- First time on vinyl

- Pressed on 180-gram vinyl

- Remastered from the original tapes by Pete Weiss

- Housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket and featuring art direction

and design by Darryl Norsen

- 20-page booklet featuring lyrics, unseen photos, ephemera

and artwork by Mark Sandman, along with new liner notes by

Ryan H. Walsh

- available on two special color vinyl editions: Opaque Blue

Wax & Translucent Red Wax

// Modern Classic Recordings, an imprint of Light in the Attic

Records, proudly announces the deluxe vinyl reissue of Morphine's

1997 album Like Swimming, marking the very first availability of

the title on wax. Formed in 1989, Morphine quickly gained a name

for themselves in Boston's underground scene, thanks to their

unconventional instrumentation, their clever, offbeat lyricism, and

their utterly unique sound. Named for Morpheus, the Greek God of

Dreams, the trio (singer, songwriter, and bassist Mark Sandman,

saxophonist Dana Colley, and drummer Jerome Deupree)

delivered a mesmerizing blend of tonalities that were moody, yet

seductive: Sandman's intriguing baritone vocals and a two-string

slide bass guitar (initially outfitted with just one string), Colley's

baritone sax (he was known to play two horns at the same time),

and the vibrant percussion of original drummer Deupree and then

Billy Conway, who frequently stepped in as drummer. When it

came to classifying Morphine's music, critics were at a loss. Was it

jazz? Blues? Alt-rock? Beat poetry? To avoid the inevitable

pigeonholing