Hood’s Cold House Returns for Its 25th Anniversary via Domino

Hood’s Cold House has been out of print for more than a decade. On November 13, Domino will bring it back for its 25th anniversary as a double vinyl and CD edition, with a digital release alongside.

The reissue adds context rather than padding. A new booklet insert carries an interview with the band conducted by Simon Reynolds, whose writing helped define how post-rock was discussed in the 1990s. The CD and digital editions also gather tracks from the “You Show No Emotion At All” EP, and the digital version includes a 2002 live session recorded for BBC’s Mixing It, three songs that catch the group outside the studio.

Cold House arrived at a moment when post-rock was drifting toward either grandeur or silence. Hood’s answer was neither. The Leeds group worked in low volume, fragmented electronics and guitar that rarely resolved into a climax, which is part of why the record sat awkwardly against its own genre label and aged well anyway.

The reissue does not rewrite that history. It simply makes the album available again, with the surrounding material finally in one place.