Independent Project Records is proud to announce that U.K. cult band WOO will reissue their debut album, Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, originally released in 1982 via the band’s The Sunshine Series Records label, as an expanded edition on January 16, 2026.
 
The remixed and remastered expanded edition of Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong includes new album cover art and ten previously unreleased bonus tracks, presented as a ‘mini’ album with the black and clear vinyl editions and as bonus tracks on the Special Edition CD. The album is also available digitally. This genre and time-defying selection of songs marked the public’s first exposure to the wild sonic experimentations that brothers Mark Ives and Clive Ives would be known for over the following decades.
 
"Mark and I had been home recording for five very prolific years before Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong was compiled,” says WOO’s Clive Ives. “The thirteen tracks we selected from this period are very diverse in style, yet magically complimentary."
 
In 1982, as brothers Mark and Clive Ives first opened the doors to their home studio in South London, the world met WOO – a duo that escaped genre and definition, making music that was proudly unrestrained, constantly mutating and always surprising. From its very title, debut LP Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong asserted the brothers Ives as tireless explorers of multifarious shape-shifting musical directions – the album blended kaleidoscopic jazz and analogue electronica, free-flowing pop and unearthly muzak, retro fun and futuristic adventures. “WOO can sound as soft as a Martini ad, as sharp as a stab of conscience and often, brilliantly, both,” the Melody Maker noted at the time.
 
Finally remastered and reissued in a sumptuous package, Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong proves to be not only out of time but timeless. It comes with a bonus mini-album of previously unreleased demos, rarities and live tracks from the late ‘70s and ‘80s, assembled by the brothers with the same spirit that informed the making of their first groundbreaking release. 
 
This listing is for the Special Edition CD, which includes the ten additional songs as bonus tracks. On vinyl editions, the ten additional tracks appear as an extra 10-track LP mastered at 45 RPM. (See our separate listings for the black vinyl and clear vinyl editions.)
 
Album Track Listing
 
1 Swingtime (2025 remaster) 
2 Pokhara + C.H. Revisited (2025 remaster) 
3 A Wave (2025 remaster) 
4 The Cleaner (2025 remaster) 
5 Wah Bass (2025 remaster) 
6 The Attic (2025 remaster)
7 Razorblades (2025 remaster) 
8 White and Whiter Still! (2025 remaster) 
9 Wapping (2025 remaster) 
10 Life In Shadows (2025 remaster)
11 The English Style of Rowing (2025 remaster)
12 “Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong” (2025 remaster) 
 
Bonus Tracks
 
13 Lovelorn 
14 Ruby Ruby
15 Rosehips 
16 Tibetan Trains
17 It's Love - Reworked 
18 Baa Lamb
19 Twinkle Toes 
20 Dobbins Lost His Coconuts - Revisited 
21 A Western Sunset 
22 The Very End Of The Attic