‘Soul Psychédélique’, released on Two-Piers, takes you on a journey into the world of Psychedelic Soul & Funk, from its early beginnings in the 1960s and 1970s to the current crop of artists championing the more Psychedelic, Trippy end of the Soul sound today.

‘Soul Psychédélique’ brings together legends of the Soul Psych scene, such as Curtis Mayfield, The Chambers Brothers, Marlena Shaw, The Temptations, and the brilliant ‘Sugar Man’ by Rodriguez. Place alongside Soul Titans like Isaac Hayes, Bobby Womack, Chairman of the Board, Terry Callier all delivering stunning Psychedelic Nuggets for your Listening pleasure. Throw in some covers like ‘Dear Prudence’ by The Five Stairsteps, ‘Hard to Handle’ by Patti Drew and ‘California Dreamin’’ Bobby Womack and finish with some brilliant modern-day exponents of the scene like Khruangbin, Gabriels and Michael Kiwanuka. The result is a crazy ride through the world of Psychedelic Soul and Funk. If you ain’t dancing and smiling by the end - what the hell is wrong with you!

‘Soul Psychédélique (The Best of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022)’ is the fourth instalment in the ‘Psychédélique’ Compilation series on Two-Piers, following the critically acclaimed ‘Pop Psychédélique (The Best of French Psychedelic Pop 1964-2019)’, ‘Garage Psychédélique (The Best of Garage Psych and Pzyk Rock 1965-2019)’ and ‘Lounge Psychédélique (The Best of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022)’ and is available on 2LP Coloured Vinyl & CD.

TRACK LISTING

TRACKLIST VINYL 2LP:
A1 Chairman Of The Board - Life And Death In G&A (Part 2)
A2 Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go
A3 The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
A4 The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today - Single Version
A5 Brutal Force - The Number For Groove
B1 Isaac Hayes – Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic **
B2 Bobby Womack - California Dreamin'
B3 The Five Stairsteps - Dear Prudence
B4 Ebony Rhythm Band - Drugs Ain't Cool
B5 Doris - You Never Come Closer
C1 Terry Callier -You Goin' Miss Your Candyman
C2 Rodriguez - Sugar Man
C3 Patti Drew - Hard To Handle
C4 Marlena Shaw - Liberation Conversation
C5 El Michels Affair - Murkit Gem
C6 Janko Nilovic - Drug Song
D1 Kylie Auldist - Nothin' Else To Beat Me **
D2 Khruangbin - Maria También
D3 Christian Madden & The Enemy Chorus - Twice As Thick
D4 Gabriels - Love And Hate In A Different Time
D5 Michael Kiwanuka - Black Man In A White World
D6 MRCY – Purple Canyon
** Exclusive Tracks For Vinyl Edition

TRACKLIST CD
1. Chairman Of The Board - Life And Death In G&A (Part 2)
2. Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go
3. The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
4. The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today - Single Version
5. Brutal Force - The Number For Groove
6. Bobby Womack - California Dreamin'
7. The Five Stairsteps - Dear Prudence
8. Ebony Rhythm Band - Drugs Ain't Cool
9. Doris - You Never Come Closer
10.Terry Callier -You Goin' Miss Your Candyman
11.Rodriguez - Sugar Man
12.Patti Drew - Hard To Handle
13.Marlena Shaw - Liberation Conversation
14.El Michels Affair - Murkit Gem
15.Janko Nilovic - Drug Song
16.Khruangbin - Maria También
17.Christian Madden & The Enemy Chorus - Twice As Thick
18.Gabriels - Love And Hate In A Different Time
19.Michael Kiwanuka - Black Man In A White World
20. MRCY – Purple Canyon

This deluxe 30th Anniversary edition features newly unplugged versions of five classic tracks ‘Cast No Shadow’, ‘Morning Glory’, ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Acquiesce’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’, all newly mixed by Noel Gallagher.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are very few albums that can have at the very least three of the Piccadilly staff members agreeing on blasting of a Friday afternoon, but this is one of them. From the radio-bothering ubiquity of Wonderwall to the epic rolling rock of Don't Look Back In Anger, there is a consistent stream of impeccably raucous rock and relentlessly widescreen roll.

An iconic selection of tracks from one of the greatest rock bands in history, now featuring a lovely selection of finely crafted acoustic reworks. The ultimate collection, and one that you should definitely own one way or another.

TRACK LISTING

CD Tracklisting
DISC 1
1. Hello (Remastered)
2. Roll With It (Remastered)
3. Wonderwall (Remastered)
4. Don't Look Back In Anger (Remastered)
5. Hey Now! (Remastered)
6. [Untitled] (Remastered)
7. Some Might Say (Remastered)
8. Cast No Shadow (Remastered)
9. She's Electric (Remastered)
10. Morning Glory (Remastered)
11. [Untitled] (Remastered)
12. Champagne Supernova (Remastered)

DISC 2
1. Cast No Shadow (Unplugged)
2. Morning Glory (Unplugged)
3. Wonderwall (Unplugged)
4. Acquiesce (Unplugged)
5. Champagne Supernova (Unplugged)

LP Tracklisting
DISC1
SIDE 1
1. Hello (Remastered)
2. Roll With It (Remastered)
3. Wonderwall (Remastered)

SIDE 2
1. Don't Look Back In Anger (Remastered)
2. Hey Now! (Remastered)
3. [Untitled] (Remastered)
4. Bonehead's Bank Holiday (Remastered)

DISC 2
SIDE 1
1. Some Might Say (Remastered)
2. Cast No Shadow (Remastered)
3. She's Electric (Remastered)

SIDE 2
1. Morning Glory (Remastered)
2. The Swamp Song (Version 2) (Remastered)
3. Champagne Supernova (Remastered)

DISC 3
SIDE 1
1. Cast No Shadow (Unplugged)
2. Morning Glory (Unplugged)
3. Wonderwall (Unplugged)

SIDE 2
1. Acquiesce (Unplugged)
2. Champagne Supernova (Unplugged)

Names Records in conjunction with Two Piers Editions are delighted to announce the long awaited 21st Anniversary reissue of the debut album from The Earlies. 'These Were the Earlies' was released on Names Records / 679 Recordings in July of 2004 and quickly became one of that summer’s essential albums.

Here's what we said about it on it's original release, and it still stands up today as an absolute Piccadilly Records all time favourite:

This is Music! No room for their romantic, cross-continental story (oh, ok: Texan / Manc. 4-piece combine on either side of the Atlantic and release a handful of 7" and 10" EP's which stun and awe those of us with record players) because this isn't 'lifestyle' or 'personality' fixated rock, this is pure music-loving artistry. If you like Mercury Rev or Spiritualized for scope, ambition and magic, then prepare yourselves to be blown away. The Earlies' sound is more a blend of folk and electronica than those two, but it shares a similar woozy, other-worldly, baroque, chamber-pop landscape. It's an enchanted place. They also pull in proggy, Krautrock directions (see Neu! for grooves and Stereolab for a love of melody) with long instrumental passages, cinematic and roving, stretching between the gorgeous lullabies which make up most of the songs on this album. All the singles are here, and they most certainly are Pop, but how many bands do you know that are capable of furnishing their songs with mellotron, melodica, flutes, oboes, sax, cellos, accordians, Hammond and mini-choirs? And no other band this year could even come close to the melancholic majesty of "One of Us Is Dead" or the insistent, pulsating groove and splendour of "Morning Wonder". The whole record really flows together; this is a proper album to be listened to all the way through, and with beautiful packaging and evocative lyrics (included) embellishing the lush widescreen soundscapes, you'll be going on a journey. You'll absolutely love it!

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: This is still one of my favourite records. It was my album of the year in 2004 and only narrowly missed out on the coveted top spot in the shop, with the mighty Sufjan Stevens' "Seven Swans' just edging it.
It's a glorious mix of folk, pop, gospel and electronica, that still sounds fresh and relevant today.

TRACK LISTING

1. In The Beginning...
2. One Of Us Is Dead
3. Wayward Song
4. Slow Man's Dream
5. 25 Easy Pieces
6. Morning Wonder
7. The Devil's Country
8. Song For #3
9. Lows
10. Bring It Back Again
11. Dead Birds

Originally released in November 2004 it featured two non-singles, tracks pulled from the sessions for their third album Urban Hymns, ‘This Could Be My Moment’ and ‘Monte Carlo’.

2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of an album that has never been pressed on vinyl and, under the group’s direction, this long overdue reissue replaces the bonus tracks with the powerful singles from the band’s 2008 reunion album, Forth – ‘Love is Noise’ and ‘Rather Be’ – as well as including their second single ‘She’s A Superstar’ (1992) in its original, full-length, eight-and-a-half-minute form (rather than the five-minute edit). As such, the album now represents the complete story of The Verve’s singles.

Named after the band’s sixth single, the first issued from their second album, A Northern Soul, it brilliantly documents the potency of The Verve’s relatively short but epoch-making journey through the musical cosmos.

On their emergence (when they were known simply as Verve), they were frequently referred to as purveyors of the shoegaze sound, although their output was more expansive, cinematic and genuinely psychedelic than that description implies, as evidenced by their first three non-album singles/EPs, all of which reached the summit of the UK indie charts.

After splitting up for the first time in 1995, they reconvened (with the addition of guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong) to reach their commercial peak in 1997 with the hugely successful Urban Hymns, which was centred around a brilliantly accomplished suite of songs written by Ashcroft, including the worldwide smash ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, the UK number one ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ and the beautiful and evocative ‘Lucky Man’.

Combustible, intense and highly influential, this stellar journey is finally available on wax, where, in its definitive form, it easily stands comparison with any other singles collection from the last three decades.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Three non album early singles make this an extra special collection, for me. Absolutely no one was making the hugely scoped out, psychedelic, shoegaze, groove-laden, wonder- sound that The Verve were coming up with in the early 90s. They were a band right out (there) on their own. Then Richard must've got himself an acoustic guitar (and famously toured with Oasis, in support, no less!) and bingo: enter the land of classic single after classic single. They're all collected on this imperious compilation, and the rest is as they say, history.

Barry says: I mean, you know the singles from Urban Hymns already obviously because they're all stunning and they were on the radio constantly, but do you know the other singles from Northern Soul or Storm In Heaven? I didn't until early last year, and I wish this had been about at the time. A superb greatest hits of a brilliant, genre-spanning act.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 Side A
This Is Music
Slide Away
Lucky Man
History

LP1 Side B
She's A Superstar
On Your Own
Blue
Sonnet

LP2 Side C
All In The Mind
The Drugs Don't Work
Gravity Grave

LP2 Side D
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Love Is Noise
Rather Be

25 years on from the release of their debut album, 'Lost Souls', Doves are proud to present 'So, Here We Are' – a collection of the band’s best, hand-selected from their six studio albums and more.

A compilation that spans a quarter of a century of meticulously fabricated songs of melancholic euphoria from the Manchester trio.

Having last released a ‘Best Of…’ CD compilation, 'The Places Between', in April 2010, following the release of their 2009 fourth album, 'Kingdom Of Rust', all three members of Doves have selected a new collection of tracks to feature on 'So, Here We Are: Best Of Doves'. The first such compilation to be pressed to vinyl, it includes singles, album tracks and rarities spanning their entire 27 year releasing history, a journey which began with their debut Cedar Room EP in November 1998.

The compilation includes the previously unreleased track, "Spirit Of Your Friend".

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Doves are such a wonderful addition to the Manchester music scene. At the start of their career they even played in our shop and last year we had lead singer Jimi spinning records in his Nightjar incarnation. The band's doomy epicness, heavy with doses of melancholy and magic, has captured our imaginations for nearly three decades! A fitting time for a retrospective then. ‘So, Here We Are’ does not disappoint; all the big hitters are included, along with rarities and a previously unreleased track “Spirit Of Your Friend”.

TRACK LISTING

Black And White Town
Pounding
Snowden
Cold Dreaming
Catch The Sun
Broken Eyes
Kingdom Of Rust
Darker
There Goes The Fear
Renegade
Prisoners
Here It Comes
Carousels
Caught By The River
Walk In Fire
Lean Into The Wind
Spirit Of Your Friend
The Man Who Told Everything
The Cedar Room

Celebrating 40 Years of one of Britain’s most iconic and era-defining bands, 'The Factory Singles' is the definitive tribute to a group that reshaped the sound of UK music. This fully remastered collection brings together their landmark singles from 1985–1992, capturing the raw energy, innovation, and fearless creativity that made them a cornerstone of the Factory Records and Madchester legacy.

From underground club anthems to crossover hits, every track showcases their unique fusion of attitude, electronic experimentation, and dancefloor-ready grooves. These singles not only defined an era but also laid the foundations for the alternative dance and indie scenes that followed.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Happy Mondays were always funky, Manchester's answer to New York's ESG, if you like. But with their cartoonish lyrics and wild, often hilarious but also edgy personas, they created a unique space for themselves in the mid 80s music scene. This would explode into multicolour in '88, with their breakout single “Wrote For Luck”. Then everything went wild with the standalone Madchester “Rave On” EP the following year, where a druggier and heavier groove became apparent and (for once!) superior club mixes put the band right at the centre of the burgeoning baggy scene. This singles collection absolutely nails it!

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Delightful
2. Freaky Dancin' (7" Edit)
3. Tart Tart
4. 24 Hour Party People (Radio Edit)
5. Wrote For Luck (7" Edit)
6. Lazyitis - One Armed Boxer
7. Hallelujah (Oakenfold 7” Edit)
8. Step On (7" Edit)
9. Kinky Afro (Radio Edit)
10. Loose Fit (Radio Edit)
11.Judge Fudge (7" Edit)
12. Stinkin' Thinkin' (Hague 7" Edit)
13. Sunshine & Love (7" Edit)
14. Angel (Edit)
15. Hallelujah (Club Mix)
16. Step On (Twistin' My Melon Mix)
17. W.F.L. (Think About The Future Mix)

CD Tracklisting:
1. Delightful
2. Freaky Dancin'
3. Tart Tart
4. 24 Hour Party People (Radio Edit)
5. Wrote For Luck (7" Edit)
6. Lazyitis - One Armed Boxer
7. Hallelujah (Oakenfold 7" Edit)
8. Step On (7" Edit)
9. Kinky Afro (Radio Edit)
10. Loose Fit (Radio Edit)
11. Judge Fudge (7" Edit)
12. Stinkin' Thinkin' (Hague 7" Edit)
13. Sunshine & Love (7" Edit)
14. Angel
15. Tart Tart (The Reflex Revision)
16. 24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter's Main Vocal)
17. W.F.L. (Think About The Future Mix)
18. Hallelujah (Club Mix)
19. Rave On (Club Mix)
20. Step On (Twistin' My Melon Mix)
21. Kinky Groovy Afro (Euromix)
22. Loose Fit (Greg Wilson And Ché Wilson Remix)
23. Bob's Yer Uncle (Perfecto Remix)
24. Stinkin' Thinkin' (Junior Style)
25. Sunshine & Love (Far Island Mix)

Celebrate 50 years of Patti Smith’s debut studio album with the release of Horses (50th Anniversary).

The 2LP and 2CD sets features the iconic album remastered direct from the original master tapes, and previously unreleased outtakes and rarities including Patti Smith’s 1975 RCA audition tape.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 – LP – Side A
1. Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
2. In Excelsis Deo
3. Gloria (Medley)
4. Redondo Beach
5. Birdland
6. Free Money
DISC 1 – LP – Side B
1. Kimberly
2. Break It Up
3. Horses (Medley)
4. Land Of A Thousand Dances (Medley)
5. La Mer(de) (Medley)
6. Elegie

DISC 2 – LP – Side A
1. Gloria: In Excelsis Deo (RCA Demo)
2. In Excelsis Deo (Medley)
3. Gloria (Medley)
4. Redondo Beach (RCA Demo)
5. Birdland (Alternate Take)
6. Snowball
DISC 2 – LP – Side B
1. Kimberly (Alternate Take)
2. Break It Up (Alternate Take)
3. Distant Fingers
4. The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
5. We Three

Crate digger and music enthusiast James Endeacott compiles ‘Unlock Your Mind With Morning Glory’ for Two-Piers Records – A glorious heady mix of the weird and wonderful eclectic music from his radio show ‘Morning Glory’

“One weekday afternoon towards the end of 2017 I sat in The Lyric pub on Great Windmill Street, Soho with my dear friend Raf. I’d just finished another of my weekly Soho Radio shows and was starting to think about the next one. Raf had been on as a guest playing some of his favourite tunes of the day. We had a few drinks, told a few stories and started to plot and scheme. It was always a dream of mine to have a daily radio show. Radio had always informed and excited me from my early teens listening to John Peel under the blanket when I should’ve been either sleeping or revising right up to the present-day musical excursions of NTS, WFMU and numerous internet based stations.

