The original members of shoegaze pioneers Medicine have reunited for their first album in 18 years. (Their 2003 album The Mechanical Forces of Love was just the duo of Brad Laner and Shannon Lee.) To the Happy Few is out August 6 via Captured Tracks. (Captured Tracks previously embarked on an extensive Medicine reissue campaign.) Check out "Long as the Sun" above.

Since they split in 1995, the members of the band have kept busy. Laner has worked with Brian Eno, M83, and Caribou, and released records under the name Electric Company. Beth Thompson made a collaborative album as the Shway. Jim Goodall worked with his band Jon Wayne (who had an album reissued by Jack White's Third Man label) and toured as a member of Whitehouse.

Here's the artwork for the single: