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I Am....The Autobiography (Black Friday 23 Edition)

    THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

    IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH).


    I Am... The Autobiography, the long sought-after bootleg released commercially for the first time.Features2 unreleased tracks, as well as many other rarities that have been on limited vinyl and 12"previously, as well as deluxe packaging. A must-have for any Nas and die-hard Hip Hop head!

    TRACK LISTING

    Side A
    1. Fetus
    2. Small World
    3. Money Is My Bitch

    Side B
    1. Project Windows
    2. Poppa Was A Playa
    3. Dr. Knockboots(Doe’s And Don’t)

    Side C
    1. Day Dreamin’Stay Schemin’****
    2. Sometimes I Wonder (feat. Nature)
    3. Hardest Thing To Do Is Stay Alive****
    4. Drunk By Myself

    Side D
    1. I Wanna Play***
    2. Blaze A 50
    3. We Will Survive

    Nanocluster

    Vol 1 Immersion With Tarwater, Laetitia Sadier, Ulrich Schnauss, Scanner - Love Record Stores 2021 Edition

      Love Record Stores Edition available instore from 10am on Saturday September 4th, any remaining copies will be available on online from 9pm on the same day.
      Limited to one per person.

      Nanocluster Vol 1. is an album with some serious pedigree. It sees Immersion (aka Malka Spigel and Colin Newman of influential groups Minimal Compact and Wire respectively) collaborating with some of the finest left field artists of our era: Tarwater, Laetitia Sadier, Ulrich Schnauss and Scanner. The project was born out of a Brighton based club night, also called Nanocluster, run by Spigel and Newman alongside writer, broadcaster and DJ Graham Duff, and promoter Andy Rossiter. The club features a range of influential and cutting edge music acts. But the unique aspect of the evenings is that each show climaxes with a one off collaboration between Immersion and the headliners. The songs having been written and recorded in the studio in just three days prior to the performance - or one day in the case of Schnauss. “It could have just been a series of performances.” Says Newman.
 “But the fact that we had built the tracks in the studio for the performances means we had these recordings.” Says Spigel. The recordings have since been developed with Immersion heading up pro- duction duties. The result is a beautiful and unique album.
 “I think the really interesting thing is how different everybody is,” says Spigel. “Both as people and creatively.”
      Immersion and Tarwater
      The German duo of Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram have created an impressive body of work. Yet their involvement with Immersion has opened out their sound, creating a more panoramic soundscape. The opening instrumental ‘Ripples’ is a gentle breathe of optimism, all purring tones and sun dazzled synths. Meanwhile, ‘Mrs. Wood’ is a dubby psychedelic shuffle, Lippok’s vocal cool and assured over a fat bass line and skybound eastern melodics. It feels like a more spacious take on the Tarwater of albums such as ‘Suns, Animals and Atoms‘. The four musicians’ 3rd collaboration is Nanocluster’s most pop moment: with a heartfelt yet unsentimental lyric unfurling over feline rhythms, ‘All You Cat Lovers’ is a feel-good anthem for cat lovers everywhere.
      Immersion and Laetitia Sadier
      An original and distinctive presence in contemporary music, Sadier made her name with the inimitable Stereolab, but she’s also created several impressive solo works. The instrumental ‘Unclustered’ sees Sadier’s spidery guitar weaving through Immersion’s lush web of synths drones. The following ‘Uncensored’ has a subtle melodic tug with a classic Spigel guitar line underpinning Sadier’s sweet yet worldly wise vocal. ‘Riding the Wave’ is another feel good song, swapping between Newman’s plaintive vocal, and Spigel’s vocal and Sadier’s backing vocals. With its uplifting chorus: ‘Things have a way of working out’ ‘Riding The Wave’ feels like it might be the sound of the summer we’ve all been waiting for.
      Immersion & Ulrich Schnauss
      A highly respected solo artist, as well as being a member of Tangerine Dream, Schnauss’ skill with electronics is legendary.
      The opening ‘Remember Those Days On The Road’ skips along on a rimshot rhythm with Spigel’s honeyed vocal telling a tale of life on tour. Yet it is far removed from such usual fare. This feels vulnerable and flecked with melancholy. ’Skylarks’ opens with a lattice of arpeggios before a gently nag- ging guitar enters and everything takes a turn for the sublime. ‘So Much Green’ is everything you’d hope a collaboration between Newman, Spigel and Schnauss could be. A constantly spiralling urban-kosmisch, with Spigel’s plangent bass anchoring the celestial sounds. The addition of her wordless backing vocals and recordings of real birdsong only serve to elevate the mood further.
      Immersion & Scanner
      Scanner - aka Robin Rimbaud - is one of the most prolific and diverse artists currently working in contemporary music. Spigel and Newman have of course collaborated extensively with Rimbaud before: alongside Max Franken in the art-pop group Githead. But this is something very different. Their opening piece together: ‘Cataliz’ is the album’s moodiest moment. With its serpentine synth drones it sounds like the soundtrack to a mysterious thriller. The rich pulsing ‘Metrosphere’ recalls Immersion’s early work whilst adding another layer of grainy uncertainty. The closing ‘The Mundane and the Profound’ opens with a “Rimbaud scanned” recording of an irritated flight attendant but this is eventually subsumed by a simple yet emotive piano figure: a gentle and touching end to a unique collection of songs.
      Nanocluster Vol.1 is a testament to a remarkable synergy between a diverse assembly of strongly individual talents. The fact that it not only succeeds, but excels should be cause for celebration. 


      TRACK LISTING

      Immersion, Tarwater. 1. Ripples // 2. Mrs. Wood // 3. All You Cat Lovers
      Immersion, Laetitia Sadier. 4. Unclustered // 5. Uncencored // 6. Riding The Wave
      Immersion, Ulrich Schnauss. 7. Remember Those Days On The Road // 8. Skylarks // 9. So Much Green
      Immersion, Scanner. 10. Cataliz // 11. Metrosphere // 12. The Mundane And The Profound

      Nacht Raum / Bande Berne Crematorie

      Expanded 1982-1984

      Continuing their rich vein of form, Mannequin Records present a LP compilation of Michael Antener (Swamp Terrorist) early 80's minimal synth/industrial projects Nacht'raum (with Michael Stämpfli) and, as solo, Bande Berne Crematoire.
      Heavily influenced by the works of SPK and Nocturnal Emissions, Michael Antener made his first recordings in the basement of his parents house in a small village nearby Bern, Utzensdorf. He started BBC in 1980, a hybrid of Neue Deutsch Welle and noise/experimental, making a household name in the international home recording scene of the time and participating to many tape compilations.
      Teaming up with Michael Stämpfli as Nacht’raum, he self-released the untitled mini-lp in 1983. Coming out from the same town of Grauzone, the duo moved into the darkest minimal electronic sounds, choosing German as main language for the lyrics and a Roland Tr-808 as main drum machine, bringing the sound to a proto-electro dimension. Nacth’raum will be historically a real gem in the 80's Swiss underground electronic music, together with Mittageisen, Grauzone, Liliput, The Vyllies.
      Michael, by the way, later teamed up with Ane Hebeisen and they went by the name of Swamp Terrorists, releasing seven albums and touring throughout the world until the end of the nineties. At the end of the nineties he sold all his instruments and became independent as a graphic artist. 

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Viva Espana
      2. Tiere Schreit
      3. Kranzo Roses
      4. Rosa Bernet
      5. Sahel Passe
      6. Ich Muss
      7. Maria Tanz - Maria Flieg
      8. Consume
      9. Menschwirtschaft
      10. Ende
      11. Plastiktraume
      12. Nachstes Jahr 

      THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2019 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

      To celebrate the 10th release on the mighty Canoe, Nyra hits us with a limited reissue of two of his heaviest hitters, alongside a brand new sample house smasher. The freshly wrought "Take Me To The Water" opens the set with disco bass, sweltering strings and hot horns (the sound design on that og snippet hinting at an African heritage perhaps) flipped into a filter heavy, sliced and diced house heater in time honoured Nyra fashion. Over on the flipside, the producer takes us back to CANOE006 for the acid fuelled "On & On", a disco tinged pounder alive with 303 bass and those hard AF drums, before closing the EP with "Love Safari", the killer filtered edit of Gepy & Gepy's "African Love Song" which made CANOE005 a £20 12". 

      TRACK LISTING

      A1. Take Me To The Water
      B1. On And On
      B2. Love Safari

      North Sea Radio Orchestra

      I A Moon (RSD20 EDITION)

        THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2020 RELEASE AVAILABLE ONLINE ONLY AS PART OF THE AUGUST 29TH DROP DAY AT 6PM.
        LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.


        Red colour vinyl.Limited to 500 copies.A seminal work now available for the first time on vinyl! MOJO "Chamber pop pastoralists make great leap forward...Who knew that what the music of Steve Reich has been crying out for all these years is a Krautrock makeover?" North Sea Radio Orchestra; born in the alleys and lanes of the City of London, then spreading out across the metropolis, performing shows in churches, concert halls, galleries and festivals, two album releases with glowing reviews and several BBC6 sessions.This is their third album; 'I a moon'. Written throughout the Autumn and Winter of 2010/2011 by band leader and guitarist Craig Fortnam with a pencil and paper, guitar and piano and recorded 'at various locations in southern England on his laptop', 'I a moon' retains the unique NSRO line-up of strings, woodwind, percussion, guitars, keyboards and voices but with a darker, less pastoral sound, with synth and percussion taking a more prominent role than on their previous two albums.Another departure is a move away from using poetry to the more personal use of self-penned lyrics : 'I a moon, orbiting myself.Sometime gravity pulls me closeÖ.'. On this release, the influences apparent on the first two albums (Britten, Vaughan Williams, Reich, ISB, 70's prog) have been augmented by a distinct whiff of Krautrock (on the instrumental 'Berliner Luft') while the angular guitars of 'Ring Moonlets' show a debt to the dual guitar textures of Deerhoof.NSRO continue to blend their influences in a highly imaginative and unusual way, while all the time having an ear for the beautiful, be it in melody, texture or chord.North Sea Radio Orchestra - 'I a moon'; beautiful, redolent, ancient and modern, English and world, unique.

        Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

        Magic Secrets #1 (RSD22 EDITION)

          THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2022 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

          This 7" features Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds demos of "We're Gonna Get There In The End" and "Trying To Find A World That's Been And Gone: Part 1" which were released at short notice as a New Year goodwill message from Noel to the fans for 2021 and 2022 respectively. A physical release of these tracks has been highly anticipated. These limited edition 7"s are individually numbered and feature exclusive artwork.

          Night Beats

          Live At Valentine (RSD22 EDITION)

            THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2022 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

            Newly recorded live session on coloured vinyl.

            Northside

            Chicken Rhythms (RSD24 EDITION)

              THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 20TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

              IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.


              Record Store Day 2024 Exclusive.

              Numbered, limited edition on yellow vinyl.

              First time reissued on vinyl since its original release for Northside – key players in the ‘Madchester’ / baggy / indierave scene of the early 90s.

              Top 20 album produced by The Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie (Echo & The Bunnymen, Shack, The Coral, Texas).

              Featuring the indie dancefloor fillers ‘Take 5’, ‘Shall We Take A Trip’ and ‘My Rising Star’.

              Vinyl cut from the original Factory Records masters.

              Restored artwork by Central Station Design.

              TRACK LISTING

              A1. Take 5
              A2. Weight Of Air
              A3. Funky Munky
              A4. A Change Is On Its Way
              A5. Yeah Man
              B1. Tour De World
              B2. Wishful Thinking
              B3. Shall We Take A Trip
              B4. Who’s To Blame
              B5. Practise Makes Perfect

              Nile Marr

              Lonely Heart Killers

                Following on from 2020's debut album 'Are You Happy Now?', Manchester's Nile Marr returns with Self Care, the first track off his sophomore LP 'Lonely Hearts Killers'.

                "I wanted to this one to feel different to my previous album. Songs came out quickerand I mostly recorded it at night in the Mill, I just tried to go with the late night vibe" says Marr.

                "I got back into listening to all the bands that made me want to write songs in the first place, like the Lilys and Neil Finn. I guess the whole album was trying to focus on song writing, and because I couldn’t play live during lockdown, I focussed more on song writing rather than ‘I know this works at our live shows', so I feel like this one differs in every wayfrom my previous album".

                For fans of Broken Social Scene, Big Star and Elliott Smith

                STAFF COMMENTS

                Barry says: Nile Marr is back! This time sees him partially eschew the soaring britpop indebted groove of 2020's 'Are You Happy Now?' in favour of a more distinguished and broad palette of sounds, veering towards west-coast sunshine pop and jangling, grand stadium rock.

                TRACK LISTING

                A1 Lonely Hearts Killers
                A2 The Rush
                A3 Self Care
                A4 You Pull Me In
                A5 Birdsong
                B1 Eyes Like Deer
                B2 Skin
                B3 Late Night Champion
                B4 Two Words
                B5 The Easiest Game
                B6 Run The Last Mile

                Natalie Bergman

                Mercy

                  While many know Bergman as one half of brother-sister duo Wild Belle, her forthcoming record is a cathartic collection rooted in the hopeful values and traditions of gospel that have helped her through the recent, tragic loss of her father.

                  On the signing of Natalie Bergman, Third Man Records co-founder Ben Swank adds, “Natalie has a unique vision and has approached this album with a reverence for the sacred and healing nature of the history of this music, but has managed to update it in a way that is distinctly her own. We're very excited to welcome her to the Third Man label and family.”

                  Alongside her brother Elliot, the island-influenced music Natalie Bergman made in Wild Belle has led to collaborations ranging from Major Lazer to Tom Tom Club, performances at Coachella and Lollapalooza, tours with Beck, Cage The Elephant, Toro y Moi and more.

                  Helmed by her heavenly voice, Bergman’s solo album is steeped in mystic melodies and time-bending tones of psychedelic rock and soul. Showcasing her multi-instrumental and creative versatility, songs will be accompanied by visuals that blend her own abstract artwork, self-designed wardrobe and beyond. Stay tuned.

                  RIYL: Wild Belle, Haley Heynderickx, Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, Meiko, El Perro Del Mar, Sylvan Esso, Overcoats, Weyes Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Maggie Rogers, Angel Olsen.

                  STAFF COMMENTS

                  Barry says: Bergman's music clearly leans heavily on the vocal-dominant acoustic guitar ballads of the 60's and 70's, joined with gorgeous harmonised girl-group soul aesthetic. It's a wonderfully new take on the tried and tested mellow folk vibe, and Bergman's haunting vocals fit it perfectly.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  SIDE 1
                  1. Talk To The Lord
                  2. Shine Your Light On Me
                  3. I Will Praise You
                  4. I'm Going Home
                  5. Home At Last
                  6. You Make My World Go Round

                  SIDE 2
                  1. Paint The Rain
                  2. The Gallows
                  3. Your Love Is My Shelter
                  4. He Will Lift You Up Higher
                  5. Sweet Mary
                  6. Last Farewell

                  Dinked Edition Exclusive 7"
                  Side A
                  A. Paint The Rain (Pachy Remix)
                  Side B
                  B. Paint The Rain (Dub Instrumental)

                  Nick Zammuto

                  We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                    The limited edition super-deluxe vinyl format is pressed onto 100% virgin vinyl in a custom Yellow-White-Clear March-Up color mix. The records is packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket, and includes a full-sized 28-page full-color diary, and an original hand-numbered animation print cell from the We The Animals film production. The soundtrack to the massively acclaimed, aware-winning motion picture, We The Animals. We The Animals has received near-unanimous acclaim (91% on Rotten Tomatoes), and the soundrack has been praised as an integral part of the film’s profound resonance. We The Animals is the award-winning new film from Jeremiah Zagar (In A Dream). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, We The Animals is Zagar’s first narrative feature.

                    It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film’s setting in rural upstate New York – and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago – Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter – and betraying of its minimal instrumentation. Beautifully edited and sequenced to act as both a companion to the film and a standalone album, We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is as subtle as it is startling, and succeeds in making even the heaviest emotions feel momentarily weightless

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. I’ll Fly Away (1:04)
                    2. We Wanted More (00:49)
                    3. We Wanted Less (01:11)
                    4. Just This (00:52)
                    5. Look At Me (01:17)
                    6. You Went So Far (00:26)
                    7. Under The Bed (01:48)
                    8. Paps Leaves (01:09)
                    9. The Kitchen (02:20)
                    10. Like A Bomb (00:31)
                    11. Stealing (02:01)
                    12. Dream Of Paps (01:44)
                    13. Haircut (02:04)
                    14. Tonight We’ll Go For A Ride (02:14)
                    15. You Were Supposed To Find Us (00:22)
                    16. Bad Bad Bad (00:56)
                    17. Wet Dream (00:45)
                    18. No More Crying (02:20)
                    19. Paps Dig A Grave (00:15)
                    20. It Was My Grave (03:36)
                    21. Bad Nightmare (00:48)
                    22. Winter (01:52)
                    23. Can I Come? (01:00)
                    24. Fly Away (05:29)
                    25. I’m Nobody’s Baby (01:15)
                    26. We The Animals (02:21)

                    Nick Zammuto

                    We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                      The limited edition super-deluxe vinyl format is pressed onto 100% virgin vinyl in a custom Yellow-White-Clear March-Up color mix. The records is packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket, and includes a full-sized 28-page full-color diary, and an original hand-numbered animation print cell from the We The Animals film production. The soundtrack to the massively acclaimed, aware-winning motion picture, We The Animals. We The Animals has received near-unanimous acclaim (91% on Rotten Tomatoes), and the soundrack has been praised as an integral part of the film’s profound resonance. We The Animals is the award-winning new film from Jeremiah Zagar (In A Dream). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, We The Animals is Zagar’s first narrative feature.

                      It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film’s setting in rural upstate New York – and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago – Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter – and betraying of its minimal instrumentation. Beautifully edited and sequenced to act as both a companion to the film and a standalone album, We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is as subtle as it is startling, and succeeds in making even the heaviest emotions feel momentarily weightless

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1. I’ll Fly Away (1:04)
                      2. We Wanted More (00:49)
                      3. We Wanted Less (01:11)
                      4. Just This (00:52)
                      5. Look At Me (01:17)
                      6. You Went So Far (00:26)
                      7. Under The Bed (01:48)
                      8. Paps Leaves (01:09)
                      9. The Kitchen (02:20)
                      10. Like A Bomb (00:31)
                      11. Stealing (02:01)
                      12. Dream Of Paps (01:44)
                      13. Haircut (02:04)
                      14. Tonight We’ll Go For A Ride (02:14)
                      15. You Were Supposed To Find Us (00:22)
                      16. Bad Bad Bad (00:56)
                      17. Wet Dream (00:45)
                      18. No More Crying (02:20)
                      19. Paps Dig A Grave (00:15)
                      20. It Was My Grave (03:36)
                      21. Bad Nightmare (00:48)
                      22. Winter (01:52)
                      23. Can I Come? (01:00)
                      24. Fly Away (05:29)
                      25. I’m Nobody’s Baby (01:15)
                      26. We The Animals (02:21)

                      Nicholas Allbrook

                      Manganese

                        Nicholas Allbrook is a Western Australian native and a highly-accomplished Australian songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Since the beginning of his artistic career in 2005, Allbrook has brought community and collaboration to the forefront of his artistic method.

