Air Miami have shared a new music video “Seabird,” the track is off their 1995 album Me. Me. Me. and arrives ahead of the album’s reissue on July 28th. Almost three decades after its release, the deluxe edition celebrates the first and only studio album from Air Miami, the duo of Mark Robinson and Bridget Cross. The track also found new life recently when covered by current 4AD artist Maria Somerville, her first release for the label and part of the label’s 40th anniversary compilation Bills & Aches & Blues.

“Seabird,” follows “I Hate Milk” and “World Cup Fever.” The guitars of “Seabird” are flannel sheets and lingering hugs. Weighted and deliberate, Cross’s performance is so vulnerable, while the song builds a bed of empathy around her. The song is so expansive, it describes an individual position and a specific landscape, but opens to a universal human yearning. “I think ‘Seabird’ is probably the best song on there,” asserts Robinson. The official video edited by Jono Canning is the perfect counterpart, the video compiling together footage the band shot while making the record.

Robinson and Cross formed Air Miami in D.C. shortly after the demise of their previous indie rock project Unrest in 1995. Together with drummer Gabriel Stout and producer Guy Fixsen (The Breeders, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) the band headed to their namesake land of Miami to record Me. Me. Me. at the famed Criteria Studios; a place where James Brown, Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC and countless more have recorded classic works. The album was then mixed at a studio in London where labelmates Lush were recording their 1996 LP Lovelife at the same time.

Nearly thirty years on, this deluxe reissue sees the 1995 album expanded to include all sixteen tracks from the album sessions, three of which are new to the tracklist: “Warm Miami May” (not on original LP), “Pucker” (previously unreleased), and the full version of “See-Through Plastic” (edited version only previously seen on the Fuck You, Tiger EP). Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Pete Weiss (whose recent remastering work includes Luna, Type O Negative, Morphine and Belly), Me. Me. Me. (Deluxe Edition) sees the album now spread over two LPs and cut at 45rpm. Pressed on Floridian-inspired aqua and orange vinyl its stunning artwork is housed in a gatefold sleeve with Hideaki Kodama’s ‘Girl B 1988’ painting still adorning the cover. A one-time pressing, it will be available everywhere from July 28th, with a high-res digital version also coming out the same day.

Air Miami
Me. Me. Me.
Tracklist
4AD

A1. I Hate Milk
A2. World Cup Fever
A3. Seabird
A4. Warm Miami May (not on original LP)

B1. Special Angel
B2. Afternoon Train
B3. Dolphin Expressway
C1. Sweet As A Candy Bar
C2. Pucker (previously unreleased)
C3. You Sweet Little Heartbreaker
C4. Neely
C5. Bubble Shield

D1. See-Through Plastic (full version)
D2. The Event Horizon
D3. Definitely Beachy
D4. Reprise

Pre-order Me. Me. Me. by Air Miami HERE