BANDS re-recording a whole heap of songs is nothing new, from The Cure and Squeeze revisiting greatest hits to The La's endlessly re-making their self-titled debut album, but Valentina is a different concept. David Gedge first released these songs as The Wedding Present's eighth studio set in 2012; now he has refracted them through his other band, the more complex, orchestral and cinematic Cinerama. The original grinding, indie-rock Valentina was made in France, California and Brighton, but its aroma was Essence of Leeds, Gedge's musical ground zero. In 2012, his kitchen-sink dramas and candid camaraderie were harassed by guitars as angry as a Haworth skyline. In 2015, he re-exercises his romantic frustrations, failures and forlorn hopes in a radical riviera re-working that heightens Gedge's pop classicism and echoes cool French film soundtracks, introducing piano balladry, baroque ornamentation, lounge chic, swinging female vocals, a swagger of Las Vegas Elvis, a smattering of Spanish musicians and vulnerability in the Gedge croon. Love still wounds, but those wounds now come with a consoling box of chocolates.

Cinerama, complete with 12-piece band, strings and additional instrumentation, will perform a special one-off show at O2 Academy Islington, London on Saturday, June 6.