                        Whether it was in the poignant lyricism of his solo musical endeavors (Ganough, Wallis and Fatuna/Wabi - Sabi) or in the production style of his band POND’s latest album ‘9’, Allbrook shows a deep understanding of the human experience and the importance of art in modern society. He has collaborated with Australian and international musicians alike, from King Krule to Cat Le Bon, Holy Fuck and Cuco.

                        Emotional, geological, psycho-geographical: this is the terrain of Manganese, Allbrook’s fourth album away from Pond life. A psyche-pop wonderland, Allbrook’s new solo album is the sound of a musician with a symphony in his back pocket, the Eighties history of Oz-rock in his rearview mirror and modern Australia in his sights.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        SIDE A:
                        1. Commodore
                        2. Babbel
                        3. Manganese
                        4. Jackie.
                        SIDE B:
                        1. The Endless Jetty
                        2. Vale The Chord
                        3. Mazda
                        4. Round Round The Moon And All
                        5.The Night Before You Flew

                        Naomi Alligator

                        Double Knot

                          Double Knot finds Naomi continuing to hone the winning combination of guitar and banjo she established on 2021’s Concession Stand Girl EP. For Double Knot though, Naomi wanted a fuller, more dynamic sound: more instruments, more harmonies, more layering, more, more, more. Inspired by the impressionistic melodies of Animal Collective and MGMT, Naomi peppers in computer-generated synths throughout the album, most notably on the song “Burn Out.” These electronic flourishes augment the more grounding string instruments, arriving somewhere more ethereal than Naomi’s earlier work while still maintaining her warm songwriting.

                          Naomi Alligator is fed up. She’s sick of trying to make relationships work that have already run their course, and tired of sitting in a wintry apartment waiting for her life to kick into gear. On her forthcoming album Double Knot via Carpark Records, the modern folk singer/songwriter from Virginia attempts to unwind her life from all that is holding her back. In a way, it’s a coming-of-age record about shedding what no longer serves you and, ultimately, finding something like deliverance.

                          On the opening track, “Seasick,” Naomi Alligator is already in the midst of a sort of awakening. Right off the bat, she sings, “I don’t know what’s happened to me / It’s like I turned 16 / It’s like I grew to be 6-feet tall.” This is the announcement of a wide-eyed artist coming out of hibernation and into their own. Still, Naomi’s vocals ache with guilt and longing, belying the track’s playful catchiness. Longing for what? Maybe attention from a crush, but mostly a sunnier place to call home.

                          Naomi Alligator began writing Double Knot while living in Philadelphia during the height of the pandemic and the deterioration of a longterm romance. “I scream: How’d the hell I end up here?
                          / I’m 1-inch tall, it’s crystal clear,” she chants on “Neighborhood Freak,” returning to height and size as an emotional barometer. When asked though, Naomi rejects the notion that Double Knot is a breakup album, or autobiographical at all. Moreso, she says, it’s a personal reckoning in which, “the minute before you make a big decision, you tally up the reasons why you don’t want to do what you’re doing anymore.”

                          That desire to turn the page expands to the production of the album as well. Naomi Alligator generally houses her narratives in beds of minimal, home-tracked instrumentation—influenced by the stripped-down poeticism of Joan Baez and Liz Phair’s Girly-Sound tapes. 


                          TRACK LISTING

                          1. Seasick
                          2. Don't Get It
                          3. Amelia
                          4. Blue For You
                          5. Burnout
                          6. California Girl
                          7. Make Me Sick
                          8. Neighborhood Freak
                          9. Over
                          10. Golden Boy
                          11. What I Meant
                          12. My French Summer

                          Nick Attfield

                          Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me - 33 1/3

                            This is an in-depth study of the visceral slacker classic from 1987, an album that influenced enormously the nascent alternative scene. Dinosaur Jr, the stereotypical slackers. Mascis, Barlow, Murph (just Murph): three early-twenty somethings still overburdened by a torpid adolescence and a disastrous dress sense.

                            With battered guitar, bass, and kit, they carry around a catalogue of songs that betrays identities half-formed at best, schizoid at worst. But listen. "1987", a new album, a snapshot of a moment when a furious musical intensity swung upwards and pushed their lyrics and Mascis' vocal whine far into the margins.

                            Searing riffs, mountainous solos, and the tightest of fills - underpinned by stream-of-consciousness structures and a palette of crazed effects - steal the show. These three build a one-off sound that stirred up the hardening alternative mainstream and drove it to distraction. "You're Living All Over Me": supposedly Mascis' indictment of what it was like to tour in a van with these other two misfits, but also testimony to the obsession - an itch, a disease - that the band's disengagement from their world had produced.

                            This record cares so little it cares a lot.

                            Nick Banks

                            So It Started There : From Punk To Pulp

                              So It Started There chronicles the life and career of drummer Nick Banks, and how he came to be in one of the UK's most iconic and beloved bands: Pulp. Beginning with his childhood in Rotherham, Nick recounts his personal and musical journey through the genres, first as a punk, then as a goth; how it all started when he was first inspired to pick up the sticks by Sex Pistols drummer, Paul Cook.

                              Flash forward to the eighties, Nick has been playing in a handful of Sheffield groups and spies an ad from his favourite band, Pulp, in a local club. He pays Jarvis and the gang a visit and the rest is history. From there, Nick describes his growth as a professional drummer and musician, the trials and tribulations of chasing success in the music industry, touring triumphs and horrors, the band's journey from relative obscurity to becoming a global sensation, and the process of writing and recording their most famous albums.

                              Natasha Barrett

                              HETEROTOPIA

                                ‘It is tempting to think of Barrett’s sounds as living organisms, darting around in your peripheral vision.’ - The Sound Projector ‘Natasha Barrett is now one of the leading composers in the emerging field of 3D audio: using high-density loudspeaker arrays and cutting-edge recording and mixing procedures to create works full of ingenuity and drama.’ - The New York Times Persistence of Sound presents a new solo LP from one of the world’s leading voices in electroacoustic music.

                                Natasha Barrett is known internationally for her intense explorations of the movement of sounds through space. Whilst studying with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham, Barrett worked with BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre), which led to a doctoral composition degree supervised by composer Denis Smalley. Barrett has since established an international reputation as a composer of 3D audio and ambisonics.

                                She treats spatialisation as a musical parameter, and told the New York Times, “I’m really concerned with the idea of tangibility. Sound is invisible, but we can do things that make you want to reach out and touch it.” Barrett describes her inspiration as coming from the immediate sounding matter of the world around us, as well as the way it behaves. Barrett's works are performed and commissioned throughout the world, and have received a long list of prizes, including the Giga-Hertz Award and the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards. Persistence of Sound was founded by composer Iain Chambers, of the musique concrète ensemble Langham Research Centre. Its releases span electroacoustic music, field recordings, and the unclassifiable music between these genres.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                A1. Growth [5:59]
                                A2. Speaking Spaces No. 1: Heterotopia - Part 1 [13:32]
                                B1. Speaking Spaces No. 1: Heterotopia - Part 2 [10:12]
                                B2. Urban Melt In Park Palais Meran [9:40]

                                A collector and DJ from Dallas, Texas, Chad "High-C" Burnett of Rehash Media, first exposed Bartell's "Top Going Down, Bottom Going Up" in the "Excavations" section of the Rehash web site in December of 2001. For all intents and purposes, the 45 had been unknown to collectors but caused a quite a stir while everyone who heard it searched for more copies. The 45 remained out of reach until February of 2004 when noted British collector/DJ Ian Wright turned up a copy and began to play the 45, giving it further exposure by way of a radio show featured on the deepfunk.org web site.

                                Hailing from the small farming town of Ashburn, GA (population roughly 4400) noted as the "Peanut Capital of the World", young Nathan Bartell had grown up around music, playing trumpet in the school band and jazz band. After graduating from high school in 1962, Bartell moved to Atlanta where he found and enjoyed a thriving music and night club scene, catching then local acts such as Gladys Knight, The Tams, as well as the many touring acts that came through town and played clubs like The Palladium, The Pink Pussycat, The Casino and The Royal Peacock

                                The point at which the story truly begins to take shape was a fateful night in the summer of 1967 at a nightclub on Bankhead Highway near Northside Drive. The house band was doing its thing, but the crowd was thinking about Wilson Pickett's current hit "Funky Broadway" as they kept shouting for the band to perform the song. After some discussion amongst the band, a few of the musicians decided they knew the song well enough to give the people what they wanted, provided somebody knew the lyrics, as their singer did not. Bartell took the stage, and must have done the job right, as he continued performing with bands in clubs all over Atlanta such as The Oasis, and the most important of Atlanta nightclubs, The Royal Peacock.

                                By April of 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Bartell was married to a woman who also came from Ashburn. She didn't care much for Atlanta, so the couple moved back home to Ashburn. Music was still boiling in Bartell's blood, however, and it wasn't long before he began singing with a group called Eddie and the Cascades from just up the road in the (even smaller) town of Cordele. Eddie and the Cascades performed in clubs around South Georgia until the band broke up in 1972. Despite the length of the band's existence, sadly, the opportunity to record never presented itself.

                                Toward the end of Bartell's time with Eddie & the Cascades, he met Jesse Boone, whose musical legacy was already well underway. Boone brought Bartell into his studio with members of his own band, The Astros, to record his first Soul-Po-Tion single "Ooh Baby, I Love You", which was backed with "If I Could Win Your Love". According to Bartell, the single sold quite well regionally, and Hi Records approached Jesse Boone about releasing the single nationally. Boone declined the offer, hoping to draw more attention to his label and boost the momentum of his Soul-Po-Tion label. While sales were apparently good enough to attract a nationally distributed label, this one is quite possibly his most obscure 45.

                                Capitalizing on the regional success of "Ooh Baby I Love You", Bartell toured around the southeast, often with Jesse Boone & the Astros, playing dates in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Carolinas. Touring, as it can certainly do with young musicians, began to take a toll on Bartell's marriage, which was splitting up by the time he was ready to record his second single. Soul-Po-Tion label mate Freddie Wilson, following his own debut single "What Would It Be Like", had written a new song, which Jesse Boone listened to with Bartell in mind. "Top Going Up, Bottom Going Down" was a song that fit very well with what Bartell was feeling at the time, so Boone put him in the studio with Soul-Po-Tion's house band to record Wilson's composition. Where Freddie Wilson's style was very much from the mould of James Brown, Bartell gave it a more personal touch. That said, Bartell admits that the single's flip side "Johnny and John" was basically a blatant attempt to cash in on the success and sound of Johnnie Taylor, particularly through the use of reverb and echo effects.

                                Playing on the "Top Going Down…" session were O.C. Glaydens (a.k.a. A.C. Raven, a.k.a. O.C. the Wildman) on guitar, Johnny Badden on bass, Bruce Jones on saxophone, and a fella with the last name of Caldwell on drums. Nathan doesn't remember Mr. Caldwell's first name, but if he was Boone's first call drummer for Soul-Po-Tion recording sessions, then this is a man who clearly needs more attention. Even some of the less significant Soul-Po-Tion singles some top shelf drumming.

                                As Bartell remembers, the Freddie Wilson song was written specifically for Bartell to record. This indeed may be the case, but it is also possible that Freddie Wilson presented the demo to Boone for himself. What exactly happened next is something of a mystery. Either Boone specifically wanted the song to be recorded by Bartell, or Bartell's 45 came out before Wilson tried to do a polished version beyond his original rough demo recording. No matter how exactly the series of events transpired, Boone clearly did not want the two versions competing for sales against each other, much less on his own record label. Either theory is plausible. Regardless, Nathan Bartell's classic 45 emerged from the small label in Albany showing exponentially more style and musicianship than his debut.

                                Back to 1975 now…. While Bartell continued the southeastern club circuit, Jesse Boone was setting up a new record label, Albradella. The label kicked off with a couple of singles from Florida artist Chuck Roberson, but Bartell came back in 1976 with his new band, The Shandells, to record the "Moving On" single, with the b-side, "Sitting Alone". "Moving On" is a driving up-tempo funky soul dancer, with a deep ballad on the flip featuring Melvin Roberts on lead vocals. One more single was released on the Albradella label in 1979, "That's My Girl" parts 1 and 2 and "Someone Like You" b/w "Running Through the Night".

                                For a good part of the early 1980s, The Shandells worked both on their own, and backing other musicians on tour, such as Z.Z. Hill while he toured for his 1982 album "Down Home". The work with Z.Z. Hill put Bartell in touch with Tommy Cough of Malaco, who Bartell cites as an important mentor and influence in aspects of his career ever since. This influence has had no greater impact than in helping Bartell start up his own label, Eureka Records, an endeavor which he undertook in 1985 and continues to operate today.

                                Eureka was started when Bartell had approached Jesse Boone with the idea of recording in a new studio rather than Boone's own studio. Boone was not not keen on releasing recordings on his labels which were not produced in house, which is understandable when you own the studio and the label. So, Bartell and his band went to Sunbelt Sound Studios and began to record songs for an album which was to be titled "Let Me Love You". It seems that nine songs were cut in 1987 for this project. Unable to take them back to Albradella, Bartell started his own Eureka Records and published his songs under his own Co-Rey Music. Of the nine songs recorded, only four would actually see their eventual release on vinyl, as two 7" singles. But even with the Eureka label off the ground, Bartell did not sever his friendship or business ties with Jesse Boone.

                                By 1987, the Soul-Po-Tion and Albradella labels were both out of business, for the most part. Boone set up a new but short-lived venture called Vanity Records, which seems to have been for the express purpose of putting together one last project with Nathan Bartell. This is how Bartell's only R&B album was released. There was, however, one slight problem. Bartell's name is nowhere on it. Instead, Boone named the artist Timothy Gaye. The exact reason for this is still unknown though Bartell casually dismissed this decision as "one of Jesse's marketing ploys". The album is comprised of songs written by Boone, Roshell Anderson, Homer Chambers, a version of Eddie Floyd's "Knock On Wood" and a track written by Bartell's brother Keith, who also handles lead vocals on the song "Million Dollar Baby". The Jesse Boone-penned "If I Ever Fall In Love Again" b/w "Knock On Wood" was released as the only single from the album, which is slightly ironic since "Giving Good Loving" is easily the strongest track on the album.. One last single on the Vanity label followed the album, with Bartell (under his own name again) providing the song "Someone Like You" but sharing space with Chuck Roberson's "I Feel It Coming" on the flip side.

                                Bartell continued performing in night clubs, but not traveling as much, when a fateful turn ended his secular music career. Bartell went through a series of seemingly random religious encounters, the death of his 19 year old son who was coming home from his first year of college, and a collapsed lung. In 1991 Bartell was hospitalized with a recurrence of his lung ailment. While in the hospital, Bartell became born again and cites his acceptance of Jesus as what finally healed him for good. During this time, he also endured the death of his youngest son, who died at the age of 17. Bartell prayed to God that if he could make it through all of these events, he would never sing R&B music again. Music was still what Bartell wanted to do with his life, however, and formed a Gospel group called Nathan Bartell & Reality. Crossing the bridge between the traditional Gospel quartet style and a more contemporary sound, Reality has recorded three albums since 1995, and all on his own Eureka label and is still performing at Gospel events in Southern Georgia today.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1. Top Going Down
                                2. I Feel It Coming
                                3. Sitting Alone
                                4. Jody & John
                                5. Someone Like You
                                6. Moving On
                                7. I Want Your Love
                                8. Mystery Lady
                                9. See Me Cry
                                10. Ooh Baby, I Love You
                                11. If I Could Win Your Love
                                12. If I Ever Fall In Love Again

                                DFA hit us up with  "Echo", the first album for the label from acclaimed Norwegian avant garde pop vocalist Nils Bech. A busy stage actor and singer already well known in his native Norway for three albums released on Oslo’s Fysisk Format, "Echo" marks a pivotal turning point for Bech and something of a radical sonic departure too. The keys to this change lie with Bech’s new collaborator, the young underground DJ, producer and beat maker Drippin’, known for his work with American rap artists such as LE1F and Cakes Da Killa. As a result, where his previous work was strange, ethereal and otherworldly - completely and utterly unique - ‘Echo’ throbs with a renewed sense of vigour and urgency, without losing any of the idiosyncratic beauty which marked Bech’s work before. 


                                TRACK LISTING

                                Waiting
                                Too Little Too Late
                                Glimpse Of Hope
                                Please Stay
                                Drip, Drip
                                Let Go
                                Echo
                                Jealousy
                                A Sudden Sickness

                                We don't know much - or anything really - about the secretive Nico Bellari, so all we can go off is the music. This is his own new label, and it kicks off with a delightful pair of edits of some good old disco delights, and both come with their own carefully stripped-back and flesh dubs, all mixed and edited from original multi-tracks. 'Dance, Dance, Dance' is a nice and funky disc stepper with a silky and seductive lead vocal that swells the heart. 'Straight Ahead' is more weighty for the pet time with some fat-ass bass and lovely improvised synth playfulness, all under a vocal you will know and probably already love.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                Side 1
                                "Dance, Dance, Dance" (NB Edit)
                                "Dance, Dance, Dance" (Dub De Jure)

                                Side 2
                                "Straight Ahead" (NB Edit)
                                "Straight Ahead" (Dub De Jure)

                                Disco De Jure made a great debut with its first release and now backs that up with more quality for lovers of classic disco with a contemporary twist. It is the rather mysterious Nico Bellari who steps up to edit this into his own vibe. 'If The Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing' gets underway with lush strong stabs, rolling drums and squelchy synth work that will get those hands in the air. The dub De Jure is a glossy version paired back to the groove, and on the flip, the timeless joys of Gloria Estefan's 'Rhythm Of The Night' get a subtle update with more club-ready kicks. A dub concludes this useful package.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                Side 1
                                1. "If The Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing" (NB Edit)
                                2. "If The Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing" (Dub De Jure)

                                Side 2
                                1. "Rhythm Of The Night" (NB Edit)
                                2. "Rhythm Of The Night" (Dub De Jure)

                                Naima Bock

                                Below A Massive Dark Land

                                  Most of the writing of Naima Bock’s second album, Below A Massive Dark Land, was a solitary affair. It may not sound like it – it’s made up of strong, purposeful arrangements with a huge host of musicians, filled with cradling space and warm light. This will also come as a surprise to anyone who has seen Naima perform in the time since the release of her 2022 debut Giant Palm, which was undoubtedly a communal experience. But there’s power in the solitary, too. Giant Palm was arranged with collaborator Joel Burton, but going this one alone in search of something that was truly hers, Naima found she was capable of more. “After me and Joel stopped working together”, she remembers, “it was an impossibility to even fathom doing arrangements myself but then I started learning violin and it was possible”. Finding that she could go it alone was incredibly powerful for Naima: “I think I needed it, to be able to feel proud of something”. Beyond the writing process, however, the record is not a stark, stripped back affair. Below… still has the majesty that made Giant Palm so remarkable. Having tugged the first record down from the skies and spreading it across the earth, Naima finds a newfound vocal power and confidence born from hundreds of hours on stage, and the music sounds fuller, more tangible, and no less enveloping.This can be heard on the album’s lead singles: “Kaley” feels fresh and surprising in its rug-pull choppiness but is distinctly Naima in its swinging, jubilant choruses. The accompanying “Further Away” takes a different tack, drawing you in with its simplicity. Finally, the hazy, luxurious beauty of “Feed My Release” draws on the sepia-toned traditions of The Roches, John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III and imbues them with the kind of stark confessional songwriting of Mount Eerie. These are ambitious, rich arrangements that reach deeper and darker lyrically than Giant Palm.

