Merge Records is thrilled to release the 35th anniversary edition of Neurotica, the 1987 power pop and alternative rock opus by Redd Kross. This reissue includes the original album, remastered by JJ Golden (Pearl Jam, Thee Oh Sees), as well as 12 previously unreleased demos from the era (rediscovered recently in the archives of the band's original A&R guy, Geoffrey Weiss). The double vinyl edition-the album on translucent turquoise, the demos on translucent orange-arrives in a slick gatefold jacket.

For Neurotica, brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald enlisted a grand crew of musicians that included guitarist Robert Hecker, keyboardist Paul Roessler (Screamers, Nervous Gender), and Roy McDonald (The Muffs) on drums. And in the producer's chair guiding the young bucks? Tommy Erdelyi, aka Tommy Ramone, one of the originators of punk rock melody.

Unshakeable hooks on tracks like "Peach Kelli Pop" and title track "Neurotica" would inspire rave reviews at the time of the album's original release in 1987. The L.A. Times' Craig Lee wrote: "In an age when too many bands base their music either on calculated career moves or heavy-handed pretensions, Redd Kross is as breezy as a kiss in the wind, a band born to rock in a world that forgot how." Decades later, Pitchfork would revisit the album with a glowing write-up: "Pop culture nostalgia was to Redd Kross what LSD was to the Butthole Surfers; their music was delivered with just as furious a passion, but their love for Beatles-esque pop harmony shone through as much as any punk sensibility, and their Kinks influences, entirely free of irony, served as lyrical substance over their powerful, hi-octane hooks." Plain and simple, Neurotica is just a fantastic piece of art.

A1. Neurotica
A2. Play My Song
A3. Frosted Flake
A4. Janus, Jeanie, And George Harrison
A5. Love Is You
A6. Pink Piece Of Peace
A7. It's The Little Things
B1. Peach Kelli Pop
B2. McKenzie
B3. Tatum O' Tot And The Fried Vegetables
B4. Ballad Of A Love Doll
B5. What They Say
B6. Ghandi Is Dead (I'm The Cartoon Man)
B7. Beautiful Bye-Byes

The Demos
C1. Neurotica
C2. Play My Song
C3. Pink Piece Of Peace
C4. All Of The Things
C5. Janus, Jeanie, And George Harrison
C6. McKenzie
D1. What They Say
D2. Peach Kelli Pop
D3. Tatum O' Tot And The Fried Vegetables
D4. Love Is You
D5. Ghandi Is Dead (I'm The Cartoon Man)
D6. Beautiful Bye-Byes