🔵 Inca Babies ○ Reincarnation

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anchester's iconic post-punk outfit Inca Babies presents their 'Reincarnation' album, a fantastic collection of select back catalogue classics that were re-recorded, re-invented and re-Inca-rnated.

Led by Harry Stafford, Inca Babies were a vibrant part of Britain's early postpunk / death-rock scene, amassing a steady following through five intensive years of touring, six singles and four albums, all of which entered the UK Indie Charts. After four BBC John Peel sessions in 1984-1988, the band called it quits, reforming in 2007.

Recorded and mixed over two years at  6Db Studios in Salford by renowned producer Simon ‘Ding’ Archer (The Fall, PJ Harvey) and Harry Stafford, with Ding also contributing sonic and dub flourishes, this album was mastered by Marco Butcher at Boombox Studio in North Carolina. 

"Once upon a time, music was both a tune on the radio and a physical product. Ultimately all the songs from the radio were released on vinyl and collected by a hungry youth culture. For many, music defined their cultural identity and owning the songs allowed them a sense of belonging to that culture," says Harry Stafford.

"As fashions subsided and more products came out, either no longer required or out of demand, they were discontinued and ‘deleted’. Although there always existed vinyl in collections all over the land, so the records and the music never actually disappeared. Indeed, the vinyl collection is a hard copy of their memories. But not all of this ‘deleted’ music is available online. In the 1980s, the Inca Babies released four LPs, eight singles and various tracks on compilations, most of which are no longer available but for the wonders of charity shops, car boot sales and the excellent Discogs."

Inca Babies' journey since their formation in 1983 in Manchester's now-legendary deck-access flats of Hulme was highlighted in the 2024 documentary 'The Making of Ghost Mechanic Nine'. Since reforming, they've released four albums and toured three continents. Continuing to explore goth, punk, death-rock and jazz-blues, the Incas now also include guitarist Jim Adama, bassist Dave Carmichael (Rat) and long-term member Rob Haynes (The Membranes, Goldblade) on drums and percussion.

"Looking through our back catalogue, it occurred to me that there were tracks that should again be made available in some manner and others that would benefit from reinvention. Last year's 'Ghost Mechanic Nine' album was an opportunity to create new music for our fans, who would like this music in the form of digital downloads and, for the truly hardcore, as a 12” Vinyl Album," says Harry Stafford.

"But it was also a realisation that we could invigorate old tunes. We already had a ‘best of’ compilation in ‘Plutonium', released in 2006, so we embarked upon a new quest, to inject new life into our favourite back catalogue. This whole project was to be an Innovative re-imagining of old tunes: re-invented for contemporary consideration. All of them Re-awakened and 'Re-inca-rnated'."

In the lead-up to the album, the Incas shared A-side/ B-side formats of singes 'Candy Mountain', with its hypnotic bass line, contemporary groove and electronic sequencing, and 'Two Rails To Nowhere' with its original uptempo 1988 version featuring Inspiral Carpets' Clint Boon. The expanded Gun Club-esque version, featuring guitarist Vincent O'Brien, tells a more spacious heroic tale. 

As of November 28th, 'Reincarnation' is out digitally everywhere, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp, and also available on CD, via Black Lagoon Records.

"Brian Setzer's twang, the silver lining amidst Bauhaus' dark expanse and post-punk fever fired up by Gang of Four... captivating blend of angularity and intensity with a driving rhythm" ~ The Spill Magazine

"From their emergence in 1982, they've sculpted a perpetual warped seduction... Their almost serpentine invention and dark musical incitements have continued to inspire and invigorate... truly one of the leading lights and template setting protagonists of British rock ‘n’ roll" ~ Ringmaster Review

"Thirty years down the line the Inca Babies' recordings are not just a collection of outstanding songs from independent music's golden age, but for those of us who were there, they remain pretty much a life statement; a declaration of intent" ~ Isolation Records

Inca Babies

Reincarnation

Black Lagoon Records.
Watch the video for Two Rails To Nowhere'

28 November 2025

CREDITS
Harry Stafford - guitars, bass, keyboards & vocals
Rob Haynes - drums & percussion
Vincent O'Brien - slide guitar
Written by Harry Stafford
Harry Stafford – vocals, guitars & keyboards
Rob Haynes - drums & percussion
All songs re-recorded by Harry Stafford
 and Rob Haynes. + Slide Guitar Vincent O Brien+
Recorded & produced at 6Db
  in Salford by Simon ‘Ding’ Archer
Mastered by Marco Butcher 
at Boombox Studio, North Carolina
Artwork designed by Harry Stafford
from images by James Chadderton Art Ltd. 
(Manchester Apocalyptic visions)
Album released by Black Lagoon Records - catalogue no. BLRLP0061
Video filmed by Jonny Stafford. Directed & edited by Harry Stafford 
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR

TRACK LIST

01  Candy Mountain  (from 'This Train' album, 1986)
02  Buster’s on Fire (7” Single on Constrictor Records, 1987)
03  Daniella  (from 'This Train' album, 1986)
04  Two Rails to Nowhere  (from 'Evil Hour' album, 1988)
05  Jerico  (from 'Big Jugular' 12” EP, 1984)
06  Devil in my Room  (from 'Opium Den' album, 1986)
07  Phantom Track  (from 'Death Message Blues' album, 2010)
08  The Diseased Stranger’s Waltz  (from 'Rumble' album, 1985)
09  Damnation  (from 'The Stereo Plan' album, 2014)
10  Thirst  (from 'Opium Den' album, 1986)
11  Superior Spectre  (Extra B side of 'Scatter' 12” 2014 For Record Store Day)
12  Cowboy Song  (B side from 'The Judge' 12” single, 1984)

                                           
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