Art Of Noise - The Seduction Of Claude Debussy [2LP] [RSD 2026]

Finally, the fifth and final studio album by Art of Noise and their only studio album never released on vinyl sees that fact corrected with an exclusive pressing for Record Store Day 2026 on translucent blue 2LP. The album lineup consisted of Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, Paul Porley and Lol Creme, along with other appearances from John Hurt, soprano Sally Bradshaw, Rakim, and Donna Lewis.

The Seduction of Claude Debussy is the fifth and final studio album by Art of Noise, released in 1999 and saw the realisation of a longtime recurring idea of Trevor Horn’s (as borrowed by the Pet Shop Boys lyric in "Left to My Own Devices") with the blending of music of french impressionist composer Claude Debussy with drum n' bass, opera, hip-hop, jazz, and narration, to create a concept album described as "the soundtrack to a film that wasn't made about the life of Claude Debussy."

The album is newly mastered by Phil Kinrade at Air Studios using the original production master and includes the Rakim featuring single "Metaforce". In addition, this exclusive 2LP features four era-specific bonus tracks, originally intended to be released in July 1998 as a 12" single to promote the album, and previously only released on the digital EP Born Again!, never before released on a physical format.

Tracklist:

1. Il Pleure (At The Turn Of The Century)
2. Born On A Sunday
3. Dreaming In Colour
4. On Being Blue
5. Continued In Colour
6. Rapt: In The Evening Air
7. Metaforce
8. The Holy Egoism Of Genius
9. La Flûte De Pan
10. Metaphor On The Floor
11. Approximate Mood Swing No: 2
12. Pause
13. Out Of This World (Version 138)
14. Born In Colour (Metaforce: Intromix)
15. Hallelujah
16. A Harder Noise
17. Dreaming In Colour (Your Dream Or Mine: Outromix)

UPC: 5014797913417
Label: Demon/edsel
Release Date: 4.18.26
Format: Vinyl