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Kruder & Dorfmeister

The K&D Sessions - 25th Anniversary Boxset Edition

    Occasionally an album comes along that seems to capture the mood of the time. ‘The K&D Sessions’ was one. In the late 1990s no afterparty, smoking session or languid Sunday afternoon was complete without Kruder & Dorfmeister blasting from the Bang & Olufsen. Now approaching it’s 25th anniversary the lore around this iconic release, steeped in a silvery cloud of smoke, retains a star quality which only shines brighter as time hurtles on. With the original having sold well over a million copies by this point in time, it’s hard to imagine a mix or remix compilation being able to inform a movement like ‘The K&D Sessions’ has.

    To celebrate this monumental milestone, we’ve created a limited boxset in 6LP and 3CD of ‘The K&D Sessions’, mastered and cut by LA luminary Bernie Grundman for a luxurious listening experience, with newly designed inner sleeves using unseen photos from the original photo shoot. Inserted in the box is a forty-page booklet containing multitudes more never before seen photos from the same shoot and notes which recount humorous tales surrounding the duo and the people who spent time with them in this epoch. Included on the 6th LP is their legendary 11 minute shimmering remix of Madonna’s “Nothing Really Matters”. The 6th LP also contains Peter Kruder’s Powercut Mix of Roni Size’s “Heroes” and K&D’s remix of U.F.O, “L.O.V.E.”. In addition there are two cerebral alternate remixes of Lewis Taylor, one being completely dubbed and the other the using the vocal line for this beautiful gem, “Lucky” and a special remix of “Speechless” by Count Basic. These have been staples in K&D’s sets and now take their rightful place collected in the canon of ‘The Sessions’.


    TRACK LISTING

    3CD Tracklisting:

    CD1 (Mixed):
    1. Roni Size, Reprazent - Heroes (Kruder's Long Loose Bossa)
    2. Alex Reece - Jazz Master (K&D Session TM)
    3. Count Basic - Speechless (Drum 'n' Bass)
    4. Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (K&D Session TM)
    5. Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session TM)
    6. Aphrodelics - Rollin' On Chrome (Wild Motherfucker Dub)
    7. Depeche Mode - Useless (K&D Session TM)
    8. Count Basic - Gotta Jazz (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
    9. Rainer Trüby Trio - Donaueschingen (Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapi-tänskajütenremix)
    10. Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid (K&D Session TM)

    CD2 (Mixed):
    1. David Holmes - Gone Ft. Sarah Cracknell (K&D Session TM)
    2. Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
    3. Mama Oliver - Eastwest (Stoned Together)
    4. Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Dub)
    5. Kruder & Dorfmeister - Boogie Woogie
    6. Sin - Where Shall I Turn (K&D Session TM Vol. 2)
    7. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - 1st Of Tha Month (K&D Session TM)
    8. Kruder & Dorfmeister - Lexicon
    9. Knowtoryus - Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session TM)
    10. Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (Evil Love & Insanity Dub)
    11. Strange Cargo - Million Town (K&D Session TM)

    CD3 (Unmixed):
    1. Count Basic - Speechless (Peter Kruder Vocal Mix)
    2. Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Suicide Mix)
    3. Knowtoryus - The Revenge Of The Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session TM)
    4. Roni Size - Heroes (Peter Kruder Powercut Mix)
    5. Madonna - Nothing Really Matters (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix)
    6. UFO - L.O.V.E. (K&D Session TM)
    7. Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Reprise Mix)

    LP Tracklisting:
    A1. Roni Size, Reprazent - Heroes (Kruder's Long Loose Bossa)
    A2. Alex Reece - Jazzmaster (K&D Session TM)
    B1. Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session TM)
    B2. Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid (K&D Session TM)
    C1. Count Basic - Speechless (Drum 'n' Bass)
    C2. Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (K&D Session TM)
    D1. Depeche Mode - Useless (K&D Session TM)
    D2. Count Basic - Gotta Jazz (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
    E1. Aphrodelics - Rollin' On Chrome (Wild Motherfucker Dub)
    E2. Knowtoryus – The Revenge Of The Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session)
    F1. Truby Trio - Donaueschingen (Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskajütenremix)
    G1. David Holmes - Gone Ft. Sarah Cracknell (K&D Session TM)
    G2. Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
    H1. Mama Oliver - Eastwest (Stoned Together)
    H2. Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Dub)
    H3. Kruder & Dorfmeister - Boogie Woogie
    I1. Sin - Where Shall I Turn (K&D Session TM)
    I2. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - 1st Of Tha Month (K&D Session TM)
    I3. Kruder & Dorfmeister - Lexicon
    J1. Knowtoryus - Bomberclad Joint (K&D Session TM)
    J2. Rockers Hi-Fi - Going Under (Evil Love & Insanity Dub)
    J3. Strange Cargo - Million Town (K&D Session TM)
    K1. Count Basic - Speechless (Peter Kruder Vocal Mix)
    K2. Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Suicide Mix)
    K3. Roni Size - Heroes (Peter Kruder Powercut Mix)
    L1. Madonna - Nothing Really Matters (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix)
    L2. UFO - L.O.V.E. (K&D Session TM)
    L3. Lewis Taylor - Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Reprise Mix)

    Mudhoney

    Mudhoney - 35th Anniversary Edition

      Sub Pop and Mudhoney celebrate the barnstorming self-titled debut album by Seattle punk/rock/fuzz/g****e legends Mudhoney, originally released in 1989, with a fresh colored-vinyl pressing. This classic album contains 12 tracks of roaring rock music, including the megahits “This Gift” and “Here Comes Sickness.” Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm says “Turn up the tape hiss!!” Band are about to start a European tour…

      This special 35th anniversary edition is on Petrol coloured vinyl! YES PETROL! It looks mighty fine.

      TRACK LISTING

      This Gift
      Flat Out Fucked
      Get Into Yours
      You Got It
      Magnolia Caboose Babyshit
      Come To Mind
      Here Comes Sickness
      Running Loaded
      The Farther I Go
      By Her Own Hand
      When Tomorrow Its
      Dead Love

      Fugazi

      Instrument Soundtrack - 2024 Reissue

        Original music from the film,"Instrument", culled from demos and various sources, by Fugazi from 1988-1998.

        The 12" LP format was re-cut and re-issued in December 2009.
        Originally Released: 1999.

        Ian MacKaye vocals & guitar Guy Picciotto vocals & guitar Joe Lally bass Brendan Canty drums


        TRACK LISTING

        1. Pink Frosty Demo
        2. Lusty Scripps
        3. Arpeggiator Demo
        4. Afterthought
        5. Trio's
        6. Turkish Disco
        7. Me And Thumbelina
        8. Floating Boy Demo
        9. Link Track
        10. Little Debbie
        11. H.B.
        12. I'm So Tired
        13. Rend It Demo
        14. Closed Caption Demo
        15. Guilford Fall Demo
        16. Swingset
        17. Shaken All Over
        18. Slo Crostic

        Weezer

        Blue Album - 30th Anniversary Edition

          Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Weezer’s career-defining, self-titled debut album, also known as the “Blue Album.”

          An instantly recognizable cultural touchstone of the 1990s, Weezer (the Blue Album) has garnered such a firm place in the musical pantheon of the last three decades that it serves as an entry point into music for nascent listeners. A testament to the band’s staying power, tracks like “Buddy Holly” and “Say It Ain’t So” have earned hundreds of millions of streams and endless placements in TV shows and movies.

          Super Deluxe 4LP + 10" + 7" // Product Description
          Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all-time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with an extensive Super Deluxe boxset featuring four 12-inch 180-gram LPs, a 10-inch EP and 7-inch. The album has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes and the set includes 50 total tracks with 36 previously unreleased, including 8 Kitchen Tape Demos, 22 early practices & live recordings, 6 BBC radio recordings (2 never broadcasted) and 4 tracks from their LMU sessions. Karl Koch updates the history on the album with new liner notes in issue #18 of the weezine, along with laying out all of the artwork throughout the boxset filled with unreleased photos. The boxset showcases sweater embossed graphics along with a blue thread that’s pullable (& retractable), 4 lithographs, a poster for the garage, song-themed sticker sheet, 12-sided dice and an enamel Bokkus pin.

          Deluxe 3CD // Product Description
          Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all-time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with an extensive Deluxe 3CD boxset. The album has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes and the set includes 50 total tracks with 36 previously unreleased, including 8 Kitchen Tape Demos, 22 early practices & live recordings, 6 BBC radio recordings (2 never broadcasted) and 4 tracks from their LMU sessions. Karl Koch updates the history on the album with new liner notes in issue #18 of the weezine, along with laying out all of the artwork throughout the boxset filled with unreleased photos. The boxset comes with 4 lithographs, a poster for the garage, song-themed sticker sheet, 12-sided dice and an enamel Bokkus pin.

          TRACK LISTING

          SUPER DELUXE 4-LP + 10-INCH + 7-INCH
          LP ONE SIDE A – ALBUM REMASTERED
          My Name Is Jonas
          No One Else
          The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
          Buddy Holly
          Undone – The Sweater Song
          Surf Wax America
          LP ONE SIDE B – ALBUM REMASTERED
          Say It Ain’t So
          In The Garage
          Holiday
          Only In Dreams

          LP TWO SIDE A – THE KITCHEN TAPE DEMOS
          Say It Ain’t So - Previously Unreleased
          The World Has Turned And Left Me Here - Previously Unreleased
          Paperface
          Undone – The Sweater Song
          LP TWO SIDE B – THE KITCHEN TAPE DEMOS
          Thief, You’ve Taken All That Was Me - Previously Unreleased
          My Name Is Jonas - Previously Unreleased
          Let’s Sew Our Pants Together - Previously Unreleased
          Only In Dreams

          LP THREE SIDE A – THE EARLY RECORDINGS
          I Can’t Forget This Way (Third Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Undone – The Sweater Song (Third Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (Third Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Windows Down (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          My Name Is Jonas (Garage Practice)- Previously Unreleased
          LP THREE SIDE B – THE EARLY RECORDINGS
          Only In Dreams (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Superman (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Dawn Sets Upon Us (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Just What I Needed (Rehearsal Demo) - Previously Unreleased
          Buddy Holly (Rehearsal Demo) - Previously Unreleased

          LP FOUR SIDE A – THE EARLY LIVE RECORDINGS
          Let’s Sew Our Pants Together (Live At 8121 Club) - Previously Unreleased
          Paperface (Live At 8121 Club) - Previously Unreleased
          Only In Dreams (Live At 8121 Club) - Previously Unreleased
          Conversationalist (Wax Cover/Adaptation) (Live At Coconut Teaszer) - Previously Unreleased
          Undone – The Sweater Song (Live At English Acid) - Previously Unreleased
          My Name Is Jonas (Live At English Acid) - Previously Unreleased
          LP FOUR SIDE B – THE EARLY LIVE RECORDINGS
          No One Else (Live At Club Lingerie) - Previously Unreleased
          The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (Live At Club Lingerie) - Previously Unreleased
          Jamie (Live At Club Lingerie) - Previously Unreleased
          Lullabye For Wayne (Live At Club Lingerie) - Previously Unreleased
          Say It Ain’t So (Live At Club Lingerie) - Previously Unreleased
          China Grove (Live At Club Lingerie) - Previously Unreleased

          10-INCH – BBC RECORDINGS - Side A: 45RPM
          My Name Is Jonas (Live On BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously Unreleased
          In The Garage (Live On BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously Unreleased
          No One Else (Live On BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously Unreleased
          10-INCH – BBC RECORDINGS - Side B: 45RPM
          Surf Wax America (Live On BBC Evening Sessions)- Previously Unreleased
          Buddy Holly (Acoustic – Live On Greater London Radio)- Previously Unreleased
          Undone – The Sweater Song (Acoustic – Live On Greater London Radio) - Previously Unreleased

          7-INCH – LMU SESSIONS - Side A: 33-1/3RPM
          Jamie (Take 6)
          My Name Is Jonas - Previously Unreleased
          7-INCH – LMU SESSIONS - Side B: 33-1/3RPM
          Jamie (Take 5) - Previously Unreleased
          Lullabye For Wayne - Previously Unreleased

          DELUXE 3CD
          CD ONE
          My Name Is Jonas
          No One Else
          The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
          Buddy Holly
          Undone – The Sweater Song
          Surf Wax America
          Say It Ain’t So
          In The Garage
          Holiday
          Only In Dreams
          My Name Is Jonas (Live On BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously Unreleased
          In The Garage (Live On BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously Unreleased
          No One Else (Live On BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously Unreleased
          Surf Wax America (Live On BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously Unreleased
          Buddy Holly (Acoustic – Live On Greater London Radio) - Previously Unreleased
          Undone – The Sweater Song (Acoustic – Live On Greater London Radio) - Previously Unreleased

          CD TWO
          Say It Ain’t So (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously Unreleased
          The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously Unreleased
          Paperface (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
          Undone – The Sweater Song (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
          Thief, You’ve Taken All That Was Me (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously Unreleased
          My Name Is Jonas (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously Unreleased
          Let’s Sew Our Pants Together (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously Unreleased
          Only In Dreams (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
          I Can’t Forget This Way (Third Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Undone – The Sweater Song (Third Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (Third Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Windows Down (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          My Name Is Jonas (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Only In Dreams (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Superman (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Dawn Sets Upon Us (Garage Practice) - Previously Unreleased
          Just What I Needed (Rehearsal Demo) - Previously Unreleased
          Buddy Holly (Rehearsal Demo) - Previously Unreleased

          Roger Waters

          The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux - 2024 Repress

            Waters says ‘when we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon was looming on the horizon. It occurred to to me that The Dark Side Of The Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album. I discussed it with Gus and Sean, and when we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be ****ing mad’ at one another we decided to take it on. It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it. It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, “We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us”. And also it is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of.’

            As founding member, lyricist, and principal composer of Pink Floyd during the band’s most influential and creative period, Roger Waters has achieved global success and global renown.

            Waters co-founded Pink Floyd in the mid-1960s. Under Waters’ guidance, Pink Floyd made a series of best-selling albums during the 1970s, of which the most successful and iconic were The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Roger Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and is now one of the most successful solo artists in the world.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. Speak To Me
            2. Breathe
            3. On The Run
            4. Time
            5. Great Gig In The Sky
            6. Money
            7. Us And Them
            8. Any Colour You Like
            9. Brain Damage
            10. Eclipse

            Royal Trux

            Hand Of Glory (Remastered) - 2024 Reissue

              From a long-forgotten trunk; two extended jams, twin slabs, circa 1989. Continuing Fire Records’ series of classic remastered albums from Royal Trux, ‘Hand Of Glory’ is released on silver vinyl.

              This bad-ass black, white and blue magic is a kind of Burial Dub… or so preached the sleeve of ‘Hand Of Glory’ on its original release in 2002. Legend has it, the two sides of this 40-minute gem were recorded between 1985 and 1989. The resultant mountain of creativity from where they hail were inevitably left under a scuzzy sofa as life and a career that ebbed and flowed over nine albums. Royal Trux became an inspirational tipping point for everyone from Pavement & Sonic Youth to the Black Keys, Kurt Cobain, The Avalanches & Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor. “I urge and encourage you to enter the harmolodic multiverse of their music.” Alexis Taylor, Hot Chip

              ‘Hand Of Glory’ is not like their other albums but then again none of their albums are alike, it’s a two-faced masterpiece. Side one’s ‘Domo Des Burros’/‘Two Sticks’ is on par with Beefheart’s sprawling ‘Troutmask Replica’. It plays out in 19 minutes, sounding like it was laid down on Warhol’s sofa in The Factory; like Dylan’s sprawling ‘Desolation Row’ with, background squalls, interruptions and both Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema’s overlayed stream of consciousness peeping through a multi-layered backdrop. It’s just staggering.

              “Royal Trux were nothing if not fearless.” Pitchfork

              Side two’s ‘The Boxing Story’, a loose homage to William Burroughs, moulds and morphs from tape to tape, a multi-speed soundtrack, while the dynamic duo press pause, guitars ring, occasional melodic lines arrive and evaporate. Lou Reed’s pastoral ‘Metal Machine Music’ could perhaps be recognized as an older and perhaps less challenging sibling.

              A two-sided masterpiece featuring two wayward pieces of creative genius.

              TRACK LISTING

              Side A
              A1. Domo Des Borros (Two Sticks)

              Side B
              B1. The Boxing Story - Electric Boxing Show
              B2. The Boxing Story - Four Kings
              B3. The Boxing Story - Golden Lament
              B4. The Boxing Story - Pots And Pansy
              B5. The Boxing Story - K-9 To The Core

              Royal Trux

              Untitled (Remastered) - 2024 Reissue

                1992’s ‘Untitled’ brought the band’s third album that re-cemented the duo once again as the progenitors of the “lo-fi” genre. This breakthrough set transitioned "The Trux" into a never ending all-inclusive rotating cast of musicians. Continuing Fire Records’ series of classic remastered albums from Royal Trux, ‘Untitled’ is released on white vinyl and features updated monochrome and silver artwork.

                As unpredictable as ever, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema shook off the next level layering and noise of ’Twin Infinitives’ to embrace the history of rock ‘n’ roll in all its deformed grandeur. Utilizing their ever present mind set of macro-inclusivity, they allowed the subconscious "radio stations" of their lives to infiltrate, lead, and dictate. Culling from their collective minds and memories twisted tunes that touched them. After the blood rush of their much-hailed avant-garde masterpiece ‘Twin Infinitives’ (1988), this eight-song opus added to the lo-fi genre that originated on ‘Twin Infinitives’.

                On ‘Untitled’ Hagerty uses his 5-string blues roots and hails rock’s twisted potential, while Herrema slurs and snarls in ecstasy. They sound like they’re locked in a fourth-floor boudoir at the Chelsea Hotel; bottles clink, an album clicks on its run-out groove, the band plays on. In the mix are the characters and casualties of the 90s, a roll call of swaggering misfits. These aren’t superficial sketches, the Trux cut much deeper than that…

                “‘Junkie Nurse' isn't just about addiction; it's about the twisted hope that even the most broken people can somehow mend others, even when they're falling apart themselves." Jennifer Herrema, Royal Trux.

                With ‘Untitled’ Royal Trux justifiably increased their coterie of convicted followers, becoming the cult heroes for a transgressive generation, and the Rosetta Stone for male/female duos (ie:The White Stripes, The Kills etc... ) over the years inspiring everyone from The Silver Jews (David Berman) & Sonic Youth through to melodic blue-eyed soulsters like Hot Chip - “I urge and encourage you to enter the harmolodic multiverse of their music.” Alexis Taylor, Hot Chip

                “Royal Trux were nothing if not fearless.” Pitchfork

                TRACK LISTING

                Side A
                A1. Air
                A2. Move
                A3. Hallucination
                A4. Junkie Nurse

                Side B
                B1. Sometimes
                B2. Lightning Boxer
                B3. Blood Flowers
                B4. Sun On The Run

                The Primates

                We Are The Primates - 2024 Reissue

                  This 1986 album by The Primates remain as the only recording ever released by these four 60s r&b and garage fans. Originally published on Greg Shaw’s very own Voxx (Bomp! sublabel focused on revival garage/psychedelia) and produced by Shaw himself, this valuable musical document that portraits the essence of the L.A. 80s garage scene, has been out of print for more than 20 years!

                  Blueboy

                  Unisex - 2024 Reissue

                    A Colourful Storm's reissue series of Blueboy's seminal Sarah Records albums culminates with Unisex, arguably the finest moment of the trio of Keith Girdler, Paul Stewart and Gemma Townley and a bona fide indie-pop classic.

                    The first vinyl issue since 1994, the album has gained an immense cult following in all corners of the world and stands as an almost forgotten pinnacle of pop songwriting. “I just want to kiss you in new places, to savour the joy of living, liking you..." Full-colour reverse card sleeve with printed lyric sheet designed by Matt Haynes.


                    TRACK LISTING

                    A1. So Catch Him
                    A2. Cosmopolitan
                    A3. Marble Arch
                    A4. The Joy Of Living
                    A5. Fleetway
                    A6. Also Ran
                    B1. Boys Don't Matter
                    B2. Self Portrait
                    B3. Lazy Thunderstorms
                    B4. Finistere
                    B5. Always There
                    B6. Imipramine
                    B7. So Catch Him (Reprise)

                    Blueboy

                    If Wishes Were Horses - 2024 Reissue

                      Blueboy's first and now legendary album finally reissued by Australian label A Colourful Storm.

                      Presented for the first time on vinyl since its release in 1992, the recording by Keith Girdler, Gemma Townley, Paul Stewart, Lloyd Armstrong and Mark Andes is immortalised in Sarah Records history as an evergreen of indie-pop and modern DIY.

                      “...the sort of feelings that rarely escape from the Sarah daydream factory” wrote NME at the time.

                      Long overdue reissue with original artwork faithfully restored by Sarah Records' own Matt Haynes. Full colour reverse-card sleeve with printed insert and lyrics sheet.


                      TRACK LISTING

                      A1. Candy Bracelet
                      A2. Cloud Babies
                      A3. Too Good To Be True
                      A4. Fondette
                      B1. Sea Horses
                      B2. Clear Skies
                      B3. Happiness And Smiles
                      B4. Amoroso

                      Slint

                      Tweez - 2024 Remaster

                        LP1/CD: Originally recorded by Steve Albini and released in 1989, tweez has been remastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Studio from the original analog master tapes.

                        LP2: tweethan mix. Per Ethan Buckler (Slint bassist on tweez), “Finally - after thirty-five long years - the other guys in Slint decided to be nice to me and let me have my Tweez remix. I complained incessantly back in the day about how the Albini production style ruined our first recording.” In 2023, Ethan took the original multi-track recordings to a local studio in Louisville. Upon handing the engineer a copy of a pre-tweez Slint practice tape, he said “Make it sound like this.” LP2 of this tweez (35th anniversary edition) is the result. Mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Studio.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        LP1/CD (tweez Remastered) Tracklist:
                        1. Ron
                        2. Nan Ding
                        3. Carol
                        4. Kent
                        5. Charlotte
                        6. Darlene
                        7. Warren
                        8. Pat
                        9. Rhoda

                        LP2 (tweethan Mix) Tracklist:
                        1. Intro
                        2. The Book
                        3. Paint The Houses
                        4. Ballet School
                        5. Christmas Tree
                        6. Tokens Of Affection
                        7. New Dave
                        8. Rhoda
                        9. Hippy Chick
                        10. Hollow Eyes

                        Harmonia

                        Musik Von Harmonia - 50th Anniversary Edition

                          Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Harmonia record 'Musik Von Harmonia', Gronland release this limited edition set, containing the original album and a second vinyl with reworks by Matthew Herbert, Stuart Braithwaite, James Holden and many more.

                          The debut Harmonia LP, 'Musik Von Harmonia', appeared in 1974 (with an accomplished live track, recorded in Amsterdam) and marks the first collaborative effort between Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius and Neu!'s Michael Rother: a German supergroup and genuine rarity, a colossal artistic success. The three members were skilled keyboard players, guitarists, electronic percussionists and composers. This was a group musically and conceptually miles ahead of its time. Musik Von Harmonia is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik ideal. It's not Kraftwerk's all-synth, clean, clinical pulse, nor Neu!'s seemingly effortless glide, nor Can's stomping art world funk. Instead it's at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, a supergroup of sorts who easily achieves and maintains such a seemingly overstated status by embracing a variety of approaches that work wonders.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          LP/CD1 - Musik Von Harmonia:
                          1. Watussi
                          2. Sehr Komisch
                          3. Sonnenschein
                          4. Dino
                          5. Ohrwurm
                          6. Ahoi
                          7. Veterano
                          8. Hausmusik

                          LP/CD2 - Reworks:
                          1. David Pajo - Harmoniumm
                          2. Vittoria Maccabruni – Idle Place
                          3. Ahoi (Herbert`s Fall Dub)
                          4. Vittoria Maccabruni & Michael Rother – Wave By Wave
                          5. Ahoi (Kaleema Remix)
                          6. Ahoi (Tape Remix By Marta Salogni)
                          7. Ohrwurm (Post Neo Remix)
                          8. Veterano (Tape Remix By Marta Salogni)
                          9. Watussi (Stuart Braithwaite Remix)
                          10. Dino (Sqürl Remix)

                          SQUAREPUSHER

                          Ultravisitor - 20th Anniversary Edition

                            For the 20th anniversary, Warp is proud to present 'Ultravisitor' expanded deluxe version, an album beloved by fans since its release in March 2004, carefully remastered from the original tapes by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering and overseen by Tom Jenkinson. Tom has relished the opportunity to revisit the tapes, bringing out fresh dynamics and details in the tracks. A unique blend of studio and live recordings, it’s an excellent showcase for the diversity of his music: from the frenetic title track to the funky jazz of 'Iambic 9 Poetry' to the sunlit bliss of 'Tommib Help Buss' and beyond.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            LP Tracklist:
                            1. Ultravisitor
                            2. I Fulcrum
                            3. Iambic 9 Poetry
                            4. Andrei
                            5. 50 Cycles
                            6. Menelec
                            7. C-Town Smash
                            8. Steinbolt
                            9. An Arched Pathway
                            10. Telluric Piece
                            11. District Line II
                            12. Circlewave
                            13. Tetra-Sync
                            14. Tommib Help Buss
                            15. Every Day I Love
                            16. Square Window
                            17. Abacus 2
                            18. Venus No.17
                            19. Itti-Fack
                            20. Melt 14.6
                            21. Venus No.17 Acid Mix
                            22. Tundra 4
                            23. Talk About Me & You

                            CD Tracklist:
                            1. Ultravisitor
                            2. I Fulcrum
                            3. Iambic 9 Poetry
                            4. Andrei
                            5. 50 Cycles
                            6. Menelec
                            7 C-Town Smash
                            8. Steinbolt
                            9. An Arched Pathway
                            10. Telluric Piece
                            11. District Line II
                            12. Circlewave
                            13. Tetra-Sync
                            14. Tommib Help Buss
                            15. Every Day I Love
                            16. Square Window
                            17. Abacus 2
                            18. Venus No.17
                            19. Venus No.17 Acid Mix
                            20. Tundra 4
                            21. Itti-Fack
                            22. Talk About Me & You
                            23. 8 Melt 14.6

                            Steve Leach

                            Ocean Potion - 2024 Reissue

                              Steve Leach's Balearic beach-funk beast Ocean Potion, recorded with the Crystal Grass Orchestra is an absolutely ace, Ned Doheny-adjacent funky AOR / blue-eyed soul BBQ classic from 1976.

                              Who is Steve Leach, you ask? None other than Seasick Steve in a previous life! A French-only release on Philips, it's a hugely immediate, pop-funk firecracker. It features a wonderfully lush, full orchestral sound throughout, underpinning Steve's gorgeous voice and an army of brilliant backing vocalists.

                              The supporting cast is phenomenal and is arguably the salient reason this is such a fantastic record. We're talking legendary players from the French scene (think Arpadys, Voyage, Kongas, CCPP, Giant, Swing Family) such as Don Ray with his arranger-conductor hat on as well as synths, Marc Chantereau on percussion, Slim Pezin on guitar, André Ceccarelli on drums, Christian Padovan on bass and Pierre Halation on flute.

                              With these snakes behind the scenes, it remains a mystery how Ocean Potion is so relatively unknown. Hopefully, this long overdue reissue rectifies this and puts a stop to people dropping £200 on it. 


                              TRACK LISTING

                              A1 The Light Of The Mind
                              A2 Hey! Hey! What You Doin To Me
                              A3 Take Strength
                              A4 The LadyOf The Sea
                              A5 All My Life
                              B1 You're The Only One Girl
                              B2 At Least We Got Love
                              B3 All Love's Children
                              B4 Get Out In The Sun
                              B5 Golden Hues
                              B6 I Meditate Each Day

                              Kiasmos

                              Kiasmos - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                Kiasmos is Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen.

                                Ten years on from the release of their seminal self-titled album, Kiasmos celebrate with a limited edition pressing on blue vinyl. The pressing is limited to 2000 for the world. The album, which has been streamed over 100 million times on Spotify alone, has become an essential album in electronic music and has since gone on to inspire artists around the world.

                                After a successful campaign surrounding the follow up album (“II”) earlier this year, now seems like a great time to reflect on where it all started: with two friends experimenting and having fun in the studio together.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1. Lit
                                2. Held
                                3. Looped
                                4. Swayed
                                5. Thrown
                                6. Dragged 
                                7. Bent
                                8. Burnt

                                Bardo Pond

                                Set & Setting - 25th Anniversary Edition

                                  Following the long-since sold out repress of ‘Amanita’ in 2021, Bardo Pond will release a remastered edition of their classic 1999 LP ‘Set and Setting’ on purple vinyl, featuring the eleven-minute opener 'Walking Stick Man' and the single 'This Time (So Fucked)'.

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  1. Walking Stick Man
                                  2. This Time (So Fucked)
                                  3. Datura
                                  4. Again
                                  5. Cross Current
                                  6. Crawl Away
                                  7. #3

                                  Jenny Lewis

                                  The Voyager - 2024 Reissue

                                    10th Anniversary colour reissue of the 2014 album featuring “Just One of the Guys”, “The Voyager”, “She’s Not Me” and more.

                                    This is the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman's third solo album & documents her struggle to cope following the death of her estranged father in 2010 and the subsequent break-up of Rilo Kiley. 'The Voyager' finds the always relatable songwriter at her sharp-witted best, singing about her experiences with honesty and incisiveness.

                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    Side 1
                                    Head Underwater
                                    She's Not Me
                                    Just One Of The Guys
                                    Slippery Slopes
                                    Late Bloomer

                                    Side 2
                                    You Can't Outrun 'Em
                                    The New You
                                    Aloha & The Three Johns
                                    Love U Forever
                                    The Voyager

                                    Waxahatchee

                                    Cerulean Salt - 2024 Repress

                                      On her second full-length record as Waxahatchee, former PS Eliot singer Katie Crutchfield's compelling hyper-personal poetry is continuously crushing.

                                      Cerulean Salt follows American Weekend -- a collection of minimal acousticguitar pop written and recorded in a week at her family's Birmingham home. On this new record, Crutchfield's songs continue to be marked by her sharp, hooky songwriting; her striking voice and lyrics that simultaneously seem hyperpersonal yet relentlessly relatable, teetering between endearingly nostalgic and depressingly dark. But whereas before the thematic focus of her songcraft was on break ups and passive-aggressive crushing, this record reflects on her family and Alabama upbringing. Whereas American Weekend was mostly just Crutchfield and her guitar, Cerulean Salt is occasionally amped up, with a full band and higher-fi production.

                                      At times, Cerulean Salt creeps closer to the sound of PS Eliot: moody, 90sinspired rock backed by Keith Spencer and Swearin' guitarist Kyle Gilbride on drums and bass. The full band means fleshed-out fuzzy lead guitars on "Coast to Coast", its poppy hook almost masking its dark lyrics. Big distorted guitars and deep steady drums mark songs like "Misery over Dispute" and "Waiting".

                                      There's plenty of American Weekend's introspection and minimalism to be found, though. "Blue Pt. II" is stripped down, Crutchfield and her sister Alison singing in harmony with deadpan vox. She's still an open booking, musing on self- doubt versus self-reliance, transience versus permanence. "Peace and Quiet" ebbs and flows from moody, minimal verses to a sing- song chorus. "Swan Dive" tackles nostalgia, transience, indifference, regret -- over the a minimal strum of an electric-guitar, the picking at a chirpy riff and the double-time tapping of a muted drum. The album closes with a haunting acoustic- guitar reflection on "You're Damaged," possibly the best Waxahatchee song to date.

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      Hollow Bedroom
                                      Dixie Cups And Jars
                                      Lips And Limbs
                                      Blue Part II
                                      Brother Bryan
                                      Coast To Coast
                                      Tangled Envisioning
                                      Misery Over Dispute
                                      Lively
                                      Waiting
                                      Swan Dive
                                      Peace And Quiet
                                      You're Damaged

                                      Thee Italo Disco classico and one of the tunes that inspired New Order's "Blue Monday" (true story!). Absolutely huge spin with everyone from Ron Hardy to Jamal Moss to Omar S to Kickin' Pigeon! Klein & MBO are simple the greatest electro-disco act to have graced our humble planet. Every home needs one! 

                                      White vinyl reissue on Discoring

                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                      Matt says: Huge spin for me this one. Out of all the various versions this one is the best!

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      A. Dirty Talk (European Connection)
                                      B. Dirty Talk (European Connection) (Instrumental)

                                      Distangled brings you another gem of a re-issue. Barfly, a one-off by Wringler, is a little known and obscure Dutch release from the mid 90's and changes for quite some $ among those who know. Six cleverly produced house and techno tracks, raw and sometimes even with a hint of disco too. Including 3 previously unreleased tracks found on the original session tapes. Big tip!

                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                      Matt says: New one on me this one. But a none the less nice addition to the annals of techno and house that emanated from the European continent throughout the 90s. Can't help thinking this was a big Craig Richards spin...

