A New Form of Beauty 1 (1981), issued as a 7" single, featured the songs "Sandpaper Lullaby" and "Sleep / Fantasy Dreams".[8][2] It was followed by the 10" single A New Form of Beauty 2 (1981), which featured "Come to Daddy" and two other tracks.[9][2]A New Form of Beauty 3 (1981) was a four-song 12" EP consisting of "Beast (Seven Bastard Suck)" on one side, and three tracks on the other side, subtitled "The Slow Children".[10][2]
The final musical installment in the series, A New Form of Beauty 4 (1982), was a cassette release consisting of "Din Glorious", a mixture of previous A New Form of Beauty tracks and taped sounds recorded at the A New Form of Beauty 5 exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College Dublin on 8 November 1981.[11][2]
The project also included two additional pieces, the unpublished book A New Form of Beauty 6 and the unreleased film A New Form of Beauty 7.[2]
In 1993, an abridged remastered version was issued by French label New Rose Records that omitted part 4 of the series.[12] This abridged version was later issued in 2004 in the United States by Mute Records.[13] That same year, The Grey Area reissued the complete version in the U.K.[14]
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