The deluxe version of Sleaford Mods' The Demise Of Planet X is out now, adding nine tracks to the existing album. Cato, featuring Sue Tompkins of Life Without Buildings, leads the announcement. This is a digital expansion, rather than the announcement of another studio album.
Rough Trade dated the release October 15. NME's report followed on October 19, so readers finding that story this week don't need to wait for a forthcoming release. The label's announcement already describes the expanded edition as available.
Where Cato fits
Tompkins has worked with the duo before, on No Touch. Rough Trade says Cato came together after the album was largely finished and didn't fit its final programme. Tompkins directed the video, too.
If you're here for that collaboration, start with Cato and then return to No Touch. Those two titles give you a manageable route through her work with Sleaford Mods. They also avoid making the extra tracks a compulsory second album's worth of homework before you can find the song that caught your attention.
There is a limit to what the release note tells us. It explains why Cato missed the original sequence. It doesn't establish that the song was unfinished, or that the duo considered it inferior. We wouldn't attach either judgement to it on the strength of that account.
Nine additions to look for
Rough Trade lists the extra block as follows:
- The Good Life (Alt Version), featuring Big Special
- Give Em What They Want
- Cato, featuring Sue Tompkins
- How What
- Cheap Cheap Shit
- There We Are Then
- Armageddon's Wi Me Now
- The Return Of The Bin White Dukes
- Dr Who?
Notice the alternative-version wording on The Good Life. That's the detail to retain when saving or searching: a matching song title alone won't identify which recording you have. Likewise, the label describes demos and unreleased tracks together; it doesn't call all nine items demos.
For a library you already know, save the additions alongside the original sequence. Replacing the original edition outright can make it harder to tell later which programme you first chose. New listeners can still begin with the album, then use the nine-track block as a separate follow-up.
Our album-credits guide helps locate guest credits. The remaster and remix guide covers other edition changes. This is a release report based on the documented track list, without a claimed MP3Raid listening test.