Twenty-five years since its release My Life Story are reissuing their classic album ‘Joined Up Talking’.

A nostalgic glance back, delivered with fresh perspective, the brit-pop band’s third album has been lovingly remastered and will be released on vinyl for the first time ever this Autumn. Available on double coloured vinyl, there is also a 3xCD package on offer, full of B-Sides, rarities, and period gems.

Brimming with wit, ambition and unmistakable My Life Story flair, Joined Up Talking features the singles It’s a Girl Thing, Empire Line and Walk/Don’t Walk, plus the groundbreaking world’s first downloadable single If You Can’t Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?.

Self-produced with programming wiz Pete Gleadall at Parkgate Studios in 1999, the album has the feel of a millennium time capsule. References to Monica Lewinsky, Tamagotchis, Pret A Manger, the dot-com boom, and even megabytes of storage reflect the everyday vocabulary of the turn of the century with Shillingford’s typically irreverent style.

Across album tracks like “The New New Yorker”, Shillingford stitches together topical newspaper headlines into surreal narratives, while “I Don’t Believe in Love” — originally written when Shillingford was 17 — reveals the band’s roots in classic songwriting traditions.

A1. Empire Line
A2. If You Can't Live Without Me Then Why Aren't You Dead Yet?
A3. It's A Girl Thing
A4. Sunday Tongue
A5. Yes To Everything
A6. Walk / Don't Walk
B7. There's Nothing For Nobody And Everybody Wants To Be Someone
B8. The New New Yorker
B9. Neverland
B10. Stalemate
B11. I Don't Believe In Love
B12. Two Stars
C1. Cherries
C2. Holy Deadlock
C3. Emerald Green Blah Blah Blah
C4. My Sweet Little Death
C5. The History Of The World On Ice
C6. I'm A Statistic
C7. Sleep
D8. Florence's Theme
D9. Self Defence Mechanism
D10. Paint It Emerald Green
D11. It's A Boy Thing
D12. E.G.M.C.M.X.C.I.X