The debut album from Marc Almond and Dave Ball AKA Soft is truly an icon of electronic music. Not only did ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ introduce the world to classic singles ‘Tainted Love’ (one of the biggest global hits of all time) ‘Bedsitter’ and ‘Say Hello Wave Goodbye’, it also shocked and delighted in equal measure with a 10-track song cycle straight outta the seedier, sleazier, darker side of life. ‘Sex Dwarf’, ‘Frustration’, ‘My Secret Life’, ‘Seedy Films’… four decades on, it still has the power to thrill, shock and swoon.

In 2023, Mercury-EMI / UMR present the ultimate celebration of ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ in a series of exciting new formats, all with a host of supplementary extras and rarities from the ‘Cabaret’ era.

TRACK LISTING

6CD (* Denotes Previously Unreleased)
CD1 - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: 2023 Remaster + Singles, B-Sides & Edits
Frustration 04:12
Tainted Love 02:35
Seedy Films 05:05
Youth 03:21
Sex Dwarf 05:47
Entertain Me 03:00
Chips On My Shoulder 04:06
Bedsitter 03:36
Secret Life 03:37
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 05:34
Memorabilia (Single Version) 04:49
A Man Could Get Lost (Single Version) 03:17
Persuasion (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 03:36 *
Where Did Our Love Go? (Single B-Side) 03:14
Facility Girls (Single B-Side) 02:23
Fun City (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 04:24
Torch (Single Version) 04:08
Insecure Me (Single B-Side) 03:10
What! (Single Version) 02:51
…So (Single B-Side) 03:49
CD2 - Non-Stop Extended Cabaret: Full-Length Versions & New Remixes
Frustration (Extended Version) 06:02 *
Tainted Love (2021 10" Extended Version) 05:05
Seedy Films (2023 Extended Version) 05:16 *
Youth (2018 ‘Wasted On The Young’ Extended Version) 05:41
Sex Dwarf (2023 Extended Version) 05:45 *
Entertain Me (2023 Extended Version) 06:05 *
Chips On My Shoulder (2018 Extended Version) 06:16
Bedsitter (1981 Original 12” Mix) 07:52
Secret Life (2018 Extended Version) 05:20
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (2018 Dave Ball ‘Lateral Mix’) 07:07
A Man Could Get Lost (2023 Extended Version) 05:08 *
Memorabilia (Daniel Miller 2023 Remix) 05:16
Memorabilia (The Hacker 2023 Remix) 06:37
CD3 - Non-Stop Exotic Cabaret: Curios, Rarities, Sessions & Alternate Mixes
Frustration (Original ‘Mutant Moments’ Version) 03:32
Tainted Love (New 2023 Version) 03:01 *
Seedy Films (Richard X Remix) 05:20
Youth (Dave Ball ‘Warhol Funeral’ Mix) 03:05 *
Sex Dwarf (Live On BBC ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ 4th February 1982) 05:16
Entertain Me (Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 03:45
Chips On My Shoulder (Live From ‘The Oxford Road Show’ 22nd January 1982) 03:28 *
Bedsitter ((Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 03:34
Secret Life (George Demure Remix) 05:10
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Live From ‘The Oxford Road Show’ 22nd January 1982) 04:33 *
A Man Could Get Lost (Live At Leeds Warehouse, 16th July 2018) 03:30 *
Torch (Live From ‘Top Of The Pops 2’, 28th January 2002) 04:05 *
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (US Radio Edit) 04:01 *
Seedy Films (Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 03:58
Youth (Live On BBC ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ 4th February 1982) 03:15 *
Chips On My Shoulder (Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 04:20
Tainted Love (Live From ‘Top Of The Pops’ 1981 Reunion, 2001) 03:14 *
Bedsitter (‘Flexipop’ Version) 03:45 *
Memorabilia