Robyn Hitchcock to Release 2nd in Series of Career Documenting Box Sets, Out August 19th

The second in a series of Robyn Hitchcock retrospective box sets from Yep Roc, the five-disc Luminous Groove box set shines a light on Robyn's rock & roll renaissance with the Egyptians.

"It's still odd for me to think of the 1980s as being in the past," Robyn Hitchcock says of the latest set. "Back then, they were a baleful future that we refugees from the 1960s were marooned in. I never thought I'd get out alive, from Reagan, Thatcher and shoulder pads. But time wins again."

Studio albums Fegmania! and Element of Light, along with the live album Gotta Let This Hen Out!, document Robyn's post Soft Boys period and largely, his introduction to American audiences. All three albums contain new bonus tracks exclusive to Luminous Groove.

In addition to these three seminal albums, the set also includes two exclusive bonus discs entitled Bad Case of History which features previously unreleased studio recordings, including the final 1994 sessions, and a CD of unheard live material. Just as with Yep Roc's first box set collection I Wanna Go Backwards, the curation of Fegmania!, Element of Light and Gotta Let This Hen Out! into one box set encapsulates a critical portion of the creative life of Britain's Mad Hatter of pop and further illuminates Hitchcock's gloriously mysterious Luminous Groove.

Luminous Groove will also be available as an eight-LP vinyl set.

Box set three containing material from the Soft Boys era of Robyn's career is forthcoming from Yep Roc.