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      01 Gatewood
                                      02 Dustbowl
                                      03 Cold Case
                                      04 Barfly
                                      05 Lines Loops
                                      06 LISa

                                      JPEGMAFIA

                                      All My Heroes Are Cornballs - 2024 Repress

                                        'All My Heroes Are Cornballs' is the third studio album by renowned Baltimore rapper JPEGMafia, released on September 13, 2019, follow-up to the album that really launched his career, 'Veteran' (2018). JPEGMAFIA handled the production, mixing and mastering in his home studio. The album features guest appearances from Abdu Ali, Helena Deland and Buzzy Lee, as well as additional vocals by Refined Sugar, Vegyn and Young Emoji. 'All My Heroes Are Cornballs' is an avant-garde, experimental hip hop, and punk rap album, and draws influences from experimental pop, glitch hop, ambient, noise and industrial music. It has a smoother and more melodic sound than its predecessor, employing uncommon song structures, extensive sampling, and a variety of vocal techniques such as rapping, screaming and singing. Thematically, the album is personal, introspective, and presented in a stream of consciousness form, touching on the Internet culture, prejudice, political issues and JPEGMafia's newfound fame

                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        1. Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot
                                        2. Kenan Vs. Kel
                                        3. Beta Male Strategies
                                        4. JPEGMAFIA TYPE BEAT
                                        5. Grimy Waifu
                                        6. PTSD
                                        7. Rap Grow Old & Die X No Child Left Behind
                                        8. AlI My Heroes Are Cornballs
                                        9. BBW
                                        10. PRONE!
                                        11. Lifes Hard, Here's A Song About Sorrel
                                        12. Thot Tactics
                                        13. Free The Frail
                                        14. Post Verified Lifestyle
                                        15. BasicBitchTearGas
                                        16. DOTS FREESTYLE REMIX
                                        17. BUTTERMILK JESUS TYPE BEAT
                                        18. Papi I Missed U

                                        JPEGMAFIA

                                        LP! - 2024 Repress

                                          'LP!' is the fourth studio album from renowned Baltimore rapper JPEGAMFIA. Released on October 22nd, 2021 (his 32nd birthday), the album features guest appearances from DatPiMaa, Kimbra and Tkay Maidza. It received a great critical response from Pitchfork, NME, and more. The album thematically speaks to JPEG’s struggles within the music industry and staying true to his art, and is entirely self-produced like much of his work. 

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          1. TRUST!
                                          2. DIRTY!
                                          3. NEMO!
                                          4. END CREDITS!
                                          5. HAZARD DUTY PAY!
                                          6. GOD DON’T LIKE UGLY!
                                          7. WHAT KINDA RAPPIN’ IS THIS?
                                          8. THOT’S PRAYER!
                                          9. ARE U HAPPY?
                                          10. REBOUND!
                                          11. 100
                                          12. OG!
                                          13. DIKEMBE!
                                          14. TIRED, NERVOUS & BROKE!
                                          15. FIRE
                                          16. NICE!
                                          17. BMT!
                                          18. THE GHOST OF RANKING DREAD!
                                          19. DAM! DAM! DAM! (OG MIX)
                                          20. UNTITLED

                                          JPEGMAFIA

                                          Veteran - 2024 Repress

                                            'Veteran' is the second studio from renowned Baltimore rapper, JPEGMAFIA. It was released on January 19 2018 by Deathbomb Arc and Republic Records. The album was released to widespread critical acclaim and brought JPEGMAFIA to the forefront of contemporary and experimental hip hop. NME, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Noisey, and Spin all listed Veteran in their top 100 albums of 2018. In 2019, Pitchfork listed it at number 171 in their list of best albums of the decade. The album features JPEGMAFIA's most streamed song, '1539 N. Calvert'.

                                            As described by Pitchfork: "Entirely self-produced, Veteran is a remarkable exercise in sound and texture. At its best the production makes the frayed edges of each element part of the atmosphere, a mess of distortion that works percussively and melodically." 

                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            1. 1539 N. Calvert
                                            2. Real Nega
                                            3. Thug Tears
                                            4. Dayum
                                            5. Baby I'm Bleeding
                                            6. My Thoughts On Neogaf Dying
                                            7. Rock N Roll Is Dead
                                            8. DD Form 214
                                            9. Germs
                                            10. Libtard Anthem
                                            11. Panic Emoji
                                            12. DJ Snitch Bitch Interlude
                                            13. Whole Foods
                                            14. Macaulay Culkin
                                            15. Williamsburg
                                            16. I Cannot Fucking Wait Til Morrissey Dies
                                            17. Rainbow Six
                                            18. 1488
                                            19. Curb Stomp

                                            JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown

                                            Scaring The Hoes - 2024 Reissue

                                              SCARING THE HOES is the debut collaborative project from JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown. Released in March 2023 after being teased for over a year, the record arrived to wide critical acclaim.

                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                              Liam says: With absolutely batshit use of samples and production from JPEGMAFIA, Scaring The Hoes is one of the most inventive experimental hip-hop records in years - with Danny Brown's lyricism as sharp and funny as ever. A dream collaboration, the chemistry between Brown and Peggy is unbridled and makes us wish the two of them could make music together forever!

                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              1. Lean Beef Patty
                                              2. Steppa Pig
                                              3. SCARING THE HOES
                                              4. Garbage Pale Kids
                                              5. Fentanyl Tester
                                              6. Burfict!
                                              7. Shut Yo Bitch Ass Up / Muddy Waters
                                              8. Orange Juice Jones
                                              9. Kingdom Hearts Key (ft. Redveil)
                                              10. God Loves You
                                              11. Run The Jewels
                                              12. Jack Harlow Combo Meal
                                              13. HOE (Heaven On Earth)
                                              14. Where Ya Get Ya Coke From? 

                                              Hot Chip

                                              Coming On Strongerer - 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

                                                Hot Chip celebrate 20 years since the release of their seminal debut album, originally released in 2004 via Moshi Moshi Records.

                                                “Restlessly inventive, Hot Chip have crafted a genuinely organic, proper album, and the relaxed enthusiasm that drives this debut is absurdly infectious” Uncut.

                                                “An oddly beautiful record” Time Out “.

                                                A dazzling debut” NME.

                                                “Hot and very strong” Dazed. 

                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                Side A
                                                Take Care
                                                The Beach Party
                                                Keep Fallin

                                                Side B
                                                Playboy
                                                Crap Kraft Dinner

                                                Side C
                                                Down With Prince
                                                Bad Luck
                                                You Ride, We Ride, In My Ride

                                                Side D
                                                Shining Escalade
                                                Baby Said
                                                One One One

                                                Side E
                                                Hittin Skittles
                                                Marrow
                                                My PC
                                                From Drummer To Driver

                                                Side F
                                                Defeated By Technology
                                                Back To The Future
                                                A-B-C

                                                The Bonus Tracks Are:
                                                “Hittin Skittles” *
                                                “From Drummer To Driver” *
                                                “Marrow”
                                                “My PC (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)”
                                                “Defeated By Technology”
                                                “Back To The Future”
                                                “A-B-C”

                                                * These Two Have Been Available Digitally In The Past But This Is The First And Only Time They Will Be Available On A Physical Format.

                                                Interpol

                                                Antics - 20th Anniversary Edition

                                                  Interpol celebrates the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics, first released on September 27th, 2004.

                                                  Released in 2004, Antics cemented Interpol's position as one of the most influential bands of their generation. The album's dark, atmospheric soundscapes and frontman Paul Banks' signature vocals spawned iconic tracks such as ‘Slow Hands,’ ‘Evil,’ and ‘C’mere’ and Antics continues to resonate with fans worldwide, solidifying its place as a modern classic.

                                                  Formed in New York City, Interpol quickly rose to prominence with their unique blend of post-punk, shoegaze, and dark wave influences. Their debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights, became a critical and commercial success, establishing the band as a major force in alternative music. Over the course of their career, Interpol have released seven critically acclaimed studio albums including The Other Side of Make-Believe in July 2022.

                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                  1. Next Exit
                                                  2. Evil
                                                  3. Narc
                                                  4. Take You On A Cruise
                                                  5. Slow Hands
                                                  6. Not Even Jail
                                                  7. Public Pervert
                                                  8. C’mere
                                                  9. Length Of Love
                                                  10. A Time To Be So Small

                                                  The Velvet Underground

                                                  Alternate Loaded - Rocktober 2024 Edition

                                                    Dive deeper into the studio with the Alternate Version of The Velvet Underground's "Loaded" album. A track list that features early versions, demos, and alternate mixes of their iconic tracks like "Sweet Jane," "Rock & Roll," and "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'." These versions offer a glimpse into their creative process and the iconic sound of Velvet Underground.

                                                    Big Star

                                                    Radio City - 2024 Reissue

                                                      Radio City is the second album from Big Star. Released in 1974, Radio City includes “September Gurls” and “Back of a Car” which remain some of the most famous Big Star songs. The legacy of Radio City have far exceeded the original commercial letdowns of the album, which is now considered to be a milestone in the history of rock by critics and musicians alike. Both Radio City and #1 Record. made it onto Rolling Stone‘s 500 “Greatest Albums of All Time” lists, while tracks from each album (“Thirteen” and “September Gurls”) are also among the magazine’s 500 “Greatest Songs of All Time

                                                      Big Star, considered to be among the founders of power pop, has been cited as an influence by many of the major alternative bands of the ’80s and ’90s, and continues to be a powerful presence in today’s musical landscape. Artists such as R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements (who famously penned the song “Alex Chilton”) and Wilco all enthusiastically tout the artistic impact of the group. Mike Mills recalls Big Star as “a band who had gotten it right, who made records that sounded like rock and roll bands should sound. A band who wrote all the songs, from flat-out rockers to achingly beautiful ballads that were still somehow rock songs.”

                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      Side A
                                                      O, My Soul
                                                      Life Is White
                                                      Way Out West
                                                      What’s Goin Ahn
                                                      You Get What You Deserve

                                                      Side B
                                                      Mod Lang
                                                      Back Of A Car
                                                      Daisy Glaze
                                                      She’s A Mover
                                                      September Gurls
                                                      Morpha Too
                                                      I’m In Love With A Girl 

                                                      The Pogues

                                                      Red Roses For Me - 40th Anniversary Edition

                                                        After four decades, ‘Red Roses For Me’ is still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed ne’er-do-wells from London’s Kings Cross in the convulsive aftermath of the re-election of the Thatcher government. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals - about death and drink, love and London - with those of frontman Shane MacGowan's - and all fuelled by the punk ethos.

                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        CD1:
                                                        1. Transmetropolitan
                                                        2. The Battle Of Brisbane
                                                        3. The Auld Triangle
                                                        4. Waxie’s Dargle
                                                        5. Boys Form The County Hell
                                                        6. Sea Shanty
                                                        7. Dark Streets Of London
                                                        8. Streams Of Whiskey
                                                        9. Poor Paddy
                                                        10. Dingle Regatta
                                                        11. Greenland Whale Fisheries
                                                        12. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
                                                        13. Kitty

                                                        CD2: B-Sides And BBC Sessions 1984
                                                        Single B-Sides
                                                        1. The Leaving Of Liverpool
                                                        2. Muirshin Durkin
                                                        3. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
                                                        4. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
                                                        5. Whiskey You’re The Devil
                                                        6. The Wild Rover
                                                        John Peel Session 10th April 1984
                                                        7. Streams Of Whiskey
                                                        8. Greenland Whale Fisheries
                                                        9. Boys From The County Hell
                                                        10. The Auld Triangle
                                                        David ‘Kid’ Jensen Session 21st June 1984
                                                        11. Dingle Regatta/Holly Johnsons
                                                        12. Poor Paddy On The Railway
                                                        13. The Boys From The County Hell
                                                        14. Connemara, Let’s Go!
                                                        John Peel Session 4th December 1984
                                                        15. Whiskey You’re The Devil
                                                        16. The Navigator
                                                        17. Sally McLannan
                                                        18. Danny Boy

                                                        Vinyl Tracklisting:
                                                        SIDE A
                                                        1. Transmetropolitan
                                                        2. Battle Of Brisbane
                                                        3. The Auld Triangle
                                                        4. Waxies Dargle
                                                        5. Boys From The County Hell
                                                        6. Sea Shanty
                                                        7. Dark Streets Of London

                                                        SIDE B
                                                        1. Streams Of Whiskey
                                                        2. Poor Paddy
                                                        3. Dingle Regatta
                                                        4. Greenland Whale Fisheries
                                                        5. Down In The Ground Where The Deadmen Go
                                                        6. Kitty

                                                        Caroline Polachek

                                                        Pang - 5th Anniversary Edition

                                                          Caroline Polachek has already lived an extraordinary life in music: her previous band Chairlift formed in 2006 whilst Caroline was still in art school; and in 2008 the band was thrust into the spotlight when Bruises was synched in an iPod commercial as the Brooklyn indie scene peaked as an international export. Caroline's idiosyncratic vocal style and synth textures quickly became their sonic trademark, and continued to evolve through their three critically acclaimed albums into a new, more modular kind of pop experimentation.

                                                          Caroline expanded into production in 2013, landing her first credit writing and producing on Beyonce's grammy-nominated self-titled album. Restless while making Chairlift's third (and final) record Moth, Caroline quietly fostered two side projects: baroque girl-group Ramona Lisa, and minimal synth project CEP. Moving fluidly through radically different genres, Caroline collaborated with dozens of artists (Blood Orange, SBTRKT, Charli XCX) ; sometimes writing, sometimes singing, sometimes directing videos, and sometimes all three.

                                                          Chairlift disbanded in 2017 and Caroline feverishly began writing for her first solo project under her own name. For the first time, the DNA from these seemingly different projects fit together perfectly; the playfulness of Chairlift, the theatricality of Ramona Lisa, futuristic glimmerings of CEP, plus a new mastery of her voice and thick rolodex of keen collaborators.

                                                          Fast forward two years spent manically between the studio and navigating a series of personal crossroads, and Pang marks the beginning of a new chapter. It is the most ambitious, hardcore and beautiful album of her career to date. With her signature 'organic autotune' and liquid lyricism finally center stage, the record positions her firmly as one of the most singular and captivating singers of a generation.

                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          1. The Gate
                                                          2. Pang
                                                          3. New Normal
                                                          4. Hit Me Where It Hurts
                                                          5. I Give Up
                                                          6. Look At Me Now
                                                          7. Insomnia
                                                          8. Ocean Of Tears
                                                          9. Hey Big Eyes
                                                          10. Go As A Dream
                                                          11. Caroline Shut Up
                                                          12. So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
                                                          13. Door
                                                          14. Parachute

                                                          Roots Manuva

                                                          Run Come Save Me - 2024 Reissue

                                                            Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva is one of the titans of Black British music. He is known for his distinctive voice, complex lyricism, and genreblending production. His innovative sound being one that merges hip-hop with reggae, dub, and electronic influences which has established him as seminal figure in the UK music scene.

                                                            Roots Manuva’s influence is also one that extends beyond solo work. He has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, including the Gorillaz, The Cinematic Orchestra and Coldcut, bringing his distinctive style to a wide range of musical projects. His contributions to the development of the UK hip-hop scene have also been recognised with numerous awards and honours, cementing his legacy as a true innovator.

                                                            Roots Manuva released ‘Run Come Save Me’ in 2001, a groundbreaking album that solidified his place in the pantheon of hip-hop greats. The body of work also features hit single ‘Witness (1 Hope)’, which become an anthem and is often cited as one of the greatest UK hip-hop tracks of all time.

                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                            …No Strings
                                                            Bashment Boogie
                                                            Witness (1 Hope)
                                                            Join The Dots
                                                            Ital Visions
                                                            Artical
                                                            Hol' It Up
                                                            Stone The Crows
                                                            Kicking The Cack
                                                            Dub Styles
                                                            Trim Body
                                                            Sinny Sin Sins
                                                            Evil Rabbit
                                                            Swords In The Dirt
                                                            Highest Grade
                                                            Dreamy Days

                                                            Roots Manuva

                                                            Brand New Second Hand - 25th Anniversary Reissue

                                                              Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva is one of the titans of Black British music. He is known for his distinctive voice, complex lyricism, and genre-blending production. His innovative sound being one that merges hip-hop with reggae, dub, and electronic influences which has established him as seminal figure in the UK music scene.

                                                              Roots Manuva’s influence is also one that extends beyond solo work. He has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, including the Gorillaz, The Cinematic Orchestra and Coldcut, bringing his distinctive style to a wide range of musical projects. His contributions to the development of the UK hip-hop scene have also been recognised with numerous awards and honours, cementing his legacy as a true innovator.

                                                              Roots Manuva’s career began in the early 1990s, gaining attention with his debut album, ‘Brand New Second Hand’ (1999), released via Big Dada. The body of work was a critical success due to the use of introspective lyrics and avant-garde beats, and it showcased his ability to merge social commentary with personal introspection.

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              Movements
                                                              Juggle Tings Proper
                                                              Cornmeal Dumpling
                                                              Baptism
                                                              Soul Decay
                                                              Fever
                                                              Wisdom Fall
                                                              Strange Behaviour
                                                              Sinking Sands
                                                              Oh Yeah…
                                                              Dem Phonies
                                                              Inna
                                                              Big Tings Gwidarn
                                                              Motion 5000

                                                              Belair Lip Bombs

                                                              Lush Life - 2024 Reissue

                                                                Third Man Records are proud to announce the worldwide signing of Australian four-piece The Belair Lip Bombs and to reissue their 2023 breakthrough album, 'Lush Life'. The debut from the Naarm/Melbourne indie group, arrived as ten tracks of evocative exploration; stories that run a gamut of longing, seeking new horizons and discovering new paths to satisfaction and self-fulfilment.

                                                                The record captures widescreen indie songwriting, helmed by Maisie Everett (guitar, keys, vox) and fleshed out by a talented trio of musicians in Mike Bradvica (guitars), Liam De Bruin (drums) and Jimmy Droughton (bass). Featuring previous singles "Stay Or Go", "Gimme Gimme” and "Say My Name", Lush Life is a perfect album for first-time listeners to immerse themselves in, and signals the arrival of The Belair Lip Bombs.

                                                                The album was recorded between Naarm/Melbourne spaces Head Gap and Singing Bird studios, and saw The Belair Lip Bombs work with engineer Nao Anzai (Floodlights, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever) on mixing and mastering.

                                                                RIYL The Strokes, The B-52s, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever


                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                1. Say My Name
                                                                2. Gimme Gimme
                                                                3. World Is The One
                                                                4. Stay Or Go
                                                                5. Easy On The Heart
                                                                6. Look The Part
                                                                7. Walking Away
                                                                8. Things That You Did
                                                                9. Lucky Nine
                                                                10. Suck It In

                                                                Hawkwind

                                                                Space Ritual - 2024 Reissue

                                                                  Recorded on the band’s UK Tour of December 1972, which followed the release of the band’s recent studio album ‘DOREMI FASOL LATIDO’. The live show was a continuous performance linked by poetry recitation by Robert Calvert and was a complete audio-visual experience. Featuring the dancers Stacia, Miss Renee and Tony Carrera, the concerts also featured an elaborate light show by famed lighting designer Liquid Len. The Space Ritual tour followed the huge success of the Silver Machine single (although the song did not feature in the live set) and three concerts were captured on tape by the Pye Records mobile unit.

                                                                  The resulting double album was adorned with memorable artwork and was a Top Ten hit in the UK upon its release in May 1973. This 50th anniversary 2LP black vinyl repress was cut at Abbey Road studios utilising the original master tapes.

                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                  Side One
                                                                  1. Earth Calling
                                                                  2. Born To Go
                                                                  3. Down Through The Night
                                                                  4. The Awakening

                                                                  Side Two
                                                                  1. Lord Of Light
                                                                  2. Black Corridor
                                                                  3. Space Is Deep
                                                                  4. Electronic No. 1

                                                                  Side Three
                                                                  1. Orgone Accumulator
                                                                  2. Upside Down
                                                                  3. 10 Seconds Of Forever
                                                                  4. Brainstorm

                                                                  Side Four
                                                                  1. Seven By Seven
                                                                  2. Sonic Attack
                                                                  3. Time We Left This World Today
                                                                  4. Master Of The Universe
                                                                  5. Welcome To The Future

                                                                  Matthew Halsall

                                                                  When The World Was One - BioVinyl 2024 Reissue

                                                                    When The World Was One is something of a companion piece to Matthew Halsall’s 2012 album Fletcher Moss Park (much of the music was written at the same time) but draws more explicitly on Halsall’s love of spiritual jazz and Eastern music as well as his own studies in meditation and travels in Japan. Beautifully recorded at Hasall’s favourite studio, 80 Hertz in Manchester, and engineered by Brendan Williams and George Atkins it features the recording debut of Halsall’s large ensemble, The Gondwana Orchestra, which utilises the exotic flavours of harp, koto and bansuri flute and Eastern scales to create a global palate for Halsall’s life-affirming sounds.

                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    1. When The World Was One
                                                                    2. A Far Away Place
                                                                    3. Falling Water
                                                                    4. Patterns
                                                                    5. Kiyomizu-Dera
                                                                    6. Sagano Bamboo Forest
                                                                    7. Tribute To Alice Coltrane

                                                                    Bdrmm

                                                                    Bedroom - 2024 Reissue

                                                                      A special repress of the 2020 debut album by bdrmm which was hailed by The Guardian as a lockdown classic on its original release and ended up in Rough Trade’s top ten albums of the year. The release is part of Sonic Cathedral’s 20th anniversary celebrations which will also see the band playing through the album in full (alongside Ride, Pye Corner Audio and Moon Diagrams) at Hackney Church in London on October 12.

                                                                      “A modern day shoegaze classic” – NME “The general roller coaster of being twenty-somethings in post-Brexit England who find themselves awash with a shimmering soundscape that recalls Oshin-era DIIV, Deerhunter’s Microcastle, or even The Cure at their most ambiently grandiose” – Under The Radar.

                                                                      “At a time when we’re all looking for aural salvation from the chaotic inundation of all that is happening around us, bdrmm are the salve that eases the wounds of an archaic society, showing that anxieties are a natural flow of life” – Gigwise.

                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                      1. Momo
                                                                      2. Push/Pull
                                                                      3. A Reason To Celebrate
                                                                      4. Gush
                                                                      5. Happy
                                                                      6. (The Silence)
                                                                      7. (Un)happy
                                                                      8. If....
                                                                      9. Is That What You Wanted To Hear?
                                                                      10. Forget The Credits

                                                                      Fela Kuti

                                                                      Alagbon Close - 50th Anniversary Edition

                                                                        'Alagbon Close' was the first of Fela’s albums to have a sleeve designed by Ghariokwu Lemi, whose artwork fast became an integral part of Fela's catalogue and Afrobeat's message. The disc was named after the headquarters of the Nigerian Criminal Investigation Department in Lagos. The title track concerns two police raids on Fela’s house, in April and May 1974. On the first occasion, they came looking for weed but could not find any. On the second, they attempted to plant a joint on Fela, but he grabbed it and swallowed it. He was detained at Alagbon Close for three days, while the police waited for the evidence to drop into his slop bucket. Fela was locked in a communal cell the prisoners jokingly called Kalakuta Republic (“kalakuta” is Swahili for “rascal”). His cellmates engineered a 'feces switch' and Fela was pronounced innocent. On his release he renamed his house Kalakuta Republic. “Alagbon Close” calls out the Nigerian police’s violence and arrogance and apparent immunity from prosecution. “Nothing special about uniform,” sings Fela. “Uniform na cloth na tailor dey sew am like my dress,” replies the chorus (meaning: just because you are wearing a uniform does not make you above the law). 

                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        1. Alagbon Close
                                                                        2. I No Get Eye For Back

                                                                        Bobby "Boris" Pickett

                                                                        Monster Mash - 2024 Reissue

                                                                          Introducing the iconic "Monster Mash" album by Bobby Pickett, now remastered and pressed on mesmerizing glow-in-the-dark vinyl!

                                                                          The eternal Halloween classic ‘Monster Mash’ is included alongside further spooky delights of classic hits like "Transylvania Twist" and "Graveyard Shift".

                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                          A:
                                                                          Monster Mash
                                                                          Rabian The Fiendage Idol
                                                                          Blood Bank Blues
                                                                          Graveyard Shift
                                                                          Skully Gully
                                                                          Wolfbane
                                                                          Monster Minuet

                                                                          B:
                                                                          Transylvania Twist
                                                                          Sinister Stomp
                                                                          Me & My Mummy
                                                                          Monster Motion
                                                                          Monster Mash Party
                                                                          Irresistible Igor
                                                                          Bella's Bash
                                                                          Let's Fly Away

                                                                          'Deadly' Headley Bennett

                                                                          35 Years From Alpha - 2024 Reissue

                                                                            Long-awaited reissue of the 1982 solo LP from the late, great “Deadly” Headley Bennett, a key sideman from the golden age of Jamaican music who played on hundreds of records throughout his long and storied career.

                                                                            Designed as a showcase for his unique talents, producer Adrian Sherwood assembled a crack team of singers and players for this set, including Style Scott, Bim Sherman, George Oban, Lizard Logan, Crucial Tony, and Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah. Fellow Alpha alumnus Rico Rodriguez also makes an appearance on two tracks.

                                                                            Vinyl re-cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, featuring a printed inner sleeve with liner notes and rare photos. The CD includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            1. 35 Years From Alpha
                                                                            2. The Danger
                                                                            3. Head Charge
                                                                            4. Without A Love Like Yours
                                                                            5. Little Dove
                                                                            6. Two From Alpha
                                                                            7. Another Satta
                                                                            8. Headley's Medley
                                                                            9. Independent Man (Horns Cut) *
                                                                            10. Devious Version *

                                                                            *CD Only Tracks

                                                                            Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the release of Ryuichi Sakamoto's classic LP "Coda", issued in Japan in 1983 as a solo piano version of the "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" soundtrack. The album, which was never been released outside of Japan until now, sees Sakamoto on acoustic piano reinterpreting fascinating versions of his famous soundtrack including the classic theme and "Germination," which was later used in the "Call Me By Your Name" soundtrack. This reissue has been remastered by Seigen Ono's Saidera Mastering studio in Tokyo and boasts the original artwork plus a 4-page insert with new liner notes by Andy Beta.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            1. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
                                                                            2. Batavia
                                                                            3. Germination
                                                                            4. A Hearty Breakfast
                                                                            5. Before The War
                                                                            6. The Seed And The Sower
                                                                            7. A Brief Encounter
                                                                            8. Ride Ride Ride
                                                                            9. The Fight
                                                                            10. Dismissed! / Assembly
                                                                            11. Beyond Reason
                                                                            12. Sowing The Seed
                                                                            13. Last Regrets
                                                                            14. The Seed
                                                                            15. Japan
                                                                            16. Coda

                                                                            With a Yamaha organ and a dream, South African artist Pops Mohamed started his musical journey in the mid-1970s as the bandleader and composer of Black Disco, creating a hip melange of chill-out jazz with futuristic drum machine sounds and spiritual overtones. His cosmic organ transmissions were accompanied by two of the most sought-after session players on the South African scene, the sax and flute wizard Basil Coetzee, who had risen to fame in 1974 as one of the soloists on the hit "Mannenberg," and Sipho Gumede, the young bass prodigy who was already rubbing shoulders with the old guard at the outset of his career. Backed at first with polyphonic beats from Mohamed's electric organ and later taking on a drummer, Black Disco created a signature sound and a trilogy of innovative albums in a burst of studio creativity between 1975 and 1976.

                                                                            This is the first full reissue of their 3rd album, from the original masters. Limited Edition

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            1. Dawn
                                                                            2. Deep Blue
                                                                            3. Spiritual Feeling Riding The Blue (feat. Mohamed)
                                                                            4. Whiter Shade Of Pale
                                                                            5. No More Tears
                                                                            6. Slow Mood
                                                                            7. Kids In The Dark

                                                                            Aphex Twin

                                                                            Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)

                                                                              Written when Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) was in his early 20s, 'Selected Ambient Works Volume II' gained critical acclaim both upon release and retrospectively (10/10 Pitchfork review, #2 Best Ambient Album of All Time, 4 star Rolling Stone review +more). Aphex Twin and SAW II’s influence continues to grow and take new meaning across generations.

                                                                              Now celebrating it's 30th anniversary, this expanded edition is the definitive version of this seminal record.

                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                              Barry says: There’s really very little connecting the first ‘Part’ of Selected Ambient Works to this second edition other than name. While the first one a precursor to RDJ’s more electronic, beat driven albums, Selected Ambient Works II was (and is!) a spooky, beautiful ambient behemoth.

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              1. #1
                                                                              2. #2
                                                                              3. #3
                                                                              4. #4
                                                                              5. #5
                                                                              6. #6
                                                                              7. #7
                                                                              8. #8
                                                                              9. #9
                                                                              10. #10
                                                                              11. #11
                                                                              12. #12
                                                                              13. Blue Calx
                                                                              14. #14
                                                                              15. #15
                                                                              16. #16
                                                                              17. #17
                                                                              18. #18
                                                                              19. #19
                                                                              20. #20
                                                                              21. #21
                                                                              22. #22
                                                                              23. #23
                                                                              24. #24
                                                                              25. #25
                                                                              26. Th1 [evnslower]
                                                                              27. Rhubarb Orc. 19.53 Rev

                                                                              Talk Talk

                                                                              It's My Life 40th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Talk Talk’s iconic ‘It’s My Life’ album, it has been cut at Half-Speed by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, overseen by Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris and Charlie Hollis, son of Mark Hollis, giving the album a greater depth. Originally released in February 1984, ‘It’s My Life’ is the band's second album and followed the 1982 release of their debut ‘The Party’s Over’ which initially received moderate success in the UK reaching number 21 in the UK chart and finding some global success.

                                                                                By the time they came to writing and recording ‘It’s My Life’ the band had gone from the four piece to a three with Simon Brenner leaving the band. The album initially found considerable international success. ‘Such A Shame', the album's first single was a top 10 hit across Europe and the album’s title track entered global Top 40’s including in the US. 


                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                Mine says: An absolute classic and a desert islands disc for Andy and me - but then so is most of Talk Talk's discography...

                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                Side 1
                                                                                1. Dum Dum Girl
                                                                                2. Such A Shame
                                                                                3. Renee
                                                                                4. It’s My Life

                                                                                Side 2
                                                                                1. Tomorrow Started
                                                                                2. The Last Time
                                                                                3. Call In The Night Boy
                                                                                4. Does Caroline Know?
                                                                                5. It’s You

                                                                                Wilco

                                                                                Summerteeth - 25th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                  Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the critically acclaimed album, Wilco ‘Summerteeth.” Originally released in 1999, this genre-bending album showcases a blend of pop, rock, and experimental sounds. Featuring tracks like "Via Chicago" and "When You Wake Up Feeling Old" to the title track "Summer Teeth,” this tracklist showcases Wilco's talent for crafting emotionally impactful music using a distinctive range of sounds and styles.

                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                  1. Can't Stand It
                                                                                  2. She's A Jar
                                                                                  3. A Shot In The Arm
                                                                                  4. We're Just Friends
                                                                                  5. I'm Always In Love
                                                                                  6. Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)
                                                                                  7. Pieholden Suite
                                                                                  8. How To Fight Loneliness
                                                                                  9. Via Chicago
                                                                                  10. ELT
                                                                                  11. My Darling
                                                                                  12. When You Wake Up Feeling Old
                                                                                  13. Summer Teeth
                                                                                  14. In A Future Age
                                                                                  15. 23 Seconds Of Silence
                                                                                  16. Candyfloss
                                                                                  17. A Shot In The Arm

                                                                                  The Sisters Of Mercy

                                                                                  Greatest Hits Vol One: A Slight Case Of Overbombing - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                    A Slight Case of Overbombing: Greatest Hits Volume One is a meticulously curated collection showcasing the iconic sound of The Sisters of Mercy. This album features all the A-sides from their UK singles, each track a testament to the band's enduring impact on the gothic rock and post-punk scenes. Spanning the era since the band's collaboration with Warner, this compilation offers listeners a definitive anthology of The Sisters of Mercy's most influential and beloved hits. "A Slight Case of Overbombing: Greatest Hits Volume One" provides a comprehensive and captivating journey through the band's storied career.

                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                    Side A
                                                                                    1 Under The Gun (2018 Remaster)
                                                                                    2 Temple Of Love (1992) [2018 Remaster]
                                                                                    3 Vision Thing (2018 Remaster)

                                                                                    Side B
                                                                                    1 Detonation Boulevard (2018 Remaster)
                                                                                    2 Doctor Jeep (2018 Remaster)
                                                                                    3 More (2018 Remaster)

                                                                                    Side C
                                                                                    1 Lucretia My Reflection (2018 Remaster)
                                                                                    2 Dominion / Mother Russia (2018 Remaster)

                                                                                    Side D
                                                                                    1 This Corrosion (2018 Remaster)
                                                                                    2 No Time To Cry (2018 Remaster)
                                                                                    3 Walk Away (2018 Remaster)
                                                                                    4 Body And Soul (2018 Remaster)

                                                                                    The Congos

                                                                                    Feast - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                      The Congos were formed by Cedric Myton (born 1947 St Catherine, Jamaica) and Roydel ‘Roy’ Johnson (born 1943 Hanover, Jamaica), around the mid-seventies, a time when the Rasta message coming out of Kingston and other pockets of the Jamaican Island was at its most prominent. Cedric Myton’s singing career began back in the rocksteady era in Reggae’s musical story.

                                                                                      He formed the ‘Tartans’ group taking lead vocal duties alongside Devon Russell, Prince Lincoln Thompson and Lindbergh Lewis. They cut ‘Dance All Night’ (1967) and ‘Coming On Strong’ (1968). The line-up reduced to a two piece, Cedric and Devon Russell, when tracks like ‘What a Sin Thing’ and ‘Short Up Dress’ were cut. This line-up became the Royal Rasses, Cedric formed The Congos, on meeting Roydel Johnson. Roydel previously sang as a member of Ras Michael and the Sons of Negas, cutting such tracks as ’Go To Zion’ (1973). As we can see Cedric’s and Roydel’s Rasta roots were firmly in place by the time they had formed The Congos sometimes called ‘The Congoes’.

                                                                                      The Congos possess what all bands look for,that unique sound that draws the listener to them.Lead singer Cedric Myton’s style and phasing, with his distinctive Falsetto voice makes this just the case.Built on a foundation of classic rhythms and with the aid of then Producer, Lee Perry, the groups statement of intent was laid down with one succinct message. The Congos mighty 1977 ‘Heart of the Congos’ album, is quite simply one of the best reggae albums ever recorded.

                                                                                      Producer Lee Perry had wanted to record a classic Jamaican vocal group in his newly built Black Ark Studio. The voice of Watty Burnett was added at the time to cover baritone vocal duties. The studio after various changes in equipment etc. was finally finding its way. A sound built in Lee Perry’s back yard in Cardiff Crescent, Washington Gardens, Kingston, but existing until then in Mr Lee Perry’s mind. The album they cut would be the defining group release to come out of The Black Ark studios, when the vital elements, vibes, musicians, songs and singing would gel to form ‘Heart Of The Congos’. Come the time of it’s release 1977, Lee Perry was in dispute with Island Records and opted to release the record on his own ‘Black Art’ label. Without the high-profile push of a major label, the record undersold and caused a split between producer and band. Under different circumstances maybe this album would be sitting in thousands of homes alongside the Bob Marley, Culture, Burning Spear releases. Cedric Myton went on to release albums with the French arm of the CBS label and Roy Johnson records and tours as Congo Ashanti Roy.

