The group’s 2010 LP is being re-released in expanded form.

Minimalist ensemble Bing & Ruth’s City Lake album is to receive the deluxe reissue treatment from RVNG Intl.

City Lake was originally released on Happy Talk in 2010, and saw clarinet, cello, vocals, bass, lap-steel, percussion, tape delay coming together with piano from principal leader David Moore to create what RVNG describes as “instances of Reich-ian excitement.”

While the ensemble has been making music since the mid-00s, they were catapulted into the wider consciousness thanks to Tomorrow Was The Golden Age, released last year by RVNG, an LP that made it into FACT’s top 50 albums of 2014. The release came about after RVNG came into possession of a test pressing of City Lake.

The album is fully remastered and comes with additional bonus tracks, and comes ahead of a tour for the ensemble, which sees them travel to London, Belgium and the Netherlands in December.

City Lake is released on November 13 on double LP, CD and digital formats. You can watch a video for album track ‘Rails’ and check the tour dates below.

Tracklist:

01. Broad Channel (5:56)
02. Put Your Weight Into It (12:01)
03. And Then it Rained (4:52)
04. Rails (8:00)
05. City Lake / Tu Sei Uwe (15:09)
06. Broad Channel / A Little Line in a Round Face (10:04)
07. Here’s What You’re Missin (8:45)
08. You’re Gonna Need That When He’s Gone (Bonus Track) (0:45)
09. In This Ruined House (Bonus Track) (6:03)
10. Broad Channel (Solo Piano) (Bonus Track) (2:47)

Tour dates:

8 December – London, England – Royal Albert Hall
9 December – Hasselt, Belgium – Autumn Falls at CCHA
10 December – Leuven, Belgium – Autumn Falls at 30CC
11 December – Den Haag, The Netherlands – State x New Forms Festival