                                  Below a Massive Dark Land was predominantly produced by Jack Osborne (Bingo Fury) and Joe Jones, and recorded at The Crypt in north London, with additional production and arrangement by Oliver Hamilton (caroline, Shovel Dance Collective) and Naima herself. Six of the tracks on Below… were mixed by Jason Agel, with the remainder done by Osborne and Jones. The album was mastered by Kevin Tuffy.

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  Gentle
                                  Kaley
                                  Feed My Release
                                  My Sweet Body
                                  Lines
                                  Further Away
                                  Takes One
                                  Age
                                  Moving
                                  Star

                                  Naima Bock

                                  Giant Palm

                                    The roots of Naima Bock’s music are far reaching. Born in Glastonbury to a Brazilian father and a Greek mother, Naima spent her early childhood in Brazil before eventually returning to England and various homes in South-East London. This heritage combines with more recent pursuits in Naima’s music. From the Brazilian standards that the family listened to while driving to the beach, to the European folk traditions she tapped into on her own, and the pursuits that interest her today – studies in archaeology, work as a gardener, and walking the world’s great trails – Naima’s music draws from family, the earth and music handed down through generations.

                                    Naima’s debut album Giant Palm is undoubtedly infused with the Brazilian music of her youth and regular family visits. She found inspiration in “the percussion, the melodies, chords - and particularly the poetic juxtaposition of tragedy and beauty held within the lyrics.” By the age of 15 Naima was embedded in the music scene of South-East London, eventually forming Goat Girl with school friends and touring the world. After six years playing bass in Goat Girl, Naima left the band to try something new. She set up a gardening company and started a degree at University College London in archeology because, as she jokes, “I liked being near the ground.” During this time she wrote music, played guitar, learned violin, worked with ever-shifting South-London collective Broadside Hacks, and met producer and arranger Joel Burton through Memorials of Distinction label head Josh Cohen. Joel’s burgeoning interest in Western classical music, global folk music, experience in large scale arrangement and orchestration informed the collaborative process that eventually culminated in Giant Palm.

                                    Recorded with the help of over 30 musicians (including Josh Cohen on synth/electronics) by Dan Carey of Speedy Wunderground at his studio space in Streatham, South-East London, and engineered by Syd Kemp, the songs on Giant Palm represent a snapshot of a specific feeling, of brief moments in Naima’s life that make up a larger whole. The expansive yet delicate arrangements highlight Naima’s love for the collectivist values of traditional folk music, in which songs belong to everyone, and singing can take on countless forms without the need to exactly replicate something. “All the other representations that I’d had of singing felt so unattainable” she recalls. Giant Palm finds Naima bucking these expectations to let her unique voice and sense of communal creativity flourish. 


                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    Giant Palm
                                    Toll
                                    Every Morning
                                    Dim Dum
                                    Working
                                    Natural
                                    Campervan
                                    Enter The House
                                    Instrumental 
                                    O Morro

                                    Nicolas Bougaïeff

                                    Begin Within

                                      Nicolas Bougaïeff presents his brand new album, ‘Begin Within’, released on Mute.

                                      This is the first vocal-lead record from Nicolas and is inspired by self-transformation. It’s about honesty, instinct and lessons hard learned through intimate Berlin stories. Nicolas addresses these themes in form and content, explored with the use of his voice.

                                      Much like his debut album, ‘The Upward Spiral’, ‘Begin Within’ continues to illustrate Bougaïeff’s approach to electronic music from a compositional lens, pushing boundaries of rhythm and genre.

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      Every Day
                                      Naked Eye
                                      Outside In
                                      Pain Goes Away
                                      Begin Within
                                      Designer Love
                                      Inside Out
                                      We Rejoice
                                      Inner Pattern
                                      Designer Love

                                      Nicolas Bougaïeff

                                      The Upward Spiral

                                        The Upward Spiral is Nicolas Bougaïeff’s debut fulllength album release on Mute, following the release of three EPs on the seminal electronic label’s techno offshoot, NovaMute.

                                        The new album explores elements of acid, techno and tempo modulation through a compositional lens, drawing on the Canadian-born, Berlin-based artist’s love for avant-garde forms and longstanding relationship with the electronic music community.

                                        Bougaïeff hails from diverse musical background, having studied in a conservatoire setting whilst foraying into anti-authoritarian rave culture. He is also a respected lecturer, regularly teaching masterclasses in composition and speaking at global events such as Mutek and Ableton Loop.
                                        Following the completion of his PhD on minimal techno at the University of Huddersfield, Bougaïeff designed the controllers for Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman Live tour, and co-founded Liine, the company behind the landmark music app Lemur used by astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station in a live jam with Kraftwerk.

                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        A1 Embrace Hope All Ye Who Enter Here
                                        A2 Thalassaophobia
                                        B1 The Upward Spiral
                                        B2 Inexadorable
                                        C1 Nexus
                                        C2 Flying High
                                        D1 Positive Altitude
                                        D2 Inward Megalith
                                        D3 Listen Carefully To The Heart Beat

                                        Nathan Bowles Trio

                                        Are Possible

                                          The Nathan Bowles Trio’s ‘Are Possible’ is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums. The individual perspectives of Nathan, double bassist Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) and drummer Rex McMurry (CAVE) work together in an easy-rolling manner, but one that contains an expansive, ass-shaking confabulation of ideas.

                                          Nathan’s solo music-making explorations with the banjo are evidence of the range of possible places to go in the world while still in contact with one’s roots: clawhammer boogie, strummed, bowed and percussive techniques, original compositions and traditional tunes, all cutting a path between old-time Appalachian music and its long-lost cousin, ecstatic minimal drone. In conversation with Rex and Casey’s own conceptions, with guitar, bass, mellowtone, keyboards, drums and percussion aboard, he continues to ride toward new vistas.

                                          It’s been a long six years since these three players first appeared on Nathan’s 2018 album, ‘Plainly Mistaken’, a stretch made weird by the period of time in which social music couldn’t be played socially. But again, nothing ever really dies: the time since, experienced as individuals and as a band, informs everything about ‘Are Possible’’s multitudinous group sound. The details along the road that the band travelled to get here, where one riff blossomed into ten, then melted back down, and parts were added and subtracted and became each other in moments of new collective understanding.

                                          Rex brought a rhythm to the table after drumming on buckets at work, Casey provided a bassline that redirected a previous jam, Nathan brought in a song he’d been messing with forever and they figured it out together. Their diversity of sources moves easily within the arrangements, rendering a far-ranging set of feels, from transcendental to new country funk to good ol’ jazz and the folk-rock - all of it drawn out exquisitely when they mixed at Electrical Audio in Chicago with the delicate hands of Cooper Crain upon the faders.

                                          The Nathan Bowles Trio have done their due diligence, passing their music through time and space on their way to now; now, the real trip begins, as ‘Are Possible’ travels on, through you.

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          Dappled
                                          The Ternions
                                          Our Air
                                          Top Button
                                          Gimme My Shit
                                          Aims

                                          Nelson Brandt

                                          Knalleffekt

                                            Nepumuk / Knowsum glides onto the Growing Bin under his given name, living his best life in this lush loungecore fantasy. Eyebrow raised and hips unlocked, Nelson strolls through affluent funk, sun-blushed boogie and slacker soul to deliver a playful pop masterpiece. A Revered MC and renowned beat maker, his syrup-smooth vocals are just the cocktail cherry on top.

                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            A1 Passepartout
                                            A2 Knalleffekt
                                            A3 Schwimmen
                                            A4 Das Koksquartett
                                            A5 Assoziationsketten

                                            B1 Schweben
                                            B2 Appartement N°5
                                            B3 Go?tterspeise
                                            B4 Digitale Liebe
                                            B5 Schadstoffe
                                            B6 Platte

                                            Nicolas Britell

                                            Succession: The Complete Collection

                                              The only comprehensive vinyl release of the music from the Emmy-winning HBO series Succession’.

                                              Includes 16-Page booklet with specially selected photo gallery and liner notes from Nicholas Britell as well as the series’ creator and Executive Producer, Jesse Armstrong, copies of handwritten sheet music by Nicholas Britell of the pieces “Rondo in F Minor” and “Andante in C Minor” and Waystar/Royco and ATN News bumper stickers

                                              Succession: The Complete Collection is a super-deluxe vinyl release incorporating all of Nicholas Britell’s iconic, multi-award-winning music from Succession’s Seasons 1 through 4 across five discs. This is the first time that any of the music from Seasons 2 through 4 is being released on vinyl. This box set will be a must-have for Succession fans and vinyl collectors globally.

                                              Britell’s score has consistently been acclaimed by fans and critics alike. Calling it, “fit for a concert hall,” The New York Times noted that Britell’s score can just as easily be imagined as a serialized work in its own right: “Over the four seasons of Succession [Britell] has written something unusual in television: a sprawling yet conceptually focused score that has developed, episode by episode, into a classic theme-and-variations work that would be just as fit for the concert hall as for the small screen.” The Guardian even declared Britell “composed the definitive TV Theme of the 21st Century”.

                                              This iconic title theme—an inimitable fusion of hip-hop and classical sound worlds which immediately immersed audiences in Succession’s distinctly tragi-comic dramatic universe—earned the composer a Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2019; Britell’s score for the series won him the World Soundtrack Award for TV Composer of the Year in both 2020 and 2023. The score for season 4 also earned a Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score — TV Show/Limited Series in 2023, and a Society of Composers and Lyricists Award for Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production in 2024. Britell’s work on Succession was nominated for an additional three Emmy Awards, a GRAMMY® Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, and two further Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards.

                                              Niamh Bury

                                              Yellow Roses

                                                Niamh Bury is at the very forefront of Irish folk music’s revival. Bury deftly pairs her luminescent, instantly recognizable voice with a nuanced signwriting sensibility that draws inspiration from folk, indie, and jazz and draws upon inspirations from artists such as Anna Mieke, Billie Marten and Big Thief. Signing with illustrious Irish folk label Claddagh Records in the early part of 2023, Bury spent much of the year establishing herself as one of the nation’s most exciting emerging artists. With the release of Yellow Roses on Friday, 29th March, fans can expect to hear 10 considered and lovingly-crafted songs that conjure maps of conversations with oneself, loved ones, imaginary characters and those who have passed on to other worlds. Each is an attempt to arrive at some kind of empathy, understanding and acceptance. The music is both lush and spacious, giving the listener room to swim, dip or fly between verses.

                                                Of her impending debut album release, Niamh Bury says: “I’m so excited to be releasing this collection of songs I’ve had with me for some time. I’m very proud of it and the wonderful people who worked on it with me. I learned so much making it, and feel very lucky to be letting it out into the world.

                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                Discovery
                                                Beehive
                                                Who Am I To Tell Him
                                                Bite The Bridle
                                                Pianos In The Snow
                                                Simmering Pots
                                                Ballad Of Margaret Road
                                                Yellow Roses
                                                Lovely Adam
                                                Budapest

                                                Neko Case

                                                The Harder I Fight The More I Love You

                                                  An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life-one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in 'slummy, one-horse towns'; obsessive desire; bursts of comedy; and indispensable friendships, reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature helped her on a singular journey to become a beloved, Grammy-nominated artist. Neko Case has long been revered as one of music's most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candour and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl 'raised by two dogs and a space heater' in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent.

                                                  In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Case shows readers what it's like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art. The Harder I Fight The More I Love You is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face.

                                                  Nick Castro & The Young Elders

                                                  Come Into Our House

                                                    West Coast psychedelic folkie Nick Castro is currently making some of most dynamic and truly original sounds to emerge from the much-ballyhooed new folk movement. As 'freak-folk' and assorted hairy-fairy type labels grab the headlines in the underground, Castro strives for a solemn, serene sort of beauty, summoning utterly melodic incantations in song and sound. Gracefully immersing 60s / 70s British Isles acid balladry with Middle-Eastern traditional music and heady, pan-cultural communal jams, Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas and ocean-spanning folk transcendence. Following up 2005's lauded "Further From Grace", Castro unfurls his sprawling third album "Come Into Our House", easily his most far-reaching and deeply molecular outing yet. Previously backed by The Poison Tree, which included Josephine Foster and members of Espers, Nick Castro has assembled a new band of players under the moniker The Young Elders - a truly stellar cast of musicians whose combined resumes include folk and avant rock ensembles Current 93, In Gowan Ring, Damo Suzuki's Network and Cul de Sac. Effortlessly mating Bert Jansch-style folk song ("Winding Tree"), psychedelic folk rock ("One I Love"), Middle Eastern traditional music ("Attar") and Bay Area acid-raga ("Lay Down Your Arms") to a kind of organic studio Musique Concrete that Can forged on albums like "Tago Mago". The results are astonishing, challenging and utterly psychedelic. By reaching for the sky Castro achieves the heavens, and "Come Into Our House" is the evidence. A modern acid-folk masterwork.

                                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                    Tender Prey (2010 Digital Remaster)

                                                      ‘Tender Prey’ is the fifth studio album from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and was released in September 1988. The album was recorded during several sessions over the course of four months in West Berlin and London and was produced by Flood.

                                                      The album opens with ‘The Mercy Seat’, which has been subsequently played at almost all of the band’s live performances since 1988 and was later covered by one of Cave’s biggest influences, Johnny Cash. ‘The Mercy Seat’ was released as a single in May 1988 as a precursor to the album and ‘Deanna’ was released shortly after the album hit the streets.

                                                      Cave later admitted that the album “was made at a difficult time in my life when things were spiralling out of control in a lot of areas.”

                                                      This CD and DVD version includes the original album in 5.1 surround sound, five bonus tracks and three videos.

                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      CD
                                                      The Mercy Seat
                                                      Up Jumped The Devil
                                                      Deanna
                                                      Watching Alice
                                                      Mercy
                                                      City Of Refuge
                                                      Slowly Goes The Night
                                                      Sunday’s Slave
                                                      Sugar Sugar Sugar
                                                      New Morning

                                                      DVD
                                                      Audio
                                                      Tender Prey (Dolby Digital Surround Sound / DTS Surround Sound / Stereo)
                                                      The Mercy Seat (Video Version)
                                                      Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass
                                                      The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)
                                                      City Of Refuge (Acoustic Version)
                                                      Deanna (Acoustic Version)
                                                      Video
                                                      Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 5: Tender Prey)
                                                      The Mercy Seat
                                                      Deanna

                                                      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                      The Good Son (2010 Digital Remaster)

                                                        Released in 1990, ‘The Good Son’ is the sixth album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

                                                        ‘The Weeping Song’ and ‘The Ship Song’ have now become firm fan favourites. ‘Foi Na Cruz’ is based partly upon the traditional Brazilian Protestant hymn of the same title. The title translates roughly as ‘It Happened On The Cross’.

                                                        Cave later said, “I guess ‘The Good Son’ is some kind of reflection of the way I felt early on in Brazil. I was quite happy there. I was in love and the first year or two was good. The problem I found was... in order to survive you have to adopt their attitudes towards everything, which are kind of blinkered.”

                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        CD/LP
                                                        Foi Na Cruz
                                                        The Good Son
                                                        Sorrow’s Child
                                                        The Weeping Song
                                                        The Ship Song
                                                        The Hammer Song
                                                        Lament
                                                        The Witness Song
                                                        Lucy

                                                        DVD (With CD/DVD Version Only)
                                                        The Good Son (Dolby Digital Surround Sound / DTS Surround Sound / Stereo)
                                                        Additional Tracks (Dolby Digital Surround Sound / DTS Surround Sound / Stereo)
                                                        The Train Song
                                                        Cocks ‘N’ Asses
                                                        Helpless
                                                        Video:
                                                        Do You Love Me Like I Love
                                                        You (Part 6: The Good Son)
                                                        The Weeping Song
                                                        The Ship Song

                                                        Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                        Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

                                                          ‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’ is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ fourteenth studio album, and was recorded in June and July 2007 at The State of the Ark Studios in Richmond, Surrey, and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove recording studios, in Chiswick, west London, and was released on March 3rd 2008.

                                                          It would also be the last album to feature founding member Mick Harvey, who left the Bad Seeds in 2009.

                                                          In several interviews Cave has stated that this album would "sound like Grinderman", his side project, who had released their debut album a year earlier. In line with this rough-and-ready approach, the album was recorded in about five days, an uncommonly short period for a full-length album.

                                                          Cave wrote on his inspiration for the album: "Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it. Traumatised, actually. We are all, of course, in awe of the greatest of Christ's miracles—raising a man from the dead—but I couldn't help but wonder how Lazarus felt about it. As a child it gave me the creeps, to be honest. I've taken Lazarus and stuck him in New York City, in order to give the song, a hip, contemporary feel. I was also thinking about Harry Houdini who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists who were cashing in on the bereaved. He believed there was nothing going on beyond the grave. He was the second greatest escapologist, Harry was, Lazarus, of course, being the greatest. I wanted to create a kind of vehicle, a medium, for Houdini to speak to us if he so desires, you know, from beyond the grave."

                                                          Critical response to the album was overwhelmingly positive, with reviewers citing this as both a return to greatness and a new side of the band. A review from NME described the record as a "gothic psycho-sexual apocalypse" and gave it 8/10, whilst Mojo magazine proclaimed it their album of 2008.


                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                                          Today’s Lesson
                                                          Moonland
                                                          Night Of The Lotus Eaters
                                                          Albert Goes West
                                                          We Call Upon The Author
                                                          Hold On To Yourself
                                                          Lies Down Here (& Be My Girl)
                                                          Jesus Of The Moon
                                                          Midnight Man
                                                          More News From Nowhere

                                                          Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                          From Her To Eternity

                                                            Following the break up of Nick Cave’s former group The Birthday Party, Cave and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey put together a new band featuring Einsturzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld, additional guitarist Hugo Race, and ex-Magazine bass player Barry Adamson.

                                                            The band entered the studio on September 20th 1983, and after some sessions, emerged as Nick Cave & The Cavemen, playing their first gig in Melbourne on New Year’s Eve 1983.

                                                            The name was short-lived, and was soon amended to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, in reference to the final Birthday Party release, ‘The Bad Seed’ EP.

                                                            Most of ‘From Her To Eternity’ was recorded in London, with sessions split between The Garden studio in Shoreditch, and Trident, in Soho.

                                                            Cave later said, "Well, I guess we weren't kicking people in the teeth anymore. I mean, it just became different. I wanted it to be more lyrically orientated and getting Blixa Bargeld in the group made an incredible difference. He's a completely kind of atmospheric guitarist and incredibly economical and it gave me room to breathe”.