                                                                                      Cedric Myton the central force carries on the mantle of the Congos and we at Kingston Sounds are proud to pick up the story with another set of vocal statements, which sees Cedric cut some of his finest tunes. Helped along by another reggae legend Brent Dowe, lead singer of the Melodians (Rivers of Babylon), over some classic 1970’s rhythms. Yet again we find that magic formula of strong statements working alongside classic rhythms making the balance work. The Rasta message is still strong on modern classics like ‘King Rastafari Is His Name’, ‘Rasta Congo Man’ and the injustices of the world dissected in tunes ‘Some A Thief’, ‘Watch & Pray’ and the prophetical, ‘Citizen Of The World’.

                                                                                      Once touched by magic it does not fade away, but resurfaces as it has with what we believe to be some of the Congos most heartfelt and meaningful set of songs ...... Let the feast begin.


                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      SIDE 1
                                                                                      Gods Kingdom
                                                                                      King Rastafari Is His Name
                                                                                      Cockmouth
                                                                                      Some A Thief
                                                                                      Watch & Pray
                                                                                      Rasta Congo Man

                                                                                      SIDE 2
                                                                                      Fat Cook
                                                                                      Citizen Of The World
                                                                                      Grandma Say
                                                                                      Take It To The Max
                                                                                      Rasta Weh She Want
                                                                                      Heaven Rejoice

                                                                                      Morphine

                                                                                      Cure For Pain - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                        Anchored by Mark Sandman's distinctive two-string slide bass, Morphine's second album "Cure for Pain" seamlessly blends rock, jazz, and blues to create a sound that remains as relevant and compelling today as it was upon its release in 1993. This 1LP features remastered audio from the original source and includes the classic songs "Buena," "Thursday," and "Cure for Pain."

                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                        1. Dawna
                                                                                        2. Buena
                                                                                        3. I'm Freenow
                                                                                        4. All Wrong
                                                                                        5. Candy
                                                                                        6. A Head With Wings
                                                                                        7. In Spite Of Me
                                                                                        8. Thursday
                                                                                        9. Cure For Pain
                                                                                        10. Mary Won't You Call My Name?
                                                                                        11. Let's Take A Trip Together
                                                                                        12. Sheila
                                                                                        13. Miles Davis' Funeral

                                                                                        Ministry

                                                                                        The Land Of Rape And Honey - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                          Experience the raw power of Ministry's "The Land of Rape and Honey (Deluxe Edition)." This definitive collection includes iconic tracks like "Stigmata" and the haunting title track, plus exclusive remixes and extended cuts. Dive into the intense energy and industrial ferocity of this genre-defining album.

                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                          Disc 1
                                                                                          1. Stigmata
                                                                                          2. The Missing
                                                                                          3. Deity
                                                                                          4. Golden Dawn
                                                                                          5. Destruction
                                                                                          6. The Land Of Rape And Honey
                                                                                          7. You Know What You Are
                                                                                          8. Flashback
                                                                                          9. Abortive

                                                                                          Disc 2
                                                                                          Exclusive Remixes And Extended Cuts

                                                                                          Ministry

                                                                                          Twitch - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                            The deluxe edition of Ministry's "Twitch" highlights their early industrial sound with tracks like "Just Like You" and "Over The Shoulder." It includes remixes and extended versions such as "All Day Remix" and "Over The Shoulder (12” Version)." This edition offers a deeper dive into the band's innovative and brooding style.

                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                            Disc 1
                                                                                            1. Just Like You
                                                                                            2. We Believe
                                                                                            3. All Day Remix
                                                                                            4. The Angel
                                                                                            5. Over The Shoulder
                                                                                            6. My Possession
                                                                                            7. A) Where You At Now? B) Crash And Burn C) Twitch (Version II)

                                                                                            Disc 2
                                                                                            Remixes And Extended Versions

                                                                                            Herbie Hancock

                                                                                            Fat Albert Rotunda - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                              Fat Albert Rotunda is Herbie Hancock’s venture into jazz-funk. The record is centered around the music Hancock wrote for the TV special Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert. On Fat Albert Rotunda, Herbie Hancock brings you funky tracks like “Fat Mama” and more modern jazz-oriented tunes like “Tell Me A Bedtime Story”. The sextet that back’s Hancock are some of the most prominent musicians of that time, including Joe Henderson, Johnny Coles, and Buster Williams.

                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                              Side A
                                                                                              1. Wiggle-Waggle
                                                                                              2. Fat Mama
                                                                                              3. Tell Me A Bedtime Story
                                                                                              4. Oh! Oh! Here He Comes

                                                                                              Side B
                                                                                              1. Jessica
                                                                                              2. Fat Albert Rotunda
                                                                                              3. Lil’ Brother

                                                                                              Cranes

                                                                                              Loved - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                Loved is the third album by the British band Cranes, released in 1994. Siblings Alison and Jim Shaw formed the band back in 1989. They recorded several successful albums, including the 1991 Wings Of Joy and 1994 Loved. Loved combines elements of alternative rock, shoegaze, dream-pop, and darkwave. Their gothic elements made a return, while they retained the feeling of their previous album Forever. It was another artistic experience, with nicely orchestrated and constructed songs.

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                Shining Road
                                                                                                Pale Blue Sky
                                                                                                Rêverie
                                                                                                Lilies
                                                                                                Are You Gone?

                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                Loved
                                                                                                Beautiful Friend
                                                                                                Bewildered
                                                                                                Come This Far
                                                                                                Paris And Rome
                                                                                                In The Night (Hidden Track)

                                                                                                Dorothy Ashby

                                                                                                Afro-Harping - Deluxe

                                                                                                  A BONA FIDE ‘CULT’ CLASSIC, AFRO-HARPING IS THE FIRST OF A RAREFIED AND OUTSTANDING TRILOGY OF SOUL-JAZZ ALBUMS BY DOROTHY ASHBY THAT WERE PRODUCED FOR CADET RECORDS (CHESS) BY RICHARD EVANS BETWEEN 1968 AND 1970.

                                                                                                  Remastered from the original ¼ inch tapes by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios, Afro-Harping is filled front-to-back with sumptuous and hypnotic grooves. Its African percussion, soulful orchestrations, in-the-pocket rhythms and Dorothy’s virtuosity take it far beyond jazzy mood music and made it a favourite of beat heads and producers; sampled by Pete Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Dee (aka J Dilla), Madlib, Flying Lotus and many others.

                                                                                                  This deluxe version features eight bonus tracks, alternate takes from the surviving four-track session reels that are arguably superior to those on the album, including an explosive rendition of the single, ‘Soul Vibrations’, extended versions of its title track and ‘Little Sunflower’ and two fantastic jazzy readings of ‘Theme from Valley of the Dolls’.

                                                                                                  Additional flavour is provided by some of the in-studio ‘atmosphere’ that accompanies the bonus cuts. The session reels also featured the voices of Dorothy, Evans and others: encouragement, laughter, a brief burst of beatboxing and a mild disagreement over how many bars had been played, for example. In many cases these elements have been left where they were found, the better to experience the sheer joy of being in the room with Dorothy and some of the Chicago’s finest musicians in the winter of ’68.

                                                                                                  By that time, Evans was running every aspect of Cadet Records, applying his emerging funk formula to new and established artists, with an overflowing pipeline of work for Ramsey Lewis, John Klemmer, Frank D’Rone, Odell Brown and many more. His growing Afrocentricity, coupled with Ashby’s desire to highlight the Black struggle that had been the subject of several plays (from which three of the tracks on Afro-Harping were drawn) that she and her husband John had produced in her hometown of Detroit, provided the foundations for the recording of Afro-Harping. “Her jazz playing was very New York-ish, very sophisticated,” Evans said. “But I wanted things to be very Black, very funky at Cadet.”

                                                                                                  Jazz harpists are uncommon, and Dorothy is rightly regarded as probably the greatest of a rather exclusive club that also includes Gail Laughton, Corky Hale, Alice Coltrane and, more recently Verve’s own Brandee Younger. Though all her recorded output is strong, Afro-Harping is truly special. “She was an expert on the harp and did things very instinctively. I think she just wanted to please me, and that’s why those recordings are different,” Evans remembered.

                                                                                                  Unfortunately, on release Afro-Harping came and went without significant fanfare and, not long after their third and final record together, The Rubaiyat…, the Ashbys left Detroit and moved to LA, where Dorothy concentrated on session work, appearing on records for Bill Withers, Bobby Womack, Stevie Wonder and others. Two years after her final solo album was released in 1984, she died of cancer at the age of just 53 and didn’t get to witness her star rising as her work was widely rediscovered, a process that really began at the turn of the ‘90s.

                                                                                                  Evans soldiered on at Cadet as the Chess empire crumbled away following its sale to GRT in 1969, but continued to arrange, produce, and perform for other artists and labels. He released a brace of solo albums, in 1972 and 1979, before becoming professor of music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, a position he held for more than two decades. He died at the age of 81 in 2014. Unlike Dorothy, he was blessed to see his work reach new audiences when Afro-Harping and countless other records he had presided over were rediscovered and sampled by hip-hop producers and DJs like Gilles Peterson and 4Hero.

                                                                                                  Together their partnership scaled new summits, beginning with this record. It was the convergence of two individual journeys through jazz, soul, and funk, and the blueprint for what would become a legendary triumvirate of rare quality. This special release is testament to its lasting appeal, the bonus tracks shedding new light on the inner workings of Dorothy Ashby at the peak of her creativity alongside a visionary producer able to highlight her gifts in a way that perhaps only he ever could. As Marshall Chess says, “You know, I get asked about The Blues and Chuck Berry or The Rolling Stones all the time, but Dorothy Ashby and Richard Evans were both geniuses that a lot of people still don’t know about today.”

                                                                                                  The LP is housed in a gatefold sleeve with black poly-lined inner sleeves and an illustrated eight-page insert featuring detailed notes by Seán Casey of Shindig! Magazine, whose investigative work has unearthed new information about the making of Afro-Harping. The CD is housed in a digipack with 28-page booklet.

                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                  2LP
                                                                                                  Side 1
                                                                                                  SOUL VIBRATIONS
                                                                                                  GAMES
                                                                                                  ACTION LINE
                                                                                                  LONELY GIRL
                                                                                                  LIFE HAS ITS TRIALS

                                                                                                  Side 2
                                                                                                  AFRO-HARPING
                                                                                                  LITTLE SUNFLOWER
                                                                                                  THEME FROM VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
                                                                                                  COME LIVE WITH ME
                                                                                                  THE LOOK OF LOVE

                                                                                                  Side 3
                                                                                                  ACTION LINE MASTER A, TAKE 2
                                                                                                  AFRO-HARPING ALT. TAKE
                                                                                                  THEME FROM VALLEY OF THE DOLLS MASTER B, TAKE 2
                                                                                                  LONELY GIRL MASTER G, TAKE 1

                                                                                                  Side 4
                                                                                                  SOUL VIBRATIONS ALT. TAKE
                                                                                                  LIFE HAS ITS TRIALS MASTER C, TAKE 2
                                                                                                  LITTLE SUNFLOWER MASTER F, TAKE 3
                                                                                                  THEME FROM VALLEY OF THE DOLLS MASTER B, TAKE 6

                                                                                                  CD
                                                                                                  SOUL VIBRATIONS
                                                                                                  GAMES
                                                                                                  ACTION LINE
                                                                                                  LONELY GIRL
                                                                                                  LIFE HAS ITS TRIALS
                                                                                                  AFRO-HARPING
                                                                                                  LITTLE SUNFLOWER
                                                                                                  THEME FROM VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
                                                                                                  COME LIVE WITH ME
                                                                                                  THE LOOK OF LOVE
                                                                                                  ACTION LINE MASTER A, TAKE 2
                                                                                                  AFRO-HARPING ALT. TAKE
                                                                                                  THEME FROM VALLEY OF THE DOLLS MASTER B, TAKE 2
                                                                                                  LONELY GIRL MASTER G, TAKE 1
                                                                                                  SOUL VIBRATIONS ALT. TAKE
                                                                                                  LIFE HAS ITS TRIALS MASTER C, TAKE 2
                                                                                                  LITTLE SUNFLOWER MASTER F, TAKE 3
                                                                                                  THEME FROM VALLEY OF THE DOLLS MASTER B, TAKE 6

                                                                                                  Therapy?

                                                                                                  Troublegum - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                    By the time Therapy? released 'Troublegum' in 1994 they were already well established, but it was the first time many had encountered the group's intensely melodic blend of hard rock and indie, an arresting combination of old and new, striking in its immediacy.

                                                                                                    Formed by schoolfriends in Larne, Northern Ireland, Therapy? consistently pushed the rock trio to its limits, often saying that their use of feedback was their fourth instrument. Singer, guitarist and writer Andy Cairns, bassist Michael McKeegan and drummer Fyfe Ewing had been playing together since 1989, and were signed to indie label Wiiija the following year on the strength of their live reputation. After two albums with Wiiija, they were signed to A&M Records, and their 1992 album, Nurse, reached the UK Top 40. The group paired with Mission producer Chris Sheldon and went to Chipping Norton Studios to record a follow-up. The results were stunning.

                                                                                                    Lead single 'Screamager' (on the 'Shortsharpshock' EP) reached the UK Top 10 in March 1993; follow-up 'Turn' made the Top 20. By the time 'Troublegum' was released in February 1994, it contained both singles, plus 'Nowhere' and 'Trigger Inside', further hits from the album. 'Troublegum' is warm and powerful, showing that grunge was not just the preserve of bands from the western seaboard of the US. Mixed without any discernible gaps between tracks, the album offers 45 minutes of attack. Amid the originals, the band's post punk roots are shown by their storming cover of 'Isolation' by Joy Division. Widely acclaimed, 'Troublegum' reached No 5 in the UK charts, went Gold and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. It sounds as fresh today as it did in 1994.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    Deluxe LP Tracklist:
                                                                                                    1. Knives
                                                                                                    2. Screamager
                                                                                                    3. Hellbelly
                                                                                                    4. Stop It You're Killing Me
                                                                                                    5. Nowhere
                                                                                                    6. Die Laughing
                                                                                                    7. Unbeliever
                                                                                                    8. Trigger Inside
                                                                                                    9. Lunacy Booth
                                                                                                    10. Isolation
                                                                                                    11. Turn
                                                                                                    12. Femtex
                                                                                                    13. Unrequited
                                                                                                    14. Brainsaw
                                                                                                    15. Pantopon Rose
                                                                                                    16. Breaking The Law
                                                                                                    17. C C Rider
                                                                                                    18. Evil Elvis (The Lost Demo)
                                                                                                    19. Nice 'N' Sleazy
                                                                                                    20. Reuters
                                                                                                    21. Tatty Seaside Town
                                                                                                    22. Auto Surgery
                                                                                                    23. Totally Random Man
                                                                                                    24. Accelerator
                                                                                                    25. Speedball
                                                                                                    26. Bloody Blue
                                                                                                    27. Neck Freak (New Version)
                                                                                                    28. Opal Mantra

                                                                                                    LP Tracklist:
                                                                                                    1. Knives
                                                                                                    2. Screamager
                                                                                                    3. Hellbelly
                                                                                                    4. Stop It You're Killing Me
                                                                                                    5. Nowhere
                                                                                                    6. Die Laughing
                                                                                                    7. Unbeliever
                                                                                                    8. Trigger Inside
                                                                                                    9. Lunacy Booth
                                                                                                    10. Isolation
                                                                                                    11. Turn
                                                                                                    12. Femtex
                                                                                                    13. Unrequited
                                                                                                    14.Brainsaw

                                                                                                    Rhoda Dakar

                                                                                                    Rhoda Dakar Sings The Bodysnatchers - 45 Year Edition

                                                                                                      It has been 45 years since the world was first introduced to all-female 2Tone trailblazers The Bodysnatchers. Despite only releasing two official 7" singles, their influence on UK culture and music continues to inspire to this day. To celebrate 45 years of The Bodysnatchers, founding member Rhoda Dakar has revisited some of their glorious tracks and recorded them with a band including Specials mates Horace Panter and Lynval Golding, festival favourites Intensified, plus members of Pama International and the Sidewalk Doctors. This 45 year edition also arrives with three extra tracks, including a re-record of ‘Let's Do Rocksteady’ featuring The Interrupters’ very own Aimee Allen. “Firstly, it’s brilliant to see this album get a proper, all-format release! And secondly, to feature one of the genre’s star vocalists of today feels like the torch is well and truly passed!”

                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      1. Easy Life
                                                                                                      2. The Ghost Of The Vox Continental
                                                                                                      3. Happy Time Tune
                                                                                                      4. 007
                                                                                                      5. Private Eye
                                                                                                      6. Too Experienced
                                                                                                      7. Let’s Do Rocksteady
                                                                                                      8. The Loser
                                                                                                      9. Mixed Feelings
                                                                                                      10. Hiawatha
                                                                                                      11. Ruder Than You At 45
                                                                                                      12. Let’s Do Rocksteady @ 45 Ft. Aimee Interrupter
                                                                                                      13. What’s This? (Acoustic)

                                                                                                      Ólafur Arnalds

                                                                                                      Some Kind Of Peace - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                        Originally released in in 2020, Some Kind of Peace was a more personal and introspective album than Ólafur had ever released before. In addition to Ólafur Arnalds himself, musicians friends are also represented on the album, such as the British musician Bonobo, the Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist JFDR and the German singer-songwriter Josin. Now, it appears for the first time on colour vinyl.

                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                        A-Side:
                                                                                                        Loom
                                                                                                        Woven Song
                                                                                                        Spiral
                                                                                                        Still/Sound
                                                                                                        Back To The Sky

                                                                                                        B-Side:
                                                                                                        Zero
                                                                                                        New Grass
                                                                                                        The Bottom Line
                                                                                                        We Contain Multitudes
                                                                                                        Undone

                                                                                                        Culture

                                                                                                        Good Things - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                          The group formed by the legendary Joseph Hill, accompanied by his two acolytes Albert Walker and Kenneth Dayes, delivers an album recorded at Mixing Lab and mixed at the Lion & Fox studio (reference studio for the RAS label) in 1989.

                                                                                                          Recorded with 3 brass instruments, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion, it's in the pure roots tradition, with a few interesting dub twists. There's also a tribute to Bob Marley entitled ‘Psalm of Bob Marley’ and the excellent ‘Cousin Rude Boy’.

                                                                                                          This is a pure roots album remastered to the highest standards, with a 350g cardboard sleeve showing off the full extent of Mitch Goldberg's graphic design. Never reissued on vinyl since its release, and only once on CD in the 90s.


                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                          1. Hand 'A' Bowl
                                                                                                          2. Good Things
                                                                                                          3. Love Music (Extended)
                                                                                                          4. Psalm Of Bob Marley
                                                                                                          5. Cousin Rude Boy
                                                                                                          6. Youthman Rude (Extended)
                                                                                                          7. Righteous Loving
                                                                                                          8. Chanting On

                                                                                                          Blonde Redhead

                                                                                                          Sit Down For Dinner - One Year Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                            Blonde Redhead, the beloved rock trio of Kazu Makino and Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace, released their first album in nearly a decade, ‘Sit Down For Dinner’, out September 2023 on section1.

                                                                                                            To celebrate its one-year anniversary, the band re-release the album on a new red transparent marble colour.

                                                                                                            The album received incredible praise from a wide range of outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, MOJO and many more.

                                                                                                            Written and recorded over a five-year period spanning New York City, upstate New York, Milan and Tuscany, Sit Down for Dinner is immaculately structured, imbued with sensitivity, clarity, and resolve. Throughout the album, the understated yet visceral melodies create a foil to lyrics about the inescapable struggles of adulthood: communication breakdown in enduring relationships, wondering which way to turn, holding onto your dreams.

                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                            Snowman
                                                                                                            Kiss Her Kiss Her
                                                                                                            Not For Me
                                                                                                            Melody Experiment
                                                                                                            Rest Of Her Life
                                                                                                            Sit Down For Dinner (Part 1)
                                                                                                            Sit Down For Dinner (Part 2)
                                                                                                            I Thought You Should Know
                                                                                                            Before
                                                                                                            If
                                                                                                            Via Savona

                                                                                                            Johnny Marr

                                                                                                            Boomslang - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                              Released in 2003, Boomslang was Johnny Marr’s first solo studio album. After his departure from The Smith in 1987, Marr spent a number of years with the likes of The Pretenders before recruiting Zak Starkey (drums), Alonza Bevan (Bass) and more to form The Healers in 2000. Recorded at Clear Studios in Manchester, with James Spencer (New Order, The Charlatans), Boomslang comprised of eleven tracks that combined his signature guitar playing with heavy psychedelic rhythms.

                                                                                                              “Twenty years on I’m pleased we created the music and this new release of Boomslang has given me the opportunity to revisit it and present some songs that we weren’t able to include the first time around.”

                                                                                                              Never before on Vinyl,, Boomslang will be available for the first time on Double Black 180g vinyl, and 2CD. The album has been fully remastered at Abbey Road and includes 7 rarities, chosen by Johnny as well as brand new art direction by his long-time collaborator Mat Bancroft.


                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                              Vinyl:
                                                                                                              A1. The Last Ride
                                                                                                              A2. Caught Up
                                                                                                              A3. Down On The Corner
                                                                                                              A4. Need It
                                                                                                              B1. You Are The Magic
                                                                                                              B2. InBetweens
                                                                                                              B3. Another Day
                                                                                                              B4. Headland
                                                                                                              C1. Long Gone
                                                                                                              C2. Something To Shout About
                                                                                                              C3. Bangin' On
                                                                                                              C4. The Way That It Was
                                                                                                              D1. All Out Attack
                                                                                                              D2. Get Me Wrong
                                                                                                              D3. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
                                                                                                              D4. A Woman Like You

                                                                                                              Deluxe 2CD:
                                                                                                              Disc 1
                                                                                                              1. The Last Ride
                                                                                                              2. Caught Up
                                                                                                              3. Down On The Corner
                                                                                                              4. Need It
                                                                                                              5. You Are The Magic
                                                                                                              6. InBetweens
                                                                                                              7. Another Day
                                                                                                              8. Headland
                                                                                                              9. Long Gone
                                                                                                              10. Something To Shout About
                                                                                                              11. Bangin' On
                                                                                                              Disc 2
                                                                                                              1. The Way That It Was
                                                                                                              2. All Out Attack
                                                                                                              3. Get Me Wrong
                                                                                                              4. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
                                                                                                              5. A Woman Like You
                                                                                                              6. You Are The Magic (Union Mix)
                                                                                                              7. Get Me Wrong (Instrumental Version)

                                                                                                              Karen O & Danger Mouse

                                                                                                              Lux Prima - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                First re-press since the initial 2019 release of critically acclaimed album featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' lead vocalist Karen O, and Danger Mouse, one of the most influential artist/producers of the 21st Century.

                                                                                                                Debuting in March 2019, Lux Prima was hailed by Pitchfork as a “dreamy and poignant collaboration.” It featured the single “Woman,” which was accompanied by a memorable Spike Jonze-directed live performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The single was also nominated for the Best Rock Performance Grammy.

                                                                                                                The new package includes the original artwork plus a 16 page booklet highlighting their interactive exhibition “An Encounter with Lux Prima”, held at Los Angeles’ Marciano Arts Foundation featuring a 360 degree soundscape of the album mixed at famed Skywalker Ranch.

                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                SIDE A
                                                                                                                1. Lux Prima
                                                                                                                2. Ministry
                                                                                                                3. Turn The Light
                                                                                                                4. Woman

                                                                                                                SIDE B
                                                                                                                5. Redeemer
                                                                                                                6. Drown
                                                                                                                7. Leopard’s Tongue
                                                                                                                8. Reveries
                                                                                                                9. Nox Lumina

                                                                                                                The Get Up Kids

                                                                                                                Something To Write Home About - 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

                                                                                                                  After 25 years, The Get Up Kids’ classic second album, 'Something to Write Home About', is still recognizable as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band’s scene. To celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary, Polyvinyl Records is thrilled to announce a special deluxe reissue. The album has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes and will be paired with a slew of bonus material, including rare demo versions of multiple songs from the album as well as never-before released rarities from the era. Originally released in September of 1999, Something to Write Home About has been established as an importan late-millennium rock-and-roll document; a convergence of power
                                                                                                                  pop, alternative rock, and punk, it provided the parameters for emo’s Midwest-centered second wave.


                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                  1. Holiday
                                                                                                                  2. Action & Action
                                                                                                                  3. Valentine
                                                                                                                  4. Red Letter Day
                                                                                                                  5. Out Of Reach
                                                                                                                  6. Ten Minutes
                                                                                                                  7. The Company Dime
                                                                                                                  8. My Apology
                                                                                                                  9. I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
                                                                                                                  10. Long Goodnight
                                                                                                                  11. Close To Home
                                                                                                                  12. I'll Catch You
                                                                                                                  13. One Year Later (Demo)
                                                                                                                  14. Close To Home (Demo)
                                                                                                                  15. Out Of Reach (Demo)
                                                                                                                  16. Holiday (Demo)
                                                                                                                  17. Valentine (Demo)
                                                                                                                  18. My Apology (Demo)
                                                                                                                  19. Red Letter Day (Demo)
                                                                                                                  20. Ten Minutes (Demo)
                                                                                                                  21. Central Standard Time (Four Track Demo)
                                                                                                                  22. Long Goodnight (Four Track Demo)
                                                                                                                  23. The Company Dime (Four Track Demo)
                                                                                                                  24. I'll Catch You (Four Track Demo)

                                                                                                                  3Skinny Puppy

                                                                                                                  Too Dark Park - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                    Influential industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy welcomed audiences into the embrace of the seminal Too Dark Park in 1990

                                                                                                                    One of the band's most influential records, it includes "Tormentor," "Spasmolytic," and more. In addition to praise from Vice and many more, Metal Hammer fittingly named it one of the "10 Best Industrial Albums," and Spin summed it up best as a "return to the bloodbath." A menacing and massive pastiche of H.P. Lovecraftstyle cosmic horror, addiction, mental disarray, and the disintegration of nature, Too Dark Park remains a cataclysmic and chaotic classic through and through.

                                                                                                                    Now available on vinyl for the first time in 30 years to celebrate the 35th anniversary since release. Legends of electronic industrial music. Restored to original art on classic black vinyl. "10 best industrial albums - metal hammer"

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    Convulsion
                                                                                                                    Tormentor
                                                                                                                    Spasmolytic
                                                                                                                    Rash Reflection
                                                                                                                    Nature's Revenge
                                                                                                                    Shore Lined Poison
                                                                                                                    Grave Wisdom
                                                                                                                    T.F.W.O.
                                                                                                                    Morpheus Laughing
                                                                                                                    Reclamation

                                                                                                                    Only a decade ago Leong Lau remained a well-hidden Malaysian-Australian treasure, known only to small circles of Australian record collectors. In 2013 we met Leong in person at the Brisbane state library, where after a long and somewhat transcendental ‘conversation’, received his blessings to re-release his music.

                                                                                                                    In 2014, Left Ear reissued his sophomore album "That Rongeng Sound" and later in 2021, his sole single "Late Night Flyer". In 2024, they are going back to finish the triangle of Leong releases, with a repress of his debut 1976 album "Dragon Man". A raw and electrifying album that continues to stand the test of time.

                                                                                                                    Dragon Man might best be described musically as psyc/rock, however the significant use of soul/funk and jazz melodies adds a unique musical depth that makes it hard to categorise. However, what truly sets Leong apart is his distinct vocal style, delivering half sung/half spoken lyrics in a stereotypical Aussie accent that comes across more like a sermon than what might be conceived as ‘traditional’ songs.

                                                                                                                    Moreover, in a time where the Australian music industry and its performers’ musical styles were dictated by major labels, Leong began to break down those barriers by self-releasing his music. This rewarded Leong creative control, where he was able to dictate the musical and cultural themes, with songs like "Dragon Man" and "Deep In The Jungle" that both pay homage to his unique Chinese/Malay heritage. That said, "Dragon Man" is both a significant musical and cultural statement that’s just as poignant today as it was then.

                                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                    Matt says: Who remembers those primo examples of strung-out, desert-fried biker psyche from Circuit Rider and Stone Coal White? I think at least one of them was Australian too (?). Anyway, this gives me the same feels - like being tied to the back of a Harley Davidson, pumped with LSD and black hash and finishing the night with a beer brawl and a man hug.

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    The Atlas Revolution
                                                                                                                    Ghost Drums
                                                                                                                    Rhythm Pounding
                                                                                                                    Dragon Man
                                                                                                                    Soul Baby
                                                                                                                    Deep In The Jungle
                                                                                                                    Love Poem

                                                                                                                    Closely related to Underground Resistance, Scan 7 is a mysterious Detroit underground collective gathering seven artists, and led by Lou Robinson. It also includes DJ Red Line. In this instance it was Trackmaster Lou and 'The Elohim' at the dials. 

                                                                                                                    "Black Moon Rising" was their iconic mission statement, originally released in 1993. Famously recorded on a Tascam 4-track, it's a nonetheless arousing and cosmic adventure into the UR spectrum, somehow lo-fi and hi-tech in equal measure, "Black Moon Rising" and "System Work" are the two chest beating Detroit techno anthems, while "Pathway Through Time" has an ethereal, hovering quality which would make it a firm favourite with Richie Hawtin; whilst "Introducing Scan 7", with all its sci-fi squiggles and niggles, thrusts forward with a squelchy de-tuned analogue bassline and dusted (now vintage) drum boxes. 

                                                                                                                    Like much of the Underground Resistance catalogue, it sounds as urgent and as out there as ever; and should be a proud addition to any techno heads record collection. 

                                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                    Matt says: The second essential reissue from the UR catalogue to land this week. The elusive Scan 7 set dancefloors and decks on fire when this first came out in 1993. Bizarrely it's lost none of its urgency and potency now, some thirty years later. No one does it like UR!

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    A1. Black Moon Rising
                                                                                                                    A2. Pathway Through Time
                                                                                                                    B1. Introducing Scan 7
                                                                                                                    B2. System Work

                                                                                                                    Kendra Morris

                                                                                                                    Banshee - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                      Kendra Morris' stellar and soulful debut album 'Banshee' is finally back on vinyl for the first time since 2012. Originally released via Wax Poetics, Colemine Records is now proud to make this album widely available again on record shop shelves, right where it should be.

                                                                                                                      Pulling influences from late-60s and early-70s psychedelic R&B and funk, Kendra adds her own rock twist in collaboration with producer / guitarist Jeremy Page. The album is a rich sonic tapestry, with hip-hop references and beats weaving throughout. All of this sets the perfect backdrop for Kendra's known powerhouse vocals. 'Banshee' effortlessly blurs the lines between sounding old and new and has left a lasting impression over 11 the last decade. Kendra, in her own words, "howls like a banshee... and roars like a wolf."

                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                      1. Waiting
                                                                                                                      2. Pow
                                                                                                                      3. If You Didn't Go
                                                                                                                      4. Concrete Waves
                                                                                                                      5. Right Now
                                                                                                                      6. The Plunge
                                                                                                                      7. Here
                                                                                                                      8. Today
                                                                                                                      9. Just One More
                                                                                                                      10. Old Photos
                                                                                                                      11. How You Want It
                                                                                                                      12. Banshee

                                                                                                                      The Dandy Warhols

                                                                                                                      ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                        Dive into the mesmerizing world of The Dandy Warhols' classic album, 'Dandy Warhols Come Down', now reissued on vibrant yellow vinyl for 2024. Courtney Taylor-Taylor's distinctive vocals and the band's hypnotic melodies create a sonic
                                                                                                                        journey that blends alternative rock with dreamy soundscapes, offering an unforgettable auditory experience.

                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                        1. Be-In
                                                                                                                        2. Boys Better
                                                                                                                        3. Minnesoter
                                                                                                                        4. Orange
                                                                                                                        5. I Love You
                                                                                                                        6. Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
                                                                                                                        7. Every Day Should Be A Holiday
                                                                                                                        8. Good Morning
                                                                                                                        9. Whipping Tree
                                                                                                                        10. Green
                                                                                                                        11. Hard On For Jesus
                                                                                                                        12. Pete International Airport
                                                                                                                        13. The Creep Out
                                                                                                                        14. Cool As Kim Deal
                                                                                                                        15. One

                                                                                                                        The Dandy Warhols

                                                                                                                        Dandys Rule OK - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                          Immerse yourself in the eclectic charm of The Dandy Warhols' debut album, 'Dandy's Rule OK', now reissued on vibrant red vinyl for 2024. Courtney Taylor-Taylor's distinctive vocals and the band's infectious melodies blend garage rock
                                                                                                                          with psychedelic flair, crafting an irresistible auditory adventure.

                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                          1. Introduction By Young Tom
                                                                                                                          2. The Dandy Warhols’ T.V. Theme Song
                                                                                                                          3. Ride
                                                                                                                          4. Best Friend
                                                                                                                          5. Not Your Bottle
                                                                                                                          6. (Tony, This Song Is Called) Lou Weed
                                                                                                                          7. Nothin’ To Do
                                                                                                                          8. The Coffee And Tea Wrecks
                                                                                                                          9. Genius
                                                                                                                          10. Dick
                                                                                                                          11. Just Try
                                                                                                                          12. Nothing (Lifestyle Of A Tortured Artist For Sale)
                                                                                                                          13. Grunge Betty
                                                                                                                          14. Prelude: It’s A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes
                                                                                                                          15. It’s A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes
                                                                                                                          16. Finale: It’s A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes

                                                                                                                          Julian Cope

                                                                                                                          Saint Julian - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                            Released in March 1987, Saint Julian was seen as a storming return to form for Julian Cope - This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1987 Mercury Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

                                                                                                                            Signed to Island Records, his Iggy Pop/ Jim Morrison side was cultivated, the weirdness dialled down, leathers were worn and a rock'n'roll microphone stand was utilised. The lead track "World Shut Your Mouth" gave Cope his first solo UK Top 20 hit, a big, brash slice of garage rock, it was a post- punk equivalent to David Bowie returning with Let's Dance; simple, straightforward. Backed by what Cope called his 'two-car garage band', the album reached No 11 in the UK chart, his highest placing to date whether solo or in The Teardrop Explodes, it also entered the US Billboard Hot 200. It's not all straight- ahead stomp, the eight minute closer "A Crack In The Clouds" harks back to the Teardrop Explodes' Wilder, and Kate St. John's oboe on the title track evokes his Mercury albums.