We decided to speak to Adrian and Dan who ran Soho Radio to see if they’d be up for us doing a daily morning show. To our surprise they were into the idea and within 5 minutes Adrian came up with the name Morning Glory. We all liked it. We were all excited. It was all systems go. In December 2017 Raf and myself started a daily 2 hour show. We did the show together, got guests in and the musical policy was whatever we felt like that day. After several months Raf found the mornings too much. Off he went into the distance occasionally coming back with a smile, and a bag of new music. I carried on alone and then suddenly in March 2020 the world stopped, and we went into lockdown.

We set up in my house in Catford, Southeast London and carried on. The show became 3 hours a day and I started to invite friends, record labels, record shops, bands etc.. to supply me with hour long mixes that I played every day. The show took off during this time. My musical tastes expanded as I spent all day long searching for new sounds from around the globe. People started to send me more and more music. I became obsessed with the show. The audience started to take to social media and ask for certain tracks or artists to be played. I got listeners to make me mixes to play on the show and I did several phone interviews with musicians while playing some of their favourite tunes.

I was grateful that Soho Radio left me to my own devices. They never told me what to do or what to play – they trusted me and I trusted my instincts.

The music on this compilation is not a ‘best of’ it’s just how I felt when I compiled it at the start of 2025. Apart from a couple of tracks they are all things I’ve come across since the show started in December 2017. If I did a list of tracks now I’m sure it would be completely different. Surely that’s the point. We never stick in one place. We are always moving and searching. Always trying to unlock our minds. Put it on. Take your time and let it take you somewhere” James Endeacott 2025

TRACK LISTING

A1) Anuradha Paudwal – Gayatari Mantra
A2) Baba Zula – Arsiz Saksagan (Cheeky Magpie)
A3) Orchestra Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – So Many Things (To Feel Guilty About)
A4) Christopher Martin – Playing Games With My Heart
B1) Geir Sundstøl - C’est Vide En Ville
B2) Brother Ah – Transcendental March (Creation Song)
B3) Les Abranis – Therrza Rathwenza
B4) Sparkels – That Boy Of Mine
C1) Maximum Joy – Stretch (7” Mix)
C2) Chillera – SCHAX
C3) Elijah Minnelli – I Hope The Goats Come Back (ze-hood De-sham Lichdal)
C4) Siti Muharam – Pakistan
D1) Muriel Grossmann – Traneing In
D2) Catford Gyrations – Land Of 1000 Presets **
D3) Living Daylights – Let’s Live For Today
D4) Natalie Bergman – Shine Your Light On Me
** Exclusive Track On Vinyl

CD Tracklist:
1) Anuradha Paudwal – Gayatari Mantra
2) Baba Zula – Arsiz Saksagan (Cheeky Magpie)
3) Orchestra Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – So Many Things (To Feel Guilty About)
4) Christopher Martin – Playing Games With My Heart
5) Geir Sundstøl – C’est Vide En Ville
6) Brother Ah – Transcendental March (Creation Song)
7) Les Abranis – Therrza Rathwenza
8) Sparkels – That Boy Of Mine
9) Maximum Joy – Stretch (7” Mix)
10) Chillera – SCHAX
11) Elijah Minnelli – I Hope The Goats Come Back (ze-hood De-sham Lichdal)
12) Siti Muharam – Pakistan
13) Muriel Grossmann – Traneing In
14) The Living Daylights – Let’s Live For Today
15) Natalie Bergman – Shine Your Light On Me

'The Making Of Five Leaves Left' includes unaccompanied demos, studio outtakes and previously unheard songs that tell the story of how Nick Drake’s debut album ‘Five Leaves Left’ came to be released on Island Records in 1969.

This Nick Drake Estate authorised edition comprises over 30 previously unheard outtakes from the sessions, compiled across three discs. The final disc to complete the package is the original Joe Boyd produced album. The whole set has been mastered by John Wood.

Accompanied by a 60 page book printed on special textured paper stock, written by Neil Storey in collaboration with Richard Morton-Jack, complete with full track recording details, charts and recording history.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few artists more revered than Nick Drake, and his brilliant 1969 opus gets a fully-approved, extensive 'making-of' edition including outtakes from various sessions, unheard early versions and indeed, the full finished product. An essential document.

TRACK LISTING

LP/CD1 - 1st Sound Techniques Session Aka The Beverley Martyn Demo & Alt Takes From February 1968 To April 1969:
1. Mayfair - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
2. Time Has Told Me - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
3. Man In A Shed- 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
4. Fruit Tree - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
5. Saturday Sun - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
6. Strange Face - 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
7. Strange Face – Rough Mix With Guide Vocal – September 1968
8. Day Is Done – Take 5 – April 1968
9. Day Is Done – Take 2 – November 1968
10. Day Is Done – Take 7 – April 1969
11. Man In A Shed – Take 1 – May 1968
12. My Love Left With The Rain – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968

LP/CD2 - Paul De Rivas Reel – October 1968 / Out-Takes November 1968:
1. Blossom – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
2. Instrumental – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
3. Made To Love Magic – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
4. Mickey’s Tune – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
5. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
6. Day Is Done – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
7. Time Has Told Me – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
8. Three Hours – Take 2 – November 1968
9. Time Has Told Me – Take 4 – November 1968
10. Strange Face – Take 1 – November 1968
11. Saturday Sun – Take 1 – November 1968
12. Fruit Tree – Take 4 – November 1968

LP/CD3 - Out-Takes From December 1968 To April 1969:
1. Time Of No Reply – Take 3 Into Take 4 – December 1968
2. ‘Cello Song – Take 4 – January 1969
3. Mayfair – Take 5 – January 1969
4. River Man – Take 1 – January 1969
5. Way To Blue – Cambridge – Winter 1968
6. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane – Take 2 – April 1969
7. Saturday Sun – Take 1 Into Take 2 – April 1969
8. River Man – Take 2 – April 1969

LP/CD4 - The Original Album – Released 3rd July 1969:
1. Time Has Told Me
2. River Man
3. Three Hours
4. Way To Blue
5. Day Is Done
6. ‘Cello Song
7. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane
8. Man In A Shed
9. Fruit Tree
10. Saturday Sun

'Coles Corner' was Hawley’s third studio album and his first for Mute Records. After five years of garnering praise for his songwriting talents and heart-melting baritone voice, and steadily building a solid fanbase through his outstanding live performances, hard work paid off on an album regarded by many as his best.

Recorded in Sheffield’s Yellow Arch Studios, and co-produced with his long-time bassist Colin Elliot, and Mike Timm, Coles Corner featured fellow musicians Shez Sheridan (guitars), Jon Trier (keyboards), Jonny Wood (upright bass) and Andy Cook (drums). They conjured up an exquisite album inspired by Hawley’s love of vintage ‘40s and ‘50s sounds, chamber pop, country, blues, and rock ‘n roll, on a set of intimate love songs full of nostalgia, regret, sadness and a bittersweet atmosphere, on a collection that would cement Hawley’s abiding love and passion for his hometown of Sheffield. 'Coles Corner' is a cornerstone in the catalogue of one of the most creative and outstanding UK singer-songwriters of the past two decades.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Coles Corner
2. Just Like The Rain
3. Hotel Room
4. Darlin' Wait For Me
5. The Ocean
6. Born Under A Bad Sign
7. I Sleep Alone
8. Tonight
9. (Wading Through) The Waters Of My Time
10. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
11. Last Orders

CD Tracklisting:

CD1 - Coles Corner:
1. Coles Corner
2. Just Like The Rain
3. Hotel Room
4. Darlin' Wait For Me
5. The Ocean
6. Born Under A Bad Sign
7. I Sleep Alone
8. Tonight
9. (Wading Through) The Waters Of My Time
10. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
11. Last Orders

CD2 - Single Versions, B-Sides And Acoustic Versions:
1. The Ocean - Single Version
2. Just Like The Rain - Single Version
3. Born Under A Bad Sign - Single Version
4. Hotel Room - Single Version
5. Long Black Veil
6. Room With A View
7. I'm Absolutely Hank Marvin
8. Dark Road
9. Kelham Island
10. Some Candy Talking
11. Young And Beautiful
12. I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
13. Can You Hear The Rain Love?
14. Coles Corner - Acoustic Version
15. Hotel Room - Acoustic Version
16. Darlin’ Wait For Me - Acoustic Version
17. I Sleep Alone - ( Live At Sheffield City Hall)
18. A Bird Never Flew On One Wing

Following the successful ‘Slates’ Live! and ‘Grotesque’ Live! releases, Popstock Records is proud to present Singles Live Vol One 1978–81 released via Bella Union. The album documents a particularly important era in The Fall’s history - it begins with the group that recorded the debut album Live At The Witch Trials and ends with the line-up that made Hex Enduction Hour. In between we get a number of interesting variations on these two seminal iterations. As listeners will hear, what is beyond doubt is that whoever took to the stage on any given night The Fall were always witheringly powerful. The versions of the songs presented here are a wonderful addition the group’s canon.

"I have seen the madness in my area" sings Mr Smith on track 4 of this record. That sentence sums up a lot of The Fall's appeal to me: they looked at The North, the place I was brought up in, and saw something alien and inexplicable in it. Not "Gritty Northern Realism" but rather "Snotty Northern Sur-realism". A welcome alternative to all that Hovis advert, brass-band, "Ee by gum", "Last of the Summer Wine" schtick you normally got whenever The North was mentioned in the mass media. According to The Fall, people in the North of England also had dreams and sometimes saw "monsters glowing on the roof" of the local disco and had to deal with City Hobgoblins on a daily basis. This was great news. Incredibly great news for an 18 year-old who had just left school and was on Social Security and was trying to make it in a band, which was quite difficult because the rest of said band had been forced to go to university by their parents. Plus, The North was (pardon my French) completely fucked by 1981: its industries closed down by the Thatcher government, leaving the entire population in a severe state of shock. We needed something new to believe in. A band to believe in.

"We are Northern White Crap that talks back" was another inspirational quote at this time (you can hear it in the introduction to "Psykick Dance Hall" on this record). Because that was what I was aspiring to do: I was attempting to find a voice. Attempting to find out who I could be. Tough job.

The Fall had always been helpful to me in matters like these: Pulp's first mention in the local press, whilst I was still at school, had likened us to "a cross between ABBA and The Fall" (best review ever!), which was encouraging, to say the least. Then I went with my sister to see them at The Leadmill which led to an argument between us as to whether what we had just witnessed was "really" music or not. Never mind that question -- what about all the rest? Are you allowed to be that repetitive? Do all the instruments have to be in tune? Is the singer allowed to hang his jacket on the mic stand if he gets too hot? Yes, no, yes. The Fall provided possibilities. Showed possible escape routes. They said, "Anyone can do this -- as long as you do it your own way". That meant you had to make your own rules and find your own subjects to write songs about amongst the rubble of the newly post-industrial North. Get to work.

This record brings back those days of inspiration and exhilaration. I know these songs by heart even though I never bought a Fall single back then; John Peel always played The Fall releases so I taped them off the radio. Sorry. I'm sure you're familiar with them too. But to hear them live, in the heat of the moment, really brings back the spirit of The Fall. The giddiness and excitement. The palpable hunger to find something new to sing about and believe in. This music never gets old.

The Fall are still the perfect antidote to the "madness in our area". Long may they reign.

Jarvis Cocker, December 2024

TRACK LISTING

1. It’s The New Thing (Live)
2. Various Times (Live)
3. Rowche Rumble (Live)
4. In My Area (Live)
5. Fiery Jack (Live)
6. 2nd Dark Age (Live)
7. Psykick Dancehall #2(Live)
8. How I Wrote Elastic Man (Live)
9. City Hobgoblins (Live)

In 2024 The Flightpath Estate, an online community dedicated to sharing the music and work of Andrew Weatherall, created an album in his memory and inspired by him. "Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Vol.1" was released on Golden Lion Sounds of Todmorden and sold out all its stock 1000 copies on vinyl. It made Piccadilly Records and Uncut Magazine’s end of year round ups, was Lauren Laverne’s 6 Music compilation of the week and raised over £6,000 for Andrew’s chosen charities. It featured new and exclusive music from Hardway Bros, Justin Robertson’s Deadstock 33s, The Light Brigade (David Holmes), Richard Sen, Sons Of Slough, Timothy J Fairplay, 10:40, Rude Audio and an Andy Bell cover of a Sabres Of Paradise track and opened with a Two Lone Swordsmen track that was at that point unreleased on vinyl.

Now the Flightpath Estate have done it again. "Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Vol. 2" is out this Autumn with ten more tracks inspired and influenced by the spirit of Andrew Weatherall - and all exclusive to this release... an unreleased Sabres Of Paradise track, new music from Richard Fearless (Death In Vegas), A Certain Ratio and Number, Red Snapper, Richard Norris, David Harrow, Dicky Continental, Bedford Falls Players, Unit 14 and a Two Lone Swordsmen cover by Sleaford Mods.

1500 copies, double vinyl, on Golden Lion Sounds.
Beautifully packaged with sleeve art by Personality Crisis.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Our friends in the north have done it again! The family continues to expand, with new signings sure to cause a few flutters of excitement even amongst the most ardent aficionados. Volume 1 really was an outstanding achievement, from the heart, and warming our hearts and everyone who received it. Volume 2 looks to continue to trend as GLS and The Flightpath Estate unite the tribes under the legacy of the late, great Andrew Weatherall. Simply unmissable!

TRACK LISTING

A1 - The Sabres Of Paradise - Lick Wid Nit Wit (From The Flightpath Estate Mix) 
A2 - Dicky Continental - Large Bongos 
B1 - Unit 14 - Rough Spirit 
B2 - Richard Fearless - Haywired 
C1 - David Harrow - AanDee 
C2 - Red Snapper - Qraqeb 
C3 - A Certain Ratio - Estate Kings (Number Rework) 
D1 - Bedford Falls Players - In The Trees (It's Coming Mix)
D2 - Richard Norris - Brave Raver 
D3 - Sleaford Mods - Sick Wen We X

'Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII', the groundbreaking 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben. Digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm footage, with enhanced audio newly mixed by Steven Wilson. Set in the hauntingly beautiful ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, this unique film captures Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert with additional rare behind-the-scenes footage of the band beginning work on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios. The accompanying album release will see the performance presented on vinyl for the first time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I will never fall out of love with Pink Floyd, and this sees them at their youthful, experimental best. Wonderfully rich, bursting with moments of psychedelic perfection and unsurprisingly, goes incredibly well with mushrooms. Probably.

TRACK LISTING

LP & CD Tracklist:
1. Pompeii Intro
2. Echoes - Part 1
3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
4. A Saucerful Of Secrets
5. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Suna
6. One Of These Days
7. Mademoiselle Nobs
8. Echoes - Part 2
9. Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Alternate Take
10. A Saucerful Of Secrets - Unedited

4K UHD, Blu-ray & DVD Tracklist:

Feature Film
1. Pompeii Intro
2. Echoes Part 1
3. On The Run
4. Careful With That Axe Eugene
5. A Saucerful Of Secrets
6. Us And Them
7. One Of These Days
8. Mademoiselle Nobs
9. Brain Damage
10. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
11. Echoes Part 2

Concert
1. Pompeii Intro
2. Echoes Part 1
3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
4. A Saucerful Of Secrets
5. One Of These Days
6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
7. Echoes Part 2

"Hard to believe we made it, but here we are. A sold-out reunion. Gold records. A critically-lauded feature film. Stockton, CA’s finest are once again seated atop the throne and Pavement is the biggest band in the world, North America, the coastal United States. And yet, we get the sense there’s still a lot of people who don’t know who the hell they are. Thus, Matador Records will release ‘Hecklers Choice,’ Pavement’s second-ever “best of” compilation. Look, it’s been more than a decade. Back when 'Quarantine the Past' came out in 2010, TikTok wasn’t a thing. This newly revamped track-list accounts for any/all viral sensations that have emerged hence ('Harness Your Hopes') while continuing to rep the timeworn tunes that have remained playlist and mixtape staples for in-the-know-types across generations."

