Today, August 13th, you can hear Six Finger Satellite’s “Massive Cocaine Seizure (2025 Remaster),” the raucous A-side from the band’s rare, out-of-print 7” single, originally released on Sub Pop in 1996. The new remastered version is available today on all DSPs, and is from the forthcoming Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition, the expanded 30th anniversary version of the group’s exhilarating 2nd album available worldwide from Sub Pop on September 12th, 2025.
 
In addition to the original album, Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition includes a bonus 12” of the 1994 Machine Cuisine EP, and a download of 17 additional songs, including rare singles, compilation tracks, and unreleased material (see “Parlous Games (2025 Remaster)” Official Video). All the material has been freshly mastered by JJ Golden, and the vinyl is packaged in a lovely slipcase with individual jackets for each LP. 

Severe Exposure would go on to become Six Finger Satellite’s best-selling album to date, which the band recorded at their own studio, The Parlour, in Providence, Rhode Island.
 
Formed in 1990 in Providence by J. Ryan (singer/keyboards), John MacLean (guitar), Peter Phillips (guitar), Chris Dixon (bass), and Rick Pelletier (drums), Six Finger Satellite quickly signed to Sub Pop for the Weapon EP. Shortly thereafter, they released their landmark 1993 debut, The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird, and then, in 1995, Severe Exposure.
 
Severe Exposure foreshadowed the early ‘00s revival of post-punk and synth-oriented rock by adding synths to the band’s caustic, tense post-punk sound. All Music called the album, “Herky-jerky pandemonium rife with buzzing guitars and spooky, deliberately melodramatic synth and Moog lines, Severe Exposure is filled with tight, paranoid riffs that fulfills the deepest wish of anyone who ever wanted to find out what the unholy progeny of Big Black and Devo would sound like.” Trouser Press wrote that “‘Rabies (Baby’s Got The)’ and ‘Simian Fever’ are animal aggressive and messy, while sharing the synthetic digitone lusts of new wave.” The SF Weekly praised it as “a party record, the kind you slip on at that inevitable point when you want ‘certain people’ to head home.” Chunklet doubles down on the album’s festive vibe: “Severe Exposure is a guaranteed party…”
 
Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition is now available to preorder from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com, Mega Mart Europe, and select independent retailers will receive the limited Loser Edition on Coke Bottle Clear & Transparent Orange (the EU edition is limited to 1k copies).
 
Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition follows the 2023 deluxe reissue of The Pigeon is the Most Popular Bird, also out now on Sub Pop.

Six Finger Satellite
Severe Exposure: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
 
1. Bad Comrade
2. Parlour Games
3. White Queen to Black Night
4. Pulling a Train
5. Simian Fever
6. Cock Fight
7. Dark Companion
8. Where Humans Go
9. Rabies (Baby’s Got The)
10. Board the Bus
11. Love (Via Machine)
12. Blue Melodica
13. The Magic Bus
14. Hans Pocketwatch
15. The Well-Tempered Monkey
16. Like to Get to Know You
17. The Greek Arts
18. White Temples
19. Untitled Instrumental*
20. Fisher of Men*
21. 2MuchKungFu*
22. EV365a*
23. kgbg*
24. Rabies (Baby’s Got The) dub*
25. Mistaken Street*
26. Swing Alone*
27. Spooks/So Lonely*
28. Shadows Moving*
29. Trigger Mac*
30. Man Behind the Glasses*
31. War Crimes*
32. Dark Companion (7” Version)*
33. If I Tried*
34. Massive Cocaine Seizure*
35. Human Operator*
*Digital download bonus tracks