                                                                                                                            STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                            Andy says: This was a very exciting return for the erstwhile Acid Pop King with four huge numbers in particular Eve's Volcano, Trampolene, Spacehopper and ofcourse the imperious title track, all made sure that JC wasback where he belonged!

                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                            Trampolene
                                                                                                                            Shot Down
                                                                                                                            Eve's Volcano
                                                                                                                            Spacehopper
                                                                                                                            Planet Ride
                                                                                                                            World Shut Your Mouth
                                                                                                                            Saint Julian
                                                                                                                            Pulsar
                                                                                                                            Screaming Secrets
                                                                                                                            A Crack In The Clouds

                                                                                                                            Julian Cope

                                                                                                                            My Nation Underground - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                              My Nation Underground is an album ripe for rediscovery - This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1988 Mercury Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

                                                                                                                              Saint Julian had established Julian Cope as something of an establishment antihero and audiences, who'd been reacquainted with him were expecting more of the same. Instead, Cope changed his band line-up and attempted to mix funk and Krautrock on his new material; Chris Blackwell paired him with veteran US producer Ron Fair. The album produced three singles including "Charlotte Anne" which was a minor hit in the US. Album opener, "5 O'Clock World", a cover of a 1965 Vogues song, is light and poppy and the seven-minute title track, complete with strings and a harmonica solo, is one of the greatest (and perhaps only) attempts to merge go-go beats with post punk. There is a great deal to enjoy on My Nation Underground, underlining as it does Julian Cope's desire to continually push the envelope.

                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                              Ashley says: Both bizarre and brilliant, Copey never failed to surprise us.

                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                              5 O'Clock World
                                                                                                                              Vegetation
                                                                                                                              Charlotte Anne
                                                                                                                              My Nation Underground
                                                                                                                              China Doll / Someone Like Me
                                                                                                                              Easter Everywhere
                                                                                                                              I'm Not Losing Sleep
                                                                                                                              The Great White Hoax

                                                                                                                              Butthole Surfers

                                                                                                                              Locust Abortion Technician - 2024 Remaster

                                                                                                                                Part of Matadors 1984-1991 reissue series. Newly remastered by Golden under direction of the band.

                                                                                                                                "The aural equivalent of a nightmarish acid trip and arguably the band's best album, Locust Abortion Technician tops the psychedelic, artsy sonic experimentation of Rembrandt Pussyhorse while keeping one foot planted firmly in the gutter. The record veers from heavy Sabbath sludge (even parodying that band on "Sweat Loaf") to grungy noise rock to progressive guitar and tape effects to almost folky numbers in one big, gloriously schizophrenic mess. Gibby Haynes debuts his "Gibbytronix" vocal effects unit here as well." - Allmusic.

                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                1. Sweat Loaf
                                                                                                                                2. Graveyard
                                                                                                                                3. Pittsburgh To Lebanon
                                                                                                                                4. Weber
                                                                                                                                5. Hay
                                                                                                                                6. Human Cannonball
                                                                                                                                7. U.S.S.A.
                                                                                                                                8. The O-Men
                                                                                                                                9. Kuntz
                                                                                                                                10. Graveyard
                                                                                                                                11. 22 Going On 23

                                                                                                                                Tom Waits

                                                                                                                                Mule Variations - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                  Mule Variations offers the most complete picture of Tom Waits of any of his albums.

                                                                                                                                  Edgy stomps, humour and experimentation are interspersed with some of the most beautiful and personal songs he's ever written.

                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                  Big In Japan
                                                                                                                                  Lowside Of The Road
                                                                                                                                  Hold On
                                                                                                                                  Get Behind The Mule
                                                                                                                                  House Where Nobody Lives
                                                                                                                                  Cold Water
                                                                                                                                  Pony
                                                                                                                                  What's He Building?
                                                                                                                                  Black Market Baby
                                                                                                                                  Eyeball Kid
                                                                                                                                  Picture In A Frame
                                                                                                                                  Chocolate Jesus
                                                                                                                                  Georgia Lee
                                                                                                                                  Filipino Box Spring Hog
                                                                                                                                  Take It With Me
                                                                                                                                  Come On Up To The House

                                                                                                                                  Blood Red Shoes

                                                                                                                                  Fire Like This - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                    Experience the electrifying energy of Blood Red Shoes with their acclaimed album, 'Fire Like This', now available for the first time on stunning blue colour vinyl. This release features unforgettable tracks like the high-octane 'Light It Up', the intense Don't Ask', the deeply moving ballad 'Count Me Out', and the subtly eloquent 'When We Wake'.



                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    1. Don’t Ask
                                                                                                                                    2. Light It Up
                                                                                                                                    3. It Is Happening
                                                                                                                                    4. When We Wake
                                                                                                                                    5. Keeping It Close
                                                                                                                                    6. Count Me Out
                                                                                                                                    7. Heartsink
                                                                                                                                    8. Follow The Lines
                                                                                                                                    9. One More Empty Chair
                                                                                                                                    10. Colours Fade 

                                                                                                                                    The Go! Team

                                                                                                                                    Thunder, Lightning, Strike - 20th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                      20 years of The Go! Team’s Thunder Lightning Strike, 20 years of lasers through tracing paper, orange tone oscillations, cable access hangover, music made through sunburnt circuits, a K-tel dream sequence, a haunted vision mixer, station wagon-core, straight to video, VHS in distress, something in the fog, fluff on the needle, chromakey constellations, a hovercraft on the fret board, maxing the minute maid, faxing a car alarm, a Morse code pep talk, etch-a-sketch jackknife, a daily Haley’s comet, light sound colour motion, a holiday from yourself…

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      1. Panther Dash
                                                                                                                                      2. Ladyflash
                                                                                                                                      3. Feelgood By Numbers
                                                                                                                                      4. The Power Is On
                                                                                                                                      5. Get It Together
                                                                                                                                      6. We Just Won't Be Defeated
                                                                                                                                      7. Junior Kickstart
                                                                                                                                      8. Air Raid GTR
                                                                                                                                      9. Bottle Rocket
                                                                                                                                      10. Friendship Update
                                                                                                                                      11. Hold Yr Terror Close
                                                                                                                                      12. Huddle Formation
                                                                                                                                      13. Everyone's A V.I.P. To Someone

                                                                                                                                      Catfish And The Bottlemen

                                                                                                                                      The Balcony - 10 Year Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                        Debut and breakthrough record The Balcony has become a career-defining album for Catfish and the Bottlemen, with Double Platinum status and 9 BPI Certified Singles including ‘Cocoon’ and ‘Kathleen’, it was originally released through Communion/Island Records on 15th September 2014. Written by Van McCann and produced by Jim Abbiss, the collection of songs on this album showcase McCann’s talent for posing everyday, easily identifiable observations through his lyrics. The album’s success and the many sold out shows resulted in a Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act.

                                                                                                                                        Featuring inverted white artwork, this celebratory release includes singles such as ‘Homesick’ and ‘Rango’ and is available as an expanded edition on 2LP ultra clear vinyl & expanded 1CD.

                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                        2LP Expanded
                                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                                        Homesick
                                                                                                                                        Kathleen
                                                                                                                                        Cocoon
                                                                                                                                        Fallout
                                                                                                                                        Pacifier
                                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                                        Hourglass
                                                                                                                                        Business
                                                                                                                                        26
                                                                                                                                        Rango
                                                                                                                                        Sidewinder
                                                                                                                                        Tyrants
                                                                                                                                        Side C
                                                                                                                                        Kathleen (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                        Cocoon (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                        Pacifier (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                        Side D
                                                                                                                                        Rango (Single Version)
                                                                                                                                        ASA
                                                                                                                                        Hourglass (Ewan McGregor Version)

                                                                                                                                        1CD Expanded
                                                                                                                                        Homesick
                                                                                                                                        Kathleen
                                                                                                                                        Cocoon
                                                                                                                                        Fallout
                                                                                                                                        Pacifier
                                                                                                                                        Hourglass
                                                                                                                                        Business
                                                                                                                                        26
                                                                                                                                        Rango
                                                                                                                                        Sidewinder
                                                                                                                                        Tyrants
                                                                                                                                        Kathleen (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                        Cocoon (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                        Pacifier (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                        Rango (Single Version)
                                                                                                                                        ASA
                                                                                                                                        Hourglass (Ewan McGregor Version)

                                                                                                                                        Model 500

                                                                                                                                        I See The Light / Pick Up The Flow (Remastered)

                                                                                                                                        Another one of Model 500's classics, carefully remastered and recut. "I See The Light" highlights the producer's mastery of electro - one of the early pioneers of the sound and still unbeatable. 808 subs, trickling arps, ricocheting tennis ball drums; all the tropes that'd be imitated and adapted as the genre would evolve.

                                                                                                                                        "Pick Up The Flow" is pure Motor City hi-tech soul music. Oozing emotion, stylish and sultry, a slice of proper lights down low electronic artistry. Would go on to influence artists like Recloose, Michael J Blood, Afrodeutch and many more. They don't make em like this anymore! 

                                                                                                                                        Two masterpieces of true Detroit techno history!

                                                                                                                                        STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                        Matt says: "Pick Up The Flow" has to be one of the finest moments in the Metroplex catalogue. While "I See The Light" sees Juan lightyears ahead with his vision of electro.

                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                        A. I See The Light
                                                                                                                                        B. Pick Up The Flow

                                                                                                                                        Nancy Sinatra

                                                                                                                                        Nancy In London - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                          “Strawberries, cherries, and an angel’s kiss in spring…” were the immortal words sung by a twenty-five-year-old Nancy Sinatra on a frigid spring day in a London recording studio during the sessions for her third LP in four months! The 1966 album was cut in three days at Pye Studios where The Kinks, Petula Clark, and David Bowie recorded their songs in the mid-1960s. By going directly to the source and choosing songs like “On Broadway,” “Wishin’ and Hopin’,” and “This Little Bird,” the album has an unequivocally British feel. The LP includes the timeless Nancy & Lee Hazlewood duet “Summer Wine.”

                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          On Broadway
                                                                                                                                          The End
                                                                                                                                          Step Aside
                                                                                                                                          I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree
                                                                                                                                          Summer Wine
                                                                                                                                          Wishin' And Hopin'
                                                                                                                                          This Little Bird
                                                                                                                                          Shades
                                                                                                                                          The More I See You
                                                                                                                                          Hutchinson Jail
                                                                                                                                          Friday's Child
                                                                                                                                          The Highway Song
                                                                                                                                          Are You Growing Tired Of My Love
                                                                                                                                          Zodiac Blues
                                                                                                                                          Colors Are Changing (previously Unreleased)

                                                                                                                                          The Wytches

                                                                                                                                          Annabel Dream Reader - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                            Everyone's favourite psych surf-rock legends, The Wytches, commit a past / future classic to delicious blue moon vinyl - with a repress of incendiary debut album Annabel Dream Reader on their own label.

                                                                                                                                            Originally released on Heavenly Records in 2014, the album was recorded at Toe Rag Studios and co-produced by the band's Kristian Bell and Bill Ryder-Jones.

                                                                                                                                            NME said it was "blizzard of darkness full of both melody and menace". They weren't wrong.

                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                            Digsaw
                                                                                                                                            Wide At Midnight
                                                                                                                                            Gravedweller
                                                                                                                                            Fragile Male For Sale
                                                                                                                                            Burn Out The Bruise
                                                                                                                                            Wire Fram Mattress
                                                                                                                                            Beehive Queen
                                                                                                                                            Weights And Ties
                                                                                                                                            Part Time Model
                                                                                                                                            Summer Again
                                                                                                                                            Robe For Juda
                                                                                                                                            Crying Clown
                                                                                                                                            Track 13

                                                                                                                                            Portico Quartet

                                                                                                                                            Art In The Age Of Automation - BioVinyl Edition

                                                                                                                                              Art In The Age Of Automation finds the band building on the sound world they first explored with their eponymous 2012 release Portico Quartet, mixing the cinematic minimalism, that first made their name, with electronic and ambient textures alongside a welcome return for Jack’s ethereal saxophone and Duncan’s unique mixture of live and electronic drums as well of course as the band’s signature sound, the chiming other worldy tones of the hang drum. It’s hard music to define, as Jack acknowledges. “Our sound falls between many genres, jazz, electronic music even minimalism in places, but naturally it’s an amalgamation of everything we’ve listened to”. And as you would expect from a band that have evolved with each recording, this is no barren retread of the past, instead it represents another step forward sonically and musically in the band’s ongoing evolution.

                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                              1. Endless
                                                                                                                                              2. Objects To Place In A Tomb
                                                                                                                                              3. Rushing
                                                                                                                                              4. Art In The Age Of Automation
                                                                                                                                              5. S/20005S
                                                                                                                                              6. A Luminous Beam
                                                                                                                                              7. Beyond Dialogue
                                                                                                                                              8. RGB
                                                                                                                                              9. Current History
                                                                                                                                              10. Mercury Eyes
                                                                                                                                              11. Lines Glow

                                                                                                                                              Asha Puthli

                                                                                                                                              The Devil Is Loose

                                                                                                                                                "We can’t think of many artists that have had as diverse a career and who have been involved in as many different genres of music as Asha Puthli. A musical pioneer who forged a path through 60’s psych, free-jazz, pop, rock, disco, and more.

                                                                                                                                                Asha’s 1976 album ‘The Devil Is Loose’ is maybe her most well-known record. Featuring the beautiful disco-funk-classic ‘Space Talk’, Asha’s ethereal soaring vocals take us on a journey that almost mirrors Asha’s eclectic career. The track was championed by a wide-range of musical scenes and movements, and over space and time it has been commandeered as their own.

                                                                                                                                                Y ou would hear it played by David Mancuso at the now ‘mythical’ underground New York party ‘The Loft’, in the most discerning disco nightclubs across the globe, in the Rare Groove scene, and also being sampled by hip-hop heavyweights such as The Notorious B.I.G / P Diddy, and The Pharcyde. The appeal and lifespan of ‘Space Talk’ keeps on extending and morphing as new audiences gleefully discover it for the first time - it still sounds as relevant and fresh on the dancefloor today - a sign of a true classic.

                                                                                                                                                Here at Mr Bongo we are thrilled to be releasing records by such an iconic musical maverick as Asha, from her roots in India to becoming a globe-trotting artist with a celebrated career in music and acting, whilst always staying true to her art. She has blazed a trail so that others could follow. Whether you are buying this album as a replacement for your worn-out original copy or it’s the first time you’ve heard of Asha Puthli and you’re just intrigued and drawn in by the cover, we hope you enjoy this quintessential slice of Asha’s world."

                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                Flying Fish
                                                                                                                                                The Devil Is Loose
                                                                                                                                                Hello Everyone
                                                                                                                                                Wonder Why
                                                                                                                                                My Buddy And Me
                                                                                                                                                Say Yes
                                                                                                                                                Space Talk
                                                                                                                                                Our Love Is Making Me Sing
                                                                                                                                                Good Night

                                                                                                                                                D.R. Hooker

                                                                                                                                                The Truth - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                  A real people music masterpiece, D.R. Hooker’s 1972 debut meets at the be-in of drug-addled hippy psychedelia and evangelical Christianity. Conjuring visions of an L.S.D.-damaged Frank Sinatra or Lou Reed playing the role of a divorced suburban dad, The Truth is a religious midlife crisis disguised as a private press LP. Forge your own chains, indeed.

                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                  SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                  1. The Sea
                                                                                                                                                  2. Fall In Love
                                                                                                                                                  3. A Stranger’s Smile
                                                                                                                                                  4. Weather Girl
                                                                                                                                                  5. This Thing

                                                                                                                                                  SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                  1. Forge Your Own Chains
                                                                                                                                                  2. I’m Leaving You
                                                                                                                                                  3. The Truth
                                                                                                                                                  4. The Bible
                                                                                                                                                  5. Falling Asleep

                                                                                                                                                  Genesis

                                                                                                                                                  Selling England By The Pound - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                    If one had to pare the prog-rock story down to a handful of essential albums, this would undoubtedly be one of them. "Selling England By The Pound" was the culmination of all that Genesis had been striving for since their late - 60s inception, the refinement of the vision that developed on "Trepass", "Nursery Cryme", and "Foxtrot". The fusion of a complex classical mind with an electrified rock heart and pastoral folk spirit defined Genesis' anatomy, and never more effectively than on "Selling England..".

                                                                                                                                                    Peter Gabriel's startlingly unpretentious tale-spinning is at its best on "The Battle of Epping Forest". Tony Banks's elegant, sophisticated keyboard work is a vital element of nearly every tune, and the electric/acoustic guitar tapestry woven by Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford is the perfect icing on the cake. Somewhat anomalous but entirely welcome is the Gabriel-era band's catchiest, quirkiest song "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)", the tale of a somewhat daft gardener. Phil Collins's lead vocal on the gorgeous acoustic ballad "More Fool Me" paints the shape of things to come. If you only buy one Genesis album, make it this one.

                                                                                                                                                    Joni Mitchell

                                                                                                                                                    Hejira - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                      Hejira is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1976 on Asylum Records. Its material was written during a period of frequent travel in late 1975 and early 1976, and reflects Mitchell's experiences on the road during that time. It is characterized by lyrically dense, sprawling songs and musical backing by several jazz-oriented instrumentalists, most prominently fretless bass player Jaco Pastorius, guitarist Larry Carlton, and drummer John Guerin.

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      Side One:
                                                                                                                                                      1. Coyote [5:00]
                                                                                                                                                      2. Amelia [6:00]
                                                                                                                                                      3. Furry Sings The Blues [5:03]
                                                                                                                                                      4. A Strange Boy [4:15]
                                                                                                                                                      5. Hejira [6:35]

                                                                                                                                                      Side Two:
                                                                                                                                                      1. Song For Sharon [8:30]
                                                                                                                                                      2. Black Crow [4:20]
                                                                                                                                                      3. Blue Motel Room [5:03]
                                                                                                                                                      4. Refuge Of The Road [6:37]

                                                                                                                                                      Villagers

                                                                                                                                                      Awayland - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                        To celebrate the release of the new book 'Passing a Message: The Lyrics and Artwork of Conor J. O'Brien', Domino is repressing Villagers' back catalogue with a new range of coloured vinyl. 'Passing a Message' presents the lyrics of over 80 songs from the Villagers songbook with Conor's drawings, photographs and previously unseen notebook lyric drafts.

                                                                                                                                                        Villagers

                                                                                                                                                        Becoming A Jackal - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                          To celebrate the release of the new book 'Passing a Message: The Lyrics and Artwork of Conor J. O'Brien', Domino is repressing Villagers' back catalogue with a new range of coloured vinyl. 'Passing a Message' presents the lyrics of over 80 songs from the Villagers songbook with Conor's drawings, photographs and previously unseen notebook lyric drafts.

                                                                                                                                                          Villagers

                                                                                                                                                          Darling Arithmetic - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                            To celebrate the release of the new book 'Passing a Message: The Lyrics and Artwork of Conor J. O'Brien', Domino is repressing Villagers' back catalogue with a new range of coloured vinyl. 'Passing a Message' presents the lyrics of over 80 songs from the Villagers songbook with Conor's drawings, photographs and previously unseen notebook lyric drafts.

                                                                                                                                                            Villagers

                                                                                                                                                            Fever Dreams - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                              To celebrate the release of the new book 'Passing a Message: The Lyrics and Artwork of Conor J. O'Brien', Domino is repressing Villagers' back catalogue with a new range of coloured vinyl. 'Passing a Message' presents the lyrics of over 80 songs from the Villagers songbook with Conor's drawings, photographs and previously unseen notebook lyric drafts.

                                                                                                                                                              Villagers

                                                                                                                                                              The Art Of Pretending To Swim - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                To celebrate the release of the new book 'Passing a Message: The Lyrics and Artwork of Conor J. O'Brien', Domino is repressing Villagers' back catalogue with a new range of coloured vinyl. 'Passing a Message' presents the lyrics of over 80 songs from the Villagers songbook with Conor's drawings, photographs and previously unseen notebook lyric drafts.

                                                                                                                                                                Oasis

                                                                                                                                                                Definitely Maybe - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                  Oasis’ debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ celebrates its 30th anniversary this August. The fastest-ever selling debut in the UK on release, this seminal album marked the point when Oasis became a cultural phenomenon. Including the classic singles ‘Supersonic’, ‘Live Forever’ and ‘Cigarettes And Alcohol’, its songs sound as fresh and relevant as they did in 1994. Having sold over 6.9 million copies globally, it also sits as the 2nd most streamed album of the 90’s (following Oasis’ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? at no.1).

                                                                                                                                                                  New 30th anniversary formats released to celebrate this landmark date include a Limited Edition deluxe 4LP and 2CD featuring including the previously unreleased and discarded original recording session from Monnow Valley along with outtakes from Sawmills Studios plus a demo of Sad Song featuring Liam’s vocal - all recently mixed for this release by Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho.

                                                                                                                                                                  LP formats also include a retail exclusive coloured vinyl format – Digsy’s Dinner inspired “Strawberries and cream” pink and white marble 2LP. All versions feature brand new artwork by the original art designer Brian Cannon for Microdot and original sleeve photographer Michael Spencer Jones, plus new sleeve notes.

                                                                                                                                                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                  Liam says: Reissue of the absolutely legendary debut from Oasis. Most bands could only dream of writing all these songs across their whole career, never mind having them all on one album. Now with the boys from Burnage coming back, there's never been a better time to grab a copy - Live Forever.

                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                  2LP Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 1
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Shakermaker (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Live Forever (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Up In The Sky (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Columbia (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Sad Song (Remastered)

                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 2
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE C
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Supersonic (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Bring It On Down (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Cigarettes & Alcohol (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE D
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Digsy’s Dinner (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Slide Away (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Married With Children (Remastered

                                                                                                                                                                  Deluxe 4LP Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 1
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Shakermaker (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Live Forever (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Up In The Sky (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Columbia (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Sad Song (Remastered)

                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 2
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE C
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Supersonic (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Bring It On Down (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Cigarettes & Alcohol (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE D
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Digsy’s Dinner (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Slide Away (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Married With Children (Remastered)

                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 3
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE E
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Shakermaker (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Live Forever (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  4. Up In The Sky (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE F
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Columbia (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Bring It On Down (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Cigarettes & Alcohol (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  4. Digsy's Dinner (Monnow Valley Version)

                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 4
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE G
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Up In The Sky (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Columbia (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  4. Bring It On Down (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE H
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Cigarettes & Alcohol (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Digsy's Dinner (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Slide Away (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  4. Sad Song (Mauldeth Road West Demo, Nov’ 92

                                                                                                                                                                  CD Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 1
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Shakermaker (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Live Forever (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  4. Up In The Sky (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  5. Columbia (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  6. Supersonic (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  7. Bring It On Down (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  8. Cigarettes & Alcohol (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  9. Digsy’s Dinner (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  10. Slide Away (Remastered)
                                                                                                                                                                  11. Married With Children (Remastered)

                                                                                                                                                                  DISC 2
                                                                                                                                                                  1. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Shakermaker (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Live Forever (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  4. Up In The Sky (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  5. Columbia (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  6. Bring It On Down (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  7. Cigarettes & Alcohol (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  8. Digsy's Dinner (Monnow Valley Version)
                                                                                                                                                                  9. Rock 'n' Roll Star (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  10. Up In The Sky (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  11. Columbia (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  12. Bring It On Down (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  13. Cigarettes & Alcohol (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  14. Digsy's Dinner (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  15. Slide Away (Sawmills Outtake)
                                                                                                                                                                  16. Sad Song (Mauldeth Road West Demo, Nov’ 92)

                                                                                                                                                                  Steve Moore

                                                                                                                                                                  Cursed Objects - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                    Steve Moore returns to the library music fold and it's a total doozy: Cursed Objects is truly sensational prog-synth-wave. Featuring epic electronic explorations with chamber music and symphonic flourishes, it's our favourite thing Steve has ever done. In keeping with the horror heat of the music contained within, this vinyl release is frighteningly limited, with just 500 pressed for the world.

                                                                                                                                                                    New York-based multi-instrumentalist/producer/film composer Steve Moore is probably best known for his synthesizer and bass guitar work as Zombi, together with Anthony Paterra. But he is also part of Miracle and Titan as well as being a prolific solo artist releasing music as Gianni Rossi, Lovelock and under his own name. Steve’s music has found a home across hallowed labels like Future Times, Mexican Summer, LIES, Static Caravan, Kompakt, Death Waltz, Ghost Box and, of course, Be With Records.

                                                                                                                                                                    Steve released Cursed Objects for fresh library label Fold. Run by ex-KPM head Paul Sandell, it's a library with values we can all get behind. It's the first production music platform working exclusively with independent labels, publishers and artists to create a truly authentic artist-led sound, at production music rates. Here's what Steve had to say: "I had worked with Paul before, at KPM. After he left, he mentioned that he had started a new library - Fold - and I was very interested in being a part. And I happened to be working on a bunch of music at the time that I thought could fit." So here we are!

                                                                                                                                                                    The LP opens by letting in "The Uninvited One". Calm and relaxed arpeggiated synths build around sweeping strings and plucked harp to create a mystical and hopeful feel. The title track sees dark synths merge and swell with a piano, string and harp melody that is dark, mysterious and brooding. "Evolutionary Steps" is an electro synthwave track that builds with epic strings and beats, offering an expansive and dreamy approach with a mystical and driving rhythm. Next up, "The Icarus Feather" is daring, pulsing and cinematic synthwave that builds with arpeggiated synths to a hopeful end. "Daily Affirmations" offers calm and meditative ambient synths with plucked harp and strings for a reflective, peaceful, daydreamy feel.

                                                                                                                                                                    “Mesmer's Bauble” ushers in side two, its dark synth backing builds with plucked harp and strings building with a sense of unknown and dread; it's introspective and heartfelt. "Quiet Springs" is all mystical synths, harps and strings, building to an epic panoramic scope with a hopeful and poignant atmosphere. "Festival Of Samhain" presents a dark and brooding piano melody which builds with synths and strings to create a slow and desolate feel. "The Icarus Feather (Revisited)" is epic building synthwave with arpeggiated synths and strings and a driving rhythm - the beat builds with the strings entering a forceful and marching mood. To close, "Shard Of Medusa" rides a serious and dark piano melody and, in concert with harp and strings, it creates a suspenseful and solemn atmosphere.

                                                                                                                                                                    Steve recorded Cursed Objects, as always, at his home studio in Albany, NY. For synths, he mostly used his trusty Prophet 6, as well as his Moog Minitaur and lots of Korg Polysix too. But he also utilised a lot of virtual instruments - he doesn't have the budget for a full string section, or a harpist, alas.

                                                                                                                                                                    The album’s cover was designed by Chris Stevenson. The artwork is a nod to first wave cyberpunk and in particular Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and the idea of mind viruses and cursed data. Mastering for this vinyl edition was overseen by Be With regular Simon Francis, and it was cut by the esteemed Cicely Balston at AIR Studios to be pressed in the Netherlands by Record Industry. Far from being cursed, this is another future classic library LP.


                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                    A1 The Uninvited One
                                                                                                                                                                    A2 Cursed Objects
                                                                                                                                                                    A3 Evolutionary Steps
                                                                                                                                                                    A4 The Icarus Feather
                                                                                                                                                                    A5 Daily Affirmations
                                                                                                                                                                    B1 Mesmer's Bauble
                                                                                                                                                                    B2 Quiet Springs
                                                                                                                                                                    B3 Festival Of Samhain
                                                                                                                                                                    B4 The Icarus Feather (Revisited)
                                                                                                                                                                    B5 Shard Of Medusa

                                                                                                                                                                    Fire Engines

                                                                                                                                                                    Chrome Dawns - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                      Fire Engines’ life as a band might have been over before it had barely begun, but the punk sired Edinburgh band’s short life blazed with incident and colour. ‘Boredom or Fire Engines – You Can’t Have Both’ went the legend. The small and imperfectly formed back catalogue they left in their wake sounded like they had crawled out of a cellar and come blinking into the inner-city light in a parallel universe somewhere between Leith Walk and CBGB’s. Boredom wasn’t an option.

                                                                                                                                                                      Edinburgh’s incestuous inter-band family tree also included crossovers with The Flowers and Boots for Dancing, both of whom released singles on Bob Last and Hilary Morrison’s Pop: Aural label. Following the release of their debut single – ‘Get Up and Use Me’ / ‘Everything’s Roses’ – on the Codex Communications imprint – Fire Engines too found a home with Last and Morrison’s post Fast Product label.

                                                                                                                                                                      Now remastered from Bob Last’s original master tapes together with two accompanying John Peel Sessions, ‘Chrome Dawns’ is the definite Fire Engines artefact including the 7” inch – ‘Candyskin’ / ‘Meat Whiplash’ – now regarded as a classic; the mini album – Lubricate Your Living Room – as a wilfully perverse objet d’art; and the 12” – ‘Big Gold Dream’ – best remembered by some for its sleeve. Despite such limited output, Fire Engines had a rich history the brevity of their lifespan doesn’t do justice.

                                                                                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                      Andy says: From the chaotic, scratchy, post-punk sound of Get Up and Use Me to the indie-pop prototype of the incredible Candy Skin, Scotland's Fire Engines blazed briefly before crashing. They left this great LP and in Candy Skin one of the best indie tracks of all time.

                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                      LP Tracklisting
                                                                                                                                                                      Side 1

                                                                                                                                                                      1 Get Up And Use Me
                                                                                                                                                                      2 Everything’s Roses
                                                                                                                                                                      CODEX COMMUNICATIONS CDX 01, December 1980
                                                                                                                                                                      3 Plastic Gift
                                                                                                                                                                      4 Get Up And Use Me
                                                                                                                                                                      5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
                                                                                                                                                                      6 Discord

                                                                                                                                                                      Side 2

                                                                                                                                                                      7 New Thing In Cartons
                                                                                                                                                                      8 Hungry Beat
                                                                                                                                                                      9 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt. 1
                                                                                                                                                                      10 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 2
                                                                                                                                                                      11 Plastic Gift (Version)
                                                                                                                                                                      Lubricate Your Living Room POP: AURAL AAC
                                                                                                                                                                      001, January 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      12 Candyskin
                                                                                                                                                                      13 Meat Whiplash
                                                                                                                                                                      POP: AURAL POP 010, May 1981

                                                                                                                                                                      Side 3

                                                                                                                                                                      1 Candyskin
                                                                                                                                                                      2 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
                                                                                                                                                                      3 Untitled
                                                                                                                                                                      4 Discord
                                                                                                                                                                      JOHN PEEL SESSION
                                                                                                                                                                      Recorded February 23rd 1981 / Broadcast
                                                                                                                                                                      March 9th 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
                                                                                                                                                                      6 New Thing In Cartons

                                                                                                                                                                      Side 4

                                                                                                                                                                      7 Big Gold Dream (Unused Intro)
                                                                                                                                                                      PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
                                                                                                                                                                      8 Big Gold Dream
                                                                                                                                                                      POP: AURAL POP 013, December 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      9 The Big Wrong Time
                                                                                                                                                                      10 Qualitamatic
                                                                                                                                                                      11 Young Tongues Need Taste
                                                                                                                                                                      12 Produced To Seduce To
                                                                                                                                                                      JOHN PEEL SESSION
                                                                                                                                                                      Recorded November 14th 1981 / Broadcast
                                                                                                                                                                      November 23rd 1981

                                                                                                                                                                      CD Tracklisting
                                                                                                                                                                      Disc 1

                                                                                                                                                                      1 Get Up And Use Me
                                                                                                                                                                      2 Everything’s Roses
                                                                                                                                                                      CODEX COMMUNICATIONS CDX 01, December
                                                                                                                                                                      1980
                                                                                                                                                                      3 Plastic Gift
                                                                                                                                                                      4 Get Up And Use Me
                                                                                                                                                                      5 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
                                                                                                                                                                      6 Discord
                                                                                                                                                                      7 New Thing In Cartons
                                                                                                                                                                      8 Hungry Beat
                                                                                                                                                                      9 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt. 1
                                                                                                                                                                      10 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt 2
                                                                                                                                                                      11 Plastic Gift (Version)
                                                                                                                                                                      Lubricate Your Living Room POP: AURAL AAC
                                                                                                                                                                      001, January 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      12 Candyskin
                                                                                                                                                                      13 Meat Whiplash
                                                                                                                                                                      POP: AURAL POP 010, May 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      14 Candyskin
                                                                                                                                                                      15 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove
                                                                                                                                                                      Thang
                                                                                                                                                                      16 Untitled
                                                                                                                                                                      17 Discord
                                                                                                                                                                      JOHN PEEL SESSION
                                                                                                                                                                      Recorded February 23rd 1981 / Broadcast
                                                                                                                                                                      March 9th 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      18 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
                                                                                                                                                                      19 New Thing In Cartons
                                                                                                                                                                      20 Big Gold Dream (Unused Intro)
                                                                                                                                                                      PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
                                                                                                                                                                      21 Big Gold Dream
                                                                                                                                                                      POP: AURAL POP 013, December 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      22 The Big Wrong Time
                                                                                                                                                                      23 Qualitamatic
                                                                                                                                                                      24 Young Tongues Need Taste
                                                                                                                                                                      25 Produced To Seduce To
                                                                                                                                                                      JOHN PEEL SESSION
                                                                                                                                                                      Recorded November 14th 1981 / Broadcast
                                                                                                                                                                      November 23rd 1981

                                                                                                                                                                      Disc 2
                                                                                                                                                                      1 The Untitled One
                                                                                                                                                                      2 Insert Yourself
                                                                                                                                                                      3 Discord
                                                                                                                                                                      LEITH COMMUNITY CENTRE, March 16th 1980
                                                                                                                                                                      4 Sympathetic Anaesthetic
                                                                                                                                                                      5 Get Up And Use Me
                                                                                                                                                                      6 Hungry Beat
                                                                                                                                                                      7 Everything’s Roses
                                                                                                                                                                      8 The Untitled One
                                                                                                                                                                      WILF SMARTIES LIVE SESSION, August 2nd 1980
                                                                                                                                                                      9 Get Up And Use Me
                                                                                                                                                                      10 Discord
                                                                                                                                                                      11 Hungry Beat
                                                                                                                                                                      12 Everything’s Roses
                                                                                                                                                                      13 Get Up And Use Me (Reprise)
                                                                                                                                                                      WHY DOES THE POPE NOT COME TO
                                                                                                                                                                      GLASGOW?
                                                                                                                                                                      EDINBURGH FRINGE, August 18th-September
                                                                                                                                                                      6th 1980
                                                                                                                                                                      14 Produce To Seduce To
                                                                                                                                                                      15 Get Up And Use Me
                                                                                                                                                                      16 Hungry Beat
                                                                                                                                                                      17 Plastic Gift
                                                                                                                                                                      18 Discord
                                                                                                                                                                      19 New Thing In Cartons
                                                                                                                                                                      20 Coca Cola Cowboy
                                                                                                                                                                      21 Meat Whiplash
                                                                                                                                                                      22 Candyskin
                                                                                                                                                                      EDINBURGH VALENTINO’S CLUB, August 9th
                                                                                                                                                                      1981
                                                                                                                                                                      23 Clip (Excerpt)
                                                                                                                                                                      CC SOMERVILLE SHOW, January 12th 1981
                                                                                                                                                                      24 Jacqueline
                                                                                                                                                                      NEW! 000, December 2004

                                                                                                                                                                      Various Artists

                                                                                                                                                                      Nigeria 70: The Definitive Guide To 1970’s Funky Lagos - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                        Strut proudly presents a special edition repress of the groundbreaking ‘Nigeria 70’ compilation, now available on translucent green vinyl 3LP to celebrate the label’s 25th Anniversary.

