Counting Crows: Recovering The Satellites (2LP, red lava vinyl, indie exclusive) [GEFFEN]

Why you'll love it

An indie exclusive 2LP set on red lava vinyl, remastered, with the 14 songs spread over four sides. Recovering the Satellites went to number one on the Billboard 200 and double platinum in Canada and the US. 'A Long December' was a number one hit in Canada.

This edition

• Indie exclusive
• Red lava vinyl
• 2LP set, remastered
• 14 songs over four sides

About the album

After two years on the road behind August and Everything After, Adam Duritz and the band did what had worked the first time: rented a big house, brought in producer Gil Norton and let the rooms become part of the sound. New drummer Ben Mize and guitarist Dan Vickrey joined the founding four, with David Immerglück sitting in on sessions before he joined for good, and Marvin Etzioni produced 'Miller's Angels.'

It's a louder, more restless record than the debut, from the opener 'Catapult' through 'Angels of the Silences' and 'Daylight Fading,' before the closing run of 'Monkey,' 'Mercury' and that December song settles everything down. Duritz also cut two piano songs with the Soul Rebels Brass Band, then left them off because he couldn't work out where they fit, which tells you how carefully this one was sequenced. Thirty years on it's still the album we reach for when the weather turns, which in Toronto is roughly every Tuesday.

Deeply satisfying.
Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone

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Out July 31, 2026 on Geffen (cat# 5759368), a reissue of the 1996 album.