Projekt has released the 40th anniversary deluxe edition of “Love, Power & Justice” by The Arms of Someone New. The set went up on 14 August 2026 as a name-your-price download on the label’s Bandcamp page, and runs to 38 tracks across three parts.

The material dates from 1986, when Mel Eberle and Steve Jones recorded it in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Projekt first issued it on CD in July 2000 through its Projekt: Archive imprint. The 2026 edition returns to the original tapes.

What the ‘Love, Power & Justice’ deluxe edition contains

The first part is a new 2026 mix of the eleven-track album: “Silhouette”, “Hollywood”, “No City Fun”, “Next Year in Jerusalem”, “Summer Dress”, “Your Evening At Home”, “The Sense of an Ending”, “Believe Me”, “Our Town”, “Everything At Once” and the opening piece.

The second part collects fifteen previously unreleased and alternate recordings from the same period, among them “Dear Friend”, “The Far Cafe”, “Dreaming of Home”, “4 O’Clock”, “Finding My Way Back Home”, “December 1910 (Vietnam instrumental)”, “Vietnam (Business is Business)”, “Carry the Day” and “Lady on Train”, plus 4-track versions of “The Sense of an Ending” and “Summer Dress”, demo versions of “Summer Dress”, “In Between” and “Radio Now”, and a 2026 remaster of “Uptown”.

The third part restores the 1986 mix in a 2026 remaster, so the set carries both readings of the album in full. The artwork has been reworked for the reissue. Projekt also still lists final copies of the 2000 CD in a jewel box.

Eberle and Jones will host a listening party on Saturday 29 August 2026 at 20:00 CEST, running through the expanded edition in text chat on Bandcamp.

About The Arms of Someone New

Mel Eberle and Steve Jones formed The Arms of Someone New in 1983 while students in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Their reference points were The Beatles and psychedelia on one side and the melancholy end of Factory Records and The Cure around “Faith” on the other. They worked with simple synthesizers, a Roland TR-707 drum machine and heavily reverbed guitars, with vocals kept low in the arrangements.

Their debut album “Susan Sleepwalking” appeared in 1985 on their own Office Records imprint, with Nick Rudd contributing guitar and vocals to two tracks. “Love, Power & Justice” followed, recorded with contributions from musicians who would go on to form the dream pop act Area, including guitarist Henry Frayne, later of Lanterna, and Lynn Canfield. Frayne holds writing credits on “Hollywood” and “Believe Me”; Canfield on “Our Town” and “Uptown”. Brendan Gamble also played on the sessions.

Projekt has handled the duo’s catalogue since the 2000 CD. The label put “Tape Recordings 1983-1985” on Bandcamp in March 2026, and issued a three-disc 40th anniversary edition of “Susan Sleepwalking” in October 2025. The “Love, Power & Justice” set completes that pair, and is the first time the album has been remixed rather than reissued as recorded.

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

side-line.com

The Arms Of Someone New have issued “Tape Recordings 1983-1985” through Projekt as a name-your-price digital release on Bandcamp. The 33-track set collects material recorded before the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois duo released “Susan Sleepwalking” in 1985.

The release is split across four parts built around the early cassette-era catalog: “Significant Others”, “Occam’s Razor”, “Notes From Underground”, and a final disc of rarities. The project grew out of recordings Mel Eberle and Steve Jones made in 1983 after Eberle’s work with The First Things, with the pair aiming for a sound that “wrapped around the listener like fog.”

The first four songs came out in December 1983 as the “Significant Others” cassette on Hysterical Records, followed two months later by “Occam’s Razor”. “Notes From Underground” was issued in the US in April 1984 and in Germany via Devils Dandy Dogs, while the rarities section adds early and previously unreleased material including “Illusions”, “Journey of an Exile”, and “Broken Backs”.

This is not the first appearance of the compilation itself. “Tape Recordings 1983-1985” awas already released once in 2016 as a standalone edition limited to 111 copies and another 333 copies included in a Vinyl-On-Demand box.

About The Arms Of Someone New

The Arms Of Someone New formed in 1983 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, around Mel Eberle and Steve Jones. Eberle and Jones made the recordings while Eberle was also involved with The First Things, a group Jones managed and produced.

They brought a hybrid early-1980s underground sound, mixing alternative/new wave with indie and college-rock roots, built from atmospheric guitars, simple synths, drum machines, tape loops, and a stripped-back, introspective mood. In short they sat somewhere between moody synth-pop, post-punk, minimal synth, jangly indie guitar music, and cassette-era experimentation.

Their earliest releases were the cassettes “Significant Others” in December 1983, “Occam’s Razor” in February 1984, and “Notes From Underground” in April 1984, followed by “The Holy Dance” 7-inch in August 1984 and the “Burying The Carnival” 12-inch in 1985.

In September 1985, the duo self-released “Susan Sleepwalking” on Office Records. Additional players on that album included Lynn Canfield, Henry Frayne, Brenden Gamble, Joe Strell, and Nick Rudd. Later releases included “Love, Power & Justice”, the 1987 cassette “Black & White”, the 1988 album “Promise”, and the later Projekt archive reissue “Every Seventh Wave EP (2014 Remaster)”. In 2025, Projekt issued a remastered digital edition of “Susan Sleepwalking“, and in March 2026 it added the digital edition of “Tape Recordings 1983-1985”.

Bernard - Side-Line Staff

Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

side-line.com