                                                                                                                                                                        First released in 2001, Nigeria 70 was a pioneering compilation that delved deeply into Lagos' vibrant music scene, where local artists blended highlife and traditional rhythms with soul, funk, rock, and jazz. While Western audiences were already acquainted with Fela Kuti, this album highlighted other influential Nigerian musicians and bandleaders of the '70s: Joni Haastrup, Peter King, Segun Bucknor, Bala Miller, Blo, King Sunny Ade, Tunji Oyelana, and many more. Subsequent volumes continued to explore the rich landscape of Afrobeat, juju, funk, and soul, unearthing a treasure trove of Nigerian tracks.

                                                                                                                                                                        ‘Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos’ showcases the vibrant diversity of the Lagos scene, reflecting the eclectic musical influences of the time. The compilation includes elements of psychedelic rock, from the heavily fuzzed-out sounds of Ofo & the Black Company's "Allah Wakbarr" to BLO's hauntingly serene "Chant to Mother Earth." The influence of late 1970s and early 80s disco can be heard in tracks like Joni Haastrup's 1977 "Greetings" and Shina Williams & His African Percussionists' 1984 electro-funk track "Agboju Logun," all while maintaining a strong Afrobeat foundation.

                                                                                                                                                                        Beloved by collectors and dancefloor enthusiasts, Nigeria 70 is rich with soul, humanity, and a broad spectrum of the region's musical talent. It has inspired a new wave of labels and releases, introducing the 1970s Lagos scene to a new generation of soul, funk, and dance music fans.

                                                                                                                                                                        This special edition of ‘Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos’ features the original artwork and liner notes, pressed on translucent green vinyl across 3LPs.


                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                        1. Orlando Julius & His Afro Sounders – Alo Mi Alo (Parts 1 & 2 )
                                                                                                                                                                        2. Segun Bucknor & His Revolution – La La La
                                                                                                                                                                        3. Lijadu Sisters – Orere Elejigbo
                                                                                                                                                                        4. Peter King – Shango
                                                                                                                                                                        5. Sahara All Stars Band Jos – Enjoy Yourself
                                                                                                                                                                        6. Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Africa 70 – Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'N' Quench)
                                                                                                                                                                        7. Tunji Oyelana & The Benders – Ifa
                                                                                                                                                                        8. Ofo The Black Company – Allah Wakbarr
                                                                                                                                                                        9. The Funkees – Dancing Time
                                                                                                                                                                        10. Monomono– Tire Loma Da Nigbehin
                                                                                                                                                                        11. Bala Miller & The Great Music Pyrameeds Of Afrika – Ikon Allah
                                                                                                                                                                        12. Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes – Akayan Ekassa
                                                                                                                                                                        13. Shina Williams & His African Percussionists – Agboju Logun
                                                                                                                                                                        14. Gasper Lawal – Kita Kita
                                                                                                                                                                        15. King Sunny Ade & His African Beats – Ja Fun Mi (Instrumental)

                                                                                                                                                                        Miles Davis

                                                                                                                                                                        Steamin' - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                          One of the four classic albums Miles Davis recorded in 1956 to fulfil his contract with Prestige before signing to Columbia, Steamin' features Davis leading his iconic quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz 's writer Brian Morton.

                                                                                                                                                                          "This album is a must for anyone seriously interested in jazz." - Down Beat, 4.5 STARS (Don DeMicheal)

                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                          Surrey With The Fringe On Top
                                                                                                                                                                          Salt Peanuts
                                                                                                                                                                          Something I Dreamed Last Night
                                                                                                                                                                          Diane
                                                                                                                                                                          Well You Needn't
                                                                                                                                                                          When I Fall In Love
                                                                                                                                                                          Well You Needn't

                                                                                                                                                                          Cocteau Twins And Harold Budd

                                                                                                                                                                          The Moon And The Melodies - 2024 Remaster

                                                                                                                                                                            Almost forty years after it was initially released, 'The Moon and the Melodies' by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.

                                                                                                                                                                            'The Moon and the Melodies' is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins’ catalogue – unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free-form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they’d never take again.

                                                                                                                                                                            Over the ensuing years, 'The Moon and the Melodies' has attracted a passionate fan base. Its most atmospheric tracks routinely turn up in ambient DJ sets. ‘Sea, Swallow Me’ is one of the Cocteau Twins’ most streamed songs on Spotify, having found a new life on TikTok, where it serves as the soundtrack to innumerable expressions of hard-to-express melancholy.

                                                                                                                                                                            For such a low-key affair, the album casts a long shadow – but Raymonde believes the record’s uniqueness stems directly from its humble, unpremeditated origins. “It captured a moment in time between friends that are enjoying making music together. Really, that’s the essence of it.”


                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                            1. Sea, Swallow Me
                                                                                                                                                                            2. Memory Gongs
                                                                                                                                                                            3. Why Do You Love Me?
                                                                                                                                                                            4. Eyes Are Mosaics
                                                                                                                                                                            5. She Will Destroy You
                                                                                                                                                                            6. The Ghost Has No Home
                                                                                                                                                                            7. Bloody And Blunt
                                                                                                                                                                            8. Ooze Out And Away, Onehow 

                                                                                                                                                                            Margo Guryan

                                                                                                                                                                            Take A Picture - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                              'Take A Picture' is Margo Guryan’s one and done classic - one of record collecting’s real unheralded masterpieces - bright, breezy, lightly psychedelic, and utterly cosmopolitan, recorded in New York City no less. Newly restored by Jessica Thompson from the original two-track safety masters, this beguilingly melodic 1968 pop tour-de-force has never sounded better.

                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                              1. Sunday Mornin’
                                                                                                                                                                              2. Sun
                                                                                                                                                                              3. Love Songs
                                                                                                                                                                              4. Thoughts
                                                                                                                                                                              5. Don’t Go Away
                                                                                                                                                                              6. Take A Picture
                                                                                                                                                                              7. What Can I Give You
                                                                                                                                                                              8. Think Of Rain
                                                                                                                                                                              9. Can You Tell
                                                                                                                                                                              10. Someone I Know
                                                                                                                                                                              11. Love

                                                                                                                                                                              Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

                                                                                                                                                                              Post Historic Monsters - 2024 Remaster

                                                                                                                                                                                Formed in 1987 Fruitbat and Jim Bob, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine burst onto the scene with their signature style of punk-pop infused with samples, drum machines, and social commentary.

                                                                                                                                                                                Hot on the heels of their No. 1 album '1992 The Love Album', which propelled the band to pop stardom, Carter USM returned with 'Post Historic Monsters'. To move away from the sound they had become known for, the band explored new musical styles with Jim Bob beginning to write more personal lyrics. The results were met with critical acclaim, and the album climbed to No. 5 on the UK album charts.

                                                                                                                                                                                This new edition features the complete album newly remastered on CD 1, including the singles 'Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over' and 'Lenny And Terrence'. CD 2 features rarities, B-sides, and the single 'Glam Rock Cops', whilst CD 3 boasts a new live album 'Up Pompey! - Live In Portsmouth' recorded on tour in 1993. Completing the set is a DVD featuring promo videos, Top Of The Pops appearances, plus a recently unearthed recording of the band playing at their spiritual home, Brixton Academy, during the Post Historic Monsters tour. All appearing on DVD for the first time and accompanied by exclusive new commentary by Jim Bob and Fruitbat.


                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                LP Tracklist:
                                                                                                                                                                                1. 2 Million Years B.C.
                                                                                                                                                                                2. The Music That Nobody Likes
                                                                                                                                                                                3. Mid Day Crisis
                                                                                                                                                                                4. Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen
                                                                                                                                                                                5. Stuff The Jubilee!
                                                                                                                                                                                6. A Bachelor For Baden Powell
                                                                                                                                                                                7. Spoilsports Personality Of The Year
                                                                                                                                                                                8. Suicide Isn’t Painless
                                                                                                                                                                                9. Being Here
                                                                                                                                                                                10. Evil
                                                                                                                                                                                11. Sing Fat Lady Sing
                                                                                                                                                                                12. Travis
                                                                                                                                                                                13. Lean On Me I Won’t Fall Over
                                                                                                                                                                                14. Lenny And Terence
                                                                                                                                                                                15. Under The Thumb And Over The Moon
                                                                                                                                                                                16. Glam Rock Cops
                                                                                                                                                                                17. Hit
                                                                                                                                                                                18. Always The Bridesmaid Never The Bride
                                                                                                                                                                                19. Her Song
                                                                                                                                                                                20. Commercial Fucking Suicide (Part 1)
                                                                                                                                                                                21. Stuff The Jubilee (1977)


                                                                                                                                                                                CD1: Post Historic Monsters (2024 Remaster):
                                                                                                                                                                                1. 2 Million Years B.C.
                                                                                                                                                                                2. The Music That Nobody Likes
                                                                                                                                                                                3. Mid Day Crisis
                                                                                                                                                                                4. Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen
                                                                                                                                                                                5. Stuff The Jubilee!
                                                                                                                                                                                6. A Bachelor For Baden Powell
                                                                                                                                                                                7. Spoilsports Personality Of The Year
                                                                                                                                                                                8. Suicide Isn’t Painless
                                                                                                                                                                                9. Being Here
                                                                                                                                                                                10. Evil
                                                                                                                                                                                11. Sing Fat Lady Sing
                                                                                                                                                                                12. Travis
                                                                                                                                                                                13. Lean On Me I Won’t Fall Over
                                                                                                                                                                                14. Lenny And Terence
                                                                                                                                                                                15. Under The Thumb And Over The Moon

                                                                                                                                                                                CD2: Singles & B-Sides:
                                                                                                                                                                                1. Lean On Me I Won’t Fall Over (Radio Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                2. Hit
                                                                                                                                                                                3. Always The Bridesmaid Never The Bride
                                                                                                                                                                                4. Lenny And Terence (Sexy Daytime Radio Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                5. Her Song
                                                                                                                                                                                6. Commercial Fucking Suicide (Part 1)
                                                                                                                                                                                7. Stuff The Jubilee! (Extra Special Radio Only Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                8. Glam Rock Cops
                                                                                                                                                                                9. Glam Rock Cops (Kojak Dub)
                                                                                                                                                                                10 .Glam Rock Cops (Regan And Carter Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                11. Glam Rock Cops (Sweeney Instrumental)

                                                                                                                                                                                CD3: Up Pompey! – Live In Portsmouth:
                                                                                                                                                                                1. 2 Million Years B.C.
                                                                                                                                                                                2. Spoilsports Personality Of The Year
                                                                                                                                                                                3. Mid Day Crisis
                                                                                                                                                                                4. My Second To Last Will And Testament
                                                                                                                                                                                5. Rubbish
                                                                                                                                                                                6. Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen
                                                                                                                                                                                7. A Bachelor For Baden Powell
                                                                                                                                                                                8. Say It With Flowers
                                                                                                                                                                                9. Do Re Me, So Far So Good
                                                                                                                                                                                10 .The Only Living Boy In New Cross
                                                                                                                                                                                11. The Taking Of Peckham 123
                                                                                                                                                                                12. Travis
                                                                                                                                                                                13. After The Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way)
                                                                                                                                                                                14. Bloodsport For All
                                                                                                                                                                                15. Lean On Me I Won’t Fall Over
                                                                                                                                                                                16. Lenny And Terence
                                                                                                                                                                                17. Suicide Isn’t Painless
                                                                                                                                                                                18. Sheriff Fatman
                                                                                                                                                                                19. Stuff The Jubilee!
                                                                                                                                                                                20. G. I. Blues.

                                                                                                                                                                                DVD: Live At Brixton Academy ‘93: The Official Bootleg

                                                                                                                                                                                Wayne Smith

                                                                                                                                                                                Youthman Skanking - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                  Classic Roots Reggae album from 1982 produced by Prince Jammy at Channel On and King Tubby's.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Includes the hit singles 'Isim' 'Skism' and 'Ain't No Me Without You' as well as the authentic title track.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Youthman Skanking is a sterling addition to what would become known as the Roots based 'Waterhouse Sound' spearheaded by Black Uhuru.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Wayne Smith & Jammy would go on to be a major influence on the whole world of music with the game- changing, genre derying hit 'Under Me Sleng Teng' but Youthman Skanking is where it all began.

                                                                                                                                                                                  This deluxe re- issue of Youthman Skanking was remastered from 24- bit digital audio sources provided by King Jammy.

                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                  Solve The Situation
                                                                                                                                                                                  Eden Out Deh
                                                                                                                                                                                  Losing You
                                                                                                                                                                                  No More Will I Roam
                                                                                                                                                                                  It Sonn Be Done
                                                                                                                                                                                  Youthman Skanking
                                                                                                                                                                                  Take A Trip
                                                                                                                                                                                  Love Honestly
                                                                                                                                                                                  Ism Skism
                                                                                                                                                                                  Ain't No Me Without You

                                                                                                                                                                                  The Prodigy

                                                                                                                                                                                  Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned - 20th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                    After spending years out of print, The Prodigy have re-pressed their fourth album in time for its 20th anniversary

                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Spitfire
                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Girls
                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Memphis Bells
                                                                                                                                                                                    4. Get Up Get Off
                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Hotride
                                                                                                                                                                                    6. Wake Up Call
                                                                                                                                                                                    7. Action Radar
                                                                                                                                                                                    8. Medusa's Path
                                                                                                                                                                                    9. Phoenix
                                                                                                                                                                                    10. You'll Be UNDER MY WHEELS
                                                                                                                                                                                    11. The Way It Is
                                                                                                                                                                                    12. Shoot Down

                                                                                                                                                                                    Bark Psychosis

                                                                                                                                                                                    Codename: Dustsucker - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                      Following the reissue of ‘Hex’ in late 2017, Fire Records reissue Bark Psychosis’ second studio album ‘///Codename:Dustsucker’ (2004) “which finds the band in remarkable form” (Pitchfork). Arriving ten years after the band disbanded, the long-awaited and criminally overlooked follow up brings with it an evolution of their sound. Their experimentations are layered with blissed out electronics, shoegaze, post-rock and jazz are still at its fore as are Sutton’s crystalline vocals. Languid and brooding, the soundscapes are dark and sustained while their “trademark cocoon of limpid, rippling guitar figures and jazzy adornment is buffeted by sharp leftward turns” (Uncut). Recorded in Graham Sutton’s East London DustSuckerSound studio between 1999 and 2004, it features contributions from Talk Talk sticksman Lee Harris and ‘found drumming’ from ex-band member Mark Simnett. 

                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                      1 From What Is Said To When It's Read
                                                                                                                                                                                      2 The Black Meat
                                                                                                                                                                                      3 Miss Abuse
                                                                                                                                                                                      4 400 Winters
                                                                                                                                                                                      5 Dr. Innocuous / Ketamoid
                                                                                                                                                                                      6 Burning The City
                                                                                                                                                                                      7 INQB8TR
                                                                                                                                                                                      8 Shapeshifting
                                                                                                                                                                                      9 Rose

                                                                                                                                                                                      Genesis

                                                                                                                                                                                      Foxtrot - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                        "Foxtrot is where Genesis began to pull all of its varied inspirations into a cohesive sound - which doesn't necessarily mean that the album is streamlined, for this is a group that always was grandiose even when they were cohesive, or even when they rocked, which they truly do for the first time here. Indeed, the startling thing about the opening "Watcher of the Skies" is that it's the first time that Genesis attacked like a rock band, playing with a visceral power. There's might and majesty here, and it, along with "Get 'Em Out by Friday," is the truest sign that Genesis has grown muscle without abandoning the whimsy. Certainly, they've rarely sounded as fantastical or odd as they do on the epic 22-minute closer "Supper's Ready," a nearly side-long suite that remains one of the group's signature moments. It ebbs, flows, teases, and taunts, see-sawing between coiled instrumental attacks and delicate pastoral fairy tales. If Peter Gabriel remained a rather inscrutable lyricist, his gift for imagery is abundant, as there are passages throughout the album that are hauntingly evocative in their precious prose. But what impresses most about Foxtrot is how that precociousness is delivered with pure musical force. This is the rare art-rock album that excels at both the art and the rock, and it's a pinnacle of the genre (and decade) because of it." - Allmusic.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Genesis

                                                                                                                                                                                        The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                          "Given all the overt literary references of Selling England by the Pound, along with their taste for epic suites such as "Supper's Ready," it was only a matter of time before Genesis attempted a full-fledged concept album, and 1974's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was a massive rock opera: the winding, wielding story of a Puerto Rican hustler name Rael making his way in New York City. Peter Gabriel made some tentative moves toward developing this story into a movie with William Friedkin but it never took off, perhaps it's just as well; even with the lengthy libretto included with the album, the story never makes sense. But just because the story is rather impenetrable doesn't mean that the album is as well, because it is a forceful, imaginative piece of work that showcases the original Genesis lineup at a peak. Even if the story is rather hard to piece together, the album is set up in a remarkable fashion, with the first LP being devoted to pop-oriented rock songs and the second being largely devoted to instrumentals.

                                                                                                                                                                                          This means that The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway contains both Genesis' most immediate music to date and its most elliptical. Depending on a listener's taste, they may gravitate toward the first LP with its tight collection of ten rock songs, or the nightmarish landscapes of the second, where Rael descends into darkness and ultimately redemption (or so it would seem), but there's little question that the first album is far more direct than the second and it contains a number of masterpieces, from the opening fanfare of the title song to the surging "In the Cage," from the frightening "Back in NYC" to the soothing conclusion "The Carpet Crawlers." In retrospect, this first LP plays a bit more like the first Gabriel solo album than the final Genesis album, but there's also little question that the band helps form and shape this music (with Brian Eno adding extra coloring on occasion), while Genesis shines as a group shines on the impressionistic second half. In every way, it's a considerable, lasting achievement and it's little wonder that Peter Gabriel had to leave the band after this record: they had gone as far as they could go together, and could never top this extraordinary album." Allmusic.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Dinosaur Jr.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Farm - 15th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                            When Dinosaur Jr. reunited, more than 20 years after their formation and legendary dissolution, the worry was that these guys were just flogging the back catalog, taking the old show on the road as a marketing gimmick. But the 2007 release of 'Beyond' gave a hearty Marshall-driven "F**K YOU!" answer to those inquiring ears. Restoring the sound established by the unassailable hat-trick gambit of their first three albums -- 'Dinosaur', 'You're Living All Over Me', and 'Bug' -- 'Beyond' continued the band's march into rock greatness by making old ears smile and new ears bleed afresh.

                                                                                                                                                                                            And then came 'Farm', the 9th full length record by the original line-up: J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph. If Beyond was Dinosaur Jr.'s return to form, Farm is proof that Dinosaur Jr. could (and still do, to this day!) deliver timeless, exhilarating rock music. 'Farm' encompasses Dinosaur Jr.'s signature palette: soaring and distorted guitar, unshakable hooks, honey-rich melodies. At times wholly 70's guitar-epic, at times perfect for sitting by a babbling brook with Joni and Neil, these songs get into your head and stay there, bouncing happily around. The ear-catching "Plans" is nearly seven minutes of classic whipped-topping rock dessert, while "I Don't Wanna Go There" is a meat-and-potatoes main dish, mixing unapologetic lead guitar with straight-ahead delivery a la James Gang or Humble Pie.

                                                                                                                                                                                            This expanded deluxe edition of 'Farm' features four songs never pressed to vinyl and never given worldwide release:“Houses”, “Whenever You’re Ready” (The Zombies Cover), “Creepies” (Instrumental), and “Show”. “Whenever You’re Ready”, a cover of classic pop-rockers The Zombies, is impossibly good for a hidden gem; Murph stomps in with a sledgehammer to the kit, J and Lou layer low-end and fuzz like two halves of one brain, and right when things feel biggest, airy and colossal, there’s J with a lightning bolt of a guitar solo. Pure electricity and melody like only he can make. Recorded in J Mascis' Bisquiteen studio in Amherst, Massachusetts, Farm was produced by Mascis himself, and delivers the singular, unique energy of one of America's greatest living rock bands. 

                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Pieces
                                                                                                                                                                                            2. I Want You To Know
                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Ocean In The Way
                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Plans
                                                                                                                                                                                            5. Your Weather
                                                                                                                                                                                            6. Over It
                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Friends
                                                                                                                                                                                            8. Said The People
                                                                                                                                                                                            9. There's No Here
                                                                                                                                                                                            10. See You
                                                                                                                                                                                            11. I Don't Wanna Go There
                                                                                                                                                                                            12. Imagination Blind
                                                                                                                                                                                            13. Houses
                                                                                                                                                                                            14. Whenever You're Ready
                                                                                                                                                                                            15. Creepies
                                                                                                                                                                                            16. Show

                                                                                                                                                                                            Jimi Tenor

                                                                                                                                                                                            Sahkomies - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                              "A positive sonic chocolate box".
                                                                                                                                                                                              With Sähkömies, Jimi Tenor released his legendary solo debut in 1994 on Puu, a spin-off of the Finnish label Sähkö Recordings founded by Tommi Grönlund and Mika Vainio in 1993. Recorded in Tenor's former home in New York, the album offers a previously unheard mixture of drum machine driven, electronic sounds and Sun Ra-inspired jazz. Written, recorded and produced entirely by Tenor in his apartment, the pieces have lost none of their spontaneous, roughcast charm to this day.

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                                                                                                                                                                                              Theme Sax
                                                                                                                                                                                              Crazy Hammond
                                                                                                                                                                                              Union Ave
                                                                                                                                                                                              Take Me Baby
                                                                                                                                                                                              Matti B
                                                                                                                                                                                              Teräsmies
                                                                                                                                                                                              Voimamies
                                                                                                                                                                                              Travelin Dem Spaceways

                                                                                                                                                                                              The Muffs

                                                                                                                                                                                              The Muffs - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                Their classic debut, expanded and back on vinyl! The Muffs burst onto the California music scene at the beginning of the ’90s, and after a few independent singles and EPs, they were quickly snapped up by Warner Bros. Records. Entering the studio with David Katznelson and Rob Cavallo (who would go on the helm records from Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, and more), The Muffs roared from speakers across the country in 1993.

                                                                                                                                                                                                According to renowned critic Jim DeRogatis, “You’d have to reach all the way back to Blondie’s Plastic Letters to find punkish power pop this endearing.” The quartet rips through the album’s 16 tracks, ranging from and an Angry Samoans cover, to the college radio smash, “Lucky Guy.” In addition, alt-rock superstar Jon Spencer (Pussy Galore and his own Blues Explosion) adds some theremin and The Godfather Of Exotica Korla Pandit’s Hammond Organ makes an appearance. Even the beverage Fruitopia caught the buzz, using the album’s “Everywhere I Go” in a popular television campaign.

                                                                                                                                                                                                This expanded reissue, now on double color vinyl contains the classic original album, and adds a whopping 10 bonus tracks making their vinyl debut: a radio remix of “Lucky Guy,” a version of “Everywhere I Go” which was only available on the cassette of The Muffs album, and 8 demos from the band’s vocalist and lead guitarist, Kim Shattuck. Released with full cooperation from the band, the double-LP contains liner notes from Shattuck and bassist Ronnie Barnett, and features photos and other ephemera from their personal archives. Omnivore Recordings is proud to present this expanded classic on LP. It’s time to go back to where it all started. It’s time for The Muffs.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                Lucky Guy
                                                                                                                                                                                                Saying Goodbye
                                                                                                                                                                                                Everywhere I Go
                                                                                                                                                                                                Better Than Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                From Your Girl
                                                                                                                                                                                                Not Like Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                Baby Go Round
                                                                                                                                                                                                North Pole
                                                                                                                                                                                                Big Mouth
                                                                                                                                                                                                Every Single Thing
                                                                                                                                                                                                Don't Waste Another Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                Stupid Jerk
                                                                                                                                                                                                Another Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                Eye To Eye
                                                                                                                                                                                                I Need You
                                                                                                                                                                                                All For Nothing
                                                                                                                                                                                                Lucky Guy (radio Remix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Everywhere I Go (cassette Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                All For Nothing (4-track Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Do You Want Her (4-track Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                I Don't Expect It (4-track Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                My Face (4-track Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Something On My Mind (4-track Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Ethyl My Love (4-track Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Not Like Me (4-track Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                Saying Goodbye To Phil (4-track Demo)

                                                                                                                                                                                                Royal Blood

                                                                                                                                                                                                Royal Blood - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ten years on and the electrifying energy of Royal Blood’s debut album remains as impactful as ever. Full of colossal riffs and battering ram rhythms matched by aa flair for instantly memorable songwriting, the all-or-nothing performances of ‘Figure It Out’, ‘Come On Over’, ‘Out Of The Black’, ‘Little Monster’ and ‘Ten Tonne Skeleton’ are still viscerally frenetic, and all those tracks remain staples of their live show to this day.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  The ‘10th Anniversary Edition’ includes four b-sides from the era, including the deep cut fan favourites ‘One Trick Party’ and ‘Hole’, plus the previously unreleased ‘Sleeptalker’ and Tom Dalgety’s original mix of ‘Ten Tonne Skeleton’. It is completed by five live recordings from 2015, including three songs from their first main stage set at the Reading Festival.


                                                                                                                                                                                                  Ólafur Arnalds

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Island Songs - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Originally released in 2016, Island Songs is the innovative brainchild of BAFTA award winning composer Ólafur Arnalds, this is the first time the album has been released on colour vinyl in beautiful green. Bringing the listener a unique and evolving audio-visual portrait of his home country of Iceland, Ólafur travelled to 7 towns across Iceland where he collaborated with 7 local artists, and at each location he created, recorded and performed a new composition with the artist.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ólafur Arnalds

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Re:member - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                      BAFTA winning Icelandic composer, musician and producer Ólafur Arnalds’ fourth solo studio album, re:member, was originally released by Mercury KX on the 24th August 2018. Released on special marble vinyl for the first time. The album uses the Stratus Pianos as well as string quatet, synths, electronics, live drums and a string orchestra recorded at London’s Air Studios. Plummeting the listener into a subversive world full of unexpected moods and emotions, Ólafur explored foreign musical soundscapes in every facet of re:member.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Planet Rock - The Album

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tommy Boy reissues exclusive limited edition pressing of Afrika Bambatta & Soulsonic Force's "Planet Rock"Considered one of founding fathers of rap, Afrika Bambaataa has long been considered a revolutionary, both within the music business and beyond

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Raised in the South Bronx, Afrika Bambaataa made his name as a DJ, rapper and songwriter, eventually becoming the foremost DJ, event organizer and promoter of the large block parties that rocked the neighbourhood during the mid- to- late 70's. Leading into the 80's, Bambaataa had found acclaim for releasing countless genre-defining tracks, infusing Hip Hop and Electronic elements into a sound that would influence other artists for years to come.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        With the groundbreaking release of Soulsonic Force assisted, "Planet Rock," in 1982, Afrika Bambaataa forever cemented his place in the history books as one of the most revered and innovative artists of his time. Since its release, "Planet Rock" has gone on to be recognized as one of the earliest Hip Hop hits and remains one of the genres most pioneering recordings. A long- time favourite amongst break-dancers, DJ's and music lovers alike, "Planet Rock" was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine at #240 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and has received Gold certification by the RIAA. Originally released in 1986 as a collection of previous singles, this highly sought after record has long since been out of production, until now. Ranked at #84 by Slant Magazine on their, "Best Albums of the 1980s" list and was also included in the book, "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".

                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                        LP Tracks:
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Planet Rock (Original Twelve- Inch Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Looking For The Perfect Beat (Original Twelve- Inch Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Renegades Of Funk (Remix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Frantic Situation (Frantic Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Who You Funkin' With? (feat. Melle Mel)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Go-Go Pop (feat. Trouble Funk)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        They Made A Mistake (Performed By M.C. G.L.O.B.E. And Pow Wow)

                                                                                                                                                                                                        CD Tracks:
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Planet Rock (Original Twelve- Inch Version
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Looking For The Perfect Beat (Original Twelve- Inch Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Renegades Of Funk (Remix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Frantic Situation (Frantic Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Who You Funkin' With? (feat Melle Mel)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Go- Go Pop (feat. Trouble Funk)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        They Made A Mistake (Performed By M.C. G.L.O.B.E. And Pow Wow)

                                                                                                                                                                                                        A Tribe Called Quest

                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Anthology - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                          A Tribe Called Quest weren't rap's biggest hit makers, but their signature numbers indeed fill this collection with style, eclecticism, and laid-back but deliberate flow; indeed, the group's stature seems to have grown since its 1998 breakup. The continued importance of their music and ideals for many hip-hop fans will only be enhanced by Anthology's 18 tracks (Q-Tip's recent hit "Vivrant Thing," from the Violator album is a bonus track).

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Those unfamiliar with Tribe's achievement should have their heads and booties set into motion by the fellas' many moods, from the playful "Check the Rhime" and "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" to trenchant commentaries such as "Description of a Fool" and "Sucka Nigga." And with its inclusion here, the somewhat rare and all-the-way out "If the Papes Come" will doubtless re-establish itself as an underground favourite.​

                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Check The Rhime
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Bonita Applebum
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Award Tour
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Can I Kick It?
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Scenario

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Buggin' Out
                                                                                                                                                                                                          If The Papes Come
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Electric Relaxation
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Jazz (We've Got)
                                                                                                                                                                                                          I Left My Wallet In El Segundo

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Side C
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Hot Sex
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Oh My God
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Stressed Out
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Luck Of Lucien
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Description Of A Fool

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Side D
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Keeping It Moving
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Find A Way
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sucka Nigga
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Vivrant Thing

                                                                                                                                                                                                          First Aid Kit

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Stay Gold - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Stay Gold is Swedish duo First Aid Kit’s critically acclaimed third studio album and includes some of their most well-known tracks, ‘My Silver Lining,’ and the title track, ‘Stay Gold’.

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Recorded at ARC studios in Omaha and produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk), the duo also enlisted The Omaha Symphony Orchestra to play on the record, with arrangements by Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes, Broken Bells, Rilo Kiley).

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Featuring beautifully orchestrated arrangements layered underneath vivid storytelling, Stay Gold has been celebrated for its rich and personal take on songwriting.

