Bananarama have released the deluxe edition of their 12th studio album ‘Masquerade’.
Originally released last summer in celebration of the duo’s 40th anniversary, the 11-track LP features the singles Masquerade, Forever Young and Running With The Night.
Coinciding with the one year anniversary of its announcement, the ‘Unmasked Edition’ of the record includes a bonus EP, featuring remixes of the singles along with Favourite, Stay Wild and Velvet Lies.
The new mixes come courtesy of Shanghai Surprise, Cahill, Almighty, Lamentis, Sebastian Perez and Until Dawn.
Listen to ‘Masquerade – The Unmasked Edition’ below.
‘Masquerade – The Unmasked Edition’ is also available on 2LP pink vinyl.
Upon its release, ‘Masquerade’ gave Bananarama their highest-charting album in 40 years and speaking in an exclusive RETROPOP cover feature, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward opened up about how their approach to releasing music has changed over the past decade as they celebrate their latest milestone as independent artists.
“It has been such a turnaround for us – which we only really discovered in 2019 after not doing an album for 10 years,” said Keren. “You just sort of think, ‘Oh my God, you can do it yourself and have complete control,’ which is obviously something that we’ve always hankered after.”
She explained: “Most of our albums and most of our career has been mostly under our control, but there’s always stuff you have to give away to someone else because they’re the people with the money and pulling the strings.
“But, you know, for us now, it just seems to sit so well with us. We choose exactly what we do and when we do it.”
In a review of the album, RETROPOP said: “Four decades into their career, Bananarama have delivered one of their strongest albums yet and, if ‘Masquerade’ is anything to go by, they have plenty more music left in them.”
