Clock DVA have unveiled a new two-track release of “Sensorium”, pairing a remastered version of the original with a new DVATION 2026 version ahead of the June 5th, 2026 reissue of Thirst. The expanded edition of the band’s 1981 second album arrives via The Grey Area of Mute on double thirst-red vinyl, CD, and digital as the second installment in Mute’s ongoing Clock DVA reissue campaign.
This latest preview follows the campaign’s first teaser from February 3rd, when Clock DVA shared “4 Hours” in both 2026 remastered and DVATION 2026 form. That was a fitting place to begin: “4 Hours” was the only single originally lifted from Thirst, with “Sensorium” on the b-side, so the current rollout reunites one of the album’s defining pairings while showing how the material has been retooled by the present-day incarnation of the band.
Watch the video for the DVATION version of 4 Hours below:
The DVATION material is more than a simple remastering exercise. Rather than merely cleaning up the past, Adi Newton and current DVA collaborator Maurizio Martinucci have used the reissue to create updated versions of both tracks for 2026, extending and reanimating them through the lens of the project’s current form. The result is less a museum piece than a continuation: Clock DVA revisiting one of its key transitional works and pulling it forward into the present.
Listen to Sensorium and its new DVATION version below:
Originally released in 1981 on Fetish Records, Thirst captured Clock DVA at a crucial turning point. Where White Souls in Black Suits leaned deeper into improvisation, tape manipulation, and jazz-inflected abrasion, Thirst sharpened that approach into something leaner and more song-based without losing the band’s experimental unease. The record remains one of the clearest early examples of Clock DVA’s ability to splice post-punk rhythm, industrial menace, mutant funk, and avant-garde tension into something genuinely alien.
The new edition expands the original nine-track album with live recordings of “The Opening” and “Remain Remain” from the Lyceum, the original single mixes of “4 Hours” and “Sensorium”, and the new DVATION 2026 versions of both tracks. Physical editions also restore the original sleeve notes by Genesis P-Orridge, while the vinyl arrives as a limited double LP in thirst-red wax.
Recorded at Jacobs Studio in Surrey and produced by the band with Ken Thomas, Thirst still sounds like a record caught between systems: part art-damaged post-punk document, part industrial omen, part blueprint for darker electronic mutations still to come. With “4 Hours” and now “Sensorium” resurfacing in remastered and newly reconstructed forms, the reissue feels less like archival housekeeping than a fresh activation of one of Sheffield’s strangest and most forward-looking catalogues.
Listen to 4 hours and Senorium and their DVATION versions below, and pre-order the remastered Thirst here.
Clock DVA formed in Sheffield in 1978 under the direction of Adi Newton and emerged from the same fertile experimental climate that also produced acts such as Cabaret Voltaire. Across early landmarks like White Souls in Black Suits and Thirst, the group fused treated tapes, punk-funk rhythms, free-jazz impulses, industrial abrasion, and noir electronics into a sound that stood apart even within the post-punk underground. In later years, Newton steered the project further into cybernetic, electronic, and proto-EBM terrain on releases such as Advantage and Buried Dreams. Reactivated in the late 2000s, Clock DVA continues to perform and revisit its catalogue, with The Grey Area of Mute now retracing that evolution from the beginning.
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