                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                            My Silver Lining
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Master Pretender
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Stay Gold
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Cedar Lane
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Shattered & Hollow
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                            The Bell
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Waitress Song
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Fleeting One
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Heaven Knows
                                                                                                                                                                                                            A Long Time Ago

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Paul Weller

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Fly On The Wall: B Sides & Rarities - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Paul Weller's 2003 compilation "Fly On The Wall" is a triple vinyl compilation that includes b-sides, remixes, and rarities from Paul's time at Go! Discs and subsequently Island Records between 1991 and 2001.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              The compilation has been unavailable since its original release. Notable tracks include "The Loved," "Fly On The Wall," and "The Riverbank." The set also includes Weller's take on classic tunes like Lennon's "Sexy Sadie" and "Instant Karma," and Dylan's "I Shall Be Released," as well as a blistering version of Crosby Stills Nash & Young's "Ohio." It also features a remix of "Wild Wood" by Portishead.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Here's A New Thing
                                                                                                                                                                                                              That Spiritual Feeling
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Into Tomorrow
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Arrival Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Fly On The Wall

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                              All Year Round
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ends Of The Earth
                                                                                                                                                                                                              This Is No Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Wild Wood (Portishead Remix)

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side 3
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Kosmos (Lynch Mob Bonus Beats Remix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Loved
                                                                                                                                                                                                              It's A New Day Baby
                                                                                                                                                                                                              A Year Late

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side 4
                                                                                                                                                                                                              So You Want To Be A Dancer
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Everything Has A Price To Pay
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Helioscentric
                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Riverbank

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side 5
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Feelin' Alright
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ohio
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Black Sheep Boy
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sexy Sadie
                                                                                                                                                                                                              I Shall Be Released
                                                                                                                                                                                                              I'd Rather Go Blind

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side 6
                                                                                                                                                                                                              My Whole World Is Falling Down
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Aint No Love In The Heart Of The City
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Waiting For An Angel
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Bang Bang
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Instant Karma
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Don't Let Me Down

                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Lightning Seeds

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Cloudcuckooland - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                '"Cloudcuckooland" is the debut album by British band the Lightning Seeds, originally released in 1990. Features their hit single 'Pure', which entered the top 40 in the United States at the time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Lightning Seeds

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sense - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Second album from the Lightning Seeds, originally released in 1992. Produced by Ian Broudie and Simon Rodgers, the album features hits 'Sense', co-written with long time writing partner Terry Hall and 'Flaming Sword', co-written with Paul Simpson. The album also features 'Life of Riley', which was used as the Goal of the Month music on Match of the Day.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Meat Beat Manifesto

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Subliminal Sandwich - PIAS 40 Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Meat Beat Manifesto’s 1996 follow up to ‘Satyricon’ was a more experimental album, relying more on ambient textures with fewer samples and moving away from traditional song structures.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Written and produced by Jack Dangers, ‘Subliminal Sandwich’ is more of a solo effort than its predecessors, featuring the singles ‘Nuclear Bomb’ and ‘Transmission’ and a cover of ‘Asbestos Lead Asbestos’, originally by World Domination Enterprise.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    One of Fact magazine’s 50 Best Trip-Hop Albums Of All Time; “Tricky-esque trip-hop, blissed out atmospherics, industrial hip-hop beats... jarring, infectious... the perfect party tape for the oncoming apocalypse.” - NME (8/10)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Sound Innovation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Nuclear Bomb
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Long Periods Of Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1979
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Future Worlds
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    What's Your Name?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    She's Unreal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Phone Calls From The Dead
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Asbestos Lead Asbestos
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Mass Producing Hate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Radio Mellotron
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Assasinator
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Cancer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Lucid Dream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Addiction
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    No Purpose No Design
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Transmission
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We Done

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Zero Boys

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    History Of... - 40th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      When the Ramones lost it, the Zero Boys found it; adding a slam brigade fist to the Blitzkrieg Beat. The Zero Boys managed to come with one of the best early 80’s punk records, or one of the best records ever, period.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      From 1979 to 1983, the Indianapolis-based Zero Boys were the finest hardcore blitz in the Midwest if not all the lower 48 states. Compiled and released as a post-mortem following the band’s breakup, History Of… is the proof, if more was needed, that their take of American hardcore wasn’t all white bread numbers. Yeah, they played shows with Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, and others but in Terry “Hollywood” Howe’s guitar there was harmonious terror and unstoppable cadence. Terry’s licks and chops — a leap beyond two or three chord punk — offered a zone and measured count for drummer Mark Cutsinger and bassist David “Tufty” Clough, a rhythm unit in par with the Minutemen if not The Meters, to run lines like quicksilver. Meanwhile, frontman, Paul “Z” Mahern provides a constant wash from beginning to end. Originally released in 1984 with a limited-edition reissue in 2009, this 40th anniversary edition includes the original LP of ‘History Of…’ and a 7” featuring four live recordings never previously pressed to vinyl and recorded at iconic hardcore/punk venue Crazy Al’s in 1980: “Livin’ In The 80’s”, “Stick To Your Guns”, “Commies”, and “I’m Absent”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      LP - Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      01 Drive In
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      02 Black Network News
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      03 Splish Splash
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      04 Inergy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      05 Johnny Better Get
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      06 Dingy Bars Suck
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      07 Seen That Movie Before
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      08 High Places
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      09 Blood's Good

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      LP - Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      10 Human Body
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      11 Mom's Wallet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12 Positive Change
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      13 Amerika
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      14 New Generation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      15 Livin' In The '80s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      16 Stoned To Death
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      17 Stick To Your Guns
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      18 I'm Bored
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      19 Piece Of Me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      7” - Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      01 Livin’ In The 80s (Live At Crazy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Al’s, September 6th, 1980)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      02 Stick To Your Guns (Live At
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Crazy Al’s, September 6th, 1980)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      7” - Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      03 Commies (Live At Crazy Al’s,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      September 6th, 1980)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      04 I’m Absent (Live At Crazy Al’s,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      September 6th, 1980)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sandy Harless

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Songs - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Arriving as the hippy movement was discovering its peaceful easy ‘70s feelings,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sandy Harless’ 'Songs' LP is Chillicothe, Ohio’s lone contribution to the Cosmic American Music movement. Financed from a 27-aquarium fish breeding business, the album shows its Appalachian roots with a tight weave of mountain folk, rural rock, and pastoral country. Real people music.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. I Knew Her Well
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. My Guitar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. Day To Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. Friend
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. Sing A Song
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6. Another Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        7. California Bound
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8. Eagle R.I.P.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        9. Gratitude
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        10. Love Song
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        11. Louisiana Woman
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        12. Who Said?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        13. Farewell My Friend

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Radio Dept.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Lesser Matters - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Wow, a Swedish timewarp! And how cool is that? You can reference who you please. But when a band comes along with a great pop sensibility but then warps and distorts it through a shogazery (yep) haze (with nods and doffed caps to the Cocteaus, the Valentines and erm Chapterhouse) then you've got to give them respect. There's low-fi bedroom drum-machines and a liberal use of fuzz and drone adding depth and texture, but, as ever it's the good old tunes that will get you. Think Creation / Sarah for wistful 60s sweetness, add a twist of Mary Chain for the cool quotient and you've got one mega pop LP for those of us old enough to remember, and anyone else who likes their melodies served with mystery and magic!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Too Soon
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Where Damage Isn't Already Done
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Keen On Boys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Why Won't You Talk About It?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It's Been Eight Years
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Bus
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Slottet #2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1995
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Against The Tide
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Strange Things Will Happen
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Your Father
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ewan
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Lost And Found

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Cranes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Self-Non-Self - 35th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            After releasing their first EP Fuse, Cranes expanded to a four-piece band and recorded their debut full-length album Self-Non-Self in 1989. Their sound has been described as “gothic minimalism” and “dreampop”, and also became part of the shoegazing movement in the early Nineties. This 1989 album showed their progression with the increased textures in sound and drum slams. The album contains a darker sound and is a mixture of industrial and post-punk music. Originally only six tracks, the band’s label Dedicated Records added a further two tracks upon its re-release in 1992: “Reach (Live)” and “Nothing In The Middle, Nothing At The End”. In that same year, Cranes went on a world tour with The Cure, which increased their popularity.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. One From The Slum
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Joy Lies Within
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Heaven Or Bliss
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Beach Mover

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Focus Breathe
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Fuse
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Reach (Live) *bonus Track
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Nothing In The Middle, Nothing At The End *bonus Track

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Cardiacs

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Heaven Born And Ever Bright - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              'Heaven Born And Ever Bright' is the third studio album by British rock band Cardiacs. It was produced by Tim Smith, engineered by David Murder and mixed by both. Due to Rough Trade going bankrupt soon after the album's release, it was scarce until reissued in 1995 by the Alphabet Business Concern.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. The Alphabet Business Concern (Home Of Fadeless Splendour)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. She Is Hiding Behind The Shed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. March
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Goodbye Grace
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Anything I Can't Eat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6. Helen And Heaven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              7. Bodysbad
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              8. For Good And All
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              9. Core
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              10. Day Is Gone
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              11. Snakes-A-Sleeping

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Belong

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Common Era - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Description below from 2011.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It’s been five years since the last BELONG long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Common Era shows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the Colorless Record EP from 2008 which contained covers of four should-have-been classics from the original psychedelic era.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The new material has such common pop elements as “songs”, vocals and drum machines, but the results could hardly be called conventional and are like little else happening on the current “scene”. The songs themselves are akin to radio transmissions received from another time and place, just as likely to be the future as the past, or even from a contemporary alternate universe.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                They are both passionate and dispassionate, grey yet technicolor, ghostly and palpable, distant yet immediate, grainy and focused. Upon listening these conceptual contradictions are dismissed with ease, as the recordings reveal that they fit all of these descriptors simultaneously, an extraordinary balancing act. 


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A1 Come See
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A2 Never Came Close
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A3 A Walk
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A4 Perfect Life
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B1 Keep Still
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B2 Different Heat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B3 Make Me Return
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B4 Common Era
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B5 Very Careful

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Talking Heads

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Stop Making Sense - 2024 Deluxe Edition Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the celebrated Talking Heads and Jonathan Demme’s concert film Stop Making Sense, the set will be re-released as a 2LP and 2CD/Blu-ray set this summer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  When it arrived in September 1984, Stop Making Sense was an artistic and commercial triumph. The film had people dancing in theatre aisles, and the soundtrack sold over two million copies. Just last year, the Library of Congress added Stop Making Sense to the National Film Registry in recognition of its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance. The inspiration for Stop Making Sense came when director Jonathan Demme saw Talking Heads perform during the band’s 1983 tour for Speaking in Tongues. Afterward, he approached them with the idea of making the show into a concert film. They agreed and worked together over the next few months to finalize the details. Ultimately, Demme filmed three shows at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983 to create Stop Making Sense.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Vinyl Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A1 Psycho Killer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A2 Heaven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A4 Found A Job
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A5 Slippery People
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A6 Cities
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B1 Burning Down The House
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B2 Life During Wartime
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B3 Making Flippy Floppy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B4 Swamp
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C1 What A Day That Was
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C3 Once In A Lifetime
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C4 Big Business / I Zimbra
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D1 Genius Of Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D2 Girlfriend Is Better
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D3 Take Me To The River
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D4 Crosseyed And Painless

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  CD Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  CD1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1 Psycho Killer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2 Heaven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4 Found A Job
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5 Slippery People
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6 Cities
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  7 Burning Down The House
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  8 Life During Wartime
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  9 Making Flippy Floppy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  10 Swamp
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  CD2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1 What A Day That Was
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3 Once In A Lifetime
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4 Big Business / I Zimbra
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5 Genius Of Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6 Girlfriend Is Better
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  7 Take Me To The River
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  8 Crosseyed And Painless

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Blu-Ray - As Above

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Morrissey

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Beethoven Was Deaf - 2024 Remastered Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Morrissey's live album, Beethoven Was Deaf, which was recorded during the Your Arsenal tour in Paris '93, has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios and is now reissued for the first time since its original release in 1993. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. You're The One For Me, Fatty
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Certain People I Know
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. The National Front Disco
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. November Spawned A Monster
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Seasick, Yet Still Docked
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6. The Loop
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    7. Sister I'm A Poet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    8. Jack The Ripper
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    9. Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    10. I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    11. We'll Let You Know
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    12. Suedehead
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    13. He Knows I'd Love To See Him
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    14. You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    15. Glamorous Glue
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    16. We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Beastie Boys

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ill Communication - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Beastie Boys’ multi-platinum Ill Communication album, this limited-edition deluxe reissue is a rare version of the album that was originally released as a limited run in 2009. Long out-of-print and sought after by fans and collectors, it features lenticular cover art and includes a bonus LP with 12 bonus tracks (remixes, B-sides and rarities), all housed in a rigid slipcase and pressed on 180g vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Disc 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sure Shot (Side A)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tough Guy (Side A)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak (Side A)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Bobo On The Corner (Side A)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Root Down (Side A)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sabotage (Side B)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Get It Together (Side B)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sabrosa (Side B)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Update (Side B)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Futterman's Rule (Side B)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Disc 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Alright Hear This (Side C)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Eugene's Lament (Side C)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Flute Loop (Side C)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Do It (Side C)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Ricky's Theme (Side C)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Heart Attack Man (Side D)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Scoop (Side D)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Shambala (Side D)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Bodhisattva Vow (Side D)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Transitions (Side D)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Disc 3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Root Down (Free Zone Mix) (Side E)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Resolution Time (Side E)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Get It Together (Buck-Wild Remix) (Side E)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Dope Little Song (Side E)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sure Shot (European B-Boy Mix) (Side E)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Heart Attack Man (Unplugged) (Side E)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Vibes (Side F)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Atwater Basketball Association File No. 172-C (Side F)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Heart Attack Man (Live) (Side F)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Maestro (Live) (Side F)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Mullet Head (Side F)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sure Shot (European B-Boy Instrumental) (Side F)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sleaford Mods

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Divide And Exit - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods’ second ‘proper’ album (or sixth if you go back through the early CD-R efforts) the self-released Divide and Exit was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most effective artistic expression to that point, it also truly captured the taste of a land souring by the day.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This reissue offers a chance to fully appreciate a band hitting their artistic stride while acknowledging and commiserating that many of the dark forces that inspired its creation linger on. Once again though it is possible bathe in the hopeful anger that underpins Sleaford Mods’ blasts of outrage and electro.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        “Where our previous album Austerity Dogs barked a directionless yet solid form of anger, Divide and Exit then carried this basic form of class consciousness,” says Williamson of the vision behind the record, both musically and lyrically.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        “After the release of Austerity Dogs we realised we had seemingly created a formula,” he adds. “Andrew just took the formula and ran with it and his music started to sound much more compact and urgent.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        “Listening to it now, Divide and Exit is perhaps the most punk record we have done,” says Williamson, reflecting on how Sleaford Mods felt out ahead, covering fresh ground alone at the time, before going on to inspire a raft of post-punk-infused artists to follow their lead in the album’s aftermath. “Each song falls out of the last like an extension or whatever. There wasn’t anyone in the country doing what we were doing at that point, it feels like it was 30 years ago, but it’s only been 10. Mad as fuck.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Air Conditioning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tied Up In Nottz
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A Little Ditty
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        You're Brave
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Strike Force
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Corgi
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        From Rags To Richards
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Liveable Shit
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Under The Plastic And N.T.C.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tiswas
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Keep Out Of It
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Smithy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Middle Men
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tweet Tweet Tweet

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Shop Assistants

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Will Anything Happen - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Shop Assistants formed in Edinburgh in 1984 and quickly gained a cult following, playing with kindred spirits the Pastels and the Jesus & Mary Chain and gaining positive coverage in fanzines and the music press

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Their Shopping Parade EP and Safety Net single both hit the top of the indie charts and charmed listeners with their unique melodic blend of punk rock and 60s pop.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The band signed to Geoff Travis' new Chrysalis Records imprint, Blue Guitar, in 1986 for the release of their debut album 'Will Anything Happen'. The album has since become a cult classic and is an essential listen for fans of indie, dreampop, and shoe gaze. Stand-out songs include the lead single 'I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You', 'All Day Long', and 'Somewhere In China'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Out of print for over a decade, vinyl copies now fetch impressive prices amongst collectors. This new reissue features the album newly remastered from the original tapes by Phil Kinrade and cut by Barry Grint at AIR Mastering.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          LP Tracklisting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. All Day Long [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Before I Wake [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Caledonian Road [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. All That Ever Mattered [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Fixed Grin [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. Somewhere In China [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8. Train From Kansas City [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          9. Home Again [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          10. Seems To Be [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          11. After Dark [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          12. All Of The Time [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          13. What A Way To Die [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          14. Nature Lover [2024 Remaster]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          CD Tracklisting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Disc 1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. All Day Long [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Before I Wake [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Caledonian Road [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. All That Ever Mattered [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Fixed Grin [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. Somewhere In China [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8. Train From Kansas City [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          9. Home Again [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          10. Seems To Be [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          11. After Dark [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          12. All Of The Time [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          13. What A Way To Die [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          14. Nature Lover [2024 Remaster]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          15. Looking Back [B-Side]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          16. All Day Long (Slow Version) [B-Side]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          17. I Don't Want To Be Friends With You [Instrumental Demo]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18. After Dark [Instrumental Demo]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          19. A Million Miles From Home [Instrumental Demo]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Disc 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Looking Back [Rough Mix]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Caledonian Road [Rough Mix]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. What A Way To Die [Rough Mix]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Fixed Grin [Roundhouse Version]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Train From Kansas City [Roundhouse Version]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Before I Wake [Roundhouse Version]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. All That Ever Mattered [Rough Mix]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8. Seems To Be [Live In London 03/10/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          9. Nature Lover [Live In London 03/10/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          10. Something To Do [Live In London 03/10/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          11. Switzerland [Live In London 03/10/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          12. Home Again [Live In Deinze 05/10/1986
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          13. It's Up To You [Live In Deinze 05/10/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          14. Safety Net [Live In Deinze 05/10/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          15. Fixed Grin [John Peel Session 11/11/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          16. I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You [John Peel Session 11/11/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          17. Ace Of Spades [John Peel Session 11/11/1986]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18. Before I Wake [John Peel Session 11/11/1986]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Red Hot Chili Peppers

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Californication - 25 Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Red Hot Chili Peppers released their seventh studio album, Californication. The album was produced by Rick Rubin and marked the return of guitarist John Frusciante - his first recording with the band since the 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Californication has since become the band's best-selling album, driven by the success of three hit singles: "Scar Tissue", "Otherside", and "Californication". The album has sold over 15 million copies globally, and is a multi-platinum record in the UK.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            To mark the 25th anniversary of this landmark album, a limited edition double vinyl is being released - with one LP pressed on red vinyl and one LP on ocean blue vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Adiós Señor Pussycat - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Beautiful and evocative and recorded in his home-town of Liverpool between March 2016 and June 2017, the album is the culmination of four years of hard work. Equal to his finest moments, Adiós Señor Pussycat will undoubtedly only further cement his reputation as one of this generations greatest songwriters.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Since a self-imposed hiatus in 2008, Michael Head has been working with a fluid concept of an ever-rotating band format to provide a flexible platform for the range of his new live and recorded works.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ‘Under the guise of Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band in 2013, they released their sought-after debut EP, Artorius Revisited, and followed this with a double A sided 7”, Velvets In The Dark / Koala Bears in 2015.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A soulful and poetic genius, fate, bad luck and circumstance and often conspired to deny him his rightful dues. Loved and lauded by fellow artists and critics alike, he started out in the early 1980s with The Pale Fountains, with whom he recorded a brace of acclaimed albums, Pacific Street (1984) and …From Across The Kitchen Table (1985). He subsequently formed Shack with his brother John and went on to record five albums over almost twenty years including the much loved and acclaimed Waterpistol and HMS Fable in 1999 which saw the band briefly flirt with chart success and hailed from the cover of the NME as “our greatest songwriter”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            He also released, what is often regarded as his classic album, The Magical World Of The Strands under the name of Michael Head & The Strands in 1997, and with Shack currently on hiatus he has been performing under the Red Elastic Band guise for the past few years.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The album features the following musicians:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Michael Head - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Steve Powell - Electric & Acoustic Guitars
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Phil Murphy - Drums
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Tom Powell - Bass Guitar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Nina - Piano
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Dan Rogers - Electric Guitar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Rod Skipp - Cello
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Dewi Tudor Jones - Violin
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Helen Tonge - Viola
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Martin Smith - Trumpet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Andy Diagram - Trumpet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Simon James - Saxophone
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Steve Powell, Joanne Head, Phil Murphy, Mary McCombs - Backing Vocals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Michael Head, Phil Murphy, Karina Townsend - Percussion


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Picasso
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Overjoyed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Picklock
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Winter Turns To Spring
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. Workin' Family
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. 4&4 Still Makes 8
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Queen Of All Saints
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. Josephine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            9. Lavender Way
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10. Rumer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            11. Wild Mountain Thyme
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            12. What's The Difference
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            13. Adios Amigo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            David Bowie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            David Bowie - Deluxe 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              David Bowie’s groundbreaking debut album is set for a vibrant revival with a reissue on both CD and coloured vinyl, boasting exclusive tracklists to tantalize fans old and new. Critics of the time commented; with the NME praising Bowie’s fresh sound as “all very refreshing” and hailing him as “a very promising talent.” Melody Maker lauds the album as “a singularly rewarding collection” with “excellent” production, while expressing surprise that Bowie hadn’t yet made a bigger impact on the pop scene. Meanwhile, Disc & Music Echo raves about the album, describing it as “a remarkable, creative debut album by a 19-year-old Londoner” and declaring Bowie as “a new talent that deserves attention.” With such illuminating reviews, this reissue promises to reignite Bowie’s early legacy and introduce his visionary artistry to a new generation of listeners.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2CD Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              CD1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Uncle Arthur
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sell Me A Coat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Rubber Band
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Love You Till Tuesday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              There Is A Happy Land
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We Are Hungry Men
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I Live My Dream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Little Bombardier
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Silly Boy Blue
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Come And Buy My Toys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Join The Gang
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              She’s Got Medals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Maids Of Bond Street
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Please Mr. Gravedigger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              CD2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Rubber Band
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The London Boys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Laughing Gnome
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Gospel According To Tony Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Love You Till Tuesday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Did You Ever Have A Dream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I Live My Dream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Let Me Sleep Beside You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Karma Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In The Heat Of The Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              London Bye Ta-Ta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I’m Five
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ching-A-Ling
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Laughing Gnome (Vocal Take 1/Mix 1)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sell Me A Coat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Space Oddity (Love You Till Tuesday Version)


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Standard Version (2LP Green) Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              *Exclusive Bonus Track – Sell Me A Coat*
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A-Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Uncle Arthur
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sell Me A Coat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Rubber Band
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Love You Till Tuesday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              There Is A Happy Land
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We Are Hungry Men
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I Live My Dream

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B-Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Little Bombardier
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Silly Boy Blue
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Come And Buy My Toys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Join The Gang
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              She’s Got Medals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Maids Of Bond Street
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Please Mr. Gravedigger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              C-Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Rubber Band
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The London Boys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Laughing Gnome
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Gospel According To Tony Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Love You Till Tuesday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Did You Ever Have A Dream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I Live My Dream

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              D Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Let Me Sleep Beside You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Karma Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In The Heat Of The Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              London Bye Ta-Ta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I’m Five
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ching-A-Ling
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sell Me A Coat

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Indie Version (2LP Cloudy Green) Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              *Exclusive Bonus Track – The Laughing Gnome – Vocal Take 1/Mix 1*
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A-Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Uncle Arthur
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sell Me A Coat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Rubber Band
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Love You Till Tuesday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              There Is A Happy Land
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              We Are Hungry Men
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I Live My Dream

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B-Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Little Bombardier
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Silly Boy Blue
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Come And Buy My Toys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Join The Gang
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              She’s Got Medals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Maids Of Bond Street
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Please Mr. Gravedigger

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              C-Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Rubber Band
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The London Boys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Laughing Gnome
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Gospel According To Tony Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Love You Till Tuesday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Did You Ever Have A Dream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I Live My Dream

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              D Side:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Let Me Sleep Beside You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Karma Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              In The Heat Of The Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              London Bye Ta-Ta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When I’m Five
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ching-A-Ling
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Laughing Gnome (Vocal Take 1/Mix 1)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Slowdive

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Blue Day - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Blue Day is a compilation album by English shoegaze band Slowdive. It was originally released in 1992 and compiles the first three Slowdive EPs:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Slowdive
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Avalyn 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Morningrise
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. She Calls

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Losing Today
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Shine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Albatross

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Olivia Rodrigo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                GUTS - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3-time GRAMMY® award winning recording artist Olivia Rodrigo reissues GUTS on extremely limited-edition deluxe vinyl housed in a gatefold jacket, featuring brand new artwork and 5 extra tracks (So American being a BRAND NEW track) this special edition purple and red splatter vinyl is the only pressing featuring the full collection of GUTS songs.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  GUTS was recorded with producer Daniel Nigro, who also collaborated with Olivia on SOUR, her chart-topping, 4x platinum debut album. “for me, this album is about growing pains and about trying to figure out who I am at this point in my life and exactly what I want to say in my songs."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. All-American Bitch
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Bad Idea Right?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. Vampire
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4. Lacy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5. Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6. Making The Bed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  7. Logical
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  8. Get Him Back!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  9. Love Is Embarrassing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  10. The Grudge
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  11. Pretty Isn’t Pretty
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  12. Teenage Dream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  13. Obsessed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  14. Girl I’ve Always Been
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  15. Scared Of My Guitar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  16. Stranger
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  17. So American

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Cocteau Twins

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Four Calendar Cafe - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will Heggie, by 1981 they had added Fraser and the following year signed to 4AD, one of the most illustrious of the indie labels. With Raymonde replacing Heggie in 1983, the trio went on to create some of the most unique and otherworldly music of the 80s, built around Guthrie's chiming guitar and Fraser's unmistakable soprano. By the early 90s, the group had just released their most successful album, the commercial Heaven or Las Vegas, but the relationship with 4AD was coming to an end. Mercury imprint Fontana was going through something of a purple patch, signing former underground bands, and by 1992, Cocteau Twins had joined The Fall and the House Of Love.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The group's debut album for Fontana, Four- Calendar Cafe, was released in October 1993. Its gossamer melodies and largely upbeat pop bely the turmoil the group were going through. Barney Hoskyns, writing in Mojo, said that Four- Calendar Caf was "the most poignant, heartrending Cocteaus record of all, an album of naked confession and raw beauty . . . Sadness never sounded so luscious." Simon Raymonde agreed: "I think in time people will realise what a great album Four-Calendar Cafe is. Because I think it's beautiful." Led by the single Evangeline, the reached No 13 in the UK album chart and is much-loved by fans.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Know Who You Are At Every Age
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Evangeline
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Bluebeard
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Theft, And Wandering Around Lost
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Oil Of Angels
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Squeeze- Wax
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    My Truth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Essence
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Summerhead
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Pur

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    English Teacher

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Polyawkward - Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Leeds indie heavyweights English Teacher announce details of debut EP ‘Polyawkward’, via Nice Swan Records (Sports Team, Pip Blom, FUR).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The follow-up to mammoth lead track ‘Good Grief’, ‘A55’ captures the group’s trademark enigmatic wordplay and vivid musicianship in full flow, adding further credence to their status as key players amongst the emerging indie elite, having already been spotlighted in the NME 100, DIY’s Class of 2022 and Dork’s 2022 Hype List.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Detailing their second EP reveal, bandleader Lily Fontaine explained: “”Writing the lyrics for ‘A55’ was a cathartic exercise after waking up with ‘The Fear’ the morning after the night before – reflecting on the rise and fall of the ego as it became affected by what I put in my body, I hoped that putting it down in verse would make the embarrassment all worth it.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Duran Duran

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Rio - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Rio - Duran's second album, Rio, was released in 1982 following the success of their debut album. Rio electrified the already-rising 'second British invasion', dominating the American charts with singles such as 'Rio', 'Hungry Like The Wolf' and 'Save a Prayer'. All of which remain as some of Duran's biggest streaming songs to this day.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Rio
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. My Own Way
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. Lonely In Your Nightmare
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. Hungry Like The Wolf
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. Hold Back The Rain

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. New Religion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. Last Chance On The Stairway
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. Save A Prayer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. The Chauffeur

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Duran Duran

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Duran Duran - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Duran Duran - The debut album was originally released in 1981 and includes the hits 'Planet Earth' and 'Girls On Film'. It's considered a significant album in the new-wave and synth-pop movements of the early 80s.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Side 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Girls On Film
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Planet Earth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Anyone Out There
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. To The Shore
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Careless Memories

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Side 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Night Boat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Sound Of Thunder
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Friends Of Mine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Tel Aviv

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Fleetwood Mac

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Alternative Live - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A fourteen-song LP pulled from the Fleetwood Mac Super Deluxe release, including a further seven songs from the Tusk tour, four from the 1977 Rumours tour and three from the 1982 Mirage tour. This special 2LP becomes available again following a limited release in 2021.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Second Hand News
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. The Chain
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Think About Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. What Makes You Think You’re The One
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Gold Dust Woman
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Brown Eyes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Side C
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Angel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Hold Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Tusk
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. You Make Loving Fun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Side D
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Sisters Of The Moon
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Songbird
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Blue Letter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Leroy Vinnegar

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Glass Of Water - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Bassist Leroy Vinnegar has gone down in history as the person who popularised the "walking bass" style in jazz. He was worked with Chet Baker, Eddie Harris, Les McCann, Lee Konitz, and Stan Getz. His milestone 1973 album 'Glass Of Water' featuring Dwight Dickerson on the rhodes and wurlitzer slipped into obscurity shortly after release. However, in recent years it has been rediscovered and has become highly coveted as a grail for crate diggers and jazz collectors worldwide.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            On High is proud to present the first ever reissue of this long forgotten classic. Remastered and pressed on audiophile virgin vinyl to fully capture the wonderful spacey emotion of Vinnegar's classic LP.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Twila
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Funny Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Glass Of Water
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Damn! Somebody Stole My Pants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. My Romance
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. Muffin Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Hey Mon

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Julian Cope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Fried - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Julian Cope's second album of 1984 - Never re-pressed in its original format, this re-issue faithfully replicates the original Mercury Records UK release with poster, and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              'Fried' is one of Julian Cope's boldest. It made many think that after a while teetering on the edge, Julian Cope had finally tipped over into an artistic madness, amplified by his wearing a turtle shell and staring at a toy van on a landscaped spoil tip in Warwickshire on the album's sleeve. Opening track 'Reynard The Fox' added to it all, a six-minute psychedelic garage rock tour-de-force, breaking down to a Cope monologue where he gravely intones English folk tales from his vantage point, referring also to an onstage stomach-slashing incident from 1983. 'Sunspots', the sole single taken from the album, is one of his greatest recordings in a career that spans over 40 years.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              'Fried' is up there with some of the very best works of the singular British eccentric.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Reynard The Fox
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Bill Drummond Said
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Laughing Boy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Me Singing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Sunspots
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6. The Bloody Assizes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              7. Search Party
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              8. O King Of Chaos
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              9. Holy Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              10. Torpedo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Iggy Pop

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Pop Music - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Pop Music by Iggy Pop is the 1996 compilation featuring the 20 best tracks released through BMG between 1979 and 1981, including “Bang Bang”, “I Need More”, “I’m Bored”, “New Values” and “Five Foot One”. Iggy Pop was associated with Virgin Records for much of his post-Stooges solo career, but for a brief spell during the late ‘70s and early ‘80s he called Arista Records (BMG) his home. This era saw punk’s godfather stray away from the primal style he is known for, as he experimented largely with new wave sounds.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Loco Mosquito
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Bang Bang
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Tell Me A Story
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Pumpin' For Jill
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Take Care Of Me

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. I Need More
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. I'm Bored
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Knocking 'Em Down (In The City)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. I Snub You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Sea Of Love

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side C
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Play It Safe
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Dog Food
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Happy Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Time Won't Let Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Five Foot One

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side D
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Angel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Girls
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. New Values
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Pleasure
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Houston Is Hot Tonight

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Triffids

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Calenture - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Step into the enchanting realm of The Triffids once again with their acclaimed album, ‘Calenture’, now presented in a captivating LP reissue on blue coloured vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Originally released to critical acclaim, this album showcases The Triffids’ distinctive fusion of folk, rock and post-punk sensibilities.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  With its ethereal melodies and introspective lyrics, ‘Calenture’ invites listeners on a journey of introspection and emotional resonance.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Led by the evocative vocals of David McComb, each track weaves a spellbinding narrative that lingers in the mind long after the music fades.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Bury Me Deep In Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Kelly’s Blues
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A Trick Of The Light
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Hometown Farewell Kiss
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Unmade Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Open For You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Holy Water
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Blinder By The Hour
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Vagabond Holes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Jerdacuttup Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Calenture
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Save What You Can

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Triffids

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  In The Pines - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Step into the mesmerizing world of The Triffids with their renowned album, ‘In The Pines’, now available in a striking red coloured vinyl double LP reissue for 2024.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Originally released in 1986, this album showcases The Triffids’ unique blend of folk, rock and postpunk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Featuring the haunting vocals of David McComb and lush instrumentals, ‘In The Pines’ invites you on a journey through atmospheric landscapes that captivate the senses.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    With its enduring allure and rich sonic textures, this album stands as a testament to The Triffids’ timeless artistry.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Suntrapper
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In The Pines
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Kathy Knows
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    25 To 5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Only One Life
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Do You Want Me Near
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Trick Of The Light
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Once A Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    She’s Sure The Girl I
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Jerdacuttup Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Just Might Fade Away
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Better Off This Way
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Keep Your Eyes On The
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hole
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Blinder By The Hour
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Wish To See No More
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    One Soul Less On
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Your Fiery List
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Born Sandy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Devotional
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Love And Affection

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Nina Simone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    At Town Hall - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      “Nina Simone at Town Hall” is the first live album by Nina Simone, originally released in 1959. It was her third album of that year and her first live album. The basis for the record was Simone’s performance at the Town Hall, New York, on 12 September 1959. All of the songs performed at the concert are on the album; however, three of the tracks are studio versions cut the following month. On this LP also two bonus tracks recorded during a concert at The Village Gate, New York in 1961.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Francoise Hardy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Françoise Hardy auditioned for Vogue Records at 18 and went on to top charts with her very first release, a 1962 self-titled record now known as “Tous Les Garcons Et Les Filles” based on its hit song. From there, the infamously timid Hardy became one of the few French pop stars of the era to cross over, jetting from England to France to record, serving as a muse to designers like Yves Saint Laurent, and inspiring Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. That debut showcases Hardy at her simplest, wringing rockabilly-tinged pop magic from modest jazz percussion and steel guitar. Hardy wrote most of her own material, setting her far apart from her peers, and on her debut she penned every song but two. Her lyrics would never be this close to yé-yé traditions again.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A.R. Kane