                                                            The album, produced by Mick Harvey and Flood, was released on 18th June 1984 on Mute Records, Cave’s label for more than the next 25 years. It received great reviews upon its release and is recognised as one of the most timeless albums of the ‘80s.


                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                            Avalanche
                                                            Cabin Fever!
                                                            Well Of Misery
                                                            From Her To Eternity
                                                            Saint Huck
                                                            Wings Off Flies
                                                            A Box For Black Paul

                                                            Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                            Kicking Against The Pricks

                                                              Kicking Against the Pricks is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' third album, released in 1986, and consists of cover versions. For this record the Bad Seeds line-up is Cave, new drummer Thomas Wydler, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld and Barry Adamson. Cave would later downplay the importance of the record, but said it helped the band develop musically. Remarking on the song selection, Cave said, "They were all done for different reasons. Basically a list of songs were made and we tried to play them. We tried songs by all sorts of people that never got on the record. Some songs were tributes, like the Tom Jones song; other, we didn't think were ever done particularly well in the first place. Some had haunted my childhood, like "The Carnival Is Over". The strings were arranged by Mick Harvey and played by the Berliner Kaffeehausmusik Ensemble. "The Hammer Song" is an entirely different song than the track with the same title on the 1990 Bad Seeds album The Good Son.

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              1. Muddy Water
                                                              2. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
                                                              3. Sleeping Annaleah
                                                              4. Long Black Veil
                                                              5. Hey Joe
                                                              6. Singer
                                                              7. All Tomorrow's Parties
                                                              8. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
                                                              9. Hammer Song
                                                              10. Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
                                                              11. Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
                                                              12. Carnival Is Over

                                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                              Let Love In

                                                                ‘Let Love In’, the eighth studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, was originally released in 1994.

                                                                Their first full-length studio album in over two years, ‘Let Love In’ preserves the same line-up (Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Conway Savage, Martyn Casey and Thomas Wydler) as established on its two immediate predecessors: ‘Henry’s Dream’ (1992), the band’s troubled collaboration with producer David Briggs and ‘Live Seeds’ (1993), an interim concert compilation.

                                                                The novelty of recording in America with a ‘name’ producer now long behind them, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds returned to familiar turf, choosing to conduct both demo and album sessions in their accustomed habitats of the UK and Australia. In September 1993, recording proper for ‘Let Love In’ commenced at London’s Townhouse III Studios (formerly The Who’s Ramport studio, purpose-built for ‘Quadrophenia’) and the album was completed and mixed at Metropolis in Melbourne by the end of that same year.


                                                                Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                No More Shall We Part

                                                                  ‘No More Shall We Part’ was released in April 2001 and was the eleventh studio record by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

                                                                  The album came after a 4-year gap from recording, following the much acclaimed ‘The Boatman’s Call’ album and was met with mostly positive reviews.

                                                                  The album showcases the virtuoso talents of The Bad Seeds, with elaborate instrumental sections on nearly every track. Also, Cave’s lyrics are less obscure than usual and he sings in a wider vocal range than he had previously. Features backing vocals from Kate and Anna McGarrigle.


                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                  As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
                                                                  And No More Shall We Part
                                                                  Hallelujah
                                                                  Love Letter
                                                                  Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
                                                                  God Is In The House
                                                                  Oh My Lord
                                                                  Sweetheart Come
                                                                  The Sorrowful Wife
                                                                  We Came Along This Road
                                                                  Gates To The Garden
                                                                  Darker With The Day

                                                                  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                  Tender Prey

                                                                    ‘Tender Prey’ is the fifth studio album from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and was released on 19th September 1988. The album was produced by Flood and recorded during several sessions over the course of four months in West Berlin - where the band were based at the time - and London.

                                                                    The album opens with ‘The Mercy Seat’, which has been subsequently played at almost all of the band’s live performances since 1988 and was later covered by one of Cave’s biggest influences, Johnny Cash. ‘The Mercy Seat’ was released as a single in May 1988 as a precursor to the album and ‘Deanna’ was released shortly after the album hit the streets.

                                                                    Cave later admitted that the album “was made at a difficult time in my life when things were spiralling out of control in a lot of areas.”


                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    The Mercy Seat
                                                                    Up Jumped The Devil
                                                                    Deanna
                                                                    Watching Alice
                                                                    Mercy
                                                                    City Of Refuge
                                                                    Slowly Goes The Night
                                                                    Sunday’s Slave
                                                                    Sugar Sugar Sugar
                                                                    New Morning

                                                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                    The Firstborn Is Dead

                                                                      ‘The Firstborn Is Dead’, co-produced by Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds and Flood, is the second studio album released by Cave & The Bad Seeds, and was originally released on June 3rd 1985.

                                                                      Cave explores his fascination with the American South, with references ranging from Elvis Presley to ‘Blind’ Lemon Jefferson.

                                                                      Recorded in Berlin, Cave later said of this album, "Berlin gave us the freedom and encouragement to do whatever we wanted. We'd lived in London for three years and it seemed that if you stuck your head out of the box, people were pretty quick to knock it back in, particularly if you were Australian. When we came to Berlin it was the opposite. People saw us as some kind of force rather than a kind of wacky novelty act”.

                                                                      The album's title is a reference to Jesse Garon Presley, the stillborn identical twin of Elvis Presley, and ‘Wanted Man’ was Cave’s own take on a song Bob Dylan wrote for Johnny Cash. Dylan gave his permission for the lyrics to be changed, with Cave’s interpretation referencing his friends.


                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                      Tupelo
                                                                      Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree
                                                                      Train Long Suffering
                                                                      Black Crow King
                                                                      Knockin’ On Joe
                                                                      Wanted Man
                                                                      Blind Lemon Jefferson

                                                                      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                      Your Funeral... My Trial

                                                                        With ‘Your Funeral… My Trial’ The Bad Seeds expanded their personnel by adding Thomas Wydler on drums, enabling Mick Harvey to display his considerable multi-instrumental talents.

                                                                        This was the band’s fourth studio album and was released on November 3rd 1986, and was originally released as a double EP, with production duties handled by Flood and Tony Cohen.

                                                                        Cave later remarked "That particular record, which is my favourite of the records we've done, is very special to me and a lot of amazing things happened, musically, in the studio”.

                                                                        “There are some songs on that record that as far as I'm concerned are just about perfect as we can get really- songs like ‘The Carny’, ‘Your Funeral, My Trial’, and ‘Stranger Than Kindness’, I think are really quite brilliant“.


                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        Sad Waters
                                                                        The Carny
                                                                        Your Funeral My Trial
                                                                        Stranger Than Kindness
                                                                        Jacks Shadow
                                                                        Hard On For Love
                                                                        She Fell Away
                                                                        Long Time Man

                                                                        Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                        B-Sides & Rarities: Part I

                                                                          B-Side & Rarities Part I contains material from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 30-plus year career. This collection features 56 tracks including rarities, out-takes, covers & B-sides from 1988-2005 across 3 volumes, compiled by Mick Harvey.

                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                          PART I CD1

                                                                          1. Deanna (Acoustic Version)
                                                                          2. The Mercy Seat (Acoustic Version)
                                                                          3. City Of Refuge (Acoustic Version)
                                                                          4. The Moon Is In The Gutter
                                                                          5. The Six Strings That Drew Blood
                                                                          6. Rye Whiskey
                                                                          7. Running Scared
                                                                          8. Black Betty
                                                                          9. Scum
                                                                          10. The Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass
                                                                          11. The Train Song
                                                                          12. Cocks 'n' Asses
                                                                          13. Blue Bird
                                                                          14. Helpless
                                                                          15. God's Hotel
                                                                          16. (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World
                                                                          17. Cassiel's Song
                                                                          18. Tower Of Song
                                                                          19. What Can I Give You?

                                                                          PART I CD2

                                                                          1. What A Wonderful World
                                                                          2. Rainy Night In Soho
                                                                          3. Lucy (Version #2)
                                                                          4. Jack The Ripper (Acoustic Version)
                                                                          5. Sail Away
                                                                          6. There's No Night Out In The Jail
                                                                          7. That's What Jazz Is To Me
                                                                          8. The Willow Garden
                                                                          9. The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
                                                                          10. King Kong Kitchee Kitchee Ki-Mi-O
                                                                          11. Knoxville Girl
                                                                          12. Where The Wild Roses Grow (Original Guide Vocal Version)
                                                                          13. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 1
                                                                          14. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 2
                                                                          15. O'Malley's Bar Pt. 3
                                                                          16. Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
                                                                          17. O'Malley's Bar Reprise
                                                                          18. Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version)


                                                                          PART I CD3

                                                                          1. Little Empty Boat
                                                                          2. Right Now I'm A-Roaming
                                                                          3. Come Into My Sleep
                                                                          4. Black Hair Band Version
                                                                          5. Babe, I Got You Bad
                                                                          6. Sheep May Safely Graze
                                                                          7. Opium Tea
                                                                          8. Grief Came Riding
                                                                          9. Bless His Ever Loving Heart
                                                                          10. Good Good Day
                                                                          11. Little Janey's Gone
                                                                          12. I Feel So Good
                                                                          13. Shoot Me Down
                                                                          14. Swing Low
                                                                          15. Little Ghost Song
                                                                          16. Everything Must Converge
                                                                          17. Nocturama
                                                                          18. She's Leaving You
                                                                          19. Under This Moon

                                                                          Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                          B-Sides & Rarities: Part II

                                                                            B-Side And Rarities Part II was compiled by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and features 27 tracks from “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” in 2006 to 2019s “Ghosteen”. Also features 19 rare and unreleased tracks including first recordings of ‘Skeleton Tree’, ‘Girl in Amber’, ‘Bright Horses’ and ‘Waiting for You’.

                                                                            STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                            Darryl says: Cave and Ellis, what a winning combo! Nick Cave remains one of the greatest talents working in music today, and this offers a fascinating insight into the killer tunes they decided not to release along with some fantastic tracks that were only deemed worthy of B-Side status.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            PART II LP1 & CD1

                                                                            1. A1. Hey Little Firing Squad
                                                                            2. A2. Fleeting Love
                                                                            3. A3. Accidents Will Happen
                                                                            4. A4. Free To Walk (With Debbie Harry)
                                                                            5. A5. Avalanche*
                                                                            6. A6. Vortex *

                                                                            7. B1. Needle Boy
                                                                            8. B2. Lightning Bolts
                                                                            9. B3. Animal X
                                                                            10. B4. Give Us A Kiss
                                                                            11. B5. Push The Sky Away
                                                                            (Live With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)*

                                                                            PART II LP2 & CD2

                                                                            1. A1. First Skeleton Tree*
                                                                            2. A2. King Sized Nick Cave Blues*
                                                                            3. A3. Opium Eyes*
                                                                            4. A4. Big Dream (With Sky)*
                                                                            5. A5. Instrumental #33*
                                                                            6. A6. Hell Villanelle*
                                                                            7. A7. Euthanasia*
                                                                            8. A8. Life Per Se*

                                                                            9. B1. Steve McQueen*
                                                                            10. B2. First Bright Horses*
                                                                            11. B3. First Girl In Amber*
                                                                            12. B4. Glacier*
                                                                            13. B5. Heart That Kills You*
                                                                            14. B6. First Waiting For You*
                                                                            15. B7. Sudden Song*
                                                                            16. B8. Earthlings*

                                                                            *previously Unreleased

                                                                            Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                            Henry's Dream (2010 Digital Remaster) - Collectors Edition

                                                                              ‘Henry’s Dream’, the seventh album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, was released in April 1992. It remains a big favourite amongst Bad Seeds fans and is notable for Neil Young producer David Briggs’ ‘live-in-the-studio’ method. Cave and Mick Harvey re-mixed the album and it has a vague concept, with song narratives overlapping and / or sharing characters.

                                                                              ‘When I First Came To Town’ is based partly on Karen Dalton’s recording of the traditional song ‘Katy Cruel’.

                                                                              Cave later claimed the songs were heavily influenced by street beggars he saw in Brazil. “They’d get their acoustic guitars with one or two strings and bang away and make a racket that had no sense whatsoever. It was very violent and seemed to come straight out of the heart. Very unmusical.”

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
                                                                              I Had A Dream, Joe
                                                                              Straight To You
                                                                              Brother, My Cup Is Empty
                                                                              Christina The Astonishing
                                                                              When I First Came To Town
                                                                              John Finn’s Wife
                                                                              Loom Of The Land
                                                                              Jack The Ripper

                                                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                              Lovely Creatures - The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984 - 2014)

                                                                              • Lovely Creatures is the most comprehensive overview of the recorded work of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to date. Spanning thirty years of music from their debut album From Her To Eternity through to Push The Sky Away their 15th studio album, the collection navigates one of the most exhilarating, idiosyncratic and inventive bodies of work created in contemporary music.

                                                                              • Included are long-standing live favourites “Stagger Lee” and “The Mercy Seat”, their hit single from 1995 “Where The Wild Roses Grow” through to recent fan favourites “Jubilee Street” and “We No Who U R”. There are songs that newcomers may only know from their appearance on film and television soundtracks, notably “O Children” (Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Pt. I) and the ubiquitous “Red Right Hand”, most recently familiar to fans of the series Peaky Blinders.

                                                                              • The album was compiled by Nick Cave and founding member Mick Harvey, with help from the current Bad Seeds. 

                                                                              Lovely Creatures is available in four formats, all featuring personal and rare photographs of the band: Standard CD, Triple LP, Deluxe 3CD with DVD and the Super Deluxe Limited Edition package. 


                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                              Laura says: Nick Cave has been one of the most influential and distinctive songwriter / performers of the last 30 odd years. With such a brilliant and varied catalogue spanning 15 LPs, I'd find it virtually impossible to select a mere 21 'best of' tracks, but Nick and ex Bad Seed Mick Harvey have managed it, and that's what you get here on the vinyl and standard CD editions of this release. The deluxe expands futher and is spread across 3CDs and a live/interview DVD.

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              2CD Tracklist:
                                                                              CD1
                                                                              1. Loverman
                                                                              2. Tupelo
                                                                              3. Deanna
                                                                              4. From Her To Eternity
                                                                              5. The Weeping Song
                                                                              6. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                                                              7. People Ain't No Good
                                                                              8. Higgs Boson Blues
                                                                              9. Straight To You
                                                                              10. Where The Wild Roses Grow

                                                                              CD2
                                                                              1. Into My Arms
                                                                              2. Love Letter
                                                                              3. Red Right Hand
                                                                              4. The Mercy Seat
                                                                              5. O Children
                                                                              6. The Ship Song
                                                                              7. Stranger Than Kindness
                                                                              8. Jubilee Street
                                                                              9. Nature Boy
                                                                              10. We No Who U R
                                                                              11. Stagger Lee

                                                                              Vinyl Tracklist:
                                                                              Side A
                                                                              1. Loverman
                                                                              2. Tupelo
                                                                              3. Deanna
                                                                              4. From Her To Eternity

                                                                              Side B
                                                                              1. The Weeping Song
                                                                              2. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                                                              3. People Ain't No Good

                                                                              Side C
                                                                              1. Higgs Boson Blues
                                                                              2. Straight To You
                                                                              3. Where The Wild Rose Grow

                                                                              Side D
                                                                              1. Into My Arms
                                                                              2. Love Letter
                                                                              3. Red Right Hand
                                                                              4. The Mercy Seat

                                                                              Side E
                                                                              1. O Children
                                                                              2. The Ship Song
                                                                              3. Stranger Than Kindness

                                                                              Side F
                                                                              1. Jubilee Street
                                                                              2. Nature Boy
                                                                              3. We No Who U R
                                                                              4. Stagger Lee

                                                                              Deluxe 3CD + DVD Tracklist:

                                                                              CD1: 1984 -1993
                                                                              1. From Her To Eternity
                                                                              2. In The Ghetto
                                                                              3. Tupelo
                                                                              4. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
                                                                              5. The Carny
                                                                              6. Sad Waters
                                                                              7. Stranger Than Kindness
                                                                              8. Scum
                                                                              9. The Mercy Seat
                                                                              10. Deanna
                                                                              11. Up Jumped The Devil
                                                                              12. The Weeping Song
                                                                              13. The Ship Song
                                                                              14. Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
                                                                              15. Straight To You

                                                                              CD2: 1994 – 2003
                                                                              1. Do You Love Me?
                                                                              2. Nobody's Baby Now
                                                                              3. Loverman
                                                                              4. Red Right Hand
                                                                              5. Stagger Lee
                                                                              6. Where The Wild Roses Grow
                                                                              7. Into My Arms
                                                                              8. People Ain't No Good
                                                                              9. Brompton Oratory
                                                                              10. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
                                                                              11. Come Into My Sleep
                                                                              12. Love Letter
                                                                              13. God Is In The House
                                                                              14. He Wants You
                                                                              15. Shoot Me Down

                                                                              CD3: 2004 – 2013
                                                                              1. Hiding All Away
                                                                              2. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
                                                                              3. Nature Boy
                                                                              4. Breathless
                                                                              5. Babe, You Turn Me On
                                                                              6. O Children
                                                                              7. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
                                                                              8. Night Of The Lotus Eaters
                                                                              9. We Call Upon The Author
                                                                              10. Jesus Of The Moon
                                                                              11. More News From Nowhere
                                                                              12. We No Who U R
                                                                              13. Jubilee Street
                                                                              14. Higgs Boson Blues
                                                                              15. Push The Sky Away

                                                                              DVD
                                                                              1. Interview, ‘Kippevel’, Netherlands, 1988
                                                                              2. Night Of The Lotus Eaters, Docks De Suds, Marseilles, France 2008
                                                                              3. Red Right Hand, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 1988
                                                                              4. The Weeping Song, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
                                                                              5. Interview, New York, USA, 2013
                                                                              6. Higgs Boson Blues, La Fabrique Studios, France 2012
                                                                              7. Interview, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’ Documentary, Berlin, Germany, 1987
                                                                              8. From Her To Eternity, Perkins Palace, Pasadena, USA, 1984
                                                                              9. Love Letter, ABC Studios, Australia, 2001
                                                                              10. Interview, ‘Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
                                                                              11. Do You Love Me? ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
                                                                              12. Interview, ‘Boxed Set’, Glasgow STV Studios, UK, 2001
                                                                              13. Into My Arms, INmusic Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008
                                                                              14. We Call Upon The Author, B1 Maximum Club, Moscow, Russia, 2009
                                                                              15. Interview, Ein Abend In Wien, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1991
                                                                              16. The Mercy Seat, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
                                                                              17. Interview, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1984
                                                                              18. God Is In The House, ‘Later With Jools Holland’, London, 2001
                                                                              19. Interview, ’Bish’s Biz’, Australia, 2013
                                                                              20. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Globe Annexet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
                                                                              21. Brompton Oratory, ‘MTV Live N Loud’, 1997
                                                                              22. I’m Gonna Kill That Woman, Posthof, Linz, Austria, 1986
                                                                              23. Jubilee Street, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
                                                                              24. The Ship Song, Live At Paradiso DVD, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992
                                                                              25. Interview, Lollapalooza, USA, 1994
                                                                              26. Loverman, Bizarre Festival, Germany, 1996
                                                                              27. Interview, Australia, 1988
                                                                              28. In The Ghetto, Exit, Chicago, USA, 1984
                                                                              29. Hiding All Away, ‘The Abattoir Blues Tour DVD’, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 2004
                                                                              30. Interview, Australia, 1992
                                                                              31. Where The Wild Roses Grow, ‘MTV Most Wanted’, London, UK, 1995
                                                                              32. Deanna, St Luke’s, London, UK, 2008
                                                                              33. O Children, Le Trianon, Paris, France, 2013
                                                                              34. Interview, Festival Crazy Rock, Chile, 1996
                                                                              35. Stagger Lee, The White Room, London, UK, 1996
                                                                              36. Interview, Austin City Limits, Austin, Texas, USA, 2014
                                                                              37. Interview, Australia, 1995
                                                                              38. Push The Sky Away, The Fonda Theatre, LA, USA, 2013
                                                                              39. There She Goes, My Beautiful World, ‘The Abattoir Blues Tour DVD’, Brixton Academy,
                                                                              London, UK, 2004

                                                                              Approx. Running Time 2hrs 5mins

                                                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                              Murder Ballads (2011 Digital Remaster)

                                                                                ‘Murder Ballads’ is the ninth studio album by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, released in 1996. As the title suggests, the album consists of new and traditional murder ballads, a genre of songs that relays the details of crimes of passion.

