Released to coincide with the group's 25th anniversary, the double-disc
Rockers
finds
Lords of the New Church
co-founder
Brian James
back in front of the board "re-mixing, re-imagining and re-working" ten cuts from the seminal
post-punk
outfit's first three records,
,
Is Nothing Sacred?
, and
Method to Our Madness
-- the second disc features nine live cuts from a 1982 concert. Despite the skepticism fans may feel toward the "re-imagining" portion of the above quote,
James
does little to alter the feel of the originals. While purists may scoff at the very idea of messing with anything that relies on the caterwauls of deceased
punk
icon
Stiv Bators
remains a decent entry point for those who are unwilling to pick up the original recordings. ~ James Christopher Monger