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The final part of this ‘A.R. Kane reissue collection is 1989’s astonishing double-LP ‘i’ which followed up on ‘sixty nine’s promise and saw the duo fully unleash their experimental pop sensibilities over 26 tracks, plunging the A.R. Kane sound into a dazzlingly kaleidoscopic vision of pop experiment and play. Suffused with new digital technologies and combining searingly sweet and danceable pop with perhaps the duo’s strangest and boundary-pushing compositions, the album did exactly what a great double-set should do - indulge the artists sprawling pursuit of their own imaginations but always with a concision and an ear for those moments where pop both transcends and toys with the listeners expectations. Jason Ankeny has noted that “In retrospect, ‘i’ now seems like a crystal ball prophesying virtually every major musical development of the 1990s; from the shimmering techno of ‘A Love from Outer Space’ to the liquid dub of ‘What’s All This Then?’, from the alien drone-pop of ‘Conundrum’ to the sinister shoegazer miasma of ‘Supervixens’ — it’s all here, an underground road map for countless bands to follow.” Perhaps the most overwhelmingly all-encompassing transmission from A.R. Kane, ‘i’ bookended a three year period in which the duo had made some of the most prophetic and revelatory music of the entire decade.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          After ‘i’ the duo’s output became more sporadic with Tambala and Ayuli moving in different directions both geographically and musically, with only 1994’s ‘New Clear Child’ a crystalline re-fraction of future and past echoes of jazz, folk and soul, before the duo went their separate ways. Since then, A.R. Kane’s music has endured, not thanks to the usual sepia’d false memories that seem to maintain interest in so much of the musical past, but because those who hear A.R. Kane music and are changed irrevocably, have to share that universe which A.R. Kane opened up, with anyone else who will listen. Far more than other lauded documents of the late 80s it still sounds astonishingly fresh, astonishingly livid and vivid and necessary and NOW.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1) Hello
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2) A Love From Outer Space
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3) Crack Up
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4) Timewind
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5) What’s All This Then?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6) Snow Joke
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7) Off Into Space
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8) And I Say
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          9) Yeti
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          10) Conundrum
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          11) Honeysuckleswallow
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          12) Long Body
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          13) In A Circle
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          14) Fast Ka
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          15) Miles Apart
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          16) Pop
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          17) Mars
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          18) Spook
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          19) Sugarwings
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          20) Back Home
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          21) Down
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          22) Supervixens
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          23) Insect Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          24) Sorry
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          25) Catch My Drift
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          26) Challenge

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Still House Plants

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If I Don't Make It, I Love U - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Repress of the critically acclaimed 3rd album from the South-East London based post-rock trio.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ‘If I don't make it, I love u’ is Still House Plants’ third LP and the fullest embodiment of their sound to date. Where ‘Fast Edit’ formed with quick attachment and jump cuts, ‘If I don't make it’ is shaped by persistence - a commitment to the songs that makes the music solid, warmer and accepted. Marking the trio’s decade of friendship, this is the first record written whilst all live in the same city since 2017's ‘Assemblages’. The band rehearsed it relentlessly, playing for nobody except themselves, consistently building support for one another and growing the way they play. Jess’ voice is deeper. Fin’s guitar is full size, richer. David drums harder. Focused on one point together, everyone gets bigger and nothing falls apart. The guitar and the drums blend, raise the voice, make room for what is being said, what is felt. When able to finally record, production allowed layers, gave elasticity, a chance to fully stretch. Playing with length and connections, the band brought in analogue techniques - a Lesley cabinet on ‘Headlight’, sidechaining the snare with the guitar, pushing vocals through cheap DJ software - each process an attempt to bring one instrument closer to another, to give bass, body, backup. ‘If I don't make it, I love u’ seeks beauty, holds feeling maximum and builds surety with its sound. The most generous SHP record to date, the music is wide open, demands less. Play it again, it will come clear. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. M M M
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Pant
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Sticky
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. MORE BOY
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. Probably
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. 3scr3w3
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Silver Grit Passes Thru My Teeth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. Headlight
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            9. No Sleep Deep Risk
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10. Pushed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            11. No More Faster

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Shuggie Otis

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Inspiration Information - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Well before Shuggie Otis cut his debut album, musicianship and performance had long been a part of his life. The son of rhythm and blues legend Johnny Otis, Shuggie learned to play guitar as early as the age of two, and performed professionally with his father's band at eleven. Throughout his long and illustrious career he performed on records for the likes of Frank Zappa, Al Kooper, Etta James, and George Duke, to name a few. Despite only moderate success upon its initial release, Shuggie Otis' third album Inspiration Information turned into underground smash decades later and has since maintained a level of cult status normally reserved for mysterious, unearthed legends like Sixto Rodriguez or Lee Fields. Inspiration Information is also noteworthy among Shuggie's other releases, as it was entirely self-produced, as opposed to being overseen by his father Johnny Otis. Shuggie's signature blend of baroque funk is on full display, but with a heavy dosage of psychedelic soul blended in, resulting in an album that's equally swarthy, lush, funky, and emotional; gathering all the best bits of Marvin Gaye, Love, Miles Davis, and even Os Mutantes. Inspiration Information is more than worthy of all acclaim awarded to it, despite the delayed reverence.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A1. Inspiration / Information
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A2. Island Letter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A3. Sparkle City
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A4. Aht Uh Mi Hed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B1. Happy House
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B2. Rainy Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B3. XL-30
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B4. Pling!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B5. Not Available

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Shuggie Otis

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Freedom Flight - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Well before Shuggie Otis cut his debut album, musicianship and performance had long been a part of his life. The son of rhythm and blues legend Johnny Otis, Shuggie learned to play guitar as early as the age of two, and performed professionally with his father's band at eleven. Throughout his long and illustrious career he'd performed on records for the likes of Frank Zappa, Al Kooper, Etta James, and George Duke, to name a few. In spite of all this,widespread mainstream success eluded Shuggie for much of his career. His most famous release to date is his 1974 album Inspiration/Information, which would experience new resurgent life in the 2000s. Those willing to dig a little deeper however, would discover hidden gold in his earlier releases, especially in the album directly before Inspiration/Information, his sophomore 1971 release Freedom Flight. As with his debut, Freedom Flight was produced by Shuggie's father Johnny Otis, and built upon the distinct sounds of his debut album: lush, baroque, string section arrangements, paired with hard funk rhythms, and funky blues melodies, with the majority of the instruments once again performed by Shuggie himself. The album also features backing from premium session greats like George Duke and Aynsley Dunbar, and the track "Strawberry Letter 23" which became a monster hit for The Brothers Johnson 3 years later. Freedom Flight is a treasure of deft, technical skill, and virtuosic composition.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A1. Ice Cold Daydream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A2. Strawberry Letter 23
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A3. Sweet Thang
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A4. Me And My Woman
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A5. Someone's Always Singing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B1. Purple
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B2. Freedom Flight

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Plush

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                More You Becomes You - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Described by Uncut magazine as “One of the most charismatic and eccentric pop craftsmen of the past twenty years”, Liam Hayes has been making critically acclaimed records since the 90’s. His first single “Three-Quarters Blind Eyes b/w Found a Little Baby” released under the moniker Plush, was cited by the NME as being “..one of those rare records - and incredibly rare debuts - that instantly seems a classic..” Although he emerged from the Chicago indie-rock scene, Hayes is often compared with artists such as Jimmy Webb, Brian Wilson, Laura Nyro and Harry Nilsson. Like some of the best folk-pop or soft soul from the 1960’s and 1970’s there is a timeless quality to his music.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Re-release of debut album More You Becomes You is remastered from the original analogue tapes by Jason Hillier and recut for vinyl by Bob Weston, who also remastered the CD and Streaming formats.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A deluxe 12 page full size booklet comes with the LP version (which also comes packaged as close to the original as possible, with a printed outer envelope/bag) and a 20 page booklet comes with the CD version put together by Liam and Jason Harvey, with Sleeve Notes by John Mulvey.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  01. Virginia
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  02. More You Becomes You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  03. (I Didn't Know) I Was Asleep
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  04. The Party L
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  05. The Party Ll
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  06. Soaring And Boring
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  07. (See It In The) Early Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  08. Save The People
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  09. Instrumental
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  10. The Sailor

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Sharon Van Etten

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Are We There - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    10 year annivesary edition of Sharon Van Etten's seminial record 'Are We There', pressed on black, grey and silver tri-colour split vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Review from 2014: A real step forward from the wonderful ‘Tramp’; it feels like a more confident and expansive sound. And of course the songwriting is superb, heartfelt and wonderfully melancholic.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Afraid Of Nothing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Taking Chances
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Your Love Is Killing Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. Our Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Tarifa
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6. I Love You But I'm Lost
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    7. You Know Me Well
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    8. Break Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    9. Nothing Will Change
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    10. I Know
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    11. Every Time The Sun Comes Up

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hypnotone

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hypnotone - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Hypnotone's iconic self titled mini album reissued! Originally released by Creation Records in 1991, long out of print and now reissued, meticulously remastered and pressed onto pristine white vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Exclusive liner notes by band member Tony Martin "The Hypnotone Story: From Manchester to Creation" and including after hours favourite "Sub" and Balearic hit "Dream Beam" featuring vocals by Denise Johnson.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Formed in the vibrant milieu of Manchester's legendary Hacienda nightclub, Hypnotone emerged from the creative partnership of Tony Martin and Martin Mittler. Tony, initially involved as the in-house lighting designer, and Mittler, a bar staff member, fused their interests and talents amid the fervour of the late '80s Acid House movement that pulsated through the club.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Their musical venture began earnestly after an introduction to Alan McGee, head of Creation Records. This connection would soon lead to a record deal, propelling Hypnotone into the heart of the emerging electronic dance music scene, releasing 2 albums, multiple singles and standout remixes for artists such as Primal Scream, Sheer Taft, and The Lilac Time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      With Creation Records' support, Hypnotone crafted their unique sound combining state-of-the-art digital samplers like the Akai S1000 with a collection of classic analog synths. Their debut self titled mini album includes after hours favorite "Sub" and Balearic hit "Dream Beam" featuring vocals by Denise Johnson. Hypnotone not only shaped their distinct sonic footprint but also influenced the broader trajectory of electronic music. Their journey, marked by innovation anda deep affinity for Manchester's music scene, exemplifies the transformative power of the era's cultural and technological shifts in music.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This is another must have for collectors and fans of early British (pop) house music, and very happy memories.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A1. Hypnotone - Dream Beam
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A2. Hypnotone - Junovia
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A3. Hypnotone - Potion 90
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A4. Hypnotone - Italia
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      B1. Hypnotone - In Joy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      B2. Hypnotone - SBX
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      B3. Hypnotone - Sub

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Wendy & Bonnie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Genesis - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        One of the most remarkable unheard albums of 1969, Genesis, the sole release by San Francisco-based sisters Wendy and Bonnie Flower, has emerged as an acclaimed pop-psych touchstone. Brimming with melodic confections and laced with radiant, sisterly harmonies, the set’s breezy Brazilian splashes and soft-rock strains convey a sophistication that belies the artists’ tender ages (Wendy, 17; Bonnie, 13). The album has grown over the years in importance, and has influenced a generation of psychedelic pioneers, from Broadcast to Stereolab to Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals ( who sampled the duo on their hit "hello Sunshine").

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        CD Tracklisting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Disc 1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Let Yourself Go Another Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. The Paisley Window Pane
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. I Realized You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. By The Sea
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. You Keep Hanging Up On My Mind
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6. It's What's Really Happening
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        7. Five O'Clock In The Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8. Endless Pathway
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        9. Children Laughing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        10. The Winter Is Cold
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        11. Let Yourself Go Another Time (instrumental Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        12. The Paisley Window Pane (alternate Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        13. I Realized You (alternate Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        14. It's What's Really Happening (alternate Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        15. Five O'Clock In The Morning (alternate Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        16. Endless Pathway (alternate Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        17. The Winter Is Cold (alternate Version)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Disc 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Children Laughing (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. Years (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. Popular Phrases (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. Eleanor Rigby (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. The Winter Is Cold (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6. The Ice Cream Man Song (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        7. December Sun (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8. Wake Up, Sleepy Eyes (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        9. We Can Work It Out (live)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        10. Thinking, Waiting (live)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        11. Cover Our Child (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        12. Story Of A Conventional Man (demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        13. The Paisley Window Pane (live)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        14. The Night Behind Us (Crystal Fountain Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        15. Sensations (Crystal Fountain Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        16. Never To Rest (Crystal Fountain Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        17. Children Laughing

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        LP Tracklisting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Let Yourself Go Another Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. The Paisley Window Pane
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. I Realized You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. By The Sea
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. You Keep Hanging Up On My Mind
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6. It's What's Really Happening
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        7. Five O'Clock In The Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8. Endless Pathway
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        9. Children Laughing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        10. The Winter Is Cold

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Shin Joong Hyun

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74 - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          First anthology of Shin Joong Hyun’s music outside of Korea.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Includes an in-depth interview and track-by-track notes by Mr. Shin plus comprehensive liner notes by Kevin “Sipreano” Howes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Shin Joong Hyun’s tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions but also reverberating with echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. These career-spanning anthologies gather Shin’s work as a guitarist, songwriter, producer and arranger of mind-altering experimental pop, acid-folk, and extended psych-funk jams. A musical trip existing somewhere between Motown, Hendrix, and the Velvet Underground.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          **** (4 Stars) “An incredible collection” - Record Collector

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          **** (4 Stars) “...as important to Korean rock in 1970-75 as Phil Spector had been to America's pop scene a decade earlier, and every bit as busy.” – MOJO

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          **** (4 Stars) ”The ten-plus-minute title track that closes the set is a labyrinthine folk-psych, acid-drenched masterpiece... It's an epic worthy of Morricone's spaghetti Western scores -- had Morricone been born a guitarist. An excellent introduction to his work.” – AllMusic



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Moon Watching - Shin Joong Hyun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Please Don't Bother Me Anymore - Golden Grapes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Man Who Must Leave - Kim Sun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Sun - Kim Jung Mi
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I Don't Like - Lee Jung Hwa
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Please Wait - Jang Hyun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Spring Rain - Park In Soo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Tomorrow - Lee Joong Hwa
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          'J' Blues 72 - Shin Joong Hyun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Pushing Through The Fog - Jang Hyun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I've Got Nothing To Say - Shin Joong Hyun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Why That Person? - Bunny Girls
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sunset - Jang Hyun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Beautiful River And Mountains - Shin Joong Hyun & The Men

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Mountain Goats

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Coroner's Gambit - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner’s Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner’s Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The album came together slowly; the Mountain Goats had released music every year from 1991 to 1998, but between the release of that year’s New Asian Cinema EP and The Coroner’s Gambit, 1999 passed without an official Mountain Goats release. The additional time that went into The Coroner’s Gambit paid off: it is a breakthrough for Darnielle as a songwriter and practitioner of the full-length album. His characters are sharply drawn, the immaculately appointed lore of the worlds they occupy providing them some shelter from the storm.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            He has grown as a guitarist and in voice, wringing moments of sweetness and humour from songs of fury and lament, nimbly modulating from mourning to longing, passing air through the lungs of the dead and survivors alike.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The mix of home and studio recordings grants The Coroner’s Gambit a thrilling sense of immediacy while pointing towards a future that is soon to break open with All Hail West Texas and Tallahassee. The Coroner’s Gambit is a masterpiece in its own right, an introspective epic that further burnishes Darnielle’s reputation as one of our greatest songwriters, one whose gift for confessional fabulism knows few rivals.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            In the ensuing years since its original release The Coroner’s Gambit has become somewhat tricky to pin down in its entirety. Releasing the CD for the segment of the Mountain Goats massive who just wanted the songs, and the LP for those drawn to the ephemera of the album as a package, vinyl copies were housed in a paper bag that had additional Darnielle-penned liner notes printed on them. One thousand vinyl copies were issued, and, based on reports from the collector’s scene, far fewer than one thousand bags survive to the present, its text living on largely through Flickr albums and fan sites. The 2024 reissue marks the passage of time with new text and liner notes by Darnielle for CD and LP.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Jaipur
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Elijah
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Trick Mirror
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Island Garden Song
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. The Coroner’s Gambit
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. Baboon
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Scotch Grove
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. Horseradish Road
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            9. Family Happiness
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10. Onions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            11. “Bluejays And Cardinals”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            12. Shadow Song
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            13. There Will Be No Divorce
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            14. Insurance Fraud #2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            15. The Alphonse Mambo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            16. We Were Patriots

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Richard Ashcroft

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            These People - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Richard Ashcroft’s fourth solo album ‘These People’ became a fan-favourite in 2016, receiving great reviews and becoming a #3 album in the Official UK Albums Chart.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              His reunion with Wil Malone, who had previously worked on the string arrangements for The Verve's seminal albums 'A Northern Soul' and 'Urban Hymns' added depth and emotional resonance to the album's sound. Ashcroft demonstrated his continued relevance and creative prowess as a solo artist, reaffirming his status as one of Britain's most enduring and influential musicians.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Out Of My Body
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. This Is How It Feels
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. They Don’t Own Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Hold On
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. These People
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6. Everybody Needs Somebody To Hurt
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              7. Picture Of You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              8. Black Lines
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              9. Ain’t The Future So Bright
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              10. Songs Of Experience

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Queens Of The Stone Age

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Queens Of The Stone Age - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The expanded 2011 edition of QOTSA’s self titled album is being made available once again on LP and CD. This ‘definitive version’ of the album comes with original Loose-Groove cover artwork and a number of bonus tracks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Regular John
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Avon
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. If Only
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Walkin On The Sidewalks
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. You Would Know
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6. The Bronze
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                7. How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson In The Lariat)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                8. Mexicola
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9. Hispanic Impressions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10. You Can't Quit Me Baby
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                11. These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                12. Give The Mule What He Wants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                13. Spiders And Vinegaroons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                14. I Was A Teenage Hand Model

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Gossip

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Standing In The Way Of Control - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  From it's original release:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The first thing that strikes you is the rhythm - The Gossip have been making punks dance since they debuted 5 years ago, long before dance punk existed - Soulful and jagged, you can hear everything from Dischord to Motown in Brace's playing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Now, with the addition of new drummer Hannah Blilie (Shoplifting, ex-Chromatics) they have a new thundering beat for the kids to dance to on the corners and in the clubs. The next thing that smacks you is Beth's voice, all the guttural blues of the South is in that inimitable instrument. It resonates with the confidence that is in her lyrics asking people to hold on just a little bit longer, re-assuring the youth that there are others out there, and spitting in the face of all who say otherwise! "Standing in the Way of Control", their third album, was recorded by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) at Seattle's Bear Creek. From heartbreakers like "Coal to Diamonds" to the anthemic title track, released as a single with a Le Tigre remix, the band is unafraid to put it all out there and take their audience to new places. This is the sound of a band destroying and surpassing all expectations placed on them.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Fire With Fire
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Standing In The Way Of Control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Jealous Girls
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coal To Diamonds
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Eyes Open
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Your Mangled Heart
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Listen Up!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Holy Water
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Keeping You Alive
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Dark Lines

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Spiritualized

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Songs In A&E - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Songs in A&E is a beautiful, chilling record and it was very nearly the last thing J Spaceman would ever release. In 2005, with the writing and recording well underway, Spaceman was rushed to the Royal London Infirmary with double pneumonia. The sleeve of this reissue is a photograph taken as he lay in what his close friends and family feared at the time was his deathbed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “We thought he’d gone,” recalled band mate John Coxon at the time. The album is collection of graceful, country-influenced songs that muse on familiar themes of love, death, hope and hopelessness. The country element was informed by a small black 1928 Gibson acoustic he’d bought in Cincinnati while the band toured the Amazing Grace record. Spaceman called it “The Devil”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    J Spaceman: “Mostly, when you buy a guitar, like most things, you don't really have any idea of whether it's good or not. And this shop had about eight of the same models for comparison, but this one was in a cage, to keep people away from it, like they knew it was kind of special. And it's beautiful. It just sings. And it kind of came with those songs, which is obviously a sort of romantic notion, but it really felt like it did. I'd never written on a guitar until this point and it seemed to come with all of this information.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Harmony 1 (Mellotron)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Sweet Talk
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Death Take Your Fiddle
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. I Gotta Fire
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Soul On Fire
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6. Harmony 2 (Piano)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    7. Sitting On Fire
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    8. Yeah Yeah
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    9. You Lie You Cheat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    10. Harmony 3 (Voice)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    11. Baby I'm Just A Fool
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    12. Don't Hold Me Close
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    13. Harmony 4 (The Old Man...)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    14. The Waves Crash In
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    15. Harmony 5 (Accordion)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    16. Borrowed Your Gun
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    17. Harmony 6 (Glockenspiel)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18. Goodnight Goodnight

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Night Beats

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Night Beats - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Danny Lee Blackwell's Night Beats released their self-titled debut album back in 2011 and 2024 sees a long-overdue vinyl reissue hit the racks courtesy of UK label Fuzz Club. An acid drenched modern garage-rock classic in the Texan thirteenth-floor tradition, the band’s R&B-inspired Western Psychedelic sound on this 12-track set is a reckoning, a shoot-out at dawn, the ear-splitting peel-out that leaves nothing but a cloud of red dust in its wake. Following early releases in the shape of the 'H-Bomb' 45 and a split 10" with UFO Club (a collaborative project between Blackwell and The Black Angels' Christian Bland), the 'Night Beats' LP was the first full-length introduction to the band and propelled them to the forefront of burgeoning contemporary psych scene in a blaze of scuzzy rock'n'roll release. Heavy touring immediately ensued and hasn't let up in the years that followed, and the definitive Night Beats hit 'Puppet On A String' has since clocked up millions of streams and become the soundtrack to an underground, fuzz-worshipping generation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Puppet On A String
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2. Ain't Dumbo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      3. Dial 666
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      4. The Other Side
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5. Useless Game
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6. Dewayne's Drone
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      7. Hallucinojenny
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8. Ain't A Ghost
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9. Meet Mr. Fork
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      10. War Games
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      11. High Noon Blues
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12. Little War In The Midwest

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Various Artists

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Late Night Tales: Nightmares On Wax - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This ain't no normal nightmare, kid. This is Nightmares On Wax, aka DJ EASE, aka George Evelyn. Born under a bad sign, with lino in hand, Mr. Evelyn went forth into the world and breakdanced (brokedance?). It's what you did in the 80s when you were young, loved hip hop and couldn't rap for toffee. When house arrived they turned their clever hands to it. Bleeps and beats is what it was.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        That's what everyone said. But there was always a bit more than a bunch of bleeps to what Nightmares On Wax did. The north never really took the name very seriously (Sweet Exorcist even named their album Clonk as a pisstake). Then George flipped the script and went and did Smokers Delight, the beats not so much seminal as semolina: gloopy and slow and sweet and lovely.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        And now we have this: a 2024 reissue of his seminal Late Night Tales compilation. Tom Scott's 'Sneakin' In The Back' — one of the most sampled beats in hip hop — makes an appearance in its full glory, while Quincy Jones, the inspiration for NOW's 'Nights Interlude', backs up the classics with ‘Listen (What It Is)’.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Evelyn's hip hop sensibility is to the fore throughout and nowhere is this more evident than on ‘Intergalactic Throwdown' by former Freestylers' DJ, Mad Doctor X. And can we forget the sublime version of the Classic IV's 'Spooky' by darling Dusty? No, we can't. Finally — oh, finally! — there is the now-traditional cover version, with George serving up a soupy version of 'Brothers On The Slide' that gives a nod of respect to the orig- inal British funk soul brothers, Cymande. This ain't no nightmare at all: it's Nightmares On Wax.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A1 Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie - Midnight Marauders 7:21
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A2 Ian Brown - The Gravy Train (N.O.W. Mix) 5:01
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A3 Tony Allen Ft Damon Albarn - Every Season 4:07
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A4 The Rootsman - Show Some Love 5:39

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        B1 King Kooba - California Suite (Vagabond Mix) 6:03
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        B2 Quincy Jones - Listen (What It Is) 4:14
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        B3 Cortex - La Rue 4:27
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        B4 Tom Scott And The L.A. Express - Sneakin’ In The Back 4:34

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        SIDE C
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        C1 Search - Action Tape 1 (Madscope Mix) 5:29
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        C2 Large Professor - 'Bout That Time 4:03
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        C3 Tranquility Bass - Cantamilla 4:31
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        C4 Mad Doctor X - Intergalactic Throwdown 6:04

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        SIDE D
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        D1 Dusty Springfield - Spooky 2:44
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        D2 Focus - Having Your Fun 3:43
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        D3 Nightmares On Wax - Brothers On The Slide Dub (Exclu- Sive Cover Version) 4:23
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        D4 Brian Blessed - The White City Part 1 (Exclusive Spoken Word) 10:18

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A.R. Kane

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Up Home! - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A.R. Kane were formed in 1986 by Rudy Tambala and Alex Ayuli, two second-generation immigrants who grew up together in Stratford, East London. From the off the pair were outsiders in the culturally mixed (cockney/Irish/West Indian/Asian) milieu of the East End, with Alex and Rudy’s folks first generation immigrants from Nigeria and Malawi, respectively. The two of them quickly developed and fostered an innate and near-telepathic mutual understanding forged in musical, literary and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          artistic exploration. Like a lot of second-generation immigrants, they were ferocious autodidacts in all kinds of areas, especially around music and literature. Diving deep into the music of afro-futurist luminaries such as Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Lee Perry and Hendrix, as well as devouring the explorations of lysergic noise and feedback from contemporaries like Sonic Youth and Butthole Surfers, they also thoroughly immersed themselves in the alternate literary realities of sci-fi and ancient history (the fascination with the arcane that gave the band their name), all to feed their voracious cultural thirsts and intellectual curiosity.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It was seeing the Cocteau Twins performing on Channel 4 show the Tube that spurred A.R. Kane into being - “They had no drummer. They used tapes and technology and Liz Fraser looked completely otherworldly with those big eyes. And the noise coming out of Robin’s guitar! That was the ‘Fuck! We could do that!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The duo debuted with the astonishing ‘When You’re Sad’ single for One Little Indian in 1986. Immediately dubbed a ‘black Jesus & Mary Chain’ by a press unsure of WHERE to put a black band clearly immersed in feedback and noise, what was immediately apparent for listeners was just how much more was going on here – a tapping of dub’s stealth and guile, a resonant umbilicus back to fusion and jazz, the music less a conjuration of past highs than a re-summoning of lost spirits.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The run of singles and EPs that followed picked up increasingly rapt reviews in the press, but it was the ‘Up Home EP’ released in 1988 on their new home, Rough Trade that really suggested something immense was about to break. SimonReynolds noted the EP was: Their most concentrated slab of iridescent awesomeness and a true pinnacle of an era that abounded with astounding landmarks of guitar-reinvention, A.R. Kane at their most elixir-like.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          If anything, the remastered ‘Up Home’ is even more dazzling, even more startling than it was when it first emerged, and listening now you again wonder not just about how many bands christened ‘shoegaze’ tried to emulate it, but how all of them fell so far short of its lambent, pellucid wonder. This remains intrinsically experimental music but with none of the frowning orthodoxy those words imply. A.R. Kane, thanks to that second generation auto-didacticism were always supremely aware about the interstices of music and magic, but at the same time gloriously free in the way they explored that connection within their own sound, fascinated always with the creation of ‘perfect mistakes’ and the possibilities inherent in informed play. 


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Baby Milk Snatcher
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. W.O.G.S
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. One Way Mirror
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Up

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Primitives

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Spin-O-Rama - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10th anniversary reissue with three extra tracks - the two B-sides of the two singles that came out before the album was released (the cover version of 'Up So High' from The What's New and 'Always Coming Back') and an acoustic, previously unreleased version of the title track, 'Spin-O-Rama'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Spin-O-Rama
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Hidden In The Shadows
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Wednesday World
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Follow The Sun Down
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. Purifying Tone
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. Lose The Reason
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Petals
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. Working Isn't Working
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            9. Velvet Valley
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10. Dandelion Seed
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            11. Let's Go 'Round Again
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            12. Always Coming Back
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            13. Up So High
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            14. Spin-O-Rama (Acoustic Version)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Passion Pit

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Manners - 15th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The debut album by Passion Pit, 'Manners' is coming back to vinyl for its 15th Anniversary. Remastered for vinyl with full gatefold jacket that displays alternative artwork only previously available on the cd

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Make Light
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Little Secrets
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Moth's Wings
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. The Reeling
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Eyes As Candles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6. Swimming In The Flood
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              7. Folds In Your Hands
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              8. To Kingdom Come
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              9. Sleepyhead
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              10. Let Your Love Grow Tall
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              11. Seaweed Song

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Malcolm McLaren

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Paris - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Malcolm McLaren, New York Dolls and Sex Pistols’ manager, writer, musician, fashion designer, marked the history of pop culture.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                His album “Paris” released in 1994 on the French Vogue label was produced by Robin Millar (Sade, The Style Council, Everything But The Girl). A journey through the city, it is haunted by jazz music reminiscences, the beating heart of Haute Couture fashion, via the home of Erick Satie, Françoise Hardy (lead vocalist on one track), and Serge Gainsbourg (a surprising cover of “Je t’aime..Moi non plus”) and is a crossroad of cultures from northern to western Africa.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is the first time the album has been available on vinyl and arrives a few weeks before the opening of Paris Olympic Games which should see lead track ‘Paris Paris’ with Catherine Devenue on vocals widely referenced.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Mon Dié Sénié
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Walking With Satie
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Père Lachaise
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Miles And Miles Of Miles Davis
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Jazz Is Paris

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Rue Dauphine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Paris Paris
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Club Le Narcisse
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. La Main Parisienne

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side C
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Driving Into Delirium
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Revenge Of The Flowers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. In The Absence Of The Parisienne
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Anthem
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. Who The Hell Is Sonia Rykiel?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side D
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Paris Un
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Paris Deux
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Paris Trois
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Paris Quatre

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Only Ones

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Even Serpents Shine - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A year after their acclaimed self-titled debut album, The Only Ones followed up with Even Serpents Shine. The sophomore album was met with positive reviews like "Even Serpents Shine doesn’t boast an out-of-the-box classic tune along the lines of 'Another Girl, Another Planet' from the debut, but in many respects, this is the more consistent album, achieving a similar degree of thematic and melodic variety while generating a more coherent sound and feeling”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Andy says: Another moody but exhilarating outing which mixed heavy, brooding numbers with simply gorgeous pop in the likes of Flaming Torch, Out There In The Night and the exquisite Someone Who Cares. Just ask Johnny Marr!!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. From Here To Eternity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Flaming Torch
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. You’ve Got To Play
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4. No Solution
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5. Inbetweens
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6. Out There In The Night

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Curtains For You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Programme
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. Someone Who Cares
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4. Miles From Nowhere
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5. Instrumental

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Julian Cope

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  World Shut Your Mouth - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Originally issued in 1984, 'World Shut Your Mouth' saw the mercurial leader of The Teardrop Explodes establish himself as a fully-fledged solo artist - Never re-pressed in its original format, this re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1984 Mercury Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    When The Teardrop Explodes finally ground to a halt in late 1982, all eyes were on what leader Julian Cope would do next. After retreating to the village of Drayton Bassett in Staffordshire for an extended period, Cope began writing 'World Shut Your Mouth', his first solo album.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Released in March 1984, it is the closest to his old band of all his solo work ('Metranil Vavin' and 'Pussyface' were both originally intended for the Teardrops), 'World Shut Your Mouth' featured Gary Dwyer on drums, and giving the album its most distinctive sound, Kate St. John on oboe. Beautifully pastoral, it is full of highlights such as 'Strasbourg', 'Kolly Kibber's Birthday' and the wistful, reflective 'Head Hang Low'. The strange, string-led, schizophrenic, 'Sunshine Playroom' was the album's first single, followed up by 'radio hit' 'Greatness And Perfection'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    'World Shut Your Mouth' is a deeply satisfying album, worthy of reappraisal.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Bandy's First Jump
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Metranil Vavin
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Strasbourg
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. Elegant Chaos
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Quizmaster
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6. Kolly Kibber's Birthday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    7. Sunshine Playroom
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    8. Head Hang Low
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    9. Pussyface
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    10. Greatness And Perfection
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    11. Lunatic And Fire-Pistol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Royal Trux

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Twin Infinitives - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Originally released in 1990, Royal Trux’s ‘Twin Infinitives’ is being re-issued in all its (yet to be translated) alien glory, by Fire Records. A dismantled overture that sprawls out over two records, an avant-garde masterpiece that was the spark for Drag City Records and generations of new sound seeking musicians.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Hailed in the same immortal breath as Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’, the Velvets’ at their frenzied peak and Ornette Coleman at his most avant-garde, the duo of Pussy Galore’s Neil "Michael" Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema recorded ‘Twin Infinitives’ while imbibing all kinds of mind-altering substances to create an inadvertent blueprint for what the duo was building with moog’s, guitars and melodicas to name a few ingredients.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      It is the legendary second album from the masters of the genre mashup - long before “genre mashups” even existed. Arguably, the term “mashup” was coined to describe what Trux, as they subconsciously scrolled through the radio stations of their lives.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The album’s chaotic sound and offbeat construction laid the foundations for a string of Royal Trux albums that spiralled between genres, tunings, and noise. Through the 90s they would re-invent the rock ‘n’ roll ethic, straddle alien surf music, re-align boogie rock, not to mention 80s hair metal, and confound critics by their wildly meandering and courageous rites of passage.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Remastered as part of a career spanning catalogue deal with Fire Records. The infamous and influential duo of Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty will be delving into the archive with a comprehensive reissue series, unearthing the vaults and revisiting what made them such a compelling benchmark for their contemporaries and imitators. Reawakening their prolific output within a new monochrome vinyl series covering 1988-1993, they begin with their seminal deconstructed rock masterpiece Twin Infinitives.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      “Sounding like a subway ride inside a television inside an earthquake inside the end of the world and a pounding death rhythm of apocalyptic now.” Pitchfork

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Disc One
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A1 Solid Gold Tooth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A2 Ice Cream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A3 Jet Pet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A4 RTX-USA
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A5 Kool Down Wheels
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      B1 Chances Are The Comets In Our Future
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      B2 Yin Jim Versus The Vomit Creature
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      B3 Osiris

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Disc Two
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      C1 (Edge Of The) Ape Oven
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      D1 Florida Avenue Theme
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      D2 Lick My Boots
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      D3 Glitterbust
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      D4 Funky Son
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      D5 Ratcreeps
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      D6 New York Avenue Bridge

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      OMD

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      History Of Modern - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        With artwork designed by Peter Saville, History Of Modern was originally  release in 2010, following a 14 year haitus. It was described by Andy McCluskey as their  "best album since Architecture and Morality" - high praise indeed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. New Babies: New Toys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. If You Want It
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. History Of Modern (Part I)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. History Of Modern (Part II)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        5. Sometimes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        6. RFWK
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        7. New Holy Ground
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        8. The Future, The Past, And Forever After
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        9. Sister Mary Says
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        10. Pulse
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        11. The Night
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        12. Bondage Of Fate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        13. The Right Side?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Alice Coltrane