TRACK LISTING

1. Stereo
2. Harness Your Hopes
3. Cut Your Hair
4. Shady Lane
5. Unfair
6. Major Leagues
7. Summer Babe - Winter Version
8. Gold Soundz
9. Range Life
10. Spit On A Stranger
11. Date W/ Ikea
12. Here

Picture the scene, The year 2000 has passed and the new millenium is just getting underway - A new scene explodes onto the nation's Indie Dancefloors - some called it Indie Sleaze, Nu Rave, Future Disco or even Electroclash – ‘Strobes in Space’ takes you back to a time when the Indie kids re-discovered the joys of dancing, raving and having fun at Indie clubs. Day-Glo, Light Sticks, Baggy T-Shirts and Hedonism on the Dance Floors - welcome to Strobes in Space!

When the Indie Dance / Nu Rave scene crashed onto the dancefloors and ignited the youth of the time it seemed like uber cool and incredible new bands were appearing from all corners of the globe almost every day. An explosion of creativity and excitement flooded the clubs and airwaves. From the UK you had bands like Bloc Party, Klaxons, Test Icicles, Playgroup, Simian Mobile Disco. Coming out of NYC you had the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fischerspooner. From France you had Phoenix from Versailles and Black Strobe coming out of Paris. DJ / Producer Tiga from Canada, Digitalism from Hamburg Germany, Cut Copy from Melbourne Australia, and from Belgium Soulwax and Goose, and even spreading to South America with CSS coming out of Sao Paolo, Brazil. It really was a global scene.

Two-Piers Records brings you a snapshot of that scene at the time on their latest compilation ‘Strobes in Space’. Spanning across 3 x LPs, 30 tracks and artists. Hopefully it has captured a slice of the excitement and creativity of the time, and this compilation makes you feel joyful, happy and you just want to get Up, Dance and have Fun!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Two-Piers, legends of the historical curation, return; paying tribute to that embryonic time, when turntables famously outsold guitars, your boyfriend ditched his guitar for a synthesizer, and the smiley face emblem had a 2nd coming. Me and my crew shunned nu rave in 2006 (we were hardcore techno heads you see), but looking back through that rose-tinted lens of nostalgia, you can clearly see the inspired and boundary breaking energies taking place. Not only that, for the first time since '92 it really did unite the tribes. Indie kids started necking pills and die hard ravers started going to gigs! A wonderfully fruitful time, spotlighted brilliantly by Two-Piers here.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist:
A1) New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
A2) Bloc Party – Banquet (Phones Disco Remix)
A3) Datarock – Fa-Fa-Fa
A4) LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
A5) TokTok & Soffy O – Missy Queen’s Gonna Die
B1) Justice V Simian – We Are Your Friends
B2) Digitalism – Zdarlight
B3) Soulwax – NY Excuse
B4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix Radio Edit)
B5) Klaxons – Two Receivers
C1) The Rapture – Sister Saviour (DFA Vocal Remix)
C2) Goose – Black Gloves
C3) Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
C4) Test Icicles – What’s Your Damage (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)
C5) CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
C6) We Have Band – Hear It In The Cans
D1) Fujiya & Miyagi – Knickerbocker
D2) Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool
D3) Playgroup – Make It Happen
D4) Tiga – You Gonna Want Me
D5) Tom Vek – I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes
D6) Shit Disco – OK

Bonus Vinyl – Limited Edition Deluxe
E1) Zongamin – Bongo Song
E2) Black Strobe – Italian Fireflies
E3) Fischerspooner – Emerge
E4) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Satan Said Dance
F1) Phoenix – 1901
F2) The Killers – Mr Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont’s Thin White Duke Radio Remix)
F3) Cut Copy – Going Nowhere
F4) !!! – Me And Guiliani Down By The School Yard – A True Story

2CD Tracklist:
CD1
1) New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
2) Bloc Party – Banquet (Phones Disco Remix)
3) Datarock – Fa-Fa-Fa
4) LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
5) TokTok & Soffy O – Missy Queen’s Gonna Die
6) Justice V Simian – We Are Your Friends
7) Digitalism – Zdarlight
8) Soulwax – NY Excuse
9) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix Radio Edit)
10) Klaxons – Two Receivers
11) The Rapture – Sister Saviour (DFA Vocal Remix)
12) Goose – Black Gloves
13) Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
14) Test Icicles – What’s Your Damage (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)
15) CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
CD2
1) We Have Band – Hear It In The Cans
2) Fujiya & Miyagi – Knickerbocker
3) Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool
4) Playgroup – Make It Happen (Full Length Version) **
5) Tiga – You Gonna Want Me
6) Tom Vek – I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes
7) Shit Disco – OK
8) Zongamin – Bongo Song
9) Black Strobe – Italian Fireflies
10) Fischerspooner – Emerge
11) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Satan Said Dance
12) Phoenix – 1901
13) The Killers – Mr Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont’s Thin White Duke Radio Remix)
14) Cut Copy – Going Nowhere
15) !!! – Me And Guiliani Down By The School Yard – A True Story
** Exclusive Version To CD Format 

4CD SET EXPLORING GRUNGE AND THE AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE UNDERGROUND 1984-1994.

• COMPILED WITH MUDHONEY’S MARK ARM.

During the late 1980s, whilst pop, rap and glam metal dominated the American airwaves, underground musicians sought an antidote. During the middle of the decade, from Seattle in the west to New York in the east, bands immersed in a less highly polished, raw and more powerful sound began to emerge, fusing punky garage band attitude with meaningful, often disenchanted lyrics and lashings of distortion to create something new. The “grunge” tag quickly took hold, absorbing bands from all over the States and becoming a social phenomenon, drawing countless other underground and college circuit bands into its orbit in the process. Overnight, macho rock was dead.

Featuring an embarrassment of key bands and classic tracks, alongside lesser-known nuggets and a hand-picked selection of Australasian artists who were inadvertently feeding into the scene, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ explores a vital period in post-punk American musical history, the rebirth of rock music and its new place among the underground elite. With sleevenotes from Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, whose previous band Green River were the first to be given the “grunge” tag, this is an on-the-ground, broad reaching dive into a time and place that saw the unlikeliest of anti-rock stars recalibrate what American guitar-based music could be, reconnecting it with ordinary suburban kids and reigniting punk rock’s spirit.

Packed with over 80 tracks spanning a decade, and presented in roughly chronological order, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ tells a story that spread far beyond the ambitions of its key players.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 Green River - Come On Down
2 Red Kross - Linda Blair 1984
3 10 Minute Warning - Stooge
4 Bam Bam - Villains (Also Wear White)
5 Poison 13 - One Step Closer
6 Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground
7 Feast - Look For The Light
8 The Scientists - If It's The Last Thing I Do
9 Husker Du - Crystal
10 Malfunkshun - My Only Fan
11 Dinosaur Jr - Little Fury Things
12 Soundgarden - Hunted Down
13 U-Men - Solid Action
14 Pixies - Caribou
15 Feedtime - Curtains
16 The Replacements - The Ledge
17 The Flaming Lips - Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel
18 Green River - This Town
19 Cosmic Psychos - Can't Come In
20 The Celibate Rifles - Jesus On TV
21 Happy Flowers - Mom And Dad Like The Baby More Than Me

DISC TWO
1 Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
2 Bundle Of Hiss - Rabies
3 The Fluid - Cold Outside
4 Cat Butt - 64 Funny Cars
5 Blood Circus - Two Way Street
6 Babes In Toyland - Dust Cake Boy
7 Scream - Fucked Without A Kiss
8 Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat
9 Girl Trouble - Riverbed
10 Crunchbird - Subway Circle
11 Soundgarden - Flower
12 Tad - Behemoth
13 Kill Sybil - Olympia (Single Version)
14 Love Battery - Between The Eyes
15 Seaweed - Inside
16 Skin Yard - Start At The Top
17 Gas Huffer - Firebug
18 Mudhoney - In And Out Of Grace
19 Helltrout - Smoking Lounge
20 Mother Love Bone - Thru Fade Away

DISC THREE
1 Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
2 L7 - Shove
3 Toadies - I Hope You Die
4 Pavement - From Now On
5 The Thrown Ups - Stockboy, Superhero
6 Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness
7 The Breeders - Glorious
8 Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon
9 Hole - Teenage Whore
10 Nomeansno - Body Bag
11 7 Year Bitch - Lorna
12 Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
13 Mercury Rev - Syringe Mouth
14 Calamity Jane - Say It
15 Eric's Trip - Lost
16 Thrillhammer - Bleed
17 Cop Shoot Cop - Discount Rebellion
18 Treepeople - Ballard Bitter
19 Nubbin - Macaroni

DISC FOUR
1 Temple Of The Dog - Pushin' Forward Back
2 The Monkeywrench - I'm Blown
3 Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
4 Honcho Overload - Sugarfoot (Single Version)
5 Luscious Jackson - Keep On Rockin' It
6 Cheater Slicks - Murder (Live At CBGBs)
7 Beasts Of Bourbon – Just Right
8 The Gits - Here's To Your Fuck
9 Superchunk - Precision Auto
10 Dead Moon - It's O.K
11 Melvins - Set Me Straight
12 Patchouli Sewer - Beauty Sleep
13 Wool - Kill The Crow
14 Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Non Stop Action Groove
15 Veruca Salt - All Hail Me (Remix)
16 Sleep Capsule - Eat It's Tongue
17 Steel Wool - Four Winds
18 Wicker Biscuit - Creepy Doll
19 Gary Young - Plant Man
20 Cellophane - Tripping Fields
21 St. Johnny – I Hate Rock And Roll

'All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985' is a new compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular music. Compiled by Philip King (previously seen compiling All The Young Droogs, Glitterbest and Boobs - The Junkshop Glam Discotheque), the music here connects the dots between DIY synth enthusiasts grappling with new, cheap synthesisers at the tail-end of punk and wannabe, jobbing songwriters enthral to the new music pioneered by Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller’s Mute Records. Featuring rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics, School Daze paints a picture of beautiful failure.

Complete with extensive sleeve notes written by King and never before seen imagery, all 24 tracks were remastered by RPM in-house engineer Simon Murphy, many from vinyl copies due to lost master tapes. The story told on All The Young Droids is one of the dawning opportunity presented by both the emergence to the market of cheaper analog synthesisers and the distribution networks plus indie labels that exploded with the advent of punk music in 1976. While the music that sprouted out all over the globe in the wake of these factors was decried as fake, plastic, a refutation of punk’s guitar-led revolution, it’s telling that much of the music on All The Young Droids.. was created in bedrooms, ramshackle studios and home-made set ups with often borrowed equipment. In the era of record labels jumping to capitalise on the success of The Sex Pistols, The Clash (both on major labels, of course) these artists struggled to stand out from a new gold-rush with next to no budget or PR team. With radio and labels desperate for the new Yazoo, what resulted was a testament to necessity being the mother of invention.

At the time, the synthesiser was the music of the future, a shiny new machine that could paint like an orchestra with a single finger and a 4-track. In the hands of Manchester avant-pranksters Gerry & The Holograms it’s a pulsing, sardonic weapon.. the only instrument on the Messthetics classic lampooning of New Wave fashion. In Hamburg, a 16 year old Andreas Dorau used it to write and record (with his female classmates on vocals) a global smash in Fred Vom Jupiter (later licensed to Mute Records). The hard-to-find English version (Fred From Jupiter, natch) is included here. Many artists with already-storied careers caught the bug and recorded synthesiser-fuelled peons to space, computers, the future and, of course, love-interests. Harry Kakoulli, late of Squeeze, recorded a solo album in 1979 that included the incredible power-synth-pop smash-that-never-smashed I’m On A Rocket. Similarly, Ian North of Neo and American Power Pop stalwarts Milk ’n’ Cookies bought a Korg MS20 and used a tape machine to record We’re Not Lonely, an absolute lost-classic of minimal synth pop. We’re Not Lonely also features on the Junkshop Synth Pop sampler 7” twinned with John Howard unreleased track You Will See, released April 12th 2025.

There are plenty of compilation debuts in evidence. Sole Sister were a mysterious trio who were featured on the Scaling Triangles compilation of female-fronted, queer-adjacent post-punk / underground music that also featured The Petticoats. Selwin Image were from San Francisco and featured members of the recently defunct power pop/punk group The Pushups. Their stupidly catchy The Unknown fizzes with New Wave energy - think XTC to Sparks but remains unreleased until now. Dream Unit’s A Drop In The Ocean is an early synth wave cut, positively teaming with Joy Division instrumentation, previously only released on a long-forgotten and super rare, self-released EP. Incandescent Luminaire’s Famous Names belies an archetypal struggle of a small-town trying to make it in a cruel industry but is a thrilling New Romantic-Synth Wave cross over with a OMD gloominess that’s a joy to hear. Feminist Minimal Wave track I Am A Time Bomb by performance artist Peta Lilly and Michael Chance is a revelation destined for new found cult status. It was released on 7” and lost until now.

The flipside to the subterranean, never-made-it synth pop mentioned above are the ambitious, even fruity attempts at success that have a perennial elegance to their confidence. New Jersey-ite Billy London (real name Ed Barth) tried to cash in on the synth boom with Woman, released by a major label, a lurching new wave track built on the Louie Louie rhythm and a wonderfully camp Lou Reed-style sleazy vocal before exploding in the synthesised chorus. The song bombed but with a chorus like this, you have to wonder why? Ex-Glitter Band member John Springate’s My Life is truly epic, with doomed chord progressions and massive sounding drums turning into at least 3 different songs in the course of the track. Before you wonder what’s going on the song resolves with a glorious return to the main refrain.

The dry-ice-dressed dance floor is well catered for too. Design’s Premonition and Vision’s Lucifer’s Friend are stone-cold minimal synth bangers, well loved but given a new lease of life here. The Warlord’s The Ultimate Warlord was released in 1978, a homespun proto Hi NRG banger that was later re-recorded by The Immortals in Canada who had a club hit with it. One-man- band Disco Volante’s No Motion was re-issued by Synth wave label Medical in 2012 but makes its first vinyl compilation appearance here. Close your eyes and you can imagine what Lawrence of Felt would have sounded like with some cheap Korgs a little earlier in his career. Gibraltar-based trio The Microbes imagined a computer programming people to dance - how prescient - and ended up with a propulsive, robo-funk track with splendid rubbery bass playing over a tectonic drum machine. Previously picked up by Belgian label Stroom TV, Dee Jay Bert & Eagle’s heavily Euro-accented I Am Your Master demands the listener to “come to paradise!” In a frankly terrifying manner. All The Young Droids is the first compilation to peel away from the narrative that dour, Minimal Synth and Cold Wave were the only musical children of the first rush of synth pop. Philip King and School Daze Records describe a much more complicated world: along with the austere, Brutalist children of Daniel Miller (who produced Alan Burnham’s Bowie-Low-influenced Science Fiction here) was a plethora of desperate cash-ins, accidental mainstream hits, ambitious pop dramas and major label punts that went nowhere. Crucially, the compilation blurs the line between junk and treasure. What if the two things are interchangeable. What if it’s all science fiction?

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A wonderfully off-piste collection of angular synth ditties and stumbling grooves, wrought through self-made oscillators and cobbled-together drum machines and resulting in some of the most divinely uncomplicated melodies in music history. A hugely varied selection of superb songwriting at the pinnacle of innovation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Design - Premonition
2. Vision - Lucifer’s Friend
3. Richard Bone - Alien Girl
4. John Howard - I Tune Into You
5. Ian North - We’re Not Lonely
6. Selwin Image - The Unknown
7. Harry Kakoulli - I’m On A Rocket
8. Rich Wilde - The Lady Wants To Be Alone
9. Billy London - Woman
10. Alan Burnham - Science Fiction
11. The Microbes - Computer
12. The Goo-Q - I’m A Computer
13. Gerry & The Holograms - Gerry & The Holograms
14. The Warlord - The Ultimate Warlord
15. Die Marinas - Fred From Jupiter
16. Dee Jay Bert & Eagle - I Am Your Master
17. Peta Lily & Michael Process - I Am A Time Bomb
18. Sole Sister - It’s Not What You Are But How
19. Alasdair Riddell - Do You Read Me?
20. Karel Fialka - Armband (The Mystery Song)
21. John Springate - My Life
22. Incandescent Luminaire - Famous Names
23. Disco Volante - No Motion
24. Dream Unit - A Drop In The Ocean

'Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009' is a live album that allowed the band to re-evaluate their relationship with their 6th studio album, 'Hail To The Thief'.

