Virgin Prunes "A New Form of Beauty 1-4" (Deluxe Edition) 2026-01-0 showcasing what critics dubbed a

showcasing what critics dubbed a more elaborate

It was released in November 2004 in the UK and February 2005 in the United States

original illustrations

A notoriously raucous live band

and shared the single ‘S’old’

Virgin Prunes "A New Form of Beauty 1-4" (Deluxe Edition) 2026-01-0 showcasing what critics dubbed aThe Virgin Prunes were masters of the uncanny, juxtaposing nightmares with lullabies, beauty with cruelty, combining gentle vocals and the spoken word with anguished wailing from purgatory itself. This first album powerfully laid out this terrain. Its themes ranged from mournful tales of unrequited love, frustrated sexuality, morbid eroticism and wasted youth, to yearnings for distant dreamlands which were juxtaposed with macabre visions of dystopian