                                                                                ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’ was a hit single and received two ARIA Awards and guest musicians on the album include Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey and Shane MacGowan.

                                                                                It was the band’s biggest commercial success to date, most likely helped by the unexpected repeated airplay of the ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’ video on MTV, who even nominated Cave for their Best Male Artist award of that year, though this nomination was later withdrawn at Cave’s request.

                                                                                ‘Murder Ballads’ received almost unanimous critical praise with Rolling Stone awarding it 4 Stars and Entertainment Weekly rating the album very highly as well. Q magazine had this to say: “...Musically, The Bad Seeds touch on tinkling cabaret jazz, country-paced morbidity and every morose station between” while it ranked Number 7 in the NME's 1996 Critics’ Poll.




                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                LP / CD
                                                                                Song Of Joy
                                                                                Stagger Lee
                                                                                Henry Lee
                                                                                Lovely Creature
                                                                                Where The Wild Roses Grow
                                                                                The Curse Of Millhaven
                                                                                The Kindness Of Strangers
                                                                                Crow Jane
                                                                                O’Malley’s Bar
                                                                                Death Is Not The End

                                                                                DVD (with CD/DVD Version Only)
                                                                                Audio
                                                                                Murder Ballads (5.1 & Stereo)
                                                                                The Ballad Of Robert Moore
                                                                                And Betty Coltrane
                                                                                The Willow Garden
                                                                                King Kong Kitchee Kitchee
                                                                                Ki-Mi-O
                                                                                Knoxville Girl
                                                                                Video
                                                                                Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 9: Murder Ballads)
                                                                                Stagger Lee
                                                                                Where The Wild Roses Grow
                                                                                Henry Lee

                                                                                Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                One More Time With Feeling

                                                                                  Visually unique, One More Time With Feeling is a stark, fragile and raw documentary. Shot in 3D, colour and black & white, the film probes the deeply personal circumstances surrounding the making of Skeleton Tree (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 16th studio album) and features interviews and live performances by the band in the studio, along with interjected voice-over commentary by Nick Cave.

                                                                                  Originally conceived as a one-night-only global screening event to take place in 950 cinemas across 30 countries simultaneously on 8th September 2016, One More Time With Feeling extended its initial run over several days as cinemas sold out around the world. Due to overwhelming demand, this extraordinary film has returned to the big screen for its final run and is playing currently in cinemas worldwide.

                                                                                  Includes 3 exclusive short films from Andrew Dominik.

                                                                                  "Film of The Year" - MOJO

                                                                                  "Extraordinary" - **** Evening Standard

                                                                                  "A deeply personal film" - ***** Time Out

                                                                                  "An undeniably moving contemplation of shattering loss…a tremendously moving collage." - **** The Guardian

                                                                                  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                  Wild God

                                                                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with new album, ‘Wild God’.

                                                                                    “I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me,” Cave says. “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”

                                                                                    Across ten tracks, the band dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave’s soul-stirring narratives. It is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight. There are moments that touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds’ past but they are fleeting, and serve only to imbue the relentless and restless forward motion of the band.

                                                                                    Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, Cave began writing the album on New Year’s Day 2023. With sessions at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, the Bad Seeds added their unique alchemy, with additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar).

                                                                                    “Wild God…there’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.” Nick Cave


                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                    Laura says: Wild God heralds a new phase in the constantly evolving story of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. It combines the meandering, fluid structures employed since 2013’s Push The Sky Away, with the more muscular, dynamic sound of earlier output. Of course it wouldn’t be a Bad Seeds album without a heavy dose of pain, sadness and death, but unlike the unending bleakness of recent releases, there’s a definite shift both lyrically and musically: glimmers of optimism cutting through the dark skies. With huge string swells and almost gospel-like multi vocal crescendos there’s a power to the songs that perhaps reflects the strength of human spirit: a feeling that despite all the darkness in the world, love & hope will always endure.

                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                    1. Song Of The Lake
                                                                                    2. Wild God
                                                                                    3. Frogs
                                                                                    4. Joy
                                                                                    5. Final Rescue Attempt
                                                                                    6. Conversion
                                                                                    7. Cinnamon Horses
                                                                                    8. Long Dark Night
                                                                                    9. O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
                                                                                    10. As The Waters Cover The Sea

                                                                                    Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                                                                    Australian Carnage - Live At The Sydney Opera House

                                                                                      In 2022, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis returned to their native Australia for 16 shows, taking their acclaimed 2021 album ‘Carnage’ on the road, along with songs from the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds catalogue. Three performances at the Sydney Opera House on December 16th, 17th and 18th were the climactic shows of an emotional trip, captured for a luminous new live album, ‘Australian Carnage - Live At The Sydney Opera House’.

                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                      Barry says: Performers don't come much more experienced or capable than the songwriting powerhouse of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, and 'live At The Sydney Opera House' perfectly captures a striking string of live performances of their most seminal works, new and old. It's a must-have.

                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      SIDE A
                                                                                      1. Bright Horses (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
                                                                                      2. Carnage (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
                                                                                      3. White Elephant (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
                                                                                      4. Leviathan (Live At The Sydney Opera House)

                                                                                      SIDE B
                                                                                      1. Ghosteen (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
                                                                                      2. Waiting For You (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
                                                                                      3. Breathless (Live At The Sydney Opera House)
                                                                                      4. Balcony Man (Live At The Sydney Opera House)

                                                                                      Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                                                                      Carnage

                                                                                        Carnage is a new album by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, recorded over a period of weeks during lockdown.

                                                                                        Although the pair have composed & recorded many soundtracks together, and Ellis is a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, this is the first time they have released an entire album of songs as a duo.

                                                                                        Cave describes the album as "a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe."

                                                                                        "Making Carnage was an accelerated process of intense creativity," says Ellis, "the eight songs were there in one form or another within the first two and a half days."

                                                                                        Cave & Ellis' sonic and lyrical adventurism continues apace on Carnage, an album that emerged almost by accident out of the downtime created by the long, anxious, global emergency.

                                                                                        Carnage is a record for these uncertain times - one shot through with moments of distilled beauty and that resonates with an almost defiant sense of hope.

                                                                                        STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                        Barry says: Ellis and Cave go together like chips and gravy, there's no doubting that, but until now, they've not done a full album together that isn't a soundtrack. Now here we get the unmatched songwriting capability of both parties fully focused on an album in which they're allowed free reign and it's BEAUTIFUL. Cinematic in parts, but imbued with the melodic sensibilities that are generally missing from soundtrack work. A brilliant document of two of the greatest musicians in the business, and together, a force that simply can't be bettered.

                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                        Hand Of God
                                                                                        Old Time
                                                                                        Carnage
                                                                                        White Elephant
                                                                                        Albuquerque
                                                                                        Lavender Fields
                                                                                        Shattered Ground
                                                                                        Balcony Man

                                                                                        Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                                                                        Kings - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                                                                                          Kings is a 2018 crime drama film directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang). Set in 1992, it follows Millie (Halle Berry), a woman living in South Central Los Angeles who takes in at-risk youths to live in her home. When the infamous Rodney King riots grip the city, Millie and her cavalcade of adoptees are thrust into the mounting chaos sprouting all around them. In time, they are forced into unlikely alliances in order to stay alive

                                                                                          Scoring duties for Kings fall to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds fame. In recent years, they have become a force to be reckoned with in the world of soundtracks, thanks to their impressive work on films like Hell or High Water, Wind River, and the National Geographic series Mars. Cave and Ellis, the later a repeat Ergüven collaborator, pull from their rich history in the music world to deliver an unexpected score that immediately transports the listener to a specific place in time – the hot, angry streets of Los Angeles in the summer of 1992.



                                                                                          Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                                                                          La Panthère Des Neiges - Original Soundtrack

                                                                                            Originally available as a digital-only release, Invada Records and Lakeshore Records present the original score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to the film La Panthère Des Neiges (AKA The Velvet Queen).

                                                                                            The soundtrack is one of Ellis and Cave’s most heartfelt and haunting film projects. 

                                                                                            High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson (In the Forest of Siberia) with him on his latest mission. For several weeks, they’ll explore these valleys searching for unique animals and try to spot the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach.

                                                                                            Ellis explains how Cave and himself came to be involved : “There is something about the heart of this film that draws you in. I realised after a day, that I wanted to do whatever it took to compose an entire original score. The film deserved to have its own musical voice. I booked five days and asked Nick if he could come in for a day to write a theme song and play some piano. He saw the film and stayed for four days. In the end we made what I think is one of the most beautiful films we have ever worked on. One of my favourite experiences ever working on a project. The stars are the animals in all their wild glory, as we have never seen them before, and man in reverence and wonder.”

                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                            L'attaque Des Loups
                                                                                            Les Cerfs
                                                                                            Antilope
                                                                                            La Bête
                                                                                            Les Yaks
                                                                                            Des Affûts Elliptiques
                                                                                            Les Nomades
                                                                                            La Grotte
                                                                                            Les Princes
                                                                                            La Neige Tombe
                                                                                            Les Ours
                                                                                            Un Être Vous Obsède
                                                                                            L’apparition/We Are Not Alone

                                                                                            Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                                                                            The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (OST)

                                                                                              BMG are set to release an exclusive version of the acclaimed soundtrack “THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD” available on vinyl for the very first time.

                                                                                              Re-mastered and available on limited edition whiskey coloured vinyl with a gatefold sleeve.

                                                                                              Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, of the internationally celebrated bands Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The Dirty Three and Grinderman, have composed, played and produced a compelling and intense soundtrack for director Andrew Dominik's savage tale of the true West. The new score captures perfectly the charismatic and unpredictable nature of its central protagonist. Like the film, Cave and Ellis' music cuts through the mythic figure of Jesse James to reveal the complex, contradictory man beneath. Daring and passionately delivered, Cave and Ellis' beautiful soundtrack retains its captivating power even without the benefit of Dominik's images 


                                                                                              Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

                                                                                              War Machine - Original Score

                                                                                                ‘War Machine’ is a new Netflix film, directed by David Michôd and starring Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton among many others.

                                                                                                Military snares set a sharp cadence beneath the score’s eerie synths and strings, instantly reminiscent of ‘Skeleton Tree’ by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and the beautiful ‘Hell Or High Water’ score.

                                                                                                “Together we made a score that was both light and dark, propulsive and meditative at the same time. We developed a kind of ‘spiritual electronics’ that captured both the melancholy and the terrible absurdity of the Afghan war,” Cave and Ellis said in a press release. “It was a great pleasure to work with David Michôd, who is not only an extraordinary filmmaker but a musician too. Our favorite score!”

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                Ah America
                                                                                                Humble Man
                                                                                                The Bubble
                                                                                                The Civilian Executive
                                                                                                In Liebe Dein (Roedelius)
                                                                                                Badi Basim
                                                                                                Kamee (Roedelius)
                                                                                                The Moon Landing
                                                                                                Our Noise
                                                                                                Fabelwein (Roedelius)
                                                                                                Jeanie
                                                                                                NY Snow Globe (Rachel’s)
                                                                                                Thousands Of Parades, All Over America
                                                                                                Marjah
                                                                                                Staunen Im Fjord (Roedelius)
                                                                                                The Hand Of Helping
                                                                                                Be Lovely
                                                                                                A Page In The History Books
                                                                                                War Machine

                                                                                                Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                Frogs

                                                                                                  The journey to creating 'Wild God’ began with sweeping epic ‘Frogs’. The first lines Cave penned for the album were powerfully evocative, referencing the first murder in the Bible, Cain’s slaying of Abel. He wrote, “Ushering in the week he knelt down and crushed his brother’s head in with a bone/It’s my great privilege to walk you home.” This striking couplet became the opening lines to the song, and set the tone for the imagery and themes that followed.

                                                                                                  Cave says, “The sheer exuberance of a song like ‘Frogs’, it just puts a big fucking smile on my face.”


                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                  A1. Frogs
                                                                                                  B1. Frogs (Instrumental)

                                                                                                  Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                  Ghosteen

                                                                                                  Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, following 2016’s Skeleton Tree, and will be released via Ghosteen Ltd. The album was recorded in 2018 and early 2019 at Woodshed in Malibu, Nightbird in Los Angeles, Retreat in Brighton and Candybomber in Berlin. It was mixed by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Lance Powell and Andrew Dominik at Conway in Los Angeles.

                                                                                                  "The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents. Ghosteen is migrating spirit." - Nick Cave.


                                                                                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                  Darryl says: Spread across two albums, "The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents. Ghosteen is migrating spirit." Nick Cave, ‘Ghosteen is a deeply introspective and at times an emotionally devastating listen exploring his personal grief following the death of his son. A melancholic yet beautiful masterpiece.

                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                  Disc 1:
                                                                                                  1. The Spinning Song
                                                                                                  2. Bright Horses
                                                                                                  3. Waiting For You
                                                                                                  4. Night Raid
                                                                                                  5. Sun Forest
                                                                                                  6. Galleon Ship
                                                                                                  7. Ghosteen Speaks
                                                                                                  8. Leviathan

                                                                                                  Disc 2:
                                                                                                  1. Ghosteen
                                                                                                  2. Fireflies
                                                                                                  3. Hollywood

                                                                                                  ‘Live from KCRW' is a live radio session recorded in Los Angeles in April 2013 & is the fourth official live album in the band's history.

                                                                                                  It features a stripped-down line-up performing classic Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds material alongside four songs from their recent global hit album ‘Push the Sky Away’.

                                                                                                  ‘Live from KCRW’ album line-up:
                                                                                                  Nick Cave: Piano, vocals
                                                                                                  Warren Ellis: Tenor guitar, violin, piano, loops, backing vocals
                                                                                                  Martyn Casey: Bass
                                                                                                  Jim Sclavunos: Percussion, drums, backing vocals
                                                                                                  Barry Adamson: Organ, backing vocals

                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                  Higgs Boson Blues
                                                                                                  Far From Me
                                                                                                  Stranger Than Kindness
                                                                                                  The Mercy Seat
                                                                                                  And No More Shall We Part
                                                                                                  Wide Lovely Eyes
                                                                                                  Mermaids
                                                                                                  People Ain't No Good
                                                                                                  Push The Sky Away
                                                                                                  Jack The Ripper

                                                                                                  Vinyl Bonus Tracks:
                                                                                                  Into My Arms
                                                                                                  God Is In The House

                                                                                                  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                  Push The Sky Away

                                                                                                    At the heart of 'Push the Sky Away' is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums. The contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped Nick's songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album's mysterious and ambiguous cover. The songs on this album took form in a modest notebook with shellac covers over the course of almost a year. The notebook is a treasured analogue artefact but the internet is equally important to Nick: Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries "whether they're true or not". These songs convey how on the internet profoundly significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities sit side-by-side and question how we might recognise and assign weight to what's genuinely important.

                                                                                                    The album has a clarity and sweet strangeness that's built upon the refusal to accept limitations, whether they be the traditional uses and sounds of musical instruments, lyric styles, or diminished spiritual horizons. It's not always apparent what instruments the band is playing: they may be traditional musical instruments but other sounds are clearly generated by objects unrelated to musical instruments. What's being created is a collective musical language that's rich and complex.

                                                                                                    "Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat." Nick Cave

                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                    Darryl says: Mellow, introspective and moody, 'Push The Sky Away' sees Nick Cave hit top form. Ably backed by the subtly brilliant Bad Seeds, this will go down as one of the standouts in the burgeoning cannon of classic Cave albums.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    1. We No Who U R
                                                                                                    2. Wide Lovely Eyes
                                                                                                    3. Water's Edge
                                                                                                    4. Jubilee Street
                                                                                                    5. Mermaids
                                                                                                    6. We Real Cool
                                                                                                    7. Finishing Jubilee Street
                                                                                                    8. Higgs Boson Blues
                                                                                                    9. Push The Sky Away

                                                                                                    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                    Skeleton Tree

                                                                                                    Skeleton Tree began its journey in late 2014 at Retreat Studios, Brighton, with further sessions at La Frette Studios, France in autumn 2015. The album was mixed at AIR Studios, London in early 2016.

                                                                                                    The songs from the album are featured in the film One More Time With Feeling, directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly). The film was comissioned by Nick Cave and is to be the only public statement to accompany the albums’ release.

                                                                                                    Given event's in his personal life prior to the release of the album, it's understandable that this album is sombre affair. Although accompanied by a film, it is an album in its own right, rather than a soundtrack. Having said that, the orchestration which forms the backdrop to Nick's rich, half spoken - half sung narratives, has a similar cinematic feel to the haunting, atmospheric film scores that Nick and Bad Seed Warren Ellis excel at.

                                                                                                    It’s probably not going to be your choice of listening prior to a night out on the town, but if it’s darkness you’re after, no one does that better than Nick.

                                                                                                    A beautiful, moving album.

                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                    Laura says: Given events in his personal life prior its release, it's understandable that this album is a sombre affair. Although accompanied by a film, it is an album in its own right, rather than a soundtrack. Having said that, the orchestration which forms the backdrop to Nick's rich, half spoken - half sung narratives, has a similar cinematic feel to the haunting, atmospheric film scores that Nick and Bad Seed Warren Ellis excel at. No one does darkness better than Mr Cave.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    1. Jesus Alone
                                                                                                    2. Rings Of Saturn
                                                                                                    3. Girl In Amber
                                                                                                    4. Magneto
                                                                                                    5. Anthrocene
                                                                                                    6. I Need You
                                                                                                    7. Distant Sky
                                                                                                    8. Skeleton Tree

                                                                                                    Nick Cave

                                                                                                    Idiot Prayer - Live Alone At Alexander Palace

                                                                                                      In June 2020, mid lockdown, Nick Cave performed a live set in the vast grandeur of in the West Hall of London's Alexandra Palace. The performance, featuring just Nick at the piano, was filmed and streamed in July and was a beautifully sombre affair that sat perfectly with the mood and uncertainty of the time. 

