For the 25th Anniversary of Lightning Bolt, Thrill Jockey is reissuing Lightning Bolt’s pivotal al- bum Wonderful Rainbow, originally released in 2003 on Load Records.
Throughout their 25 year history Lightning Bolt have toured the world, performing at Coachella, ATP Festivals, Pitchfork Music Festival, Austin Psych Fest, and FYF Fest to name a few Brian Chippendale releases music on Thrill Jockey with his solo project Black Pus, has collaborated with Björk, Boredoms, Andrew W.K.and Lee “Scratch” Perry, and has published several books of his art through Drawn and Quarterly and Picturebox. In 2017, Brian Gibson developed the video game Thumper, with his own company, Drool.
Wonderful Rainbow is released for the first time ever with the full artwork as initially conceived by Lightning Bolt in 2003. Front and back artwork familiar to fans is still there but now in a full wrap, only previously available in the very early screen printed version. This wrap has full-color artwork on the inside, originally only available as a small insert. The LP jacket itself is never before released artwork created at the time of the album. All artwork has been created by Brian Chippendale.