Keith Levene has announced plans to revisit Commercial Zone, his final LP with Public Image Ltd, getting "[to] what the fourth album was supposed to be". The PiL co-founder is crowdfunding $12,500 (£7,400) "not so much set the record straight but [to] get the right record out the right way".

Commercial Zone has a messy history: Levene began working on the record in 1982, the year after Public Image Ltd released The Flowers of Romance, but quit the group before it was finished. "Due to endless complications the project became splintered in spring 1983," the campaign states. "This led to Keith going his separate way from PiL resulting in two diluted releases neither of which were satisfactory." Those releases are PiL's 1984 LP, This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get, and Levene's Commercial Zone: This Is Not A Bootleg, which came out around the same time. "It has all been very annoying," Levene told a magazine at the time. "What PiL did for their record was use the ideas on the original tapes that suited them, but they re-recorded everything with new musicians ... I had to release [my record] to end the situation."

"I know there's been a gap in time of 30 years," Levene admitted on his website and its associated Indiegogo campaign. "However, it seems like it's coming right on time for a myriad of reasons ... I want to do the project embracing the original & proper PiL ethos."

For Levene, Commercial Zone 2014 is an attempt to create a definitive version of the aborted PiL album. "It will be much better because it's current, it contains the best of the original tracks, plus remixes, plus original material, and has the benefit of 30 years of my work," he told Louder Than War. "So it's not another tired, old re-release of stuff that's been out since 1978 or 1981. It's fresh. I've had time to reflect."

Although Levene and PiL frontman John Lydon remain estranged, Commercial Zone 2014 has the support of the band's former drummer, Martin Atkins. Those who donate to the campaign can receive copies of the album and an accompanying book, or even Levene's signed Les Paul guitar. At the time of writing, they are 61% toward their funding goal.