                                                                                                      In recent years Nick has performed several solo shows with just a piano, covering material spanning his entire career, but whether it is the shadow cast by the global pandemic or the majestic splendour of the location, this songs here seem somehow more poignant than ever. Although recorded in such a vast space it is the intimacy of the performance that makes it such a compelling listen. Wonderful.

                                                                                                      The Telegraph ****
                                                                                                      "Cave's solo live stream could be the most the beautiful and sombre performance he's ever given"

                                                                                                      The Guardian ****
                                                                                                      "Cave’s performance in an empty hall, with just piano and voice, seems to try and ward off the terrifying silence of the Covid-19 age”

                                                                                                      Evening Standard ****
                                                                                                      "Gravitas echoes beautifully in the void of an empty Alexandra Palace"

                                                                                                      The Independent ****
                                                                                                      "‘Idiot Prayer’ performance is stately and beautiful”

                                                                                                      The Arts Desk ****
                                                                                                      "The dramatic minimalism of this setting is perfect for an expressive face, and such powerfully emotional songs”

                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                      Barry says: There is absolutely no stopping Nick Cave. Even a global pandemic can't halt his transformative live show, and the bleak solemnity of one man and a piano only serves to exacerbate the intoxicating experience.

                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      Spinning Song
                                                                                                      Jubilee Street
                                                                                                      Far From Me
                                                                                                      Idiot Prayer
                                                                                                      Sad Waters
                                                                                                      He Wants You
                                                                                                      Brompton Oratory
                                                                                                      Higgs Boson Blues
                                                                                                      Palaces Of Montezuma
                                                                                                      Stranger Than Kindness
                                                                                                      Into My Arms
                                                                                                      Girl In Amber
                                                                                                      The Ship Song
                                                                                                      Man In The Moon
                                                                                                      Nobody's Baby Now
                                                                                                      Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
                                                                                                      Black Hair
                                                                                                      (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
                                                                                                      Galleon Ship
                                                                                                      Waiting For You
                                                                                                      The Mercy Street
                                                                                                      Euthanasia

                                                                                                      Nick Cave

                                                                                                      Seven Psalms

                                                                                                        ‘While in lockdown I wrote a number of psalms, or small, sacred songs—one a day for a week.

                                                                                                        The seven psalms are presented as one long meditation—on faith, rage, love, grief, mercy, sex and praise. A veiled, contemplative offering borne of an uncertain time. I hope you like it.’

                                                                                                        Nick Cave.

                                                                                                        Nick Cave

                                                                                                        The Complete Lyrics : 1978-2022

                                                                                                          The complete lyrics from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O'HaganFrom Nick Cave's writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry's Dream, DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! and Ghosteen, this is a must-have book for all fans of the dark, the beautiful and the defiant - for all fans of the songs of Nick Cave. 'The greatest living songwriter' NME'A glowing wire, a mainline to meaning ad feeling and art' New Yorker'Nick Cave is a true lyrical master. He can conjure empathy and hope out of thin air, light out of darkness' Cillian Murphy'His lyrics - so rich in the toils of love, so committed to memory and everlasting presence - are the best-made of his generation' Andrew O'Hagan'A poetic craftsman' Will Self'Alternative rock legend' Billboard'Cave's genius rings loud and clear' Evening StandardCover art by Aleksandra Waliszewska

                                                                                                          Nick Cave

                                                                                                          The Sick Bag Song - Reprint

                                                                                                            The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments - the people, the books and the music - that have influenced and inspired him, and drops them into his sick bag. The book began its life scribbled onto airline sick bags and later evolves into a restless contemporary epic, exploring love, loss, inspiration and memory.

                                                                                                            Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                            Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus

                                                                                                              Not just one album but two from Saint Nick. In a strange perverse way the loss from his band of guitarist Blixa Bargeld has seen them return to the taught, edgy and highly strung sounds that he helped to create: The sound of say "Let Love In", "Murder Ballads" and "Henry's Dream". Death, sex, religion, drugs, gospel gothic and deep romance in fact all of Cave's favourite topics are covered here in a fresh whirlwind of classic song after classic song. This stands up as one of Nick Cave's best ever albums, and don't forget, there's two of them!! Hallelujah!!!

                                                                                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                              Give Us A Kiss

                                                                                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release two previously unavailable tracks: Give Us A Kiss and Jubilee Street (live from The Sydney Opera House). The songs from the award-winning feature 20,000 Days On Earth will be available on a limited edition vinyl 10".

                                                                                                              20,000 Days on Earth is a new feature film starring Nick Cave about 24 hours in his life. It premiered at Sundance, winning two awards – both the Editing and Directing Awards in World Cinema Documentary. The jury describing the film as “being arguably the most exciting film in competition… This is documentary storytelling at its most visionary and mindblowing”

                                                                                                              The drama-documentary portrays a fictionalized 24 hours in the life of Nick Cave directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The film was inspired by a calculation Nick had made in his songwriting notebook working out his time on earth. Forsyth and Pollard have taken this and from it crafted an innovative and powerful film that takes us inside Nick’s artistic process and celebrates creativity.

                                                                                                              Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                              Live Seeds

                                                                                                                Recorded at various concerts throughout Europe and Australia in 1992 and 1993. All of the classics are featured here, "Deanna", "The Ship Song", "Papa Won't Leave You Henry", "Tupelo", "Jack The Ripper", "From Her To Eternity" and many more. But none of those tracks eclipse the live energy of the utterly superb "The Mercy Seat". 13 tracks that showcase the genius and power of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds in the live setting.

                                                                                                                Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                                                                                                The Best Of

                                                                                                                  A retrospective, rather than a single compilation, this spans 13 years and 10 albums from the debut "From Her To Eternity" to "The Boatman's Call". 16 tracks in total featuring the duets with Kylie and PJ Harvey, "Where The Wild Roses Grow" and "Henry Lee", the album favourites "The Carney" and "From Her To Eternity" and classic singles such as "The Mercy Seat", "(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?" and "Straight To You".

                                                                                                                  Neneh Cherry

                                                                                                                  A Thousand Threads

                                                                                                                    A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry. *A GUARDIAN MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**A BBC CULTURE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024*Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant.

                                                                                                                    This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry. But navigating fame and family wasn't always simple.

                                                                                                                    In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy. Musician.

                                                                                                                    Neneh’s new record pointedly asks the question; how do we conduct ourselves in extraordinary times? In an era where the signal-to-noise ratio is more uneven than ever, what are the measures we must take to retain and remember our own personhood? It searches for answers, patiently and with great care, and with a fearlessness to acknowledge that sometimes the answers don't even exist. It’s a record that’s equal parts angry, thoughtful, melancholy, and emboldening, as Cherry and her collaborators continue to expand her ever-widening sonic palette to craft truly singular and potent music.

                                                                                                                    Work on Broken Politics began as touring wound down behind Cherry's previous full-length, 2014's Blank Project, and she felt a drive to continue creating after collaborating on that record with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet). "That last album was much angrier and forceful, whereas this one is quieter and more reflective," she states. "I haven't always been so good at getting things out so quickly, and it still took a while—but that's okay."

                                                                                                                    Cherry, writing partner Cameron McVey, and Hebden decamped to Woodstock, New York for a week-long recording session at the Creative Music Studio, a recording space founded by jazz pianist Karl Berger—who, in a stroke of providence, was a band member of Neneh's stepfather and Don Cherry as well as being friends with her mother Moki. "Being in a studio with them was like being in a familiar space. It was easy to reach into myself for the feelings I needed to be in tune with a song—and at night, Cameron and I would have dinner with Ingrid and Karl and they'd tell stories about my father. There were deep threads."

                                                                                                                    "It was one of the best writing periods I've had in a really long time," Cherry continues while discussing the creative process behind Broken Politics. "I got out of the waiting room and into the inner sanctum.”

                                                                                                                    "I'm very shy about taking on big themes with the airs that I've got a solution—who has the fucking solutions?" Cherry admits while talking about the album's title. "I like writing from a personal perspective, and the time we live in is so much about finding your own voice. People have been left feeling misheard, misunderstood, and disillusioned. What the fuck can I do? Maybe politics starts in your bedroom, or your house—a form of activism, and a responsibility. The album is about all of those things: feeling broken, disappointed, and sad, but having perseverance. It's a fight against the extinction of free thought and spirit."

                                                                                                                    "I have a name. You have a name. We're not just these faceless mounds you can put in the ground," Cherry proclaims when talking about her worldly vision that seeped into Broken Politics. "We're human beings with lives and stories." Art can often remind us of how it feels to live in the moment, and it can also be instructive in helping understand how to preserve that moment. Broken Politics finds Cherry at her most generous and benevolent towards a world that is often anything but. She puts it best in the chorus of LP track "Fallen Leaves," in her own defiant way: "Just because I'm down/ Don't step all over me.”

                                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                    Barry says: Neneh Cherry's unmistakable vocal style and soulful leanings are harnessed here by the dreamy, otherworldly percussion and electronic momentum of Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) on production duties. His impeccable ear for sonic space only accentuates her flawless songwriting skills, making for a brilliantly listenable and absorbing outing.

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    Fallen Leaves
                                                                                                                    Kong
                                                                                                                    Poem Daddy
                                                                                                                    Synchronised Devotion
                                                                                                                    Deep Vein Thrombosis
                                                                                                                    Faster Than The Truth
                                                                                                                    Natural Skin Deep
                                                                                                                    Shot Gun Shack
                                                                                                                    Black Monday
                                                                                                                    Cheap Breakfast Special
                                                                                                                    Slow Release
                                                                                                                    Soldier

                                                                                                                    Neneh Cherry

                                                                                                                    Man - National Album Day 2023 Edition

                                                                                                                      Departing from rap and dance, Cherry’s third album ‘Man’, released in 1996, instead can be described as a collection of alternative rock anthems. The Swedish singer released the duet ‘7 Seconds’ with Youssou N’Dour, which topped the charts internationally. This release comes as a limited edition 140-gram Yellow vinyl.

                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                      Side A
                                                                                                                      Woman
                                                                                                                      Feel It
                                                                                                                      Hornbeam
                                                                                                                      Trouble Man
                                                                                                                      Golden Ring
                                                                                                                      Side B
                                                                                                                      7 Seconds
                                                                                                                      Kootchi
                                                                                                                      Beastiality
                                                                                                                      Carry Me
                                                                                                                      Together Now
                                                                                                                      Everything

                                                                                                                      Neneh Cherry

                                                                                                                      The Versions

                                                                                                                        Neneh Cherry announces a new project titled The Versions, a collaboration album of covers from her expansive catalogue by an all female lineup of some of the most exciting and revered artists of our time. 

                                                                                                                        The Versions is a 10-track album featuring Neneh Cherry reworks from artists that have a personal connection to the artist and her music. Sia expresses her love for Neneh and her family saying, “Neneh was my favorite artist when she hit the scene. I saved my pocket money for red filas and dreamt one day we would meet. When I was struggling with my mental health in my early twenties, I somehow ended up in their house being taken care of as if I was one of their own children. I called her husband during a suicide attempt, who had been mentoring me as an incredible music producer, and they gave me all the love I could have dreamt of. I owe them a huge thanks and would sing ‘a-b-c’ for them if they asked.
                                                                                                                        Neneh, my very first queen, Cameron my bonus dad, I love you forever amen!

                                                                                                                        Other artists involved include long-time friend, one of pop's treasured musical geniuses and woman behind some of the most memorable songs of recent decade, Robyn who teamed up with Mapei to re-imagine the seminal track “Buffalo Stance” into a slinky, scandipop song with the help of Dev Hynes on production. Pop provocateur, ANOHNI lends her haunting vocals to “Woman”, delivering an arresting remake of the empowering track and south London nomad Greentea Peng transforms “Buddy X” into a garage infused number. Singer-songwriter and poet Jamila Woods adds her soulful touch on “Kootchi” with artist and violinist Sudan Archives completely reconstructing “Heart” into a sparse and delicate offering. Seinabo Sey adds Scandinavian soul to “Kisses On The Wind”, Kelsey Lu’s ethereal vocals on her version of “Manchild” transports the track into unworldly heights with Neneh’s daughter TYSON bringing her own sensual attitude to “Sassy” before Honey Dijon wraps things up and taking things to the dancefloor with her house remix of “Buddy X”.

                                                                                                                        Neneh Cherry has continued to define and redefine culture, style and music, releasing five studio albums, including 2018’s Broken Politics, produced by Four Tet, which was met with critical acclaim by the likes of The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Times, Q and Pitchfork. 2020 saw her reissue her radically influential debut album Raw Like Sushi to celebrate its 30th anniversary and recently received the honorary Icon Award at the NME Awards 2022. 


                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                        01_Robyn Feat Mapei - Buffalo Stance
                                                                                                                        02_Sia - Manchild
                                                                                                                        03_Anohni - Woman
                                                                                                                        04_Greentea Peng - Buddy X
                                                                                                                        05_Jamilia Woods - Kootchi
                                                                                                                        06_TYSON - Sassy
                                                                                                                        07_Sudan Archives - Hearts
                                                                                                                        08_Seinabo Sey - Kisses On The Wind
                                                                                                                        09_Kelsey Lu – Manchild
                                                                                                                        10_Honey Dijon – Buddy X Rework 

                                                                                                                        Nello Ciangherotti & Silvano Chimenti

                                                                                                                        Sonorità Nel Lavoro

                                                                                                                          Another insane and fuzzy Italian Library killer from 1971 - Nello Ciangherotti aka Nenty & Silvano Chimenti "SONORITA' NEL LAVORO", originally out of the vaults of Globe Records. A top-notch set of sleazy Psych, dope Progressive riffs and Experimental Rock themed music produced to score some obscure documentaries about world of work.

                                                                                                                          Mad section of evil Psychedelic guitars and fuzzy Wah Wah by the great guitarist Silvano Chimenti (the man behind 'Droga' and further Library grails) and studio arrangements by maestro and orchestra director Nello Ciangherotti. Stunning edgy vibes with loads of hand-made sonorities that recall sounds of industry, mechanical instruments and smoking chimneys for a dope Psychedelic winner. Limited to 300 copies only!

                                                                                                                          Nels Cline

                                                                                                                          Consentrik Quartet

                                                                                                                            Guitarist, sonic explorer & Wilco bandmember Nels Cline presents 'Consentrik Quartet', the eponymous debut recording by his newest band which features Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones, Chris Lightcap on bass & Tom Rainey on drums. By turns swinging, grooving, bracing, mesmeric & quietly stunning, Cline’s 4th Blue Note album spotlights the ensemble’s profound chemistry as well as Cline’s versatility as both a player & a writer with 12 evocative soundscapes.

                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                            1. The Returning Angel
                                                                                                                            2. The 23
                                                                                                                            3. Surplus
                                                                                                                            4. Slipping Into Something
                                                                                                                            5. Allende
                                                                                                                            6. House Of Steam
                                                                                                                            7. Inner Wall
                                                                                                                            8. Satomi
                                                                                                                            9. The Bag
                                                                                                                            10. Down Close
                                                                                                                            11. Question Marks (The Spot)
                                                                                                                            12. Time Of No Sirens

                                                                                                                            "Devil's Music" and more! EM Records presents the re-release of Nicolas Collins' live radio sampling masterpiece, originally released on vinyl in 1986, served up in all its stuttering glory, a time capsule of the mid-80s New York City airwaves. Acclaimed by Philip Sherburne as 'an early template for techno', the album has a feel somewhat akin to scratching turntablist madness, a block-rocking party put through a blender and reassembled by body-popping demons. Nicolas Collins is a hugely influential in contemporary electronic music, having performed world wide for many years, collaborating with Christian Marclay, Elliot Sharp, David Shea, David Tudor and John Zorn, composing, recording, modifying circuits and inventing instruments,and spreading the good word through his writing and teaching. The pieces released here are only part of his ongoing, multifaceted and truly experimental activities.


                                                                                                                            Norman Connors

                                                                                                                            She's Gone / Mr.C

                                                                                                                            Norman Connors' 'She's Gone' is a timeless blend of Soul and R&B from his 1981 album, 'Mr C'. 43 years since its initial release, 'She’s Gone' still endures as a masterpiece, showcasing Connors' musical prowess and ability to create unforgettable compositions. Lush arrangements, masterful instrumentation, and heartfelt vocals define the track with Norman Connors seamlessly fusing horns, strings, and rhythm instruments for a rich sonic experience. This 7'' heavyweight vinyl single, presented here exclusively for RSD is the first time this single has been available since 1981 & gives fans old and new the chance to own a slice of this classic, in demand Norman Connors production. remastered, but with slick early 80's aesthetics as was.

                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                            A1. She's Gone (7'' Version)
                                                                                                                            B1. Mr. C

                                                                                                                            This is the second 12" EP featuring reinterpretations of tracks taken from the brilliant Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella's jazz dance album "People Need People" released in 2021. The song "Inner Light" gets here a further interpretation by the great Anthony Nicholson, one of the most respected producers and key characters in the tribal / afrocentric house scene, while DJ Spinna has put his artistry on "New World Shuffle" for an uplifting result: Bridgette Amofah's original vocals shine over a sunny house groove full of keys and moog lushy layers, in a distinctive 'Spinna feel'. Coming next: new versions of "People Need People" songs made by Tall Black Guy, Andrés and Fred P.! Stay tuned!!!

                                                                                                                            STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                            Millie says: The second instalment of remixes from People Need People and this doesn't disappoint, high energy electronica nu-jazz with a housey vibe. Very very into this.

                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                            1. New World Shuffle (DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix) [feat. Bridgette Amofah]
                                                                                                                            2. Inner Light (Anthony Nicholson Miquifaye Remix) [feat. Raashan Ahmad]

                                                                                                                            Nicola Conte

                                                                                                                            Umoja (Joaquin Joe Claussell Sacred Rhythm Music & Cosmic Arts Remixes)

                                                                                                                              Renowned New York City house music icon Joaquin Joe Claussell has embarked on an electrifying project of ecstatic, spiritual club music with his latest endeavour: a double album worth of reinterpretations of the music from Italian jazz master Nicola Conte's 2023 album 'Umoja'.

                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                              Matt says: Joe Claussell doesn't do things by halves. When he throws himself into a project we get so much content. Here he delves into the world of Italian jazz supremo Nicola Conte with staggering results. Giving most of the tracks a real Body & Soul house flavour; he adds to the rich instrumentation with lively percussion, frenetic bass lines and a palette so delicious you'll want to taste it. Spiritual house meets spiritual jazz - another masterpiece to add to the NYC veteran's catalogue.