The album comprises performances of songs in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin between 2003 and 2009. The album was mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton.

Speaking about the new live album, Thom Yorke says:

“In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail To The Thief theatre production, I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played. I barely recognised us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process. We very much hope you enjoy them.”

Thom Yorke recently co-created the critically acclaimed Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, set to a deconstructed score of reworked songs from 2003’s Hail to the Thief. Rolling Stone UK said of the new production, “The biggest testament to Yorke and his co-writers that these worlds collide so seamlessly, as if they were always meant to be together.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A wonderfully reimagined selection of live cuts of Radiohead's incendiary 6th LP, Hail To The Thief. Brilliantly bridging the gap between the original LP and their most recent foray into stage production. A wonderfully evocative display from one of the best live bands going.

TRACK LISTING

1. 2+2=5 (Live)
2. Sit Down, Stand Up (Live)
3. Sail To The Moon (Live)
4. Go To Sleep (Live)
5. Where I End And You Begin (Live)
6. We Suck Young Blood (Live)
7. The Gloaming (Live)
8. There, There (Live)
9. I Will (Live)
10. Myxomatosis (Live)
11. Scatterbrain (Live)
12. A Wolf At The Door (Live)

Since its inception in 2010, A Love from Outer Space (ALFOS) has been a steady presence in the underground music scene, fostering a close-knit community with its regular, transformative dancefloor experiences.

Founded by the late Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston, both highly regarded DJs and producers, ALFOS was born out of a shared love for slower-paced music and quickly became a lasting and adventurous clubbing experience. Initially conceived as a response to the fast-paced mainstream scene, ALFOS took a different approach, maintaining a tempo of no more than 122 bpm.

The club night started in the intimate surroundings of The Waiting Room in North London, where its distinctive musical ethos found an immediate following. Over time, it evolved into a British clubbing institution, expanding to larger venues and eventually reaching an international audience.

ALFOS became known for its eclectic and hypnotic sound, blending everything from kosmische and house to dub and post-punk. The night developed a loyal following, with residencies at London's Phonox and Glasgow's Berkeley Suite, and it has taken its sound to various settings, from the Croatian coastline to the Golden Lion Pub in Todmorden.

Following Andrew Weatherall's passing in 2020, Sean Johnston has carried on the ALFOS legacy. During the pandemic, he launched the A Love from Outer Space Emergency Broadcast System, a series of livestreamed DJ sets that kept the community connected during a challenging time. These broadcasts were crucial in maintaining the ALFOS spirit when live events were paused, attracting a global audience and reinforcing the collective bond of the community.

This compilation reflects the music that has shaped ALFOS over the past 15 years while also hinting at its future. Compiled and mixed by Johnston, the 19-track album pays tribute to the club night’s rich history and its commitment to pushing musical boundaries forward.

Johnston explains, "The thing about ALFOS is that while we've always had one eye on the past, much of the music we play is forward-looking. This compilation seeks to captures that balance."

The album features a variety of exclusive tracks, including the sought-after Neville Watson remix of The Blow Monkeys and Brioski's "Call 626," alongside a wide range of sounds that both honour the past and embrace the future.

As ALFOS prepares to celebrate its 15th anniversary, its influence remains strong, offering a space for music lovers to come together, slow down, and explore new sounds.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: One of the most legendary labels in the electronic music space, and a compilation that perfectly outlines their unique musical vision. Act quick on that Piccadilly exclusive version!

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl:
A1. Blow Monkeys - Save Me (Neville Watson's Dub)
A2. Cisco Cisco - If You Want Me (Jay Shepheard Remix)
A3. Bongo Entp. - Drømmen (SIRS Remix)
B1. Darlyn Vlys - Wuzu (Tyu Tribe Remix)
B2. Kimo - Whirl
B3. Discoscuro - Discoscuro
C1. Popular Tyre - Feel Like A Lazer Beam
C2. Class B Band - Repli-can (Edit)
C3. Bal5000 - Bleu Infini
D1. Phil Kieran - Find Love (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
D2. Das Komplex - 89
D3. Brioski - Calling 626 (Edit)

CD:
Disc 1 (Mixed)
1. The Blow Monkeys - Save Me (Neville Watson Remix)
2. Jonny Sender - Zhivago Zhivago
3. Cisco Cisco - If You Want Me (Jay Shepheard Remix)
4. Laars – None
5. Duncan Gray - Gone & Forgotten (feat Dominic Silvani)
6. Secret Circuit - JungleBones (Tiago Mix)
7. Bongo Entp. - Drømmen (SIRS Remix)
8. Feon - Round Earther
9. Darlyn Vlys - Wuzu (Tyu Tribe Remix)
10. Niv Ast - Jungle Marvin
11. Kimo – Whirl
12. Bal5000 - Bleu Infini
13. Discoscuro – Discoscuro
14. Popular Tyre - Feel Like A Lazer Beam
15. Class B Band - Repli-can
16. Phil Kieran - Find Love (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
17. Jazxing, Das Komplex - Neu Nostalgia (Das Komplex Remix)
18. Das Komplex – 89
19. Brioski - Calling 626

Disc 2 (Unmixed)
1. Blow Monkeys - Save Me (Neville Watson's Dub)
2. Cisco Cisco - If You Want Me (Jay Shepheard Remix)
3. Bongo Entp. - Drømmen (SIRS Remix)
4. Darlyn Vlys - Wuzu (Tyu Tribe Remix)
5. Kimo - Whirl
6. Discoscuro - Discoscuro
7. Popular Tyre - Feel Like A Lazer Beam
8. Class B Band - Repli-can (Edit)
9. Bal5000 - Bleu Infini
10. Phil Kieran - Find Love (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
11. Das Komplex - 89
12. Brioski - Calling 626 (Edit)

Deluxe 2LP Edition of Terry Hall’s second solo album pressed on Red Vinyl exclusively for Dinked. Includes the singles ‘Ballad of a Landlord’ and ’I Saw the Light’.

Features an alternate sleeve and includes new liner notes by journalist Pete Paphides, including reflections from Damon Albarn, Ian Broudie and Stephen Duffy.

Originally released in 1997 on the Southsea Bubble Company label, Terry Hall's Laugh, followed his acclaimed debut with a blend of wit, melancholy, and melody that marked him as one of Britain’s most distinctive voices.

Much of Laugh was co-written with former Smiths guitarist Craig Gannon, with further collaborations from a stellar cast including Stephen Duffy, Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas), and Damon Albarn of Blur—who had previously worked with Hall on his 1995 Rainbows EP. The album was produced by Hall himself, alongside Gannon and Cenzo Townshend, and has since gained cult status for its sharp songwriting and intimate, understated arrangements.

This special edition expands Laugh across two discs:
Disc One: The original studio album, newly mastered by Phil Kinrade at AIR Studios.
Disc Two: B-sides, live recordings, and acoustic versions—all appearing on vinyl for the first time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: This second solo LP from Terry Hall is an absolute gem. As with his debut, Home, it's a collection of witty, melancholic pop songs, delivered in his own inimitable style. It also includes a cover of Ted Rundgren's "I Saw The Light" (IMO better than the original!) And being a Dinked Edition it's beautifully packaged with a bonus disc of added extras too.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Love To See You
Sonny And His Sister
Ballad Of A Landlord
Take It Forever
Misty Water

Side B
A Room Full Of Nothing
Happy Go Lucky
For The Girl
Summer Follows Spring
I Saw The Light

Side C
Ballad Of A Landlord (Acoustic Version)
Working Class Hero (Live)
Close To You
Music To Watch Girls By

Side D
Bang Went Forever
Love To See You (Acoustic Version)
Misty Water (Acoustic Version)

With a string of glowing reviews and handful of awards already behind it, the Irish-language semi-biopic award-winning film is one of the most-acclaimed movie releases of the year playing in over 500 cinemas across the U.K and Ireland. The film was recently selected by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) to represent Ireland in the Oscar International Feature Film category having previously scooped the ‘Next Audience Award’ at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and the ‘Audience Award’ at the Galway Film Fleadh in July.

Kneecap (Original Soundtrack) features tracks from the trio themselves alongside Bicep, Fontaines DC, Orbital plus the film’s incidental music composed by Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante MBE interspersed with snippets of the film’s dialogue. The physical edition is available on double LP (featuring gatefold sleeve and colour vinyl) and CD.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few bands that have made as much of an impact as Kneecap have, with their debut album hitting our end of year charts pretty heavily. Here we get the soundtrack to the film, following Kneecap around their scene and their peers and contemporaries. Including Kneecap (obv), Fontaines DC, Bicep and loads more.

TRACK LISTING

1. 'Every Fucking Story About Belfast Starts Like This' – Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh
2. Parful – KNEECAP
3. ITS BEEN AGES – KNEECAP
4. Run – Mikey J
5. ‘Nothing But A H.O.O.D’ – Marty Maguire & Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh
6. Civil Rights – Mikey J
7. ‘A Wee Operation’ – Michael Fassbender & Cillian Kernan & Aidan McCaughey
8. Dad's Gone – Mikey J
9. Amach Anocht – KNEECAP
10. ‘You Bring A Stolen Car Here’ – Michael Fassbender & Naoise O Caireallain      
11. Ceasefire Babies – Mikey J
12. Guilty Conscience – KNEECAP
13. ‘Love Affair With The Shniff’ – Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh
14. C.E.A.R.T.A – KNEECAP
15. Arrested – Mikey J
16. 80% – Dirty Faces
17. 3CAG (ft. Radie Peat) – KNEECAP
18. The A Minor Set – The Bonny Men
19. ‘No Need To Panic’ – Naoise O Caireallain & Gerry Adams      
20. Thart Agus Thart – KNEECAP
21. ‘What The Fuck Was That?!’ – Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh & Jessica Reynolds
22. Glue – Bicep
23. Sick In The Head – KNEECAP
24. Liberty Belle – Fontaines D.C.
25. ‘Special Delivery’ – Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh & Naoise O Caireallain & Adam Best & Cathal Mercer 
26. Phone Booth – Mikey J, Gemma Doherty And Simone Kirby
27. Ash Plant – Absolute Lilt
28. Belfast (Fuck The Fuck Off) – Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh & Kerri Quinn & Orbital
29. Better Way To Live (ft. Grian Chatten) – KNEECAP
30. Kneecapped – Mikey J
31. Fall In Love Again – Alanna Royale
32. Is A Bullet – Mikey J, Gemma Doherty And Simone Kirby
33. ‘The Irish For The End Is...’ – Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh        
34. H.O.O.D – KNEECAP

Stiff Little Fingers iconic debut ‘Inflammable Material’ was one of the most important records of its era. Originally released in 1979 at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the album depicted volatile life in Belfast at the time and was met with critical acclaim.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
LP 1 - Inflammable Material:
1. Suspect Device
2. State Of Emergency
3. Here We Are Nowhere
4. Wasted Life
5. No More Of That
6. Barbed Wire Love
7. White Noise
8. Breakout
9. Law & Order
10. Rough Trade
11. Johnny Was
12. Alternative Ulster
13. Closed Groove

LP2 - Troon May 1979:
1. You Can’t Say Crap On The Radio
2. At The Edge
3. Johnny Was
4. Suspect Device
5. Nobody’s Hero
6. No Change
7. No More Of That
8. Gotta Gettaway
9. Rough Trade
10. Wait And See
11. Breakout
12. Straw Dogs
13. Wasted LIfe

2CD Tracklisting:
CD1 - Inflammable Material W/ Bonus Tracks:
1. Suspect Device
2. State Of Emergency
3. Here We Are Nowhere
4. Wasted Life
5. No More Of That
6. Barbed Wire Love
7. White Noise
8. Breakout
9. Law & Order
10. Rough Trade
11. Johnny Was
12. Alternative Ulster
13. Closed Groove
(Bonus Tracks)
14. Suspect Device (Single Version)
15. Wasted Life (Single Version)
16. ’78 RPM
17. Gotta Gettaway (Single Version)
18. Bloody Sunday

CD2 - Troon May 1979:
1. You Can’t Say Crap On The Radio
2. At The Edge
3. Johnny Was
4. Suspect Device
5. Nobody’s Hero
6. No Change
7. No More Of That
8. Gotta Gettaway
9. Rough Trade
10. Wait And See
11. Breakout
12. Straw Dogs
13. Wasted Life

4CD & DVD Tracklisting:
CD1 - Inflammable Material W/ Bonus Tracks:
1. Suspect Device
2. State Of Emergency
3. Here We Are Nowhere
4. Wasted Life
5. No More Of That
6. Barbed Wire Love
7. White Noise
8. Breakout
9. Law & Order
10. Rough Trade
11. Johnny Was
12. Alternative Ulster
13. Closed Groove
(Bonus Tracks)
14. Suspect Device (Single Version)
15. Wasted Life (Single Version)
16. ’78 RPM
17. Gotta Gettaway (Single Version)
18. Bloody Sunday

CD2 - BBC John Peel Sessions:
1. Wasted Life
2. Johnny Was
3. Alternative Ulster
4. State Of Emergency
5. White Noise
6. No More Of That
7. Johnny Was
8. Law & Order
9. Barbed Wire Love
10. Suspect Device

CD3 - 1978 Demos:
1. ’78 RPM
2. Johnny Was (Short Version)
3. White Noise
4. Alternative Ulster
5. Law & Order (No Vocal)
6. State Of Emergency
7. Revenge
8. Here We Are Nowhere
9. Rough Trade
10. No More Of That
11. Breakout
12. Barbed Wire Love

CD4 - Troon May 1979:
1. You Can’t Say Crap On The Radio
2. At The Edge
3. Johnny Was
4. Suspect Device
5. Nobody’s Hero
6. No Change
7. No More Of That
8. Gotta Gettaway
9. Rough Trade
10. Wait And See
11. Breakout
12. Straw Dogs
13. Wasted LIfe

DVD - Promo Video, Live Performances And Interview:
1. Alternative Ulster
2. Barbed Wire Love
3. Gotta Gettaway
4. Suspect Device
5. Barbed Wire Love
6. Gotta Gettaway
7. Alternative Ulster

Maybe I’m Dreaming is the latest collection selected by Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring) and Keith Abrahamsson (Founder and Head of A&R at Anthology Recordings), the mangled minds behind the beloved Follow the Sun, Sad About the Times, and …Still Sad compilations. The twenty tracks of Dreaming make a conscious, and unconscious, detour from its predecessors, sourced entirely from private press releases, spanning new decades and production modes within homespun folk, soft rock, and otherwise 70s and 80s FM radio adjacent music. The magic of Dreaming is the untold story of the artists behind these songs; those who missed the big time, but whose song craft and unrequited care hit the right notes, both high and low.

Where Follow the Sun and Sad About the Times introduced us to the fame chasing, ambition crashing crooners who missed their shot in the mainstream, Dreaming delves deeper into the isolated wilds — a private world where production quirks, late-night tape hiss, and one-man studio dreams were not necessarily a choice but the hand that was dealt. With the parameters set to "private press only,” Young and Abrahamsson follow a circuitous trail of invention and emotion, documenting a spirit that’s more homespun, sometimes lonelier, and often a little weirder. The guitars still strum, but the keyboards’ hum is more prevalent and precious; wistful harmonies brush up against lo-fi drum machines; a bittersweet fog lingering over even the brightest melodies.

As with their previous collaborations, Young and Abrahamsson weren’t interested in constructing a museum or drafting a historical survey. Dreaming is a sentimental mixtape, assembled late at night when the mind wanders and old memories blur with imagined futures, those within reach and those far too mysterious to ever encounter. Songs were unearthed in personal collections, deep YouTube burrows, dilapidated web archives, and the dim corners of Discogs, with many selections tied not only to intuition but to personal connection. Some tracks arrived via friends — Kelley Stoltz, a frequent guide for Young, tipped him off to both Peter Kraemer’s lost gem “Let the Light Slip” and Awakening’s revelatory closer — adding an unseen but deeply felt thread of camaraderie to the compilation.

The journey takes in a wide, strange sweep: The Watson Brothers Band's “Just Whistle” opens the collection with a sigh and a shrug, a song that feels like it’s been waiting for decades to be heard again. Jim Huxley’s “Tessa on a Magazine,” rediscovered after a long and winding search by Young, shimmers with a distinctly Australian melancholia. The heartbreak of Rick Penta's “My Story Changes” and Twice As Nice’s delicate “Thoughts of You” float easily alongside the more buoyant, radio-dream sheen of Barracuda’s Baby “I Love You” and MAK’s sunshine-dappled “That's Life.”

