"When [The Get Up Kids] set out to write what would become the album Something to Write Home About, I never imagined all the places it would take us. From touring around the world, being on MTV’s 120 Minutes, to opening for childhood heroes. When I listen back to these demos it takes me right back to our practice space in Kansas City. We were so young, but we were driven to make something great. When we walked into that LA studio, we were very prepared. This was the first time we actually made real demos for a record and I think it shows in the final product." 
- Jim Suptic (guitar/vocals)

Originally released via Vagrant Records in the fall of 1999, The Get Up Kids' seminal sophomore album, Something to Write Home About, solidified a canon of expansive, pop-leaning emo that would guide the genre's explosion in the new millennium. Today, the Kansas City-based band of Matt Pryor (guitar/vocals), Jim Suptic (guitar/vocals), Rob Pope (bass), Ryan Pope (drums), and Dustin Kinsey (keys) announces the record's 25th anniversary reissue via Polyvinyl Records — out digitally August 23 // out physically September 20. 

The newly remastered, genre-defining LP will feature expanded music and artwork, including a 28-page large format full-color booklet with handwritten lyrics, photos, and other ephemera from the era. Its second LP contains a mix of 12 rare or previously unreleased demos (including the original four-track acoustic recordings by singer/songwriter Matt Pryor), which reveal the sturdiness of its songs — a tracklist battle-tested in hundreds of live settings. In both the early drafts and remastered tracks contained on this definitive version of Something to Write Home About, longtime fans will return to places familiar and formative, and rediscover plenty of moments as vivid as they were on first listen. 

Pre-order your copy of the 2xLP on limited edition Purple, Pink, Blonde Striped vinyl + get tickets to see The Get Up Kids play the album in its entirety throughout North America and Latin America later this year.

Additionally, the band share the first-ever music video for album-opener and instant classic "Holiday" alongside its demo version — watch/listen below:

“It’s like watching your parents’ home movies of you riding a big wheel in the backyard. Just babies. A lot of these are from a time when the record was finished but people hadn’t really heard it yet. We’d just spent a long, frustrating year trying to get it made and when it finally saw the light of day we just came out swinging. I remember a lot of these shows, The Fireside Bowl in Chicago particularly. That always felt like a home away from home for us back then. The kids onstage in these videos really have no idea how much this album will change their lives, that we’ll still be talking about it twenty five years later.” 
- Matt Pryor (guitar/vocals)

The Get Up Kids - ‘Something to Write Home About’ Album Art

Something to Write Home About (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) 2xLP Tracklist:

LP1:
1. Holiday
2. Action & Action  
3. Valentine  
4. Red Letter Day  
5. Out of Reach
6. Ten Minutes
7. The Company Dime  
8. My Apology  
9. I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel  
10. Long Goodnight  
11. Close to Home  
12. I'll Catch You  

LP2:
1. One Year Later (Demo)
2. Close to Home (Demo)
3. Out of Reach (Demo)
4. Holiday (Demo)
5. Valentine (Demo)
6. My Apology (Demo)
7. Red Letter Day (Demo)
8. Ten Minutes (Demo)
9. Central Standard Time (Four Track Demo)
10. Long Goodnight (Four Track Demo)
11. The Company Dime (Four Track Demo)
12. I'll Catch You (Four Track Demo)