"The Get Up Kids’ seminal sophomore album Something to Write Home About, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with the release of a deluxe, remastered edition, might send listeners back to cinder block dormitories, stuffy study halls, the driver’s seats of first cars, or their teenage bedrooms. For the four core members of The Get Up Kids, the album transports them to Mad Hatter Studios in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood, where they spent six weeks in the summer of 1999 recording what would be their genre-defining outing. For the 2024 reissue, the original album tracks were remastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound and the packaging features expanded artwork plus an album’s worth of demos, including four-track acoustic recordings by Matt Pryor. This combined effort reveals the sturdiness of Something to Write Home About’s songs — a tracklist battle-tested in hundreds of live settings. The demos also reveal key changes to lyrics, as in opener 'Holiday,' and abandoned instrumental ideas; Pryor points to a 'twangy' guitar line in 'Valentine' jettisoned by Suptic. 'It’s so funny listening to it now,' Suptic says. 'My better taste prevailed.' For the Get Up Kids, these demos also have the same transportative quality as the finished album, warping them right back to downtown Kansas City and the five-story decommissioned ROTC training facility that–for $100 a month–served as their practice space." - Polyvinyl

• 25th anniversary edition, expanded w/ full LP of demos + rarities
• silver nugget colored double vinyl pressing
• remasterd audio
• housed in deluxe foil-stamped gatefold sleeve
• includes 28 page booklet w/ photos, lyrics + liner notes
• limited edition
• original release year: 1999
• music label: Polyvinyl 2024