Widening the aperture to the late 70s and early 80s allows for a deeper exploration into evolving production techniques and musical technologies. The Squad’s “D.L.M.H.I.M.A.” and Christoph Spendel Group’s “Forever” crackle with the kind of bedroom synth warmth that could only come from the analog age, while the soulful, yearning undercurrent of Awakening’s “Gotta Do Somethin / Might As Well Cultivate” caps the collection with a call for action — or maybe just acceptance – in an accidental Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets parroting.

While Dreaming moves away from the "sad man with guitar" archetype that hovered over its predecessors, it remains tethered to a familiar emotional gravity — a balance of longing and lightness that defines this corner of the musical universe. Each track shuffles gently between resignation and hope, sadness and serenity, as if the artists themselves were chasing a dream just beyond reach, recording not for fame but for the simple act of getting it, that primal, creative itch, out into the world.

The result is a collection that feels both ephemeral and eternal. A flicker caught in amber. A transmission from the other side of the night; a place where the angels and demons mingle, sharing shots and lines with those that enter their parlor. Dreaming is an invitation to drift a little while longer, eyes half-closed, into that liminal space between memory and imagination. Maybe you're dreaming. Maybe you're awake. Maybe it doesn’t matter.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Gorgeously evocative drifters that span the psychedelic spectrum, from saturated folk and woozy country to blipping synthpop and bold, bubbling minimalism, all perfectly slotted together. A proper melting pot of influence, brought together with clear respect for the source material, and a deep field of knowledge.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1. The Watson Brothers Band - Just Whistle
A2. Jim Huxley - Tessa On A Magazine
A3. Rick Penta - My Story Changes
A4. MAK - That's Life
A5. Palm Pizazz! - Silent Letter
A6. Twice As Nice - Thoughts Of You

Side B
B1. Barracuda - Baby I Love You
B2. Elderberry Jak - Forrest On The Mountain
B3. Dennis - Walk With Me
B4. Jim Ware - Green Eyed Gypsy
B5. John Lyle - Oh My Wind

Side C
C1. Peter Kraemer - Let The Light Slip
C2. Brian Freel - Nightrider
C3. Michael Moore - Holland
C4. Clete Stallbaumer - John's Song
C5. Ronnie White - The Jump

Side D
D1. David Owens - Take Off Your Armour
D2. The Squad - D.L.M.H.I.M.A.
D3. Christoph Spendel Group - Forever
D4. Awakening - Gotta Do Somethin / Might As Well Cultivate

• The Pale Fountains were an English band formed in Liverpool in 1980, and composed of Mick Head, Chris McCaffery, Thomas Whelan, Andy Diagram and Ken Moss.

• Inspired by 1960s music such as Love, Burt Bacharach and The Beatles, the group released their debut single ‘(There's Always) Something on My Mind’ in October 1982. Although the Pale Fountains failed to make much commercial headway, the band would earn critical praise for the two albums released on Virgin, ‘Pacific Street’ (1984) and ‘...From Across the Kitchen Table’ (1985).

This 4-CD box set brings together both albums as well as all the B-Sides, mixes, and some previously unreleased material from the Virgin vaults all housed in a sturdy box with extensive sleeve notes by Classic Pop’s John Earls.

Mick Head – Vocals, Guitar (1981–1987)
Chris McCaffery – Bass Guitar (1981–1987)
Thomas Whelan – Drums (1981–1987)
Andy Diagram – Trumpet (1982–1984)
John Head – Guitar (1984–1987)

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Michael Head's first band were so romantic and melodic and young and beautiful. It's all here!

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: 
Pacific Street
1 Reach
2 Something On My Mind
3 Unless
4 Southbound Excursion
5 Natural
6 Faithful Pillow (Pt 1)
7 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War
8 Beyond Fridays Field
9 Abergele Next Time
10 Crazier
11 Faithful Pillow (Pt 2)
BONUS TRACKS
12 Thank You - Single
13 Meadow Of Love - Single B Side
14 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Remix
15 Palm Of My Hand - Single
16 Palm Of My Hand - Instrumental - Single B Side
17 Love's A Beautiful Place - Single B Side
18 Unless - Extended Version 12" Single
19 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War - Single
20 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War - Extended Version 12" Single
21 Love Situation - Single B Side

DISC TWO:
Mixes And Unreleased Tracks
1 Partner Picking Man - Rough Mix With Bass And
Drums*
2 Fight Think Love / Love Situation - Rough Mix Take 1*
3 Jock's A String Bean - Rough Mix*
4 Fight Think Love / Love Situation - Rough Mix Take 2*
5 Spanish Tragedy (Beyond Fridays Field) - Rough Instrumental Mix*
6 Take A Little Shelter - Rough Mix Take 2*
7 Partner Picking Man - Acoustic*
8 Sun Drenched Girl (Crazier) - Acoustic
9 Lavinia's Dream - Rough Mix Take 1
10 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Rough Mix
11 Hey There Fred - Rough Mix
12 One By One - Rough Mix Take 2*
13 Norfolk Broads - Rough Mix Take 1
14 Untitled Jam / 7 And 7 Is*
15 Unless - Rough Mix
16 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Rough Mix
17 Sundrenched Girl (Crazier) - Rough Mix
18 Southbound Excursion - Rough Mix

DISC THREE:
From Across The Kitchen Table
1 Shelter
2 Stole The Love
3 Jean's Not Happening
4 Bicycle Thieves
5 Limit
6 27 Ways To Get Back Home
7 Bruised Arcade
8 These Are The Things
9 Its Only Hard
10 ...From Across The Kitchen Table
11 Hey
12 September Sting 

DISC FOUR:
Mixes And Unreleased Tracks
1 From Across The Kitchen Table - Extended Version 12" Single
2 Bicycle Thieves - Remix Single B Side
3 Just A Girl - Remix Single B Side
4 Thank You - Remix Single B Side
5 Silver Bendix – Demo*
6 The Outsider – Demo*
7 Detrimentally (Stole The Love) - Demo
8 27 Ways To Get Back Home - Demo
9 Summertime (It's Hard) -Demo
10 Shelter - Demo
11 Yeah Eah Eah – Demo*
12 These Are The Things (Stay) - Demo
13 Bruised Arcade - Demo

*Previously Unreleased.

Different Class (originally released October 30, 1995) is Pulp's most successful album, achieving multi-platinum sales and international acclaim, winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize and debuting at #1 on the UK Album Chart. It also produced four Top Ten singles, including ‘Common People’.

4LP Description:
Four months prior to the release of the album, the band headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 24 June. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of what is widely regarded as one of the best records of the era, this legendary Glastonbury performance, the audio wholly restored and released here for the first time, has been paired with the remastered album (each cut over 2 LPs) and is released as a deluxe 4LP boxset.

The audio has been remastered/mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, and is presented in a sturdy slipcase with a comprehensive, 28-page booklet featuring extensive notes from new interviews with the band members, plus previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the band’s own archives. The original ‘aperture’ sleeve design, which invited purchasers to “Choose your own front cover”, came with six double- sided inserts/art cards of alternative cover images depicting cardboard cutouts of the band members in a variety of situations. This has been fully recreated and a 12” by 12” poster featuring miniatures of the cutouts themselves is also included.

2CD Description:
Four months prior to the release of the album, the band headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 24 June. Four months prior to the release of the album, the band headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 24 June. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of what is widely regarded as one of the best records of the era, this legendary Glastonbury performance, the audio wholly restored and released here for the first time, has been paired with the remastered album and is released as a 2CD boxset.

The audio has been remastered/mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, and the discs are housed in a Digi-sleeve with 28-page booklet featuring extensive notes from new interviews with the band members, plus previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the band’s own archive

TRACK LISTING

4LP
LPs 1 And 2 - Original Album Remastered
Side One
1. Mis-Shapes 3:47
2. Pencil Skirt 3:11
3. Common People 5:51
Side Two
1. I Spy 5:55
2. Disco 2000 4:34
3. Live Bed Show 3:29
Side Three
1. Something Changed 3:19
2. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 3:40
3. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. 6:01
Side Four
1. Underwear 4:06
2. Monday Morning 4:18
3. Bar Italia 3:44
LPs 3 And 4 - Live At Glastonbury, 1995
Side One
1. Common People Drone Intro 3:28
2. Do You Remember The First Time? 4:00
3. Razzmatazz 4:44
4. Monday Morning 5:16
Side Two
1. Underwear 5:17
2. Sorted For E’s & Wizz 4:34
3. Disco 2000 5:45
4. Joyriders 4:03
Side Three
1. Acrylic Afternoons 6:01
2. Mis-Shapes 4:23
3. Pink Glove 5:09
Side Four
1. Babies 6:41
2. Common People 7:33

2CD
CD1 - Original Album Remastered
Mis-Shapes
Pencil Skirt
Common People
I Spy
Disco 2000
Live Bed Show
Something Changed
Sorted For E's & Wizz
F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
Underwear
Monday Morning
Bar Italia
CD2 - Live At Glastonbury, 1995
‘Common People Drone Intro’
Do You Remember The First Time
Razzmatazz
Monday Morning
Underwear
Sorted For E's & Wizz
Disco 2000
Joyriders
Acrylic Afternoons
Mis-Shapes
Pink Glove
Babies
Common People

Hüsker Dü. Live. 1985. Need we say more? Witness the transcendent Minneapolis punk trio tearing into the most incendiary year of its existence, captured live on stage at First Avenue in perhaps the highest fidelity recordings of the band’s lauded SST era. This 4-LP/2-CD edition includes Beau Sorenson’s restoration of an entire January 30 1985 set, 20 extra live tracks from the year’s touring schedule, and a deluxe booklet detailing twelve months of history-making Hüsker Dü. What is the sound of a legend being written?

TRACK LISTING

1. New Day Rising
3. Everything Falls Apart
4. The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
5. I Apologize
6. If I Told You
7. Every Everything
8. Makes No Sense At All
9. Terms Of Psychic Warfare
10. Powerline
11. Books About UFOs
12. Broken Home, Broken Heart
13. Diane
14. Hate Paper Doll
15. Green Eyes
16. Divide And Conquer
17. Pink Turns To Blue
18. Eight Miles High
19. Out On A Limb
20. Helter Skelter
21. Ticket To Ride
22. Love Is All Around
23. Don’t Want To Know If You’re Lonely
24. I Don’t Know For Sure
25. Hardly Getting Over It
26. Sorry Somehow
27. Eiffel Tower High
28. What’s Going On
29. Private Plane
30. Celebrated Summer
31. All Work And No Play
32. Keep Hanging On
33. Find Me
34. Flexible Flyer
35. Sunshine Superman
36. In A Free Land
37. Somewhere
38. Flip Your Wig
39. Never Talking To You Again
40. Chartered Trips
41. The Wit And The Wisdom
42. Misty Modern Days

Formed in South London in the mid-1980s by Robert Hampson, Loop blazed a trail with their potent mix of motorik beats and heavy guitar riffs, recording a trio of brilliant albums that set the indie charts alight before imploding in 1990 after the release of album number three, A Gilded Eternity. As critics enthused at the time, Loop were the sound of Suicide jamming with the Stooges aboard a spaceship built by Hawkwind and piloted by CAN. They were post-psychedelic, pre-shoegaze figureheads in a world of anodyne pop jangle and baggy rhythms, and even their closest contemporaries like Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine didn’t plough such a distinctive furrow as theirs.

First time vinyl pressing of these remastered 12”/EP tracks. Originally released in the 80s / 1990, on the Chapter 22 / Head / Situation 2 labels.

16 Dreams 12” (Head) released 1986
Spinning 7” /12” (Head) released 1987
Collision 7”/12” (Chapter 22) released 1988
Black Sun 12” (Chapter 22) released 1988
Arc-Lite 7”/12”/CD5 (Situation 2) released 1989
Primsma Uber Europa 12” (Beggars) released 1991 (Live Promo only)

Remastered from the original tapes by Kevin Metcalf and then reissued for the first time in 2009 as part of the WORLD IN YOUR EYES 3CD set on Reactor. Now re-mastered for vinyl and re-cut to lacquers by Shawn Joseph /Optimum Mastering and issued as TWELVES. (ref: the 3 x 7” set SEVENS released 2020)

Each side of this 3LP set has one of the 12”s in full, 16 Dreams / Spinning / Collision / Black Sun / Arc-Lite..as well as the promo only LIVE 12” Prisma Uber Europa. The 12” cover of each LP has the relevant sleeve on each side to recreate the original sleeve image, and each 12” side will have labels as close to the original designs as possible.

Hear Loop expand their sound from the Stooges / Velvets / garage pyschout of “16 Dreams”, into the “Spinning” era and then develop their motorik fuzzed-out nihilistic pummel through the “Collision” and “Black Sun” EPs to finish this set with the “Arc-Lite” side, possibly Loop at their most visceral. Unable to be pigeon holed like most bands of this time, their live shows also wiped the floor with everyone as evidenced on the “Prisma Uber Europa” 12”. Not reissued on vinyl when first remastered, now its time. PLAY LOUD

TRACK LISTING

Side A - 16 Dreams
16 Dreams
Head On
Burning World

Side B - Spinning
Spinning (Parts 1&2)
Brittle Head Girl
Deep Hit

Side C - Collision
Collision
Crawling Heart
Thief Of Fire (Written-By – The Pop Group)
Thief (Motherfucker) (Written-By – The Pop Group)

Side D - Black Sun
Black Sun
Circle Grave
Mother Sky (Written-By – Can)

Side E - Arc-Lite
Arc-Lite (Sonar)
Arc-Lite (Radar)
Sunburst
Arc-Lite (Radiated)

Side F - Prisma Uber Europa
Afterglow (Live)
Got To Get It Over (Live)
Burning World (Live)

To celebrate the 40th anniversary for The Sisters Of Mercy’s debut album ‘First And Last And Always’, a 4LP black and red marble coloured vinyl set is to be released on 4 July 2025., it includes the original album alongside the three EP’s that preceded its release - ‘Body & Soul’, ’Walk Away’ and ‘No Time To Cry’. Each EP features non-album bonus tracks.

The main album will also be available as a standalone LP in its original gatefold jacket with printed inner bag and on black and red marble coloured vinyl.

Formed in Leeds by guitarist Gary Marx and vocalist Andrew Eldritch in 1980, they released ‘First And Last And Always’ in March 1985 and is the culmination of five years of independent releases that saw them build up a large cult following.

TRACK LISTING

RECORD 1: FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS
Side One
1. Black Planet
2. Walk Away
3. No Time To Cry
4. A Rock And A Hard Place
5. Marian (Version)

Side Two
1. First And Last And Always
2. Possession
3. Nine While Nine
4. Logic
5. Some Kind Of Stranger

VINYL BOX SET
RECORD 1: FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS
Side One
1. Black Planet
2. Walk Away
3. No Time To Cry
4. A Rock And A Hard Place
5. Marian (Version)
Side Two
1. First And Last And Always
2. Possession
3. Nine While Nine
4. Logic
5. Some Kind Of Stranger

RECORD 2: BODY AND SOUL EP
Side One
1 . Body And Soul
2 . Body Electric (1984 Version)
Side Two
1. Train
2. Afterhours

RECORD 3: WALK AWAY EP
Side One
1. Walk Away
Side Two
1. Poison Door
2. On The Wire

RECORD 4: NO TIME TO CRY EP
Side One
1. No Time To Cry
Side Two
1. Blood Money
2. Bury Me Deep

10 years ago in 2015, The Golden Lion in Todmorden opened its doors under the guidance of Gig & Waka, Cloudwater brewed their first ever beers, the dance floors of Manchester got introduced to the world of Supernature Disco and from his spare room at home in Bolton Chris Massey started Sprechen.

What followed over the next decade has been a wild ride of amazing people, memorable (though fuzzy!) parties, creativity, art, expression, performance and at the centre of it all of course, the music.
Sprechen has never been one style or sound. A reflection of varied musical tastes without any limitations of style or genres, just a passion to share good music.
Over the last decade, Sprechen has been lucky enough to both work with and meet many like-minded cosmic creatives that share this mindset and that have all played a major role in the story.

