全英シングルチャート12位/全米チャート14位のヒットを記録した名曲「Digging Your Scene」を収録。ロバート自身が「僕のソウルミュージックに対する愛情が最も強く反映された作品」と語る1986年2ndアルバム『Animal Magic』がCD4枚組デラックスエディションで登場。
2012年に、Cherry Redレコードから全32曲収録のCD2枚組拡大盤として再発されていたが、Cherry Red盤にも収録されていたシングルB面曲、リミックス、別ヴァージョン、デモに加えて、今回はさらにレアリティを追加した全47曲を収録。
発売・販売元 提供資料(2023/01/30)
Another British band that incorporated R&B influences into its pop/rock sound, the Blow Monkeys (led by Bruce Robert Howard, aka Dr. Robert) scored a Top 20 single in the U.S. with the engaging "Digging Your Scene," which featured nasal lead vocals and a swirling mixture of keyboards, guitar, and female background cooing. Like Scritti Politti, the Blow Monkeys possessed a quirkiness that set them apart from other bands of their ilk, which may have limited further success in the States. The band's 1986 album Animal Magic surrounds the hit with similar pop frivolities like the catchy "Wicked Ways" and the upbeat "Don't Be Scared of Me." Though the band overreaches a bit with the ballad "Heaven Is a Place I'm Moving To" and the title track's silly attempt at exotica, most of Animal Magic is pleasant and intelligent enough to make it a better-than-usual release from a 1980s one-hit wonder. ~ William Cooper
Rovi