Gary Numan’s second studio album TELEKON was released in 1980 and was his third successive #1 album in the UK. Gary refers to this album, along with its two predecessors, Tubeway Army’s Replicas and his debut solo album The Pleasure Principle, as the “machine” phase of his career. While it was hard to follow up the previous releases, Telekon proved to be hugely influential. Unlike its predecessors, Telekon had plenty of guitars, along with strings and lush synthesizer textures. Trent Reznor claimed to have listened to it every day during the making of Pretty Hate Machine.

Earlier this year, a visit to Gary’s archive allowed for a deep dig, and amongst all the treasures, unreleased Telekon material was found. We are thrilled to include four unreleased tracks on this expanded edition of Telekon. “Like A B-Film” is a completely unreleased, not quite finished track from the album’s sessions. The other three tracks are previously unreleased early versions of “Please Push No More”, “Aircrash Bureau” and “I’m An Agent”. Pressed onto double rainbow sparkle black vinyl, the album has been remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road and includes revised artwork by Michael Speed at Beggars, who has frequently collaborated with Gary on his Beggars reissues. It also includes a replica of the original 1980 12-page Telekon tour booklet.

“Telekon has always held a rather warm place for me whenever I look back at the early years. I was very proud of it. I thought the production had moved up a gear for one thing. I was also proud of the fact that I’d not gone the commercial route and tried to repeat the formula and sound of “Cars” and “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” I was still trying to move forward, find new sounds. It was a reasonably bold stance I think, to not follow a safer, more formulaic path, as I suddenly had a lot to lose after the success of the year before.” – Gary Numan

TRACK LISTING

A1. This Wreckage
A2. The Aircrash Bureau
A3. Telekon
B1. Remind Me To Smile
B2. Sleep By Windows
B3. I’m An Agent
B4. I Dream Of Wires
C1. Remember I Was Vapour
C2. Please Push No More
C3. The Joy Circuit
D1. Like A B-Film (Unreleased Track)
D2. Please Push No More (Early Version)
D3. The Aircrash Bureau (Early Version)
D4. I’m An Agent (Early Version)

October 08, 2025 – a-ha are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Minor Earth, Major Sky with a special edition release, out December 12. The album marked a defining moment in the Norwegian trio’s career. Originally released in 2000, it signaled a triumphant comeback after a seven-year hiatus, reaffirming both their lasting relevance and continued creative evolution.

The 25th Anniversary Edition pairs the original tracklist—remastered in 2019—with four exclusive live recordings from a-ha’s 2001 concert at Oslo’s Valhall Arena, now available on vinyl for the very first time. Pressed on two high-quality 180g silver vinyl LPs, this edition is a must-have for collectors and fans alike, offering a renewed perspective on a modern classic while celebrating a-ha’s enduring legacy in pop music.

Minor Earth, Major Sky tells the story of a band that, while seemingly pausing between 1994 and 2000, never stopped making music. The group has described this period as transitional: “ „No one believed that it was over, it was more that nothing kept us together at that point,” recalls Magne Furuholmen in the liner notes of the 2019 Deluxe Edition. The spark for their reunion came in 1998, when a-ha performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo—a one-off appearance that unexpectedly reignited their creative chemistry and paved the way for a new album that picked up right where Memorial Beach (1993) left off.

The Anniversary Edition features the full set of remastered originals—from the soaring title track Minor Earth, Major Sky and the dreamy Velvet to the timeless hit Summer Moved On—alongside four previously unreleased live versions (Minor Earth, Major Sky, The Sun Never Shone That Day, Velvet, and Summer Moved On). Blending studio precision with live emotion, this collection offers fans a rare glimpse into a-ha’s artistic vision and stage energy during that pivotal era.

“We make a-ha music, no matter the circumstances,” Magne Furuholmen wrote in 2019. A quarter of a century later, the 25th Anniversary Edition of Minor Earth, Major Sky stands as proof of that statement—a testament to the band’s timeless sound and enduring creative spirit.

TRACK LISTING

A
1.Minor Earth, Major Sky (2019 Remaster)
2.Little Black Heart (2019 Remaster)
3.Velvet (2019 Remaster)
4.Summer Moved On (2019 Remaster)

B
1.The Sun Never Shone That Day (2019 Remaster)
2.To Let You Win (2019 Remaster)
3.The Company Man (2019 Remaster)
4.Thought That It Was You (2019 Remaster)
5.I Wish I Cared (2019 Remaster)

C
1.Barely Hanging On (2019 Remaster)
2.You’ll Never Get Over Me (2019 Remaster)
3.I Won’t Forget Her (2019 Remaster)
4.Mary Ellen Makes The Moment Count (2019 Remaster)

D
1.Minor Earth, Major Sky (Live, Oslo 2001)
2.The Sun Never Shone That Day (Live, Oslo 2001)
3.Velvet (Live, Oslo 2001)
4.Summer Moved On (Live, Oslo 2001)

London duo Babeheaven — vocalist Nancy Andersen and producer/multi- instrumentalist Jamie Travis — return after four years with their highly anticipated 5-track EP ‘Slower Than Sound’, released via Scenic Route on October 24.

