Blondie - No Exit (Expanded & Remastered) [2LP Clear]

No Exit marked Blondie's triumphant return, and this limited expanded and remastered edition spreads the 1999 reunion album across two clear LPs with bonus mixes.

Seventeen years after The Hunter, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke and Jimmy Destri regrouped in New York, recording at studios including Electric Lady. Rather than play it safe, they made an album that roams freely between new wave, punk, reggae, pop and even hip-hop, with Craig Leon in the producer's chair and the band's old sense of mischief fully intact.

Maria is the obvious jewel, a soaring, glittering single that sounded instantly classic and took the band back to the top of the UK charts. The title track No Exit brings in Coolio for a genre-mashing curveball, Nothing Is Real but the Girl glides on sleek, shimmering pop, and their cover of the Shangri-Las' Out in the Streets is a loving nod to the girl-group records that shaped them.

A fourth side of bonus mixes, including a fresh 2025 reworking, rounds out the set, and the new remaster gives Harry's voice and Burke's drums real snap.

It's a confident, playful record from a band with nothing left to prove, and in this form it has never sounded brighter.