Sound Effect Records presents a reissue of Chapter 24's historic album "Tin Invaders". For the first time since 1988 and its original version on DiDi Music, "Tin Invaders" is re-released, remastered and with restored artwork, on vinyl and CD! A monument of the Greek independent scene, "Tin Invaders" is also a revelation in the context of current global interest in the post-punkl/Lo-fi aesthetics of the '80s. A unique combination of minimal-synth, art-rock and psychedelia – it is no coincidence that they took their name from the Syd Barrett track – "Tin Invaders" is the distillation of the first period of Chapter 24, from their formation, in 1982 in Ioannina, until their first "homemade" cassette in 1985. Its restored reissue is an imperative to history and underground aesthetics. The subsequent course of the group, until today, certified the term "phenomenon" for Chapter 24, both for their longevity and for the breadth of their musical palette! Avant-rock, electronica, improvisation, film-music are just some of the endings of the Chapter 24 universe, with kraut-rock being the recipe of the new version of "Tin Invaders", as presented live in 2018, for the 30 years since its release, unrecognizable and transcendent! "Tin Invaders" is released on May 16th, 2025 on limited edition vinyl (classic black and red) and on a double digipack-CD along with "The Black Baron Strikes Back (Tin Invaders reloaded)".

If the story of Tin Invaders had to have a central character, it would not be a natural person but a Japanese four-track cassette player. One of those from the 80s, with the built-in, elementary mixer. It was bought by one of the members of the group in 1985 and for two years traveled constantly. Sometimes in the trunk of a car, sometimes in a duffle bag in the luggage compartment of an intercity bus. A process that could go on indefinitely if, sometime in '87, a phone call didn't come. During which one of the musicians / operators of the four-track wearing boots and a drudgery jumpsuit is surprised to hear through a telephone line that crosses half of mainland Greece and half of the Aegean the voice of another announcing that Antonis Frangos heard Tin Invaders (the song) and "says that DiDi wants to put us out an album". And there the legitimate question arises: "Do we have material for an album?" So, on the next pass of the uniformed man begins the search for the recorded tapes. They are loaded with hours and hours of material both instrumental and song. Material consisting of pieces written in Athens, pieces written in Ioannina, pieces written half in Athens and half in Ioannina. Tracks recorded in bedrooms, living rooms, makeshift studios or on stage, sometimes with the equipment of the group itself and sometimes with instruments and machines borrowed from friends. And, finally, after hours of listening and discussion, the answer emerges: "Well, yes! We have an album! Let's go mix." And this is the end of the period of home cassette production and the entry of Chapter 24 into the "normal" discography. And at the same time the end of an era of creative chaos and the beginning of a new one. No less chaotic, but certainly different from the previous one. (Chapter 24, February 2025)