                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                              LP Tracklist:
                                                                                                                              1. Life Forces (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Version)
                                                                                                                              2. Life Forces (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Dub)
                                                                                                                              3. Umoja (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Version)
                                                                                                                              4. Umoja (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Dub)
                                                                                                                              5. Soul Of The People (Joaquin's Sacred Dance Version)
                                                                                                                              6. Soul Of The People (Joaquin's Cosmic Arts Dub)
                                                                                                                              7. Into The Light Of Love (Joaquin's Spirit Of The Dance Version)
                                                                                                                              8. Into The Light Of Love (Joaquin's Spirit Of The Dance Instrumental Version)

                                                                                                                              CD Tracklist:
                                                                                                                              1. Umoja (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Version)
                                                                                                                              2. Life Forces (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Version)
                                                                                                                              3. Soul Of The People (Joaquin's Cosmic Arts Dub)
                                                                                                                              4. Into The Light Of Love (Joaquin's Spirit Of The Dance Instrumental Version)
                                                                                                                              5. Umoja (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Dub)
                                                                                                                              6. Life Forces (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Dub)
                                                                                                                              7. Soul Of The People (Joaquin's Sacred Dance Version)
                                                                                                                              8. Into The Light Of Love (Joaquin's Spirit Of The Dance Version)
                                                                                                                              9. Life Forces (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Instrumental)
                                                                                                                              10. Soul Of The People (Joaquin's Sacred Rhythm Instrumental)

                                                                                                                              Caught somewhere between the rain-drenched streets of Manchester and the sun-beaten deserts of America lies Nev Cottee’s third album Broken Flowers. A deeply cinematic, string-soaked album rich in atmosphere and brooding ambience. Its origins however, began in India, with Cottee trying to leave rainy-city heartbreak behind.

                                                                                                                              “I hate the English winter. Really can't stand the grey days. So I shipped out to India in January 2016. I found a place and set up a simple studio to demo out there”. Rising at dawn each day the ideas began to flow and quickly enough 20 new songs began to take shape, “Maybe the new surroundings helped - getting out of my comfort zone, getting away from all the shit one accumulates at home".

                                                                                                                              The songs, even in sparse demo form, captured the plaintive tone of Cottee’s vocals slowly unfurling in emotional waves - the gentleness reminiscent of Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce but with the rich warm resonance of Lee Hazelwood. Cottee then took the songs to Wales to work with previous collaborator and producer Mason Neely (Lambchop/Edwyn Collins). Neely brought in some classical musicians, “cut away the flab” and pushed the songs to their extremes - the producer's intuitions and abilities clearly trusted by Cottee, “On the album notes it says 'Mason: Sounds' and that's him in a nutshell. He brings so much to the table and gives the album it's sonic identity - I can't give him a bigger compliment than that.”

                                                                                                                              Whilst the finished album hums with quiet beauty - dense swirls of ambience hanging in the air as elevating strings cascade through - there’s also a darkness, “Although I recorded during the day this is a night time record. It’s dark and introspective. I find that juxtaposition hugely creative. The night in India can be quite a foreboding place. Me and a mate would make late night excursions inland - into the heart of darkness. Not quite Apocalypse Now but enough to take you out of any semblance of comfort. We saw some strange things, weird village ceremonies, people biting snakes' heads off... the songs represent a physical and mental journey.” 


                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                              Laura says: Mojo have likened Nev to a bedroom Ry Cooder, and you can see what they mean on this album. The songs have a sparse, atmospheric, desert soundtrack feel, albeit drenched in rainy city melancholy. Lovely stuff.

                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                              1. Asunder
                                                                                                                              2. Open Eyes
                                                                                                                              3. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
                                                                                                                              4. Be On Your Way
                                                                                                                              5. Nobody's Fool
                                                                                                                              6. Tired Of Love
                                                                                                                              7. When The Night Comes
                                                                                                                              8. The House Where I Live
                                                                                                                              9. City Lights 

                                                                                                                              Noah Creshevsky

                                                                                                                              The Tape Music Of Noah Creshevsky 1971-1992

                                                                                                                                Noah Creshevsky is a Julliard-educated composer who was also director of the Center for Computer Music. "The Tape Music Of Noah Creshevsky" is a collection of eight pieces recorded between 1971 to 1992, taken from several different albums he recorded and released in this period. The tracks were mainly made using tape collage, featuring a combination of instrumental (with occasional disco or rock moments), vocal, and concrete sounds. There's even a track ("In Other Words") that mixes a low electronic drone with the voice of John Cage.

                                                                                                                                The esteemed Nick Jonah Davis, back with his 2nd album proper on the wonderful Thread Recordings (the people who brought you DBH's amazing "Mood" LP from last year and also the C Joynes / Davis split from earlier this year). Title track, "House Of Dragons" gets us underway with a purposeful five-fingered battle cry, Davis wielding his medieval sounding axe in rich open-tuning as an intriguing and highly expressive opening track rings from the gallows. Running effortlessly into the frenetic finger picked passages of "Pili Pala', you'd be forgiven to thinking you'd run into some Caravaggio scene, surrounded by chiming lutes and ancient princesses as the theme continues into "Howie Heads For The Hills". "Double Peace" stops us dead in our tracks with cerebral tickling harmonics and deep undertones, it's languid, patient and deliberate notes ringing on as if they'd existed since the dawn of time itself. The wonderfully named "Zanzibar Chai" takes the album into the eastern scales smoothly and still keeping cohesive to the full picture. "The Stansville Strut" sees Davis visit some buck stomping blues, albeit peppered with his own idiosyncratic licks and picks while "Farewell Sad Flower" begins to bring the album to a logical conclusion with its serene and melancholic sequences closing off this emotionally dramatic and stimulating story. Finally, "The Illumination Of Nelson Fortune" trails out in a blaze of glory; deep mystical didgeridoo accompanying desert fried slide guitar and an attack of choppy acoustic goodness. Sealing off a damn near perfect long player for anyone with a penchant for the acoustic guitar. If you like DBH, John Fahey, Bert Jansch or Scott Walker then this album is for you! Highly recommended.

                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                House Of Dragons
                                                                                                                                Pila Pala
                                                                                                                                Howie Heads For The Hills
                                                                                                                                Double Peace
                                                                                                                                Zanzibar Chai
                                                                                                                                The Peace Of Running Water
                                                                                                                                The Stansville Strut
                                                                                                                                When THe Fhish Fly And The Seas Run Dry
                                                                                                                                Farewell Sad Flower
                                                                                                                                The Illumination Of Nelson Fortune

                                                                                                                                Nfaly Diakite

                                                                                                                                Hunter Folk Vol I: Tribute To Toumani Kone

                                                                                                                                Born in 1989 in Bamako, Mali, Nfaly Diakité is a member of the Donsow, Bambara animist hunters. Nfaly Diakité is named after his grandfather, the late Nfaly Diakité, one of Mali’s most respected donso chiefs. His grandfather did not play, but as a leading figure in the donso brotherhood, he was always accompanied by musician Yoro Sidibé. Nfaly grew up alongside Yoro Sidibé, who became his first master of the donso ngoni, a type of eight-stringed antelope skin harp. After leaving school to devote himself to his instrument, Nfaly continued his apprenticeship with Diakaria Diakité and Oumar Sidibé, two donso masters from the Wassolo region.

                                                                                                                                He quickly made a name for himself in the donso community and was much asked to play at the traditional ceremonies of his brotherhood. He then met percussionist Ibrahim Sarr and joined the BKO Quintet, with whom he recorded an album and toured Europe and the United States. His virtuosity on the donso ngoni soon attracted attention, and he took part in numerous music and dance festivals in Mali and abroad, with the aim of raising awareness of this little-known traditional instrument.

                                                                                                                                Nfaly Diakité is also a Kônô, meaning that he is responsible for passing on the history and culture of the Bambara people through music and song. He pursues his mission by combining tradition with more contemporary sounds and by collaborating with artists from a wide range of musical backgrounds. For him, music is a means of conveying messages of peace, love and harmony, and his compositions evoke the values of respect, tolerance and open-mindedness.

                                                                                                                                ‘Tribute to Toumani Koné’ is Nfay Diakité’s first solo album, recorded in Bamako in June 2020. On the album, Nfaly is the only singer, providing backing vocals and playing the donso ngoni and keregne. The album is a tribute to the storyteller and poet Toumani Koné, the greatest donso ngoni player since N’gonifo Bourama. Nfaly Diakité is a representative of the new generation of donso ngoni players and he wishes to pay tribute to Toumani Koné, who throughout his long career has been a symbol of courage, daring, loyalty and honesty.

                                                                                                                                The nine-tracks of this solo album leave no room for hesitation. Three instruments (donso ngoni, voice and keregne) manage to carry one into another dimension without ever tiring. The fitting and precise rhythm is a deep but melodious transe. Nfaly’s voice plays between expressive urgency and calm wisdom, and the choruses with his own voice multiply the planes of dimension of the music. The donso n’goni, of which Nfaly is an excellent player, sounds rough and earthy but always clear and sharp. All the strength of a music that does not belong to a single musician but to a long cultural tradition of which he is the spokesman is expressed here. The young Nfaly, thanks to his experience and sensitivity, succeeds on his own in pushing us into this world without feeling the weight of tradition but only the liberation of music that sounds all the more contemporary. This album is to be listened to in its entirety as one tight journey between repeated formulas, highlights and moments of rest within the same relentless rhythm. The densest moment is probably found in the heart of the album, between the tracks 'Nankama' (the predestined one) and 'Mogote Diabeye' (no one can please everyone). Here, the message, which can be deciphered from the translation of the lyrics, seems to transcend language barriers and intepret us directly about our human condition, urging us to move our bodies to the dense rhythm of life.

                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                A1.Negue Tigu
                                                                                                                                A2.Ngon
                                                                                                                                A3.Donso
                                                                                                                                A4.Mougoukan
                                                                                                                                A5.Nankama

                                                                                                                                B1.Mogote Diabeye
                                                                                                                                B2.Sadionan
                                                                                                                                B3.Ngoni
                                                                                                                                B4.Dounoukan

                                                                                                                                Neil Diamond

                                                                                                                                Home Before Dark

                                                                                                                                  Collaborating once again with legendary producer Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Tom Petty), "Home Before Dark" is a vivid 12 track masterclass in compelling songwriting and the follow up to 2005's highly acclaimed "12 Songs". "Home Before Dark" features twelve original songs written by Neil Diamond and was recorded in Los Angeles with guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench (from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers), along with bassist/acoustic guitarist Smokey Hormel and guitarist Matt Sweeney. Highlights on the album are many, including the stunning lead single "Pretty Amazing Grace" and a striking duet with the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines on "Another Day (That Time Forgot)".

                                                                                                                                  Ned Doheny

                                                                                                                                  Hard Candy - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                    Ned Doheny’s Hard Candy, originally released in 1976, is widely considered the finest blue-eyed soul album of all time. It has long been a source of great frustration then, that this perfectly-formed Southern California masterpiece has been unavailable on vinyl for almost 40 years.

                                                                                                                                    Be With Records continues apace by marking its third release with the first officially licensed reissue of Doheny’s nautical classic. Perhaps most famously, this impeccably smooth set features the timeless “Get It Up For Love”, a wonderful example of mid-70s mid-tempo white-(hot)-funk.

                                                                                                                                    Produced by the legendary Steve Cropper, it featured a veritable who’s-who of the Laurel Canyon soft-yacht sound (JD Souther, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, the entire horn section for Tower of Power!) yet bombed mysteriously. It’s been a cult record since.

                                                                                                                                    Pressed on audiophile 180g vinyl and featuring the original artwork for both jacket and full colour inner sleeve, this limited reissue is one not to be missed.


                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    A1: Get It Up For Love (4:42)
                                                                                                                                    A2: If You Should Fall (3:36)
                                                                                                                                    A3: Each Time You Pray (3:39)
                                                                                                                                    A4: When Love Hangs In The Balance (5:12)
                                                                                                                                    B1: A Love Of Your Own (3:46)
                                                                                                                                    B2: I’ve Got Your Number (3:15)
                                                                                                                                    B3: On The Swingshift (3:03)
                                                                                                                                    B4: Sing To Me (3:37)
                                                                                                                                    B5: Valentine (I Was Wrong About You) (5:07)

                                                                                                                                    Nahawa Doumbia

                                                                                                                                    La Grande Cantatrice Malienne, Vol. 1

                                                                                                                                    Nahawa Doumbia is one of Mali's defining vocalists of the last four decades. Her work journeys through progressive stages of musical evolution and sonic vogues, making it hard to summarize or even comprehend. She's played a part in popular music since the late '70s, as her version of Wassoulou music developed from vocals-and-guitar duo into full-scale touring bands packing a bombastic, electrified punch. As Doumbia puts it, "My music has changed multiple times to this day. The more I progressed in my musical career, the more instruments I have had accompany my songs." Awesome Tapes From Africa now releases Doumbia's debut recording “La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1”, building on the success of the label's first-ever reissue back in 2011, Doumbia's “La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 3”.
                                                                                                                                    This seminal classic, which is still sought-after in Mali today, is finally be available for the first time internationally with remastered audio on LP, CD, Tape and Digital formats. The recording looks back to the beginning of Doumbia's long career, when she was performing in a simple voice and acoustic guitar format. This was before she added bass and drums, and finally the electric guitar and synths for which she became known more recently. Released in 1981 by the excellent Cote d'Ivoire-based AS Records, the singer was barely 20 years old when it was recorded. She was accompanied by her future husband N'Gou Bagayoko on acoustic guitar, whose style echoes the nimble runs of traditional kamele n'goni players. The stark simplicity of this highly intimate recording-the audible room acoustics, the occasionally in-the-red vocals-do not obscure the mature strength of her voice.
                                                                                                                                    On “Vol 1” Doumbia performs her songs with the tenacity and hunger of a young artist on the cusp. "When I think about it, first, I am reminded of how long ago it was. It's one of the albums that I love most because it reminds me of my youth. I was so young and my voice was light and joyful. I still listen to some of those songs today. I am really proud of that first album because that's where it all began. It shows me how far I've come in my personal and artistic life; it gives me the courage I need to keep going forward, and makes me appreciate all the years of dedication and hard work I put into my musical career." These early songs are rhythmically built around Bagayoko's sensitive guitar, as his fingers brush the fretboard and gently outline the melodies. Although this record predates the singer's use of percussion, the driving skeletal didadi rhythm is apparent in the songs. Later albums like Vol 3 further prioritize her hometown didadi beat and the result made her famous.


                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    01. Kourouni 07:34
                                                                                                                                    02. Tou Dibile 02:32
                                                                                                                                    03. Tjefouroule 04:46
                                                                                                                                    04. Djankonia 08:09
                                                                                                                                    05. Nianimanjougou 04:49
                                                                                                                                    06. Sokono Woulouni 04:52

                                                                                                                                    Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the bombastic range of contemporary Malian pop. The beautifully complex musical accompaniment that results is courtesy of the large ensemble she pulled together with producer and arranger (and day one collaborator) N’gou Bagayoko.

                                                                                                                                    The band features two highly expressive Malian string instruments, the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni, as well as a variety of percussion, drum programming, karignan (a metal scraper) and acoustic and electric guitars. Doumbia’s daughter, a celebrated singer with her own group and busy concert schedule, Doussou Bagayoko sings on “Adjorobena,” a song about patience, tolerance and living in peace. Doumbia weaves together a roadmap of her psyche when it comes to the good and bad life has to offer. She talks about marriage and women leaving home to join another through the metaphor of a tree in the garden; she includes gunshot samples in the song “Foliwilen” to honor the bravery of hunters, soldiers and other courageous people; she uses a bird in “Djougoh” to talk about lazy people; and, in “Ndiagneko” she advises people to ignore critics, just do you. Mali has gone through an intense period of regional strife and terrorist incidents over the last ten years and Doumbia roots the album in tragic local concerns with deep global implications. “The meaning of Kanawa is so simple. We see our children trying to cross the ocean all the time. I said that many of our children die in the ocean and some of them die while crossing the Sahara.

                                                                                                                                    But I ask them why do they leave their country? They said that they leave because of the family situation or problems like poverty and unemployment. I ask them to stay and work in their country. I call on the UN and African leaders so that we can coordinate our efforts to find a solution, to create jobs for them so that young people stop leaving. That’s why I chose it as the title of my album so that everybody can learn from it and also so that there is a reduction in the number of people emigrating. So that some will hear the message and stay home and grow the land. Leaving is not the only solution. My message is to help the youth find jobs.

                                                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                    Matt says: The ever-reliable and constantly working Awesome Tapes From Africa defy cross-national travel restrictions and beam to our willing ears the warm and invigorating sounds of Mali.

                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    Blonda Yirini
                                                                                                                                    Didadi
                                                                                                                                    Ndiagneko
                                                                                                                                    Djougoh
                                                                                                                                    Hine 
                                                                                                                                    Kanawa
                                                                                                                                    Adjorobena 
                                                                                                                                    Foliwilen

                                                                                                                                    Nahawa Doumbia

                                                                                                                                    Vol 2 - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                      Awesome Tapes From Africa the label began over 10 years ago with the reissue of Nahawa Doumbia’s Vol. 3.

                                                                                                                                      The recording kicked off a successful run of classic and new recordings from artists across Africa, being made available for the first time in the international marketplace. ATFA makes it possible for artists to expand their fanbases and revenues streams with legally licensed recordings and a 50/50 profit split. For its 50th release, ATFA presents iconic Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia’s beloved Vol. 2.

                                                                                                                                      Released on LP in 1982 and Unavailable outside Mali until now, Vol. 2 is an intimate yet powerful document of the early efforts of one of Mali’s most enduring voices. Four decades of worldwide acclaim later, Doumbia is still touring the world blowing minds with her achingly emphatic singing backed by her partner guitarist N’gou Bagayoko. Vol. 2 is stark in its instrumentation - simply featuring voice and acoustic guitar but massive in its sonic impact.

                                                                                                                                      Painstakingly extracted and remastered from LP by longtime ATFA audio engineer collaborator Jessica Thompson, this is the first time this recording has been cleaned-up for wider release. The master recording no longer exists and the original was pressed at relatively inferior quality, heightening the difficulty of presenting Vol. 2 with clarified audio. The historic recording was worth the effort.

                                                                                                                                      Doumbia’s voice soars above Bagayoko’s guitar as she lays out her plaintive approach to expressing relevant topics of the day. The room sound could be considered the third instrument as its shape and sonic affect is vibrantly apparent throughout. And the simplicity of this recording only enhances the immediacy of these four songs. As a bookend to both Doumbia’s long career and ATFA’s growing catalogue, Vol. 2 is a grand yet unpretentious encapsulation of the energy behind this decade-long collaboration between artist and label.

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      1. Sakoro Mery (11:29)
                                                                                                                                      2. Demisen Kulu (7:20)
                                                                                                                                      3. Ma I Ni Wula(8:57)
                                                                                                                                      4. Jigi Yiri (8:13)

                                                                                                                                      Nick Drake

                                                                                                                                      Bryter Layter

                                                                                                                                        The follow up to "Five Leaves Left" saw a departure from that albums' pastoralism to a more urban milieu, albeit a idealised romantic one depicted in "At The Chime Of A City Clock". Accordingly the music has a slightly more urgent feel with a greater use of drums and electric guitar. One thing it does share with its' predecessor is a stunning collection of songs, written, played and sung to perfection. A classic of its', or any other, genre.