Ein Null is a collection of original tracks from some of Sprechen's nearest & dearest who, for the last 10 years, have helped shaped the label via releases, remixes or performing at events.
It's wonky & weird, banging & beautiful, cosmic & consciousness-expanding and it continues to connect the invisible dots of club music and more abstract listening experiences.

From basements & beyond to sunsets & psychedelic socials...we are pleased to present this electronically charged selection of soundscapes courtesy of like-minded musical humans including; The Utopia Strong, A Certain Ratio, Lena C., Gina Breeze, Low Pulse, Psychederek, Lindstrøm, Supernature Disco, PBR Streetgang and of course Chris Massey.

Limited to a run of 300 vinyl with double-sided screen-printed sleeve.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Chris Massey's Sprechen celebrates 10 years in the field with a truly all-star cast and nothing short of exceptional content.

TRACK LISTING

A1. The Utopia Strong - Old Mathers
A2. A Certain Ratio - Faster But Slower
A3. Lena C - Pelago
A4. Low Pulse - Pillow Talk
A5. Psychederek - Hope & Dreams
B1. Massey & Supernature - Walk...now Walk
B2. Gina Breeze - Acid Strings
B3. The Thief Of Time & Lindstrom - Escape Into Neon Feat. Lady Lady
B4. Pbr Streetgang - Chasin' Perry

Originally released on Mon 22 August 2005, the Furries’ third and final album to be recorded by Epic Records, Love Kraft is reissued on double vinyl and  2CDs, including the 22-track bonus CD, Kiss Me With Apocalypse  via the Cardiff-based independent label, Strangetown Records. Four previously unheard tracks are drawn from the vaults, including the squidgy ELO-stomp of drummer, Daf Ieuan-led Rock ‘N’ Roll Flu, plus the distorted space-jam of Cae Marw, the band’s deep-bass sketch of Palo Alto and ghostly, percussive morsel of Bedw Arian.

The album followed six previous albums by the band, including their statement debut album, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, melding an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences. Maintaining a shape that was ill-fitting in the jigsaw of other 90’s guitar bands, their follow-up, UK Top Ten album, Radiator brought the hooky squelch of the bona fide indie dancefloor classic, The International Language of Screaming. The next decade saw the release of the first Top 20-charting, Welsh language album, Mwng (2000), followed by further experimentation and commercial success with Rings Around The World (2001) and Phantom Power (2003).

'Love Kraft’s sense of cohesion, collaboration and free-flow of rich harmony has been credited to the five-piece escaping Wales to record in the shimmering heat of Figueres, Catalunya. Bringing famed Beastie Boys producer, Mario Caldato Jr along with them for the ride, the travelling band’s stay in the Catalonian hometown of Salvador Dali included found sounds, boozy petrol stations, gastronomic revelations and, finally, a rich album of strings, synths and opulent vocal harmonies.

While eventually finding their way to Baha, near to Rio di Janeiro to mix the album 'Love Kraft’s story began in Wales and Pleasure Foxxx Studios, where the band began to craft the album’s songs. Embracing the landmark of a seventh album, notably coming after the 2004 release of their first ‘best of…’ package, 'Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1', Super Furry Animals pooled ideas and affected further democracy in their songwriting, taking a load off traditional lead-writer and front man, Gruff Rhys, and sharing in lead vocal duties (aside from the microphone-averse bassist, Guto Pryce).

'Love Kraft' was the first Super Furry Animals album recorded to hard disc instead of multi-track tape, and found the band typically explorative and open to happenstance. Zoom’s opening splash into the recording studio’s swimming pool is accompanied by the on-location, pool table samples found elsewhere on the album. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Twenty years ago? Wow! I always really loved this album, starting with the brilliant artwork and then journeying inwards to the land of dreams and whimsy and layers of sound. My favourite song is Lazer Beam which just packs everything this glorious madcap band does into four magical, spiralling minutes. Another megarecord and a timely reissue.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Zoom!
2. Atomik Lust
3. The Horn
4. Ohio Heat
5. Walk You Home 
6. Lazer Beam 
7. Frequency 
8. Oi Frango
9.  Psyclone! 
10. Back On A Roll 
11. Cloudberries 
12. Cabin Fever
13.  *surprise*

CD Tracklisting:
CD1:
1. Zoom!
2. Atomik Lust
3. The Horn
4. Ohio Heat
5. Walk You Home
6. Lazer Beam
7. Frequency
8. Oi Frango
9. Psyclone!
10. Back On A Roll
11. Cloudberries
12. Cabin Fever
13. Sunny Seville
14. Rock ‘n’ Roll Flu
15. Never More
16. Colonise The Moon

CD2:
1. Zoom! (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
2. Atomik Lust (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
3. The Horn (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
4. Ohio Heat (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
5. Lazer Beam (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
6. Frequency (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
7. Oi Frango (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
8. Psyclone! The SFA Cut (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
9. Back On A Roll (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
10. Cabin Fever (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
11. Cae Marw (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
12. The Gateway Song (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
13. Rock ‘n’ Roll Flu (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
14. Never More (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
15. Palo Alto (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
16. These Bones (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
17. Bing Bong (Stiwdio Ofn Demo)
18. Bedw Arian (Pleasure Foxxx Demo)
19. The Gateway Song (Rough Mix)
20. Psyclone! (Future Force)
21. Psyclone! (The Flaming Lips)
22. Zoom! (uncut Master Take)

After a storied first year as a band releasing and touring behind their critically acclaimed debut album Today, Galaxie 500 closed out 1988 with a quintessential performance at New York City’s famed CBGB with every bit of their signature intimacy and autumnal bombast on display. The unusual bill which also included Sonic Youth, B.A.L.L. and Unsane was a benefit show for the zine shop See Hear.

Captured here in a raw but inspired board mix by Kramer and restored and mastered from the analog source by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, CBGB 12.13.88 is a live snapshot of a Galaxie fully formed, punctuating the end of their first chapter while poised to step into their next with On Fire the following year.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tugboat
2. Oblivious
3. Parking Lot
4. Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste
5. Pictures
6. Flowers
7. It’s Getting Late
8.Temperature’s Rising

Look Out Live! perfectly encapsulates the magic of Johnny Marr’s sold-out show at the Hammersmith Apollo, London in 2024. The night was a culmination of his 2024 Spirit Power tour and showcases his 40-year repertoire of distinctive songwriting and the guitar sound that has seen Johnny regarded as the most influential guitarist of his generation.

The energy of the night can be felt through tracks from his four-album solo career such as ‘Easy Money’, ‘Armatopia’ and ‘Somewhere’ plus classic The Smiths compositions ‘This Charming Man’, ‘How Soon Is Now?’ and ‘There Is a Light That Never Goes Out’.

The memorable night made exceptional by the appearance of special guest Neil Tennant who reunited with Johnny to perform 90s supergroup Electronic’s hit ‘Getting Away With It’ and a special one-off rendition of David Bowie’s ‘Rebel Rebel’.

*Note – The CD offers additional tracks that are not on the vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

2CD TRACKLIST:
DISC 1
1. Sensory Street
2. Panic
3. Generate! Generate!
4. Spirit Power And Soul
5. This Charming Man
6. Somewhere
7. Walk Into The Sea
8. The Answer
9. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
10. Armatopia
11. Get The Message

DISC 2
1. Hi Hello
2. How Soon Is Now?
3. Easy Money
4. Rebel Rebel (feat. Neil Tennant)
5. Getting Away With It (feat. Neil Tennant)
6. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
7. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
8. The Passenger
9. New Town Velocity
10. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
11. Bigmouth Strikes Again

2LP TRACKLIST:
DISC 1
Side 1
1. Sensory Street
2. Panic
3. Generate! Generate!
4. Spirit Power And Soul
Side 2
5. This Charming Man
6. Somewhere
7. Walk Into The Sea
8. The Answer
9. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
DISC 2
Side 3
10. Armatopia
11. Get The Message
12. Hi Hello
13. How Soon Is Now?
14. Easy Money
Side 4
15. Rebel Rebel (feat. Neil Tennant)
16. Getting Away With It (feat. Neil Tennant)
17. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
18. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Prepare to raise a glass and stomp your feet as The Pogues' seminal album, 'Rum Sodomy & The Lash,' celebrates its 40th anniversary. Originally released on August 5th 1985, the album captured the raw energy and poetic lyricism that defined The Pogues, solidifying their place as one of the most influential bands of their generation.Today (August 5th) marks the 40th anniversary of that original release date.

This 40th anniversary reissue will come in a collectible 2LP red marble vinyl edition and a Deluxe 2CD set, both offering the original album plus a bonus disc that brings together the legendary Poguetry In Motion EP, with tracks from the July 1985 BBC Janice Long session, plus original single B sides. The bonus disc is completed by rare live versions of A Pair Of Brown Eyes and Sally MacLennane recorded at Glasgow Barrowlands in 1987 and a rough mix of Poguetry In Motion outtake, the band' s version of The Lovin’ Spoonfuls Do You Believe In Magic, all currently unavailable.

Produced by Elvis Costello, Rum Sodomy & the Lash was the second studio album by the London-based, Irish folk punk band. Produced by Elvis Costello, who was originally brought in to work on the singles, but extended his stay to work on the entire album. At the time he said "I saw my task was to capture them in their dilapidated glory before some more professional producer fucked them up."[ Tthe album was released on 5 August 1985 and reached number 13 on the UK charts. It features the singles A Pair Of Brown Eyes, Sally MacLennane and Dirty Old Town.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
Side One
1. The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn [2:59]
2. The Old Main Drag [3:20]
3. Wild Cats Of Kilkenny [2:49]
4. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day [2:55]
5. A Pair Of Brown Eyes [4:54]
6. Sally MacLennane [2:44]
Side Two
1. Dirty Old Town [3:46]
2. Jesse James [2:59]
3. Navigator [4:13]
4. Billy's Bones [2:03]
5. The Gentleman Soldier [2:04]
6. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [8:10]
Side Three
1. The Parting Glass (B-Side) [2:17]
2. A Pistol For Paddy Garcia (B-Side) [2:32]
3. London Girl [3:07]
4. A Rainy Night In Soho [5:36]
5. The Body Of An American [4:50]
6. Planxty Noel Hill [3:12]
Side Four
1. Wild Cats Of Kilkenny [2:46]
2. Billy’s Bones [2:03]
3. The Old Main Drag [3:18]
4. Dirty Old Town [3:42]
5. A Pair Of Brown Eyes (Live At Glasgow Barrowland) [3:41]
6. Sally MacLennane (Live At Glasgow Barrowland) [2:50]
7. Do You Believe In Magic (Rough Mix) [2:42]

CD Tracklisting:
CD 1: Rum Sodomy & The Lash (1985)
1. The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn [2:59]
2. The Old Main Drag [3:20]
3. Wild Cats Of Kilkenny [2:49]
4. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day [2:55]
5. A Pair Of Brown Eyes [4:54]
6. Sally MacLennane [2:44]
7. Dirty Old Town [3:46]
8. Jesse James [2:59]
9. Navigator [4:13]
10. Billy's Bones [2:03]
11. The Gentleman Soldier [2:04]
12. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [8:10]
CD2: Bonus Tracks
1. The Parting Glass (B-Side) [2:17]
2. A Pistol For Paddy Garcia (B-Side) [2:32]
Poguetry In Motion EP
3. London Girl [3:07]
4. A Rainy Night In Soho [5:36]
5. The Body Of An American [4:50]
6. Planxty Noel Hill [3:12]
BBC Radio 1 - The Janice Long Show - 11th July 1985
7. Wild Cats Of Kilkenny [2:46]
8. Billy’s Bones [2:03]
9. The Old Main Drag [3:18]
10. Dirty Old Town [3:42]
Bonus Tracks
11. A Pair Of Brown Eyes (Live At Glasgow Barrowland) [3:41]
12. Sally MacLennane (Live At Glasgow Barrowland) [2:50]
13. Do You Believe In Magic? (Rough Mix) [2:42]

Originally released in the UK on September 19th, 2005, 'KC Rules OK' quickly became a fan favourite, solidifying King Creosote (aka Kenny Anderson) as a unique voice in British indie folk. The album spawned several notable singles, including 'Bootprints', 'Favourite Girl', and '678', all of whichshowcased Anderson's distinctive songwriting.

The 2CD Deluxe edition pulls together a collection of B sides, songs and remixes, many from the fabled Chorlton And the Wh’Earlies unreleased promo CD including four songs that are completely commercially unreleased and are currently unavailable digitally.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. NOT ONE BIT ASHAMED
2. YOU ARE COULD I?
3. THE VICE-LIKE GIST OF IT
4. BOOTPRINTS
5. LOCKED TOGETHER
6. JUMP AT THE CATS
7. GUESS THE TIME
8. MY FAVOURITE GIRL
9. I’LL FLY BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS
10. 678
11. MARGUERITA RED

CD Tracklisting:
1. NOT ONE BIT ASHAMED
2. YOU ARE COULD I?
3. THE VICE-LIKE GIST OF IT
4. BOOTPRINTS
5. LOCKED TOGETHER
6. JUMP AT THE CATS
7. GUESS THE TIME
8. MY FAVOURITE GIRL
9. I’LL FLY BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS
10. 678
11. MARGUERITA RED
12. NOT ONE BIT ASHAMED (MODLANG REMIX)
13. CASINO CLUBBING
14. LITTLE HEART
15. YOU WANT TO WALK
16. FROWN
17. ACQUAINTANCE (THE SOMEONE ELSE DEAF MUTES REMIX)
18. 678 (B&Q VERSION)
19. MARGUERITA RED (B&Q VERSION)
20. SO FORLORN (B&Q VERSION)
21. BOOTPRINTS (HOT CHIP REMIX)
22. THE VICE-LIKE GIST OF IT (JON HOPKINS REMIX)

Paul Hillery has once again handpicked a must-have compilation of little-known and high-quality tracks for his ongoing 'Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours' series. This third volume, the first on BBE Music, is an essential companion to Paul's 'Children Of The Sun' trilogy, also released on BBE Music.

Featuring an array of funky folk, jazzy AOR grooves, fuzzed-out lo-fi dub, DIY folktronica, private-press grails and previously unreleased material, Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours Volume 3 has 22 tracks over triple vinyl and comes with extensive sleeve notes. Includes such gems as the ethereal sound of Sheila Chandra, the euphoric groove of Tim Green, the infectious bass-heavy folk of Dave Smith & Judy Dinning, dreamy Alaskan soft-rock from Soapstone and a West Coast call to enlightened celebration by Rhythm & Bliss. This compilation could soundtrack a cross-continental journey with the music lover sat on a Greyhound bus with earphones on and a battered copy of Kerouac's On The Road. Paul Hillery has curated releases by Will & James Ragar, Forest, and Monica Rypma for BBE Music. Described as an 'enlightened heathen' Paul has shared music via his highly influential Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours persona on social media for over a decade, cultivating an unerring knack for uncovering rare and lost sounds. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Once again, Paul returns to BBE for the follow-up to his previous two Folk Funk compilations, and his superb 'We are The Children Of The Sun' that was one of our favourite compilations in 2023. Wonderfully obscure folky gems, lo-fi funk and heartfelt, organic electronic pieces that lean into Balearic and ambient. Unsurprisingly superb.

TRACK LISTING

1. One
2. Got More Love
3. What Have You Seen
4. Seven Letters
5. Something About Nothing
6. Night Blooming Thing
7. Give Me Time
8. Beside You
9. Provincetown
10. You Brighten Up My Day
11. Love Strain
12. Rainy Day Dreams
13. Sail Far
14. Joshua
15. Friendship
16. Montse’gur
17. Movin’ On
18. Take It If You Try
19. Love Is The Sun
20. Going All The Way
21. Motivationen Måste Vara Stor
22. Feel The Spirit

The 2005, UK Top 20, BPI certified Gold, debut album from Maximo Park featuring the singles ‘Apply Some Pressure’, ‘Graffiti’, ‘Going Missing’, ‘I Want You To Stay’ and ‘The Coast Is Always Changing’.