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        A Monastic Trio (Verve By Request)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Recorded in 1968 and intended as a tribute to her late husband, Alice Coltrane is supported in her first solo outing by Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali — all members of John Coltrane’s last quintet. While initial reviews to the album were lukewarm upon release, looking at it in the context of her larger body of work, A Monastic Trio serves as a delightful foreshadowing of what was to come.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ohnedaruth
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Gospel Trane
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          I Want To See You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Lovely Sky Boat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Oceanic Beloved
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Atomic Peace

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          NOMEANSNO

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Wrong - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            At last, one of the all-time bat legends, Nomeansno has returned to Alternative Tentacles Records. The entire catalog no less, starting with their most beloved album, Wrong. Using the original all-analog master, from the original mother, as engineered by George Horn, John Wright, and Jello Biafra.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Nomeansno formed in a vacuum, in Victoria, British Columbia in 1979 and honing their sounds for years before relocating to Vancouver and releasing eleven albums over an almost forty year career, including a collaborative album with Jello Biafra, and numerous EPs and singles. Originally formed as a two-piece by brothers John and Rob Wright, and later joined by monster guitarist, Andy Kerr. Mixing hardcore punk, dark lyrics, and sophisticated arrangements boarding on prog, Nomeansno was massively influential and widely regarded as the first band to be referred to as “math rock”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Originally released on Alternative Tentacles in 1989, Wrong stands on its own and is still considered to be a much-loved classic. Allmusic called the album a masterpiece and a definitive jazz core album. In 2021, the album was voted by the public’s to win the Canadian Polaris Heritage Prize to honor classic Canadian albums released before the creation of the award.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            In 2015, drummer John Wright described the album as their “most popular album by a country mile” and to the St. Louis Music Press of Wrong’s success to the rise of alternative music and the success of Nirvana:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            “That’s where all the buzz about us came from. We were touring throughout the States in the mid-80s, and we’d get a little bit of an audience here and there, but after a couple of years in Europe, we started doing some big shows there, and all of a sudden, people in the States were coming out to our shows. And we went from getting paid $200 to getting paid $1000. It was just like that. You had to have the buzz, and then it all just kind of blew up.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Getting Nomeansno vinyl into stores is long overdue, so it all starts here with Wrong. Expect all vintage Nomeansno vinyl to systematically return in the days ahead.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. It’s Catching Up
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. The Tower
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Brainless Wonder
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Tired Of Waiting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. Stocktaking
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. The End Of All Things
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Big Dick
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. Two Lips, Two Lungs And One Tongue
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            9. Rag And Bones
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10. Oh No! Bruno!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            11. All Lies

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Freestyle Records drop a killer UK soul/early street soul reissue LP from 1988, in the form of Rick Clarke's hard to come by 'Time Keeps Moving On' album.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Originally appearing on the Raven label in 1988, Time Keeps Moving On constituted Rick Clarke's first LP following his work in the earlier eighties as part of brit-funk groups Potion and Side On, and solo output including Love with a Stranger (released on The Specials' Ghost Town's producer John Collins' Local Records imprint) and a few singles for RCA. Largely co-written and co-produced with Peter Hinds (Take Three, Atmosfear, Light of the World) and a guest turn from Master T aka Toyin Agbetu - this is foundational street soul that appeared at a time when the likes of Loose Ends were starting to break through to the US, and Soul II Soul just emerging.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Time Keeps Moving On
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. If You Think You're In Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Grooving On
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Better Luck Next Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. Got To Get A Hold
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. See You Along The Way
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. I Wanted Your Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            9. Don't Say A Word
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10. Perfect Lady

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A reissue of the wonderful female vocal LP released by FEDERAL in 1977! Mellow reggae with covers of classics by Patti Austin, Albert Hammond, Bob Marley, and more. Marcia Griffiths participates on backing vocals.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Oh If I Should Lose Your Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Evergreen
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Waiting In Vain
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. When I Need You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. Say You Love Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. Dancing To My Own Heartbeat
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Small Talk
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. I Wasn't Real

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Grace Petrie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Build Something Better

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It’s two years since CONNECTIVITY (2021) smashed into the top 40 and debuted at #1 in the UK download chart, propelling the fiercely independent voice of GRACE PETRIE from critics’ choice to the main stages of major festivals across The UK and Ireland, Australia and Canada.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              For a seasoned road dog who spent almost 15 years clocking up tours with the likes of Billy Bragg, Frank Turner and Hannah Gadsby, the COVID lockdowns were like a cage for Petrie and when restrictions lifted, she hit the road harder than ever, armed with her most searing and successful record to date, and determined to make up for lost time. Sell-out headline tours across the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand followed, with audiences from Melbourne to Toronto mesmerised by the ferocity of her socially urgent lyricism and the barnstorming power of her live show. But travelling the globe hasn’t diminished her laser focus on the political issues plaguing the UK, with two more Prime Ministers, endless blunders and evermore division seen since she last swapped microphone for pen and paper.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Now the songwriter is back - stronger, older and a whole lot angrier than ever before. As right wing ideologues trade in suspicion and cynicism, tearing communities apart against a backdrop of crumbling public services, the ordinary folk of Britain continue to suffer the consequences of corruption and individualism.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              From within this maelstrom of despair comes BUILD SOMETHING BETTER - the new, uncontainable album from Grace Petrie.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Recorded raw and unflinchingly with folk-punk legend Frank Turner in the producer’s seat, BUILD SOMETHING BETTER is a return to blistering protest form for Britain’s most relevant political songwriter, a decade after being hailed as “a powerful new voice”, (The Guardian) and “a millennial’s Billy Bragg” (Huffington Post). In a world that seems to make less sense than ever, these are songs made to both holler along to from the crowd barrier and to tear up with on a lonely latet night train. A record for everyone whose broken heart beats for, and whose boots stomp in time with, the hope a brighter tomorrow.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              “An effervescent charm-bomb of a performer” - The New Yorker.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. The Best Country In The World
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. The House Always Wins
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. King And Country
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Meanwhile In Texas
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Next Episode Starts
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6. Start Again
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              7. Earthwire
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              8. Cynicism Free
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              9. If I Were To Outlive You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              10. English Culture
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              11. Fixer Upper

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Vaughan Mason And Butch Dayo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Feel My Love - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                If ever an album could transport you to the hazy sunshine and imagined halcyon paradise of Southern California in the mid-1980s, could capture the early evening warmth of hanging at an inclusive boogie jam as it approaches “magic hour” in Santa Ana or Anaheim, then it’s Vaughan Mason and Butch Dayo’s Feel My Love. A brilliantly produced deep slung, low rider funk classic originally released on Salsoul in 1983. It’s a masterpiece of “funk love music”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Yes, this is indeed a perfectly formed five track “mini LP” of unparalleled heat, but there’s one song here that, above the rest, represents Orange County boogie-funk. A straight killer beloved by all that have had the pleasure of moving to it. A track that can fill up a dance floor within seconds of its starting. That song is the eternal title track, “Feel My Love”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This is a work of art that made people fall in love with the funk. It transcends the limitations of genre. “Feel My Love”’s deceptive simplicity makes it perfect to drop during a house set, a classic funk party or at a west coast rap jam. It’s sexy, deeply emotional, melancholic, hopeful, passionate and just radiates so, so much raw energy. This is music.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The rest of the record is hardly filler though. Opener “Oh, Love” is a dizzying, emotional slow jam. With heaven-sent vocals riding gorgeous, sweeping keys that alternate between sweet twinkling lines and funk-fuelled stabbing. It’s sensational. A rollerskating jam named “Rollalong Songs” is an ultra-swish piece of dance floor dynamite. Its slick drums, staccato piano and neck snapping claps underscore Dayo’s buoyant vocals. It’s essentially “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll Part II”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The flip begins with “Party On The Corner”. Smoother than silk vocals, day-glo synths, a bubbling bassline and guitar licks that surely received the Prince seal of approval. It’s another example of how Vaughan Mason and Butch Dayo flirt with perfection so routinely. The most majestic closer, the kaleidoscopic, cow-bell-assisted synth-funk heater “You Can Do It” is a proto-rap groover that truly smokes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This prized LP is a stone cold jam and finding original copies on vinyl at affordable prices has been tough for years. Mastered brilliantly by Simon Francis, cut by Pete Norman and with lovingly reproduced artwork, this fresh Be With reissue ensures this legendary LP now sounds, looks and feels as sensational as it should.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A1: Oh, Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A2: Rollalong Songs
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A3: Feel My Love
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B1: Party On The Corner
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B2: You Can Do It

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                British Sea Power

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Decline Of British Sea Power - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Released on the band's own Golden Chariot Records label comes this lovingly rendered reissue of 'The Decline of British Sea Power', the band's debut album, originally released in June 2003 to huge critical acclaim and available now on coloured vinyl for the first time

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Over the course of their 5 studio LPs and three award winning film soundtracks, British Sea Power have become a true British institution: Top 10, Mercury nominated LP, 3 UK silver discs and renowned for their astonishing live shows in unique and unlikely locations - National History Museum, Great Wall of China, Cutty Sark, Cern Hadron Collider, Chelsea Flower show, down a Cornish mine, up in the hills in the highest pub in England, Jodrell Bank and at the John Betjeman centenary with Nick Cave, Barry Humphries, Ronnie Corbet and Prince Charles - as well as hundreds of more traditional sell out tours and festivals around the world.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Men Together Today
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Apologies To Insect Life
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Favours In The Beetroot Fields
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Something Wicked
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Remember Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Fear Of Drowning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Lonely
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Carrion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Blackout
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Lately
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A Wooden Horse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Health

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  DISCO4 :: Generations

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    HEALTH's DISCO4::GENERATIONS brings the highly desired & highly collaborative DISCO4::PART I & DISCO4::PART II into a cohesive singular project. Step into the unconventional world of DISCO4::GENERATIONS and discover the totality of HEALTH directly from the band & those who inspire them.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Body
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Prison
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. Power Fantasy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Judgement Night
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    6. Innocence
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    7. Full Of Health
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    8. Colors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    9. Hate You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    10. D.F. Looks
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    11. Mass Grave
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    12. Delicious Ape
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    13. Hard To Be A God
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    14. Dead Flowers (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    15. Isn't Everyone
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    16. Murder Death Kill
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    17. Identity (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    18. Cold Blood (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    19. Ad 1000 (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    20. Gnostic Flesh
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    21. Mortal Hell (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    22. The Joy Of Sect (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    23. Still Breathing (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    24. No Escape (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    25. Excess (Vinyl Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    26. These Days 2.0.2.1. (Vinyl Version)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Trammps

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    This One Is For The Party - 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This One Is For The Party is the final studio album by The Trammps, originally released in 1984. The Trammps, hailing from Philadelphia, were a prominent fixture in the disco scene of the 1970s. Consisting of Earl Young, Harold Wade, Jimmy Ellis, Robert Upchurch, and Stanley Wade, they were known for their infectious grooves and energetic live performances. The Trammps earned their place in music history with hits like “Disco Inferno” and “Hold Back the Night”, but also “Shout” and “Move” became disco classics.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      40 years after its original release, the tracks of This One Is For The Party continue to fill dance floors at parties and their influence can be heard in modern dance and pop music. The album also features a guest performance by the Dutch female group Mai Tai on “I Don’t Know (One For The Party)”.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      In celebration of its 40th anniversary, This One Is For The Party is available as an expanded edition, including the extended version of the Top 40 hit “Move” as a bonus track. Also, the album has been completely remastered at Artone Studio in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Are You Ready
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2. I Will Be Here For You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      3. Twenty-Five Miles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      4. Truly Wonderful
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5. Shout

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Move
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2. Shine A Light
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      3. I Don't Know (One For The Party)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      4. Fantacity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5. Move (Extended Version) (bonus Track)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sugarhill Gang

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Sugarhill Gang - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop trio, worldwide known for their massive 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight", which was the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The track was the first exposure to hip-hop for millions of people. The Sugarhill Gang were also among the very first rap acts to record a full-length LP.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Here I Am
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. Rapper's Reprise (Jam-Jam)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. Bad News

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1. Sugar Hill Groove
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2. Passion Play
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. Rapper's Delight *Bonus Track
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4. Rapper's Delight (Single Version)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        David Bowie

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Diamond Dogs - 50th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          On 24th May, 2024, the exact day of its Golden Jubilee, Diamond Dogs will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary picture disc LP, pressed from the same master as the half speed version. The first single from the album, ‘Rebel Rebel’, reached number 5 in the UK and the album would also reach similar heights on both sides of the Atlantic reaching number 1 in the UK and number 5 in the USA.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This new pressing of Diamond Dogs was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. The half-speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The writing of the album was influenced by Bowie not being able to secure the rights for a theatrical production of George Orwell’s 1984 and the work of William S. Burroughs, whom Bowie had interviewed for Rolling Stone in November 1973. The songs on the album created an urban apocalyptic scenario with Bowie appearing on the cover as a controversial half-man, half-dog hybrid painted by the Belgian artist Guy Peellaert from photos by the world-renowned photographer Terry O’Neill. Since its release, tracks from Diamond Dogs have been covered by artists such as Beck, Tina Turner, Duran Duran, Def Leppard, Joan As Police Woman, Dead Or Alive and The Struts. 


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          SIDE ONE
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Future Legend
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Diamond Dogs
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sweet Thing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Candidate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sweet Thing (Reprise)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Rebel Rebel

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          SIDE TWO
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Rock ’n’ Roll With Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          We Are The Dead
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1984
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Big Brother
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Fleetwood Mac

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Rumours - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            One of the greatest and best-selling albums of all time: Rumours. This iconic 1977 Fleetwood Mac album has been bought over 40 million times globally, despite being recorded through hedonism, scandal and relationship break-ups within the band. The album, according to music journalist Stephen Thomas Erlewine, “transcends its origins and reputation, entering the realm of legend”. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Fleetwood Mac

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Fleetwood Mac - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Fleetwood Mac is the tenth studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 11 July 197. This was the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as vocalist, after Bob Welch departed the band in late 1974.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart dated 4 September 1976, 58 weeks after entering the chart, and spawned three top-twenty singles: "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", and "Say You Love Me", the last two falling just short of the top ten, both at number 11.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Abacothozi were formed in 1973 by bassist Berthwel Maphumulo, formerly of the Elite Swingsters.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Together with Mac Mathunjwa on organ, his brother Innocent Mathunjwa on drums, and Joe Zikhali on guitar, they recorded at least two albums: "Thema Maboneng" released in 1975 and "Night in Pelican" released in 1976 (reissued on Matsuli Music Compilation "Night In Pelican"). These six sizzling tracks were originally recorded by West Nkosi for the Mavuthela label.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Released without fanfare and then forgotten, they remained totally unknown to DJs and clubgoers for over 40 years.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Rediscovered by Diggers Extraordinaire Kon & Amir for their much-lauded "Off Track Volume Two: Queens" (3xLP) on BBE Records and suddenly, a Volcanic Meltdown Frenzy for a Holiest of Grails emerged with sightings reported in hushed tones just in case you were beaten to the draw in some backstreet waxcave that someone foolishly whispered about on a social media site for all the world to see.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Now, Jazz Room Records is proud to release this epic fusion of sun-soaked exuberance, funk-infused rhythms and soul-jazz-driven beats for the first time in 50 years.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sounding as if it were recorded yesterday, it is poised to light up dance floors again, from the Vibrant Streets of Soweto to the Funky Basement Dives of Barcelona, filling floors from the Outasite Getdown Grooves of Uncle Funks Palace to the Solid Soul Boulevards of Funky Broadway.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Thema Maboneng
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Khwezela Mkhwezeli
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Jika Sibongile
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Cothozani Bafana
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Igxababa Lembadada
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6. Pho Usolani

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Danger Mouse & Jemini

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ghetto Pop Life - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Originally released on Lex Records in 2003 it has been out of print for a number of years and is now being reissued to coincide with the release of Born Again. Featuring guest appearances from tha Liks , J- Zone , Prince Po , and the Pharcyde.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Born-A-MC
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Ghetto Pop Life (Intro)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                3. Ghetto Pop Life
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Omega Supreme (Who?!)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5. What U Sittin On?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                6. The Only One
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                7. Take Care Of Business
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                8. That Brookyln Shit
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                9. Yoo-Hoo!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10. Copy Cats
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                11. Don't Do Drugs
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                12. Medieval
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                13. Bush Boys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                14. Here We Go Again
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                15. I'ma Doomee
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                16. Knuckle Sandwhich

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Nearly 10 years out of print, recut and remastered from the analogue tape masters from Alchemy's pristine mastering work; focusing and enriching every finite detail into pure analogue bliss! This remastered edition features epic reworks of cv313's now classic, "Seconds To Forever" released back in 2010. The first track is a reshape by intrusion, dubbed out live in the mix from the original 8 channel analogue tapes as to summon the spirit of King Tubby. There's also two beautiful remixes from the brilliant Rod Modell (DeepChord). Those touched by his recent output will have a lot to love here. Gorgeous plumes of sound envelope the listener into near hypnosis, subdiving deeper than even the original work could. Sublime and beyond gravity, another exquisite excursion transmitting from the other side of the galaxy. Pressed onto 150 gram crystal virgin blue wax. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Matt says: High watermarks of dub-techno / dream-state electronics by Steven Hitchell (I forget if Rod Modell had left by this point). Truly blissed out pieces of serene hypnosis, gentle propelled by fluttery, undulating rhythms and thick with electrostatic. A seminal now as they were then.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A1: Seconds To Forever [intrusion Dub]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A2: Seconds To Forever [deepchord Mix I]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B: Seconds To Forever [deepchord Mix II]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                M.A.N.I.C

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Feel The Rush - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                30 years (32 if you're being picky - Ed) after it was originally released, Salford City Record reissue "Feel The Rush" by M.A.N.I.C with all the mixes, on fresh 180g green transparent vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Another killer relic from the era of piano house, smiley faces and high speed dodgems, "Feel The Rush", like many tunes of the time, captured the hedonistic, ecstasy-soaked feeling that was coursing through clubland at the time in novel and unique ways! Melanie McHaffie provides the empassioned vocal delivery, whilst Kieron Jolliffe & Lee Hudson (who'd also go under the alias Bonemasters) provide an electric, piano driven house groove with early 'donk' bass and synth sax licks. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Whilst the club and vocal mixes retain much of the same characteristics, the 12" mix sees the track get taken to the dark underbelly of Bowlers - with added rave elements such as hoovers, dark 'Timebase' bass and pitched up vocal squeals; nearly transforming it into a pure hardcore track. Meanwhile, the 'Techno Mix' is a neat amalgamation of Sheffield bleep, hardcore breaks and early jungle mindset as it deploys a tight rhythm and bass pattern alongside soundbwoy shoutouts and stuttered rave stabs. Inside! 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Another key moment of UK dance history beautifully excavated and presented by the good folks at Salford City Records. Recommended! 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Matt says: Hardcore-indebted piano house here from MANIC who took the sugar coated hooks of the era and injected a degree of proto-jungle urgency and grit into proceedings. A fine example of the development of early-mid '90s rave music.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A1. Club Mix
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                A2. Vocal Mix
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B1. 12 Mix
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                B2. Techno Mix

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Cymande

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Promised Heights - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This year marks the 50th anniversary of Cymande’s 'Promised Heights', a record that closed out an historic three album run of seminal early '70s Afro-soul that also included their 1972 self-titled debut and 1973’s Second Time Round. Promised Heights solidified Cymande’s place in music history, and contains some of their most-beloved and often-sampled tracks such as “Brothers On The Slide”. As children of the Windrush Generation, Cymande were part of the first wave of innovators and originators of the fledgling Black British music scene. Taking influences from their Guyanese and Jamaican roots, the band fused reggae bass lines, Afro-tinged Nyabinghi percussion, psychedelic rock touches, and American style funk instrumentation into a unique sound they dubbed as “Nyah-rock.” Promised Heights was recorded following the band’s US tour with Al Green, which had firmly planted Cymande in the ears of an adoring American audience. Cymande were also the first British band to ever play the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A1. Pon De Dungle
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A2. Equatorial Forest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A3. Brothers On The Slide
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A4. Changes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A5. Breezeman
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B1. Promised Heights
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B2. Losin' Ground
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B3. Leavert
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B4. The Recluse
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B5. Sheshamani

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Modest Mouse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Good News For People Who Love Bad News - 20th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Released by Epic Records on April 6, 2004, Good News For People Who Love Bad News offered a unique blend of existential lyricism and innovative soundscapes which helped Modest Mouse break out of the rock underground after more than a decade of existence. The album, which has been certified double platinum for U.S. shipments of 2 million copies, is hailed as an alternative classic on the strength of songs such as the Modern Rock chart-topping, 5-times platinum single “Float On,” the gold-certified “The World At Large” and “Ocean Breathes Salty.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Remastered for vinyl in opaque baby pink and opaque spring green, the package includes an alternate album cover, 8-page booklet and five ew remixes. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Mulatu Astatke

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Mulatu Of Ethiopia (Special Edition)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      In celebration of the label's 25th anniversary, Strut have released a special edition of a landmark album within the realm of African music - Mulatu Astatke's 'Mulatu Of Ethiopia’. Recorded in New York in 1972, this pivotal album marks a juncture in Astatke's musical journey when he adeptly fused various styles to craft the distinctive genre known as Ethio-jazz.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      For this special edition, the release features the original stereo mix of the full album, as well as a special ‘mono-mix’ of each track retrieved from the original 2" tapes, pressed on opaque white vinyl 2LP.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. Mulatu (Stereo Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      2. Mascaram Setaba (Stereo Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      3. Dewel (Stereo Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      4. Kulunmanqueleshi (Stereo Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5. Kasalefkut-Hulu (Stereo Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6. Munaye (Stereo Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      7. Chifara (Stereo Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8. Mulatu (Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      9. Mascaram Setaba (Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      10. Dewel (Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      11. Kulunmanqueleshi (Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      12. Kasalefkut-Hulu (Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      13. Munaye (Mono Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      14. Chifara (Mono Mix)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Ben Folds Five

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Whatever And Ever Amen - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Whatever and Ever Amen is the sophomore album from alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five. Originally released in 1997, the album features fan favorite songs like "Brick", "Kate", and "Song for the Dumped.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        SIDE A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Fair
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Brick
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Song For The Dumped
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Selfless, Cold And Composed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        SIDE B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Kate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Smoke
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Cigarette
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Steven’s Last Night In Town
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Battle Of Who Could Care Less
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Missing The War
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Evaporated 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Laibach

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Opus Dei - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Laibach’s classic album from 1987, 'Opus Dei', has been remastered and redesigned.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The album that first brought Laibach to a mass consumption audience, with their unique interpretations of Opus' ‘Live is Life’ and Queen’s ‘One Vision’, and heavy rotation on MTV’s alternative shows and ITV’s The Chart Show. Produced by Rico Conning, it stands as a defining statement of intent and prophecy that the band continues to uphold nearly 40 years later.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The album, remastered from the original tapes, includes an extensive 16-page booklet with new text by Alexi Munroe and photos from the time. The album cover artwork has also had a distinctive redesign that draws on the original and pushes it forward.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The CD box set includes an additional CD of 16 live tracks from the Opus Dei touring that happened between 1987 and 1989.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The original vinyl edition has been unavailable for over 20 years.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          LP Tracklist:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Leben-Tod
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. F.I.A.T. (Let It Be)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Opus Dei (Life Is Life)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Trans-national
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. How The West Was Won
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8. The Great Seal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          CD Tracklist:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          CD1:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Leben-Tod
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. F.I.A.T. (Let It Be)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Trans-national
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. How The West Was Won
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. Opus Dei (Life Is Life)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8. The Great Seal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          9. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [Eine Richtung Und Ein Volk Version]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          10. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei) [Marche Funèbre Version]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          11. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [3. Oktober – Kraftbach – Version]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          CD2:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei) [Live From London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1987]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          3. Leben-Tod (Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          4. F.I.A.T. (Let It Be) [Live From Paris, Espace Ornano, 1992]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Trans-national (Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          6. How The West Was Won (Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          7. Opus Dei (Life Is Life) [Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          8. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei) [Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          9. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          10. Leben-Tod (Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          11. How The West Was Won (Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          12. Geburt Einer Nation (Vienna, Messepalast, Kaiser Franz Josef Reitschule, 1988)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          13. Leben-Tod (Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          14. Trans-national (Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          15. How The West Was Won (Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          16. Opus Dei (Life Is Life) [Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Various Artists

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Soul Jazz Records Presents: In The Beginning There Was Rhythm - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Unavailable for over 20 years, ‘In The Beginning There Was Rhythm’ was Soul Jazz Records’ first foray into post-punk and punk-funk in the UK, capturing the groundbreaking, seminal groups that crossed the divide of punk and dance music for the first time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            First released in 2001, this album is fully remastered, remade and presented once more in its entirety and features A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, The Human League, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, The Slits, 23 Skidoo and This Heat.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            This album comes as a CD and as a double black vinyl edition with download code complete with two bespoke inner bags containing extensive sleevenotes and original photography.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            As Muzik magazine noted on its initial release, ‘In The Beginning There Was Rhythm’ is a choice selection from the fertile post-punk period when bands thought nothing of combining politics and philosophy with imported dance rhythms and edgy industrial angst.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Most of the bands featured come from the then bleak postindustrial North of England - Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds as well as Bristol and London - and yet all show a fascination with Black American rhythms and an experimentation in sound that was completely unique at the time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. A Certain Ratio - Shack Up
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2. 23 Skidoo - Coup
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            4. The Human League - Being Boiled
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            5. The Slits - In The Beginning There Was Rhythm (Early Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            6. This Heat - 24 Track Loop
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            8. The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            9. Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin' Fer Jesus
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            10. 23 Skidoo - Vegas El Bandito
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            11. A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Jimi Hendrix

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            First Rays Of The Rising Sun - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Originally released in April 1997, First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, was the first album prepared under the direct supervision of the Hendrix Family. Drawing together seventeen songs whose creation spans from March 1968 through to Jimi’s final sessions at Electric Lady Studios in August 1970, the album marked the last graceful gesture by the innovative artist Jimi Hendrix. Features “Dolly Dagger,” “Angel,” “Ezy Rider” and “Freedom.” This release is a new, all analog edition mastered from the original 1/4" mixes by Bernie Grundman and pressed on 140-gram black vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Freedom
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Izabella
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Night Bird Flying
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Angel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Room Full Of Mirrors

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Dolly Dagger
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Ezy Ryder
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Drifting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Beginnings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side C
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Stepping Stone
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. My Friend
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Straight Ahead
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Side D
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Earth Blues
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Astro Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. In From The Storm
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Belly Button Window

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              New mastering and new cutting of one of Metroplex's keystone releases - considered by many as one of the most important tracks in Juan Atkin's catalogue and a milestone of Detroit techno.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It wasn't a wholly Detroit affair however. Originally released in '92 on Tresor by 3MB featuring Magic Juan; 3MB is three men in Berlin - no other than Moritz Von Oswald, Thomas Fehlmann and Juan Atkins. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Signed to Metroplex in '93 with slightly different credits it perfectly encapsulates the cross pollination that was present between Detroit, Berlin (and Manchester) at the time. It still sounds futuristic to this day - the flanging percussion, rolling riff and gliding bass. "Cosmic Courier" (also originally signed to Tresor) is an enveloping, 4/4 rollercoaster of deep interstella emotion - again a perfect example of the development of techno as a form of a high tech jazz. "Bassmental" concludes with a more mentalist, acidiic airstrike - very much in keeping with Tresor's club ethos (where Jeff Mills and co. famously had to have oxygen tanks DELIVERED to them, mid-set, due to the underground nature of the club and the extended set times gifted to the Detroit breathen). Pivotal, encapsulating tracks from the storied and embryonic period of techno - every home needs one! 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Matt says: A high watermark of the techno genre, widely celebrated as one of Juan Atkins' finest moments, and a brilliant example of the cross-pollination between Detroit and Berlin - "Jazz Is The Teacher" deserves a place in every techno lover's record collection.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1 Jazz Is The Teacher
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2 Cosmic Courier
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3 Bassmental

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Black Children

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Black Children Sledge Funk Band - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A little masterpiece of soul afrofunk with carpets of dreamy keyboards on their swirlingly seductive sound and their really cool voices. The second album of BLACK CHILDREN SLEDGE FUNK BAND released in 1978 is a delight. Repressed for the first time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Be What You Are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2. I'm A Living Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Smiling Girl
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              4. I Know You Know What I Know
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Imagination
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              6. Doing It If You Can

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Since the early 90s Rotterdam is known throughout the world of dance music for its many influential creative endeavours and one of these was the short-lived label See Saw. Active between 1991 and 1995, the label was the home to mostly Dutch producers who were just dipping their toes in the waters of house and techno. Or, who already had a whole leg in like Speedy J.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Sandwiched between two of his early releases as The Melody (Discogs detectives know what’s up!) sits The Jewel EP, the only EP Gijs Vroom did under his Diamonds & Pearls alias. A kind stranger online once described the record as effective and joyful and we couldn’t agree more. It’s a mixed bag of zippy breaks, swirling pads, tight Lately basses, and foxy vocal snips and like many records of the era it maximises charm with minimal equipment. It’s these kinds of twelve-inches that stood at the cradle of the Dutch house sound and so it is very deserving of a little nook in your record bag.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Matt says: A really strong house artefact from 90s Rotterdam (at the time more known for its tougher, harder edged sound). This is a true gem - painfully hard to acquire until now. Props to Late Night Burners for gifting us this handy reissue.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A1. What You Do To Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A2. Perspective
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              A3. What You Do To Disco
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B1. Rockin' Your World
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              B2. Blue Sunday

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Portishead

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Roseland NYC Live - 25th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                25th Anniversary Edition of the pioneering Bristol trio’s album, Roseland NYC Live; recorded and filmed at New York’s Roseland Ballroom with a 28-piece orchestra in 1997, and released in 1998.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The live album and concert film combined have sold over 1 million copies to date, and features performances of the most acclaimed tracks, ‘Glory Box’, ‘Sour Times’, and ‘Roads’, from their debut and sophomore albums, Dummy and Portishead.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Newly remastered, the tracklist has been expanded to include ‘Undenied’ and ‘Numb’ from the concert film, as well as the full length performance of ‘Western Eyes’, which played in part over the credits of the film.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ‘Sour Times’ and ‘Roads’ are also now the original Roseland versions (previously substituted on the album release with recordings from other performances). All 5 of these tracks will be on CD and vinyl for the first time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Vinyl Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Humming
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Cowboys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                All Mine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mysterons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Only You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Half Day Closing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Over
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side C
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Glory Box
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sour Times
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Roads
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Side D
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Strangers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Undenied
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Numb
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Western Eyes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                CD Tracklisting:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Humming
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Cowboys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                All Mine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Mysterons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Only You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Half Day Closing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Over
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Glory Box
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Sour Times
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Roads
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Strangers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Undenied
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Numb
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Western Eyes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Johnny Marr

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Adrenalin Baby - Deluxe Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Adrenalin Baby was recorded live during the Playland tour in 2014. It includes live recordings predominantly from the iconic Manchester Apollo and Brixton Academy. Marr said he wanted to capture the atmosphere and feeling of the last couple of tours. It contains live versions of tracks from his solo records, Playland, The Messenger, whilst also including songs from earlier in his career, such as Getting Away With It. Adrenalin Baby also features several songs by The Smiths, such as The Headmaster Ritual, How Soon Is Now and Bigmouth Strikes Again.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  LP
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A1 Playland
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A2 The Right Thing Right
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A3 Easy Money
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A4 25 Hours
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B1 New Town Velocity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B2 The Headmaster Ritual
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B3 The Messenger
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  B4 Back In The Box
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C1 Generate! Generate!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C2 Bigmouth Strikes Again
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C3 Boys Get Straight
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  C4 Candidate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D1 Getting Away With It
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D2 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D3 Dynamo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D4 I Fought The Law
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  D5 How Soon Is Now?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  CD
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1 Playland
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2 The Right Thing Right
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3 Easy Money
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4 25 Hours
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5 New Town Velocity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6 The Headmaster Ritual
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  7 The Messenger
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  8 Back In The Box
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  9 Generate! Generate!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  10 Bigmouth Strikes Again
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  11 Boys Get Straight
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  12 Candidate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  13 Getting Away With It
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  14 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  15 Dynamo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  16 I Fought The Law
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  17 How Soon Is Now?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Black Uhuru

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Brutal - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Released in 1986, BRUTAL has never been reissued on vinyl until now. It features a dream cast: Sly & Robbie as BLACK UHURU's leader, Junior Reid on vocals, Tyrone Downie (Roots Radics) on keyboards, all mixed at Lion & Fox by RAS RECORDS fetish engineer Jim Fox.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    In addition to reissuing this album in its original version, we've remastered the original soundtracks for both vinyl and CD to give this legendary album even more sparkle. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Matt says: Classic 80s roots featuring Sly & Robbie which has remained unavailable on vinyl till now. The remastering sounds delish and it's another essential set for any reggae collector or selector.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    SIDE A

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1. Let Us Pray
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Dread In The Mountain
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Brutal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. City Vibes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Fit You Haffe Fit

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    SIDE B

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1.Great Train Robbery
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2. Uptown Girl
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3. Reggae With You
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    4. Vision
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    5. Conviction Or A Fine 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Soulwax

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Much Against Everyone's Advice - [PIAS] 40 Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Expanded 2LP version, now featuring three tracks - ‘The Salty Knowledge of Tears’, ‘Flying Without Wings’ and ‘My Cruel Joke’ - that were included on the original 2000 CD but not the single LP format.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Also features three remixes from the time - ‘Conversation Intercom (Vocoder Intermix)’, ‘My Cruel Joke (Mike Rule Joe Cream Mix)’ and ‘Saturday (Roger Manning Mix)’.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Conversation Intercom
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Saturday
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      When Logics Die
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Much Against Everyone's Advice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Overweight Karate Kid
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Proverbial Pants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Salty Knowledge Of Tears
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Flying Without Wings
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      More Than This
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Too Many DJs
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Temptingly Yours
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      My Cruel Joke
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Scream
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Funny
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Conversation Intercom (Vocoder Intermix)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      My Cruel Joke (Mike Rul