                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                        Introduction 1:33
                                                                                                                                        Hazey Jane II 3:41
                                                                                                                                        At The Chime Of A City Clock 4:42
                                                                                                                                        One Of These Things First 4:46
                                                                                                                                        Hazey Jane I 4:24
                                                                                                                                        Bryter Layter 3:16
                                                                                                                                        Fly 2:56
                                                                                                                                        Poor Boy 6:30
                                                                                                                                        Northern Sky 3:42
                                                                                                                                        Sunday 3:39

                                                                                                                                        Nick Drake

                                                                                                                                        Five Leaves Left

                                                                                                                                          This 1970 debut is surely one of the most accomplished in pop history, marking the young singer songwriter out as more than another folkie. Jazzy instrumentation and sweeping string arrangements give the record a sumptuous feel that is undermined by the brooding melancholy of "Fruit Tree", "Way To Blue" and the haunting, magisterial "River Man". A classic that has reached such disparate souls as Elliott Smith, Paul Weller, Terry Callier and Gilles Peterson.

                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          Time Has Told Me 3:56
                                                                                                                                          River Man 4:28
                                                                                                                                          Three Hours 6:01
                                                                                                                                          Day Is Done 2:22
                                                                                                                                          Way To Blue 3:05
                                                                                                                                          'Cello Song 3:58
                                                                                                                                          The Thoughts Of Mary Jane 3:12
                                                                                                                                          Man In A Shed 3:49
                                                                                                                                          Fruit Tree 4:42
                                                                                                                                          Saturday Sun 4:00

                                                                                                                                          Nick Drake

                                                                                                                                          Five Leaves Left - Back To Black Edition

                                                                                                                                            USM and Island Records now complete the Back To Black Nick Drake vinyl reissues set with this lovingly represented new press of his debut album.

                                                                                                                                            Originally released in 1969 'Five Leaves Left' was largely overlooked by critics and music fans at the time - a fate that was to befall his subsequent two studio albums. Unfortunately, Nick Drake didn't live to see his reputation as one of the finest singersongwriters Britain has ever produced develop. Nevertheless, 'Five Leaves Left' is now widely regarded as one of the most significant debut albums of all time.

                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                            1. Time Has Told Me
                                                                                                                                            2. River Man
                                                                                                                                            3. Three Hours
                                                                                                                                            4. Way To Blue
                                                                                                                                            5. Day Is Done
                                                                                                                                            6.  ' Cello Song
                                                                                                                                            7. Thoughts Of Mary Jane
                                                                                                                                            8. Man In A Shed
                                                                                                                                            9. Fruit Tree
                                                                                                                                            10. Saturday Sun

                                                                                                                                            Nick Drake

                                                                                                                                            Made To Love Magic

                                                                                                                                              This album is a new, updated version of the 'extras' CD which was previously available only as part of the "Fruit Tree" box-set. Long since deleted, a new generation of fans can finally get their hands on these different versions and out-takes from his three proper LPs, and more importantly: the last four songs Nick cut before he died. Except, hooray, they've discovered one brand new song! "Tow the Line" isn't up there with his best, but it does provide some much needed yin to "Black Dog"'s yang. It suggests Nick wasn't going to succumb to depression, as the desperate "Black Dog" would have you believe; he was going to play the game...get on with things. In short: not top himself! There's a bit of a Beatles' Anthology going on with two other tracks, as Nick's college buddy and original arranger - Robert Kirby - scores new strings for old songs. Both "Magic" and "Time of No Reply" now sound as intended. They're beautiful. And Kirby weighs in again, with two previously unreleased recordings of "River Man" and "Mayfair", from his room at Cambridge and before Nick even had a record deal. There's also a new, longer version of "Three Hours" that's not been out before. This release is evocatively packaged and a must for completists. For all music lovers, infact.

                                                                                                                                              Nick Drake

                                                                                                                                              Pink Moon

                                                                                                                                                His third and final studio album is a fittingly stark and sombre collection of songs, featuring just guitar and voice (bar a piano on one track). Shorn of the usual lavish arrangements, the songs lose none of their lustre, instead the songs themselves are pushed to the fore. A magnificent swansong.

                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                Pink Moon
                                                                                                                                                Place To Be
                                                                                                                                                Road
                                                                                                                                                Which Will
                                                                                                                                                Horn
                                                                                                                                                Things Behind The Sun
                                                                                                                                                Know
                                                                                                                                                Parasite
                                                                                                                                                Free Ride
                                                                                                                                                Harvest Breed
                                                                                                                                                From The Morning

                                                                                                                                                Nicolai Dunger

                                                                                                                                                Every Line Runs Together

                                                                                                                                                  About time Ebbot and I have finally been able to make an album that is largely an extension of all the time we have spent together and all the concerts we have done. You could say it's a kind of fusion of the two of us in music form. A key ingredient was that Reine Fiske (Dungen) wanted to be part of this musical adventure and record with us. His tone and spontaneous playing were absolutely crucial in making this album. Also at the heart of this album, and which made our recording sessions so edgy and good, were the beautiful poppy bass playing by Marcus Holmberg (Komeda), the dynamic and responsive drumming by Nicklas Korsell and the funky piano playing by Daniel Kurba. And finally, working as both a musician and sound engineer, Ponus Torstensson, aka Tentakel, played a vital role in creating the psychedelic sound on the album.

                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                  Line 1
                                                                                                                                                  Me And My Mojo
                                                                                                                                                  Travel In Time
                                                                                                                                                  Line 2
                                                                                                                                                  New Orleans (Taking Back)
                                                                                                                                                  Straight For Fun
                                                                                                                                                  Family
                                                                                                                                                  Line 3
                                                                                                                                                  Brave New World
                                                                                                                                                  Line 4
                                                                                                                                                  Under The Moon

                                                                                                                                                  Nic Endo

                                                                                                                                                  Cold Mtal Perfection

                                                                                                                                                    A step back from her usual angry noisecore outings for a more sedate LP - maybe she has got a boyfriend...

                                                                                                                                                    Natalie Evans

                                                                                                                                                    Movements

                                                                                                                                                      “The album is titled ‘Movements’ because it has changes in feeling and energy throughout. When I was first putting songs together for the album I had a lot of sad songs and I felt like an important part of me was missing from it. So I later added some songs to express that happy and fun side of myself. It makes a lot of sense to me, because emotions are not consistent, to at least have one album that goes through those movements, and I choose this to be that album.

                                                                                                                                                      I also went back to my roots a little during the pandemic and decided I really missed gymnastics – my childhood obsession. So I spent a lot of time stretching and exercising, hoping to go back to it once things were safe again. As it happened I took up dancing instead for something new, but that also influenced the title as I was working on the album throughout the pandemic.

                                                                                                                                                      I learnt so much making this album because it was the first time I wrote all of the arrangements myself, demoed out in full before entering the studio. It was a challenge I set myself and I also learnt a lot more about recording and mixing through this process – something I want to do more of as I continue writing. Another goal I set myself was to be able to write piano songs with vocals which I’d never done before, so there are quite a few of those on this album.

                                                                                                                                                      I recorded the album in Hastings with producer Martin Ruffin who I also worked with on my previous releases. It was mixed by Martin Ruffin and mastered by Aneek Thapar.” – Natalie Evans


                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      1.Driving Home Late
                                                                                                                                                      2. Between The Ground And Sky
                                                                                                                                                      3. Movie
                                                                                                                                                      4. Pencil Drawn
                                                                                                                                                      5. Interlude (Back Of My Mind)
                                                                                                                                                      6. Colours Fade
                                                                                                                                                      7. Sun Song
                                                                                                                                                      8. Under The Moon
                                                                                                                                                      9. When You Leave
                                                                                                                                                      10. To Go On
                                                                                                                                                      11. Five Positives
                                                                                                                                                      12. Guest Room

                                                                                                                                                      Nathan Fake has grown from his beginnings as an undeniably skilled, but relatively inoffensive purveyor of twee IDM (see the cutesy electronic rhythms and circuit-bent melodies of 'Drowning In A Sea Of Love') into a powerhouse of challenging electronics and innovative melodic constructions.

                                                                                                                                                      The brash and stomping 'Feelings 1' could easily be stretched into a 6-minute long OPN track from his early catalog, but retains its impact and drive in part due to it's brevity, letting up after only a couple short minutes with a thematic segue into the thumping title track. Utilising his tried-and-tested technique of a filtered-out beginning into a revisitation of that theme, but injected with fiery percussion and swooning synthplay, Fake constructs a towering wall of chaotic arps and fizzling saturation, underpinned by distorted kick drums and dusty pads.

                                                                                                                                                      'HoursDaysMonthsSeasons' is much more along the lines of Border Community heavy-hitters Holden or Luke Abbott, pitching tweeting modulars and syncopated throbs against a droning foundation of fire and brimstone. As with all of Fake's more recent work, this is a deep and rewarding experience, but gives as much as you do, revealing it's complexities through patence and perserverance. 

                                                                                                                                                      Moving further along (we have convered the towering 'DEGREELESSNESS elsewhere), we move into ambient territory with 'SmallCityLights' which is a relaxing and much-needed respite (make use of it while you can) before the thudding dystopian sidechained duality of 'Radio Spiritworld'. Like a pack of robots fizzing and staggering towards a neon sun, we get chillwave guitars, industrial hammering and crackling electronic connections, coming together into a bracing mix of rampant retro-futurism and forward-thinking outsider 'tron.

                                                                                                                                                      Providence is as contrary and (I imagine) divisive as anything Fake has accomplished thus far, founded upon his considerable talent for writing a dancefloor stomper, but abstracted into the outer realms of melodicism and rhythm. A challenging, towering behemoth of an album, that will confound and amaze in equal measure. 

                                                                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                      Barry says: Nathan Fake does OPN. Shimmering synths, soul-shaking drone and abstracted rhythms mashed together (amazingly) into a brittle and brutal amalgamation of conceptual genius and technical mastery. A++, Will listen again.

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      Feelings 1
                                                                                                                                                      PROVIDENCE
                                                                                                                                                      HoursDaysMonthsSeasons
                                                                                                                                                      DEGREELESSNESS (ft Prurient)
                                                                                                                                                      The Equator & I unen
                                                                                                                                                      SmallCityLights
                                                                                                                                                      Radio Spiritworld
                                                                                                                                                      CONNECTIVITY
                                                                                                                                                      RVK (ft Raphaelle)
                                                                                                                                                      REMAIN
                                                                                                                                                      Feelings 2

                                                                                                                                                      Nigel Farndale

                                                                                                                                                      The Times Lives Behind The Music

                                                                                                                                                        Step into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times. From the rock’n’roll pioneers of the 1950s, to the pop superstars of the 21st century, and lesser-known innovators with undeniable influence, this book brings to life the enduring spirits of music’s brightest stars. Discover the untold stories behind the music, the triumphs, the tragedies and the unforgettable songs that have shaped our cultural landscape.

                                                                                                                                                        With era-defining obituaries and behind-the-scenes photos from The Times archive, this collection is a captivating journey through the lives and legends of rock and pop’s most iconic figures.

                                                                                                                                                        Neil Finn

                                                                                                                                                        Dizzy Heights

                                                                                                                                                          Produced by Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips), ‘Dizzy Heights’ is the third solo album by Neil Finn following 1998's Try Whistling This and 2001's One Nil.

                                                                                                                                                          Finn did not set out on his third solo album with a theme in mind. But by the time he came to call it after another track on the record, “Dizzy Heights”, it had become inescapable. “It crept up on me. I started noticing it in lots of places. You start off with a number of different threads and angles and demos, and they dictate the terms of the record. It’s only in the course of the process that you maybe get a feeling there’s a type of song emerging, or an atmosphere.”

                                                                                                                                                          Neil Finn was 18 when he was invited by his older brother Tim to join the trailblazing art rock band Split Enz. His career since might be measured as a series of bounds, the best-known being Crowded House, which he founded with Paul Hester and Nick Seymour after the breakup of Split Enz in 1984. Four albums, among them Crowded House and Together Alone, brought the group popular and critical acclaim around the world.

                                                                                                                                                          Along the way, there have been a host of collaborations, including with brother Tim and wife Sharon, and an array of names from Johnny Marr, Ed O’Brien, Eddie Vedder and most of Wilco. And yet Dizzy Heights unmistakably marks a fresh leap.

                                                                                                                                                          “I didn’t want to make it a solo record in a stripped back singer-songwriter sort of way,” says Finn. “I had a feeling Dave would be good at adding some odd shapes to the music. Which I always welcome – making things a little more expansive ... He is good at subverting things, and making things sound a bit messed up and not as obvious, rather than being too tasteful, which is always a temptation.”

                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                          Impressions
                                                                                                                                                          Dizzy Heights
                                                                                                                                                          Flying In The Face Of Love
                                                                                                                                                          Divebomber
                                                                                                                                                          Better Than TV
                                                                                                                                                          Pony Ride
                                                                                                                                                          White Lies And Alibis
                                                                                                                                                          Recluse
                                                                                                                                                          Strangest Friends
                                                                                                                                                          In My Blood
                                                                                                                                                          Lights Of New York

                                                                                                                                                          Frahm returns to Erased Tapes for his most beguiling outing yet. Kicking things off with the choral solemnity of the brief 'The Whole Universe Wants To Be Touched',  before 'Sunson' excellently displays the sort of percussive demi-trance that he and Olafur Arnalds excelled at in their collaborative output. 'My Friend The Forest' has perhaps the most semblance to Frahm's earlier work, with the gently hammered piano strings being subtly blunted with some sort of preparation. It doesn't sound quite as muted as his seminal work (perhaps the felt has worn out a little), and is unmistakeable in it's  rapid trills, separated by moments of acoustic ambience. 

                                                                                                                                                          'Forever Changeless' is again littered with moments of progressive beauty, but eases off a little on the sustain to give way to a slightly terse atmosphere, beautifully accentuated by Frahm's deft hands before moving into 'All Melody' which couldn't be more reminiscent of the spine-tingling electronic crescendo of 'Says' from 2013's 'Spaces'. 

                                                                                                                                                          With the percussive workout of '#2' and 'Momentum' taking a metaphorical breath from the more upbeat moments, it gives us time to relax and reflect before the mournful military requiem of 'Fundamental Values' gives way to it's own latter resolution and smooth segue into the tropical arps of 'Kaleidoscope' and the soul-soothing slow-mo beauty of 'Harm Hymn'. 

                                                                                                                                                          Another beautiful outing for Frahm, and further evidence of his credentials as one of today's most talented composers. 


                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                          1. The Whole Universe Wants To Be Touched
                                                                                                                                                          2. Sunson
                                                                                                                                                          3. A Place
                                                                                                                                                          4. My Friend The Forest
                                                                                                                                                          5. Human Range
                                                                                                                                                          6. Forever Changeless
                                                                                                                                                          7. All Melody
                                                                                                                                                          8. #2
                                                                                                                                                          9. Momentum
                                                                                                                                                          10. Fundamental Values
                                                                                                                                                          11. Kaleidoscope
                                                                                                                                                          12. Harm Hymn

                                                                                                                                                          Nils Frahm

                                                                                                                                                          All Encores

                                                                                                                                                            The three EPs will be available as one full length release titled All Encores featuring 80 minutes of music to follow his masterful 2018 album All Melody.

                                                                                                                                                            Whilst Encores 1 focused on an acoustic pallet of sounds with solo piano and harmonium at the core, and Encores 2 explored more ambient landscapes, now Encores 3 sees Nils expand on the percussive and electronic elements in his work.

                                                                                                                                                            “The idea behind All Encores is one we had from before All Melody; to separate releases each with their own distinct musical style and theme, perhaps even as a triple album. But All Melody became larger than itself and took over any initial concepts. I think the idea of All Encores is like musical islands that compliment All Melody.”

                                                                                                                                                            Moulded during All Melody but refined by his live performances, All Encores is testament to Nils’ exceptional ability to craft his art on stage. Artificially Intelligent which showcases his ‘mad professor’ organ, and All Armed which has been a live favourite for some time, appearing on set lists since 2015, are now available to hear on record for the very first time. The final track of Encores 3, as well as the whole series, Amirador, perhaps aptly nods to the Spanish word for ‘lookout’ and hints at what’s to come.

                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                            1. The Roughest Trade
                                                                                                                                                            2. Ringing
                                                                                                                                                            3. To Thomas
                                                                                                                                                            4. The Dane
                                                                                                                                                            5. Harmonium In The Well
                                                                                                                                                            6. Sweet Little Lies
                                                                                                                                                            7. A Walking Embrace
                                                                                                                                                            8. Talisman
                                                                                                                                                            9. Spells
                                                                                                                                                            10. Artificially Intelligent
                                                                                                                                                            11. All Armed
                                                                                                                                                            12. Amirador

                                                                                                                                                            Vinyl Tracklist:
                                                                                                                                                            A1 The Roughest Trade
                                                                                                                                                            A2 Ringing
                                                                                                                                                            A3 To Thomas
                                                                                                                                                            A4 The Dane
                                                                                                                                                            B1 Harmonium In The Well
                                                                                                                                                            C1 Sweet Little Lie
                                                                                                                                                            C2 A Walking Embrace
                                                                                                                                                            C3 Talisman
                                                                                                                                                            D1 Spells
                                                                                                                                                            E1 Artificially Intelligent
                                                                                                                                                            E2 All Armed
                                                                                                                                                            F1 Amirador

                                                                                                                                                            Nils Frahm

                                                                                                                                                            Empty

                                                                                                                                                              To mark this year’s Piano Day and as an acknowledgement to these unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in, Nils Frahm surprised the world with a collection of eight solo piano pieces, titled Empty, made available digitally on March 28. The highly anticipated physical editions on vinyl and CD are set for release via Erased Tapes on October 23, 2020.

                                                                                                                                                              Conceived of just before Nils broke his thumb and composed the similarly intimate solo piano album Screws, Empty is a soothing vessel of eight simple and serene pieces originally recorded as the music to a short art film he shot with his friend and film director Benoît Toulemonde. Drifting through emotions from the stark and sobering opener ‘First Defeat’, to the gently euphoric ‘No Step On Wing’ and the contemplative but hopeful closer ‘Black Notes’, with its poignant minute of silence, Empty is a comforting score for these turbulent times.

                                                                                                                                                              “When I came back from the hospital with a broken thumb and listened to the recordings, I felt they were unfinished. I decided to put them aside and started to work on my small album, Screws.

                                                                                                                                                              Many many other notes of the piano have been struck since these days, and before we all forget about this, I thought it would be a good moment to share these lullabies with you. I hope they help you stay all strong and calm in these days of solitude – despite the hardship, we can discover introspection and reflection unexpectedly. Who knows what it is good for.
                                                                                                                                                              Much love, Nils”

                                                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                              Barry says: Frahm is back! Returning to his much sought after piano-forte after a fruitful foray into synthland. ‘Empty’ is a hushed affair, gorgeously plaintive and brimming with the sort of atmospheric recording and room sounds which made 'Felt' such a beautiful success. Gorgeous.

                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                              1. First Defeat
                                                                                                                                                              2. A Shine
                                                                                                                                                              3. No Step On A Wing
                                                                                                                                                              4. The Big O
                                                                                                                                                              5. Second Defeat
                                                                                                                                                              6. A Shimmer
                                                                                                                                                              7. Sonar
                                                                                                                                                              8. Black Notes


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