TRACK LISTING

1LP Tracklisting:
1. Signal And Sign
2. Apply Some Pressure
3. Graffiti
4. Postcard Of A Painting
5. Going Missing
6. I Want You To Stay
7. Limassol
8. The Coast Is Always Changing
9. The Night I Lost My Head
10. Once, A Glimpse
11. Now I'm All Over The Shop
12. Acrobat
13. Kiss You Better

2LP Tracklisting:

LP1 - A Certain Trigger:
1. Signal And Sign
2. Apply Some Pressure
3. Graffiti
4. Postcard Of A Painting
5. Going Missing
6. I Want You To Stay
7. Limassol
8. The Coast Is Always Changing
9. The Night I Lost My Head
10. Once, A Glimpse
11. Now I'm All Over The Shop
12. Acrobat
13. Kiss You Better

LP2 - Missing Songs:
1. A19
2. Isolation
3. My Life In Reverse
4. Fear Of Falling
5. I Want You To Leave
6. A Year Of Doubt
7. Trial And Error
8. Stray Talk
9. Hammer Horror
10. Apply Some Pressure (Original Demo Version)
11. Graffiti (Original Demo Version)
12. Once, A Glimpse (Original Demo Version)

3LP Tracklisting:

LP1 - A Certain Trigger:
1. Signal And Sign
2. Apply Some Pressure
3. Graffiti
4. Postcard Of A Painting
5. Going Missing
6. I Want You To Stay
7. Limassol
8. The Coast Is Always Changing
9. The Night I Lost My Head
10. Once, A Glimpse
11. Now I'm All Over The Shop
12. Acrobat
13. Kiss You Better

LP2 - Missing Songs:
1. A19
2. Isolation
3. My Life In Reverse
4. Fear Of Falling
5. I Want You To Leave
6. A Year Of Doubt
7. Trial And Error
8. Stray Talk
9. Hammer Horror
10. Apply Some Pressure (Original Demo Version)
11. Graffiti (Original Demo Version)
12. Once, A Glimpse (Original Demo Version)

LP3 - Rarities & B-Sides:
1. Wasteland
2. Limassol (First Avenue Demo)
3. The Coast Is Always Changing (Dilston Road Demo)
4. Signal & Sign (Gravity Shack Session)
5. Apply Some Pressure (Gravity Shack Session)
6. Going Missing (Gravity Shack Session)
7. Surrender (BBC 6 Music Tom Robinson Session)
8. Postcard Of A Painting (Dilson Road Home Demo)
9. The Night I Lost My Head (Dilston Road Home Demo)
10. Now I'm All Over The Shop (John Marley Centre Demo)
11. Kiss You Better (BBC Radio 2 Janice Long Session)
12. I Want You To Stay (Field Music/J. Xaverre Remix)

2CD Tracklisting:
1. Signal And Sign
2. Apply Some Pressure
3. Graffiti
4. Postcard Of A Painting
5. Going Missing
6. I Want You To Stay
7. Limassol
8. The Coast Is Always Changing
9. The Night I Lost My Head
10. Once, A Glimpse
11. Now I'm All Over The Shop
12. Acrobat
13. Kiss You Better
14. Wasteland (recorded For War Child)
15. Limassol (First Avenue Demo)
16. The Coast Is Always Changing (Dilston Road Home Demo)
17. Signal & Sign (Gravity Shack Session)
18. Apply Some Pressure (Gravity Shack Session)
19. Going Missing (Gravity Shack Session)
20. Surrender (BBC Radio 6 Music Tom Robinson Session)
21. Postcard Of A Painting (Dilson Road Home Demo)
22. The Night I Lost My Head (Dilston Road Home Demo)
23. Now I'm All Over The Shop (John Marley Centre Demo)
24. Kiss You Better (BBC Radio 2 Janice Long Session)
25. La Quinta (b-side)
26. I Want You To Stay (Christian Vogel Remix)

System Olympia presents a bold, cinematic compilation that redefines the sound of sensuality. Love Language is an 18-track double-vinyl release pressed on both heavyweight velvet red and white linen colour vinyl, also a deluxe heavyweight black vinyl. The CD and full-length digital package expand the experience to 20 tracks, that comes mixed & unmixed. It’s accompanied by a provocative, limited-edition 24-page fanzine, exclusive to 18+ audiences.

This is not just a compilation, Love Language is a manifesto. A carefully curated sonic journey through eroticism, artistic rebellion, and liberation, it spans nearly five decades of music and features exclusive edits and rare gems that illuminate System Olympia’s radical aesthetic vision.

Various Artists – curated by System Olympia "Love Language"
Since her emergence on the electronic underground, System Olympia has carved out a distinct, sensual sonic universe, equal parts vulnerable and defiant. With Love Language, she presents her most audacious project to date: a compilation rooted in what she calls The Aesthetics of Sexual Desire in Sound.

It’s a daring declaration that desire is more than a feeling - it’s a language. Across 20 tracks, including her own sultry opener “The Heat Of The Night (feat. REINEN)” and a rare System Olympia edit of Working Men’s Club’s “Ploys”, this compilation speaks in rhythms and textures that evoke longing, intimacy, and ecstatic release.

This is not a traditional compilation. System Olympia’s sequencing is cinematic and deliberate. Every track a scene in a film that exists only in the listener’s imagination. From the retro-futurist seduction of Flavia Fortunato’s Italo gem “Se Tu Vuoi” to the deep, extended tension of Musclecars’ “Running Out of Time,” each piece plays its part in an arc of anticipation, climax, and reflection.

Uniting artists as diverse as Daniele Baldelli, Piero Umiliani, and DJ Rocca, Love Language refuses boundaries of genre, era, or expectation. It dances between vintage Italo-disco, dreamy electronica, sweaty club tracks, and avant-garde jazz, forming a rich tapestry of sound and sensation.

System Olympia explains, “This is music for lovers, outsiders, and dreamers. It's a rebellion made of velvet and basslines.”

The accompanying 24-page fanzine insert, restricted to adults, further deepens the narrative, with erotic visual fragments and poetic texts that amplify the compilation’s raw, sensual energy. A tangible extension of the music’s spirit, the zine invites listeners to step into Olympia’s world and engage their senses fully.

As much a provocation as it is a celebration, Love Language is a deeply personal curation and a radical act of creative freedom. It champions eroticism as art, desire as dialogue, and music as a liberatory force.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. System Olympia - The Heat Of The Night (feat. REINEN)
2. Flavia Fortunato - Se Tu Vuoi 
3. See Thru Hands - Hot City
4. Daniele Baldelli, Francesca Amati - Inner Light 
5. Ruins - Sexual Desire 
6. Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Eli's Mix) 
7. Musclecars - Running Out Of Time 
8. Working Men's Club - Ploys (System Olympia Edit) 
9. Royalty - Heart Strings 
10. Dirty Art Club - Daysleeper 
11. Admiral - Soho Girl 
12. Tom Sharkett & Raf Rundell - Where's It All Go? 
13. Gina Calabrese - Nobody Lives Forever 
14. Romolo Grano, Gianni Oddi & Edda Dell'Orso - Kilimangiaro 
15. LNDFK - Hana-bi 
16. Fitness Forever - Vederti Distante 

CD Tracklisting:

CD1 - Mixed:
1. System Olympia - The Heat Of The Night (ft REINEN)
2. Daniele Baldelli, Francesca Amati - Inner Light
3. Flavia Fortunato - Se Tu Vuoi
4. See Thru Hands - Hot City
5. Tom Sharkett & Raf Rundell - Where's It All Go?
6. Royalty - Heart Strings
7. Musclecars - Running Out Of Time
8. Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Eli's Mix)
9. Working Men's Club - Ploys (System Olympia Edit)
10. Starr Traxx - Let Yourself Go
11. Dirty Art Club - Daysleeper
12. Admiral - Soho Girl
13. Stefano Torossi - Feeling Tense
14. Piero Umiliani - Chaser
15. LNDFK - Hana-bi
16. Ruins - Sexual Desire
17. Gina Calabrese - Nobody Lives Forever
18. DJ Rocca - Basik Drinc
19. Romolo Grano, Gianni Oddi & Edda Dell'Orso - Kilimangiaro
20. Fitness Forever - Vederti Distante

CD2 - Unmixed:
1. System Olympia - The Heat Of The Night (feat. REINEN)
2. Daniele Baldelli, Francesca Amati - Inner Light
3. Flavia Fortunato - Se Tu Vuoi
4. See Thru Hands - Hot City
5. Tom Sharkett & Raf Rundell - Where's It All Go?
6. Royalty - Heart Strings
7. Musclecars - Running Out Of Time
8. Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Eli's Mix)
9. Working Men's Club - Ploys (System Olympia Edit)
10. Dirty Art Club - Daysleeper
11. Admiral - Soho Girl
12. Piero Umiliani - Chaser
13. LNDFK - Hana-bi
14. Ruins - Sexual Desire
15. Gina Calabrese - Nobody Lives Forever
16. DJ Rocca - Basik Drinc 24
17. Romolo Grano, Gianni Oddi & Edda Dell'Orso - Kilimangiaro
18. Fitness Forever - Vederti Distante

Originally released in 2005, 'Silent Alarm' marked a bold debut from Bloc Party and quickly became a landmark album of 2000s British Indie Rock. From 'Helicopter' to 'Banquet' to 'This Modern Love', 'Silent Alarm' helped define the sound of the 2000s and captured the tension and energy of a generation on the edge of change. Restless and immediate, it still resonates two decades on and remains one of the era’s most influential albums.

This deluxe 20th anniversary on 4LP box set or 2CD set includes the original album plus an additional rare demos, B-sides, and live session recordings. Also included is a booklet with never-before-seen personal photos of the band and exclusive liner notes, including a new foreword by producer Paul Epworth - offering a deeper look at the album’s creation and legacy.

TRACK LISTING

Silent Alarm Tracklist:
1. Like Eating Glass
2. Helicopter
3. Positive Tension
4. Banquet
5. Blue Light
6. She’s Hearing Voices
7. This Modern Love
8. The Pioneers
9. Price Of Gasoline
10. So Here We Are
11. Luno
12. Plans
13. Compliments

Rare Demos, B-sides And Live Sessions Tracklist:
1. Little Thoughts
2. Skeleton
3. Storm And Stress
4. Always New Depths
5. Staying Fat
6. Tulips
7. Two More Years
8. She’s Hearing Voices+
9. The Marshals Are Dead
10. The Answer
11. The Present
12. Every Time Is The Last Time
13. So Here We Are*
14. Tulips*
15. Luno*
16. Compliments*
17. Banquet**
18. This Modern Love**
19. The Pioneers**
20. So Here We Are**
21. Helicopter**
22. Price Of Gasoline**
23. Skeleton**

+Original Version
*BBC Peel Session
**Demos

Curated by Pete Gooding and Mark Barrott.

Tracks by Nina Simone, Mazzy Star, Talk Talk, Boards of Canada, µ-Ziq, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Mark Barrott contributes a brand-new exclusive, 'When Devils Become Gods'.

A journey through Brazilian soul, ambient electronica, classic deep house, orchestral minimalism, and dusk-lit Detroit techno.

To mark a decade as one of Ibiza's most iconic musical sanctuaries, Hostal La Torre announces 'La Torre Ibiza Volumen Cinco', a new compilation curated by long -standing residents Pete Gooding and Mark Barrott. The 15-track collection captures the spirit of the venue that has come to define the golden-hour soundtrack of the island's west coast.

Since opening in 2015, La Torre has established itself as a bastion of Balearic culture-set high on the cliffs overlooking the sea, where music flows with the sun rather than the clock. The fifth volume in the celebrated La Torre series is a journey through Brazilian soul, ambient electronica, classic deep house, orchestral minimalism, and dusk-lit Detroit techno-an emotional arc designed to mirror the progression of an evening at the venue.

From timeless icons like Nina Simone, Mazzy Star, Talk Talk (with their Spirit of Eden closer "Wealth"), and Boards of Canada, to boundary-pushers like Auntie Flo, Eden Burns, and ?-Ziq (aka Mike Paradinas), Volumen Cinco weaves together deep-rooted classics and leftfield discoveries. Mark Barrott contributes a brand-new exclusive, 'When Devils Become Gods', while the compilation closes on a rare gem from Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yukihiro Takahashi. Also included isVARIOUS Software's 'Present Voice', a quietly powerful tribute to the late José Padilla, the spiritual architect of Ibiza's sunset sound.

Volumen Cinco is more than just a listening experience-it's a tribute to La Torre's ethos: open-hearted, genre-fluid, rooted in place and time. Each track is carefully sequenced to evoke a feeling, a shift in light, or a shared memory beneath the fading sun.

Over the years, La Torre has welcomed some of the most influential names in Balearic and electronic music, from José Padilla, Alfredo, and Jon Sa Trinxa to DJ Harvey, David Holmes, Lovefingers, Heidi Lawden, Wolf Müller, Don Carlos, and Phil Mison. With each summer season and each release, the venue continues to build a musical legacy that has earned critical acclaim from Resident Advisor, Phonica Records, Juno, and Piccadilly Records, regularly featuring in their year-end lists.

As Test Pressing once wrote, "La Torre is not a party, it's a place of pilgrimage. It feels almost sacred." That spirit resonates deeply in this anniversary compilation-a celebration of music, community, and connection that spans a decade.

La Torre Ibiza Volumen Cinco is dedicated to the artists, friends, collaborators, and guests who've shaped its story so far-and to everyone who continues to gather, listen, and lose track of time as the sun slips beneath the horizon.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Burns & Tubbs - Where Were U In 92?
A2. µ-Ziq - 4am
A3. Arthur Verocai - Caboclo
A4. Auntie Flo - Green City
B1. Software - Present Voice
B2. Point Zero - Coastal
B3. Nina Simone - Come Ye
B4. N.Y. House'n Authority - APT. 3B
C1. Mark Barrott - When Devils Become Gods
C2. Eric Serra - Protect Life
C3. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
D1. Boards Of Canada - Open The Light
D2. Aqua Bassino - When The Bird Flies
D3. Talk Talk - Wealth
D4. Yukihiro Takahashi – Present

'Takk…', the band’s much loved album celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and with this release all tracks have been lovingly remastered. With close to ten million albums sold, Sigur Rós stands as one of the most ambitious and acclaimed bands of recent times, whose new artistic endeavors only points towards an expansive, exciting future.

TRACK LISTING

1. Takk...
2. Glósóli
3. Hoppípolla
4. Með Blóðnasir
5. Sé Lest
6. Sæglópur
7. Mílanó
8. Gong
9. Andvari
10. Svo Hljótt
11. Heysátan
12. Melrakki
13. Refur
14. Ó Friður
15. Kafari
16. Elfur

An eclectic compilation album celebrating twenty ‘tips of the tongue’ from David Keenan, released to coincide with a book of his collected music writing.

As well as being the title of a book. Volcanic Tongue was a record shop that existed in Glasgow from 2005 to 2015, run by David Keenan and Heather Leigh, it championed contemporary DIY music from around the world, often released in tiny runs on homemade CD-Rs, and also sought to shine a light on forgotten artists from the past, who had often released their music as a ‘private press’ LP. The shop was also known for it’s weekly mailing list, with Keenan enthusiastically rapping about new arrivals, especially the record of the week, given the sobriquet ‘tip of the tongue’. This collection has been put together from releases that were a ‘tip of the tongue’, containing music that runs the gamut from outsider synth to psych-folk to damaged rock’n’roll, with tracks recorded between 1968 and 2013, a celebration of a vibrant and eclectic underground avant-garde.

Printed inner sleeves with original notes on each artist by David Keenan, housed in a sleeve designed by Julian House.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ashtray Navigations - Mailshot Slot
2. Elli And Bev - 31Men
3. The ScrotumPoles - Pick The Cats Eyes Out
4. The Bachs - Tables Of Grass Fields
5. Fille Qui Mousse - Fraîcheur Et Amalgame
6. Idea Fire Company - Romance
7. Hollywood Autopsy - Lost Finding Gone
8. ESP Kinetic - Metropoline
9. Hospitals - This Walls
10. Counter Intuits - Anarchy On Yr Face
11. Metal Rouge - Grey AreaII
12. Simon Finn - Patrice
13. A To Austr - Thumbquake And Earthscrew
14. Christina Carter - Seals
15. Sachiko Yama - Keburi
16. JD Emmanuel - Attaining Peace
17. Vox Populi! - Gole Mariam
18. Circuit Des Yeux - Serenade To Sophia
19. Bronze Horse - Number 1
20. Orphan Fairytale - Phantom Shapes

'Songs From The Big Chair' is Tears For Fears' iconic second studio album, originally released in February 1985. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Now here's a question... Is this the best album ever made? Dark but heartfelt pop songs, incredible song writing and musicianship and insanely good production. Ticks all the boxes for me.

TRACK LISTING

1LP Tracklisting:
1. Shout
2. The Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4. Mothers Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head Over Heels
8. Listen

2LP Tracklisting:
1. Shout
2. The Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4. Mothers Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head Over Heels
8. Listen
9. Shout (Alternative Mix)
10. The Working Hour (Piano Version)
11. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Alternative Single Version)
12. Mothers Talk (Early Mix)
13. I Believe (A Soulful Re- Recording)
14. Broken (Demo)
15. Head Over Heels (Hughes 7" Edit)
16. Listen (Clean Intro)

3CD Tracklisting:

CD1 - Original Album & B-Sides:
1. Shout
2. The Working Hour
3. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
4. Mothers Talk
5. I Believe
6. Broken
7. Head Over Heels
8. Listen
9. The Big Chair
10. Empire Building
11. The Marauders
12. Broken Revisited
13. The Conflict
14. The Working Hour (Piano Version)
15. Pharoahs
16. When In Love With A Blind Man
17. Sea Song

CD2 - Edited Songs From The Big Chair:
1. The Way You Are
2. Mothers Talk (Short Version)
3. Shout (Alternative Version)
4. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Single Version)
5. Head Over Heels (Dave Bascombe 7" N.Mix)
6. I Believe (A Soulful Re- Recording)
7. Everybody Wants To Run The World
8. The Way You Are (Edit)
9. Mothers Talk (U.S. Remix)
10. Shout (U.S. Single Edit)
11. Everybody Wants To Run The World (Running Version)
12. Head Over Heels (Hughes 7" Edit)
13. Mothers Talk (Video Version)
14. Shout (7" Edit)
15. Listen (Clean Intro)
16. Rolan & Curt Interviewed

CD3 - Remixed Songs From The Big Chair:
1. The Way You Are (Extended)
2. Mothers Talk (Long Version)
3. Shout (UK Version / Extended Version)
4. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Extended Version)
5. Broken / Head Over Heels / Broken (Preacher Mix)
6. Mothers Talk (Beat Of The Drum Mix)
7. Shout (Extended)
8. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Urban Mix)
9. Mothers Talk (Alternate U.S. Remix)
10. Shout (US Dub Version)
11. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Instrumental)
12. Shout (Acapella)

RE:WARM Records are very pleased to announce their next release ‘Rituals’, a new compilation series from the curator and DJ, Josh Mason-Quinn, aka Somewhere Soul.

For Volume 1 Josh takes us on a journey through the various shades of his ritualistic listening habits across twenty-four hours. From rising first thing in the morning, radiating positive energy throughout the day, retreating into the evening before finally releasing your inhibitions on the dancefloor.

The compilation spans four sides of vinyl and is presented in a double gatefold sleeve. The release will also be available on CD and digital formats.

The album is a celebration of new and emerging talent from the underground Jazz, Soul, World and House Music spheres, sitting neatly alongside artists already carving their way into the collective conscience of those who have been curious enough to dig deep.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A lovely collection of jazzy drifters and mellow grooves, from the ever reliable RE:WARM label. A beautifully presented collection, smoothly moving from more ambient drifters to housey grooves and even the peripheries of the dancefloor.

TRACK LISTING

1. Allysha Joy & Finn Rees - Murmuring
2. Chip Wickham - Last Day On Earth
3. Amanda Whiting - The Other Side
4. Emanative - Space Is The Place
5. Edbl & Raelle – Enough
6. Matt Wilde & Miranda Joan - Like You
7. Blue Lab Beats – Item
8. Melodiesinfonie - Sa Ka Fête (ft. Keza)
9. MATTERS UNKNOWN - Dream Of The Contest (ft. Megiapa)
10. Opek – Delight
11. E. Lundquist – Yellow
12. Isolde Lasoen - Things Left Unsaid
13. SHOLTO – Manzana
14. MOMO. - Cavalo Marinho
15. Charif Megarbane - The Cartesian Joint
16. Yarni – Smile
17. Bamia, Mitchum Yacoub - Métele Más (ft. Lourdes Iri)
18. TEYMORI - Manu Vision
19. Divorce From New York - Merzouga (ft. Arturo Martin)
20. Marla Kether - Morning Light (ft. Naima Adams)

'Columbia Records and Searchlight Pictures present ‘A Complete Unknown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)’ . Featuring tracks from the film like “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” “Like A Rolling Stone,” and “Girl From The North Country,” the soundtrack includes performances from Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash.

Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history. 

France - the 1980s. A local radio and studio system almost unsurpassed in
Europe - add brilliantly inventive labels and producers with a sense of fun & adventure & the result? A golden age of Synth-Pop – Post-Disco.. inventing the future.. celebrating the chanson of the past. Updating that for a new generation & a new dancefloor. With Tangui/Corinne Tell/Kelly Way and more ..

TRACK LISTING

A1: Corinne Tell -Histoire De Coeur 3:24
A2: Fanny Forest - Les Lolitas Des Magazines 4:01
A3: Fabienne Stoko – Poupee 2:56
A4: Valene - Sauve-Moi 3:12
A5: Kelly Way-Illusion 3:37
A6: Sonia - Sur Ma Musique 3:59

B1: Tangui-Amour Combat 3:56
B2: Praline Et Toni -Meteo 3:57
B3: Generation Egoiste (Tout Tout D'Suite) 3:03
B4: Kira – Vacances A Deux 2:47
B5: Geraldine Danon – Electric Eyes -3:05
B6: Nani Antoni - Faites Vos Jeux 3:45 

Don’t call it a sequel, it isn’t a Part Deux, ‘Pop Psychédélque: Les Extras’ is simply another slice of fine French Psychedelic Pop from Two-Piers, the label that brought you the groundbreaking compilation ‘Pop Psychédélique’ in 2021. L’es Extras’ is the perfect partner for the original and brings you a whole new bunch of quite simply brilliant pieces of French Pop and Psychedelic flavours from the 1960’s right up into the 2000s.

Pressed on Limited Edition Coloured vinyl for Record Store Day 2025 this is an essential purchase for anyone with a love of French Psychedelic Pop, or anyone who just loves great music for that matter.

‘Pop Psychédélique: Les Extras’ features some of the finest French pop divas of the 1960’s & 1970’s such as Jacqueline Taieb, Brigitte Bardot, Christe Laume, Brigitte Fontaine, alongside artists like Marie Laforêt’s wonderful take on the Rolling Stones ‘Paint it Black’, and the brilliant ‘Les Cactus’ by Jacques Dutronc. Fast forward to the 2010’s and we have tracks from the French Psych scene and lush curiousities from Brigitte, Étienne Daho, The Limiñanas and Ricky Hollywood added into the mix. This Record Store Day Vinyl release includes hard to find tracks on vinyl for the first time.

French Pychedelic Pop, a scene so joyous you can’t help but fall in love…. Les Extras anyone?

TRACK LISTING

Jacquelne Taieb – Le Coeur Au Bout Des Doigts
Jacques Dutronc – Les Cactus
Dani – La Machine
Brigitte Bardot & Serge Gainsbourg – Bonnie And Clyde
Christie Laume – Rouge, Rouge
Brigitte Fontaine – Je Suis Inadaptée
Leonie – Lennon
Marie Laforêt – Marie Douceur – Marie Colère
Stella – Le Silence
Brigitte Bardot – Je Danse Donc Je Suis
Fabienne Delsol – Vilaines Filles Mauvais Garcons
Bernard Chabert – Helga Selzer
Brigitte – Battez-Vous
Étienne Daho – Voodoo Voodoo
The Limiñanas – Je Ne Suis Pas Très Drogue
Ricky Hollywood – Je T’èclate La Gueule

An artist whose reputation has long been forged by his engagement and musical exchange with local scenes and cultures from across the world. Quantic’s vast discography of electronic releases spans two decades, ranging from focused solo productions and intimate collaborations to expansive ensemble projects. Now, the multi-instrumentalist, DJ, composer and producer Will Holland delivers his DJ-Kicks compilation, which fittingly radiates friends and family energy. Having worked and lived in the UK, US and Colombia, Quantic reached out to the many wide-ranging music connections he has made during his 20-plus-year career. “It’s not like writing an album; you’re at the mercy of what other people are creating," he reflects of the mix’s creation. “Fortunately, the homies’ submissions were of an extremely high calibre!” Gathering these artists' music together was a delight for Quantic, especially as he had personal connections with many of those who crafted them. The mix bursts with unreleased exclusives and places the art of curation at its core, giving the listeners space to go and dig more of the songs and sonics which resonate the most. Will Holland includes a glistening breadth of new material, including new music from Quantic alongside another of his aliases Sobredosis, creating a mix teeming with vitality.

Beyond raising profiles, the mix encapsulates Quantic’s tempo-changing DJing style which, over the past decade, has built him a strong community of fans. “It’s got a moody start and end, but a big portion is uplifting and joyous,” he says of the DJ-Kicks compilation’s sonic journey, “you’re going down a river and get off in a different place… it’s also a cool way to encapsulate, stylistically, what I’ve been up to as a DJ over the last few decades, while shining a light on people I admire”

This DJ-Kicks is the latest instalment in Quantic’s ever-evolving artistic trajectory, an accompaniment to those moments when the gloaming disappears into darkness. Will Holland’s longstanding dedication to a full range of melodic and percussive expression alongside continued musical collaboration is what makes his edition of DJ-Kicks such a rare beauty.

TRACK LISTING

1. JJ Whitefield Feat. Bonnie Behave - The Mind Is A Palace
2. The Heliocentrics - Minimal Engagement
3. Quantic - Dialect
4. Alfa Mist - In My Defence
5. JKriv Feat. Gabriel Oliveira - Pifeiro Malandro
6. Quantic - Twang
7. Frente Cumbiero - Michilero
8. Quantic - Theme From Selva (Remix)
9. Quantic - Eko Eko
10. Quantic - Motivic Retrograde (Live Version)
11. Eblis Alvarez, Meridian Brothers - Un Grande Nubarrón Se Alza En El Cielo
12. The Maghreban - Covent Garden
13. Anna Morgan - Throw Dat Azz
14. Ehua - Scintille
15. Turbo Sonidero - Kumbia ESSJ
16. Sobredosis - No Llores Por Mí

“James [Dean Bradfield] was always banging on about Big Flame and I could never understand it. But then I played a record of theirs at a slower speed by mistake on vinyl once, and suddenly I got the jazziness of it.” Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers

Working within a pre-determined lifespan, bIG*fLAME developed their own distinctive sound and style: super-fast, two-minute, non-decadent Mach 2 beats overlain by distinctive, spiky, loud, unorthodox guitars, and politically-charged lyrics.

John Peel described the band as “one of the two or three very best bands of Planet Earth”, and also called them “the best dance band since Glenn Miller and his Orchestra”.

Find out for yourself on this album which features all four Peel sessions recorded by the agitpop trio between 1984 and 1986 – 16 tracks in total, with versions of nearly everything they ever recorded. And a few things they didn’t.

Among the highlights are the covers of the June Brides’ indie standard Every Conversation (Phil Wilson, a big fan of bIG*fLAME, loves it), plus These Boots Are Made For Working – Nancy & Lee eat your hearts out.

Plus, of course, the notorious Wham! cover … Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go it ain’t. Well it is, but it’s also Testament To The Slow Death Of Youth Culture. Once heard, never forgotten.

There never was a bIG*fLAME LP because they didn’t believe in it. So we’ve struck it lucky here. All this, plus sleeve notes from Greg O’Keeffe and printed inners with photos and flyers etc. All the stuff you love from Precious.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: Finally I can bin my crackly cassette versions of these sessions! This collection is long overdue and perfectly captures the energy and intensity of the legendary biG fLAME. I think it was probably on the John Peel show that I first heard them and they left an immediate impression on me, a 17 year old Smiths fan who was used to guitars that jangled, not snarled and spat! I'd heard nothing like it before: the jagged guitars, odd time changes and rattling drums (I think it was journalist James Brown that described them as amphetamine harassed - which made me laugh at the time and always stuck in my head. It's the perfect description.) It took me a few more listens to actually catch the lyrics too which were political but not sloganeering: clever and satirical. I was hooked! I saw them live numerous times and as you can probably tell, I loved them. Over time they would open my eyes and ears to a whole new world of music - everything from Gang Of 4 and The Fire Engines to The Pop Group and On U-Sound, stuff I may never have discovered on my own it the pre-internet days.
Check this album out - they could be your new favourite band!

TRACK LISTING

Debra
Man Of Few Syllables
Sargasso
Breath Of A Nation
All The Irish Must Go To Heaven
New Way
Chanel Samba
These Boots Were Made For Working
Earsore
Let's Rewrite The American Constitution
Cat With Cholic
Every Conversation
Sink
XPQWRTZ
Three On Baffled Island
Testament To The Slow Death Of Youth Culture

A Certain Ratio’s classic and highly sought-after live album gets an official release with new artwork.

ACR continue their ongoing reissue campaign with Live in America - an essential artefact from the band’s career, capturing their summer ’85 US tour supporting labelmates New Order- then fellow Factory artists, now as part of the Mute family - across the East Coast and Canada. Originally released on cassette and sold at gigs, this rare gem is now available on CD and vinyl, complete with new artwork and sleeve notes.

Compiled from the standout performances of the tour, Live in America spans the band’s early years through to ‘Si Firmir O Grido’ - a track that was released a year later on Force - capturing ACR at a thrilling crossroads in their trajectory. The recordings were taken from five of the venues they played, Felt Forum: NYC, Opera House: Boston, Agora Theatre: Akron OH, Bismarck Theatre: Chicago and Warner Theatre: Washington DC. The line-up on the tour and therefore the album consisted of Andrew Connell - Keyboards, Donald Johnson - Drums, Jez Kerr - Bass and Vocals, Martin Moscrop - Guitar and Trumpet and Anthony Quigley - Sax.

From a Motorik-funk take on ‘Touch’ to their iconic cover of ‘Shack Up’ – a scratchy funk bomb that became a cult club anthem – this is ACR at their most direct, raw and road-hardened. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A much requested reissue of the live album from ACR's blistering tour support for New Order in 1985, displaying their uncompromising live prowess, and showing that they really have been one of the greatest live bands around for a long time now. Ace.

TRACK LISTING

VINYL TRACKLIST
A1 Sounds Like Something Dirty
A2 The Fox
A3 Shack Up
A4 Life’s A Scream
A5 Wild Party
B1 Flight
B2 And Then Again
B3 Touch
B4 Knife Slits Water
B5 Si Firmir O Grido

CD TRACKLIST
1 Sounds Like Something Dirty
2 The Fox
3 Shack Up
4 Life’s A Scream
5 Wild Party
6 Flight
7 And Then Again
8 Touch
9 Knife Slits Water
10 Si Firmir O Grido

Pavilion are proud to announce a new compilation 'Break the Glass, Burn the Cage (The Sound of Indie Punk Rock)'. This compilation celebrates all that is Indie and Punk. Immerse yourself in cramped and sweaty grassroots venues with these bands’ electrifying guitar riffs, infectious basslines and voices that require being heard. Featuring standout tracks from Lime Garden, SPRINTS, Lambrini Girls, Sunflower Bean, English Teacher, Dream Wife, Panic Shack, Big Joanie and more, this compilation channels the raw energy and rebellious spirit that can only be acquired through caring deeply about the injustices and hatred seen in this world. It is a sonic journey through the angst, passion, fun and freedom found through “sticking it to the Man”.

'Break the Glass, Burn the Cage (The Sound of Indie Punk Rock)' is announced coinciding with International Women’s Day 2025 as a charity record, and all the tracks on this record have kindly been donated by the bands for free. This means that for every sale, the entirety of the profits will go to our two chosen charities that do their utmost to help women and girls from all backgrounds and ages, covering everything from domestic abuse, bereavement, homelessness and war - Brighton Women's Centre & War Child.

TRACK LISTING

1. SPRINTS – Up And Comer
2. English Teacher – R&B (Theo Verney Version)
3. Lime Garden – Clockwork
4. ĠENN – Reprise (That Girl)
5. Panic Shack – I Don’t Really Like It
6. Big Joanie – Taut
7. Kynsy – Stereo Games
8. Du Blonde - TV Star
9. Prima Queen – Ugly
10. Housewife – I Lied
11. Pom Pom Squad – Street Fighter
12. Jopy – Graveyard Romance
13. Lambrini Girls – Company Culture
14. Dream Wife – Room 341
15. Queen Cult – Be Better
16. Sunflower Bean – Teach Me To Be Bad