-sides, and demos. Find the tracklist for Ends With And below, along with the track “Hole in the Ground” from Ends With And and the newly remastered “XXX” video. Timony will also embark on the "Mary Timony Plays Helium" tour in June. Members of the band Hospitality will back her up. Find those dates below as well.

Timony said in a press release:

Compiling Ends With And has been like stumbling upon a long forgotten time capsule and trying to put the pieces in order. I hadn’t heard most of the songs in a very long time. I pored over hours of unlabeled cassette demos, odd test pressings, and DAT tapes.  A few of the live recordings and bonus tracks were hard to find - I knew that they existed but I had lost copies, but luckily a few kind souls had stored tapes in dusty basements and attics in various parts of the country. It’s good to know that these songs will all be in one place now.

Ends With And:

01 Baby Vampire Made Me 
02 XXX 
03 OOO
04 Love $$$ 
05 Lucy 
06 Termite Tree 
07 Hole In The Ground 
08 Magic Box 
09 Superball (Demo) 
10 What Institution Are You From? 
11 Lucky Charm 
12 #12 L’Enfant 
13 I Am A Witch
14 Ghost Car (Demo) 
15 Puffin Stars 
16 Leon’s Space Song (Demo) 
17 The Dragon #1 
18 Fantastic Castle 
19 Golden Bridge (Demo)

Mary Timony Plays Helium:

06-06 Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
06-07 Philadelphia, PA - Boot and Saddle
06-08 Brooklyn, NY - Northside Festival
06-09 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
06-10 Boston, MA - The Sinclair
06-12 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
06-13 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
06-14 Detroit, MI - Marble Bar
06-15 Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle