a b Petridis, Alexis (27 June 2014). "The The: Soul Mining reissue review – a brilliant and idiosyncratic pop album". The Guardian. G2 supplement, p. 20 . Retrieved 26 March 2016.

Thomas Leer – synthesisers on "I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life)", "The Twilight Hour" and "Giant" The sleeve features a ‘2 faced’ double cover to mirror the audio content – THE THE’s Andy Dog artwork features on one side, and DJ Food’s illustrative interpretation of the artwork on the other, and a top opening makes this sleeve entirely non-preferential. This record fits snugly inside the Soul Mining 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Boxset to complete the collection. When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. Graphic designer Fiona Skinner, who had become Johnson's girlfriend in 1982, created the bespoke typeface used on Soul Mining. [1] [15] The album and the single "This Is the Day" marked the first appearance of the band's logo, which also used Skinner's font, and which would be used on the majority of the The's subsequent releases.

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Albums to Hear Before You Die – Artists beginning with T". The Guardian. 22 November 2007. p.5 (supplement) . Retrieved 2 January 2012. Throughout May 1983 the The held a weekly residence of concerts at the Marquee club in central London, featuring many of Johnson's musician friends from the British post-punk scene. Johnson used these concerts to decide which musicians he wanted to contribute to the forthcoming the The album. These included Orange Juice drummer Zeke Manyika, do-it-yourself synthesizer pioneer Thomas Leer, and the experimental Australian musician Jim Thirlwell, credited on the album as one of his early aliases "Frank Want", and who would go on to achieve some degree of recognition recording under the name Foetus. [7] MJ: Yeah, I am. In fact I’ve got a load of the tapes in the flat that need baking. I’ve been recommended something called a Dried Fruit Dehydrator that’s supposed to be more effective than the standard equipment. You bake tapes at a low temperature in a convection oven for 24 to 48 hours. These are non-standard solutions to a very new problem. The key thing is to digitize as soon as you’ve got them ready. I’ve got to get my old AKAI and REVOXes serviced and ready to go. I’ve got hundreds of tapes and most of them aren’t marked. What was I thinking? What an idiot. I’m the only person who can do it because I’m the only one who knows what to look for. That’s a process that I’m looking forward to it but it’s so time consuming. The plan is to do a box set. My first actual album was actually a cassette called See Without Being Seen and I do know where that is but it’s so rough. That will be one of those things that I put out without even advertising, purely for the hardcore followers. I was about 16 when I did that album. Pornography Of Despair will be fine. That will sound better than Burning Blue Soul. Spirits I think will sound pretty decent but I have to make sure it sounds good and I’d like to put it out as a nice set with photographs and the history. In retrospect, the eighties have often been greeted with an air of sarcasm. The mainstream audience tends to scoff at anything that was released in the era. However, there has been an apparent increase in the popularity of the fluorescent dance music of the eighties in alternative music culture, with artists such as M83 and Chvrches spawning a fresh new interpretation. While the influence may only be stylistic, the sound of The The seems to resemble this trendy new eighties resurgence more than most other groups of the era. This is perhaps due to the fact that The The’s stark, eccentric sound has dated rather modestly, considering the amount of stylistic conventions that are used in this album. The juxtaposition of sounds and themes in The The’s music is obviously a positive addition to their overall sound, creating a unique touch.

To coincide with this event, we have managed to obtain 15 Soul Mining vinyl box sets to offer for sale, personalised and signed by Matt. One key development of the musical eighties is the phenomenon I would call 'Rundgrenism': the pop-auteur, a solitary force of nature in the studio, crafting an ural universe practically single-handed. These had existed in the pre-punk seventies, e.g. the aforementioned Todd R., or Brian Eno, but it was the general adoption of synthesised sound that heralded the Princes, Peter Gabriels, and Kate Bushes of the world. The The, really one Matt Johnson, is one of these. His debut record aims for the sort of eccentric singularity that propelled Bush's 'Dreaming' or Gabriel's 'Melt', and in a sense Johnson manages a similar sense of vision. a b Loder, Kurt (10 May 1984). "The The: Soul Mining". Rolling Stone. No.421. p.55. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010 . Retrieved 23 July 2017.For as much as I try to expand my taste, I invariably find that the early 80s largely defines it. As such, I've had great success mining that period of music for "new" discoveries, and Soul Mining falls squarely in that camp. What makes it such an exciting find is that its confluence of new wave, synth pop and post punk elements manages to sound unlike anything I've ever heard. THE THE also recently announced details of a limited edition 12” vinyl release on Sony Music for this year’s Record Store Day on Saturday 19th April 2014. It will be available at participating record shops globally. Lyrically prowess such as this can allow for more forgiveness of musical missteps, but that isn't an issue here either. The music is upbeat and catchy for the most part. This is a fantastic album that is a weekly listen if not more and has been since before Christmas last year. I close this out with my favorite lyric, one that gives me hope for my future, however hollow it usually rings during the day-to-day. The original New York-produced 7" single versions of "Uncertain Smile" and "Perfect" were included on the The's greatest hits album 45 RPM: The Singles of The The in 2002, while the two 12" versions were included on the second disc of the 30th anniversary reissue of Soul Mining in 2014. It might just be my attraction towards generally anxious and melancholic albums, but this album truly has no weak moment

a b Bonner, Michael (August 2014). "The The – Soul Mining 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition". Uncut. No.207. pp.86–87. Archived from the original on 10 August 2015 . Retrieved 26 March 2016.

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Rylance, Stephen (29 July 2014). "This Is the Day: The The – 'Soul Mining: 30th Anniversary Edition' ". PopMatters . Retrieved 27 November 2021.