Following their singles ‘Beloved’ and the 6 Music-premiered track ‘Picture This’, ‘Slower Than Sound’ marks a deeply personal and intimate turn for Babeheaven. Written and recorded largely in Nancy’s home studio, the EP embraces minimal instrumentation, acoustic textures, and spacious arrangements, capturing the emotional vulnerability and euphoria the duo describe as “Post Rave” — the music you listen to on the ride home from a
party.

“It feels like a rebirth in a lot of ways,” says Nancy. “Writing at home gave me space to experiment, make mistakes, and rebuild confidence. Once I brought the songs to Jamie, we shaped them together into what you hear now.”

The EP explores love, reflection, and personal growth. Beloved conjures a comforting, almost mythic presence, while Lost For Words reflects the struggle to connect with the world and oneself. Picture This offers snapshots of a relationship, looking back while imagining its future. The cover Tiny Demons by Todd Rundgren blends seamlessly with the EP’s introspective mood, and Loud Thoughts, featuring Samba Jean-Baptiste, captures heartbreak, burnout, and creative pressure. “I hope people can find their own meaning in these songs,” Nancy says. “I’m writing for myself, but music is for each listener to interpret.”

Since debuting with Friday Sky in 2016, Babeheaven have steadily built a loyal following through their acclaimed albums Home For Now and Sink Into Me, amassing over 65 million Spotify streams and earning support from BBC Radio 1, 6 Music, and KCRW. Their live shows have sold out Village Underground,

Bush Hall, and Jazz Cafe, and they’ve shared stages with Cigarettes After Sex, Loyle Carner, and Nilüfer Yanya. Visually, Babeheaven’s world has been shaped alongside creatives including Margot Bowman, Frank Lebon, Tegen Williams, Sacha Beeley, and Joyce Ng, cementing their reputation as one of the UK’s most distinctive acts.

After facing cancelled tours, industry pressures, and a period of creative doubt, Slower Than Sound represents a return to the core of their artistry: intimate, honest, and self-produced. Jamie reflects: “Not putting out music for so long was hard, so we hope this is the start of a more prolific period for us, reconnecting with the London music community and beyond.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: An intimate selection of warmly evocative synth-pop vignettes, drenched in atmosphere and presented like a dream-world on earth. Soulful downbeat, synthy indie and hip-shaking beats wrapped in a hazy blanket.

TRACK LISTING

1. Picture This
2. Beloved
3. Lost For Words
4. Loud Thoughts
5. Tiny Demons

Ken returns! BAR:LOW#2 lands on the Cobbles! 

Blended incantations for dancefloor situations from a thus-far unknown entity! Maybe it's William Roache himself?! What we do know is that volume 2 chucks up three more expertly snipped musical missivs for our delectation.

"Ba-ba-low" fires up the vintage Casio keyboard rhythm section for a throbbing, high-NRG EBM workout. "John Kennon" channels more electrified body music with an unignorable vocal cameo our favourite bespeckled Mersey Beat bed dweller. "Ken You Dig It" allows us some blissed-out respite courtesy of some hybridized English rose... Deidre and Maude might be long gone, but Ken's still kickin' it! 

Limited copies. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: After wow'ing us with #1 (no. 2 in our Singles of 2025), the anonymous Bar:low returns with three more utterly captivating cuts aimed at the more curious corners of the dancefloor.

TRACK LISTING

A. Ba-ba-low
B1. John Kennon
B2. Ken You Dig It

Bezier is multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang, and the Dark Entries label fittingly describes his sounds as "doomed spa music". Decompose is his latest LP of introspective, brooding work; it spans hi-NRG disco to gritty and unhinged techno, always with a rather metallic, monochromatic edge. The album was more than a decade in the making and meditates on life, loss, and self-discovery while honouring victims of Pulse Nightclub and the genocide in Gaza. From the chant-like title track to cavernous, reverb-drenched pieces and spartan synth cuts, this is a hard-to-date work of electronic invention that packs a lot in.

TRACK LISTING

Egg
New Age
Decompose
Peat Moss
Marionette
Rippling
Merciless Timeline
A Fading Citadel Atop Black Sand Bluffs
Pulsate
Split A Path Towards The Thicket
Inner Grace
Codebreaking
Anstrengend

If you ask us, more disco is indeed Just What The World Needs. And the US label is happy to oblige here with a new various artists release that pulls on many different threads. 'Track 1' opens as a real cosmic odyssey with sci-fi melodies and striding beats. 'Track 2' has a more erotic feel with 80s chords layering in romance to skyward synth lines and 'Track 3' gets textured and jacked up on more edgy 80s drum machine textures. The flip side finds plenty more variation with the funky bass sequences of 'Track 4' and heavier, darker thump of 'Track 5' all offering different moods and grooves.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: My by far personal favourite of the Just What The World Needs label series is the chugging, thumping, happy, sleazy no. 17. I'll definitely be bagging a copy of this one!

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
"Track 1"
"Track 2"
"Track 3"

Side 2
"Track 4"
"Track 5"
"Track 6"

As the world grows more absurd, HEALTH’s music feels less dystopian and more like a sane response to reality. Their acclaimed 2023 album 'RAT WARS' blended genres into a crushing hybrid that now anchors their follow-up, 'CONFLICT DLC'. Produced by STINT with mixing from WZRD BLD and Lars Stalfors, it delivers 12 full-octane industrial metal bangers—dark, maximalist, and unflinchingly honest, finding connection in disconnect and comfort in the dark

TRACK LISTING

1. ORDINARY LOSS
2. BURN THE CANDLES
3. VIBE COP
4. TRASH DECADE
5. TORTURE II
6. ANTIDOTE
7. DARKAGE
8. SHRED ENVY
9. YOU DIED
10. THOUGHT LEADER
11. DON'T KILL YOURSELF
12. WASTED YEARS

Ten extremely heady and emotionally significant cuts straight from one mind to another, designed to connect. Thick, syrupy ambience, heavy as dark matter; red shifted atmospheres swirl like plasma across silky planes of anti-static and a constantly expanding horizon.

TRACK LISTING

A1. 1izm
A2. K1Deep
A3. RiseMODX
B1. Sub AM
B2. Musicentrydelete
C1. Wavebeats
C2. Wavebeats (dub)
C3. 1 Electric
C4. Depth
D1. EBase

Oscar and Grammy-award winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross reunite with director Luca Guadagnino on their dark, dreamy and evocative soundtrack for QUEER - now available on vinyl for the first time. The physical edition features highlights from Reznor and Ross’ original score, along with end credits song, “Vaster Than Empires”, inspired by William S Burroughs' final diary entry and performed by Caetano Veloso and Trent Reznor.

Pressed on 180-gram translucent cobalt vinyl, the release includes bespoke printed inner sleeves and a gatefold jacket featuring exclusive collage artwork. Drawing from Burroughs’ signature cut-up technique, the design incorporates on-set photography and imagery of Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, an excerpt from Burroughs’ handwritten final entry, and other ephemera from and inspired by the film.



A meticulously curated visual chronicle of QUEER’s surreal narrative, the vinyl release echoes the lush, multi-layered essence of Reznor & Ross’ score – a must-have for collectors and fans alike.

TRACK LISTING

1. Vaster Than Empires
2. Pure Love
3. Centipede
4. God Had To Create
5. Thinking Is Not Enough
6. The Saddest Man In The World
7. That's Him
8. Wouldn't You?
9. Place Of Failure
10. Real Enough
11. No Holy Grail
12. No Final Satori
13. No Final Solution
14. Just Conflict
15. LOVE.

Dark Entries does as they often do once more here and revives a cult gem with Sucre De Pasteque, a 1986 standout from legendary French industrial outsiders Vox Populi! Formed in Paris in 1981, the group fused musique concrete, early industrial grit and Persian instrumentation into a sound that felt improvised yet eerily deliberate. This reissue captures the band at their most curious and unbound: psychedelic dirges, cosmic drones, hypnotic chants and broken machine-funk all dissolve into one disorienting, deeply fried trip. Bleak but never heavy-handed, the album embodies the anarchic imagination of the 80s DIY cassette underground. Archival photos and notes from the band add extra context.

TRACK LISTING

Yarom Lalou
Pellucidar
Neoplastie
Opium
Echreman
Ovan III
Bio Berim
Be Mafu
Gutta Percha II
Tibetan Cowboy
Glassy Stare
Atal Matal Toutoule
Apnee
Baby Sex
Yek!
Alternative Fresh
Divane
Djostodjou