These Immortal Souls – Rowland S. Howard (The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Crime & the City Solution on guitar / vocals), Harry Howard (Crime & the City Solution – bass guitar), Epic Soundtracks (Swell Maps, Crime & the City Solution on drums) and Genevieve McGuckin (keyboards) – were formed in London in 1987. Rowland, Harry, Epic – who had all been in Crime & the City Solution – and Genevieve, a contributor and influence on The Birthday Party / Boys Next Door. Rowland and Genevieve had been working together until Rowland invited Harry and Epic to join “a solo project that would be like a band because I like the idea of bands”.

1987’s debut album, Get Lost (Don’t Lie!), described by AllMusic as “Simultaneously rocking, strangely beautiful, and scary. [It] foreshadowed the sound of bands to come over a decade later.”, was recorded before the band had ever played live. They’d go on to play on bills with the likes of Sonic Youth and Babes in Toyland, and by the time they were ready to record 1992’s I’m Never Gonna Die Again they were, according to Harry, “a much harder and more focused sounding band”. Soon after its release, Rowland, Genevieve, and then Harry moved back to Melbourne, and Epic Soundtracks died in London in 1997. These Immortal Souls never recorded again and performed their last show in 1998, leaving these three releases as a record of their unforgettable time together.