Placebo are revisiting the album that launched their career, announcing Placebo RE:CREATED — a newly reworked version of their 1996 debut — which arrives on June 19.
The original Placebo landed at the height of Britpop but cut sharply against the grain. While the charts were dominated by swaggering nostalgia, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal were exploring androgyny, queerness, addiction and alienation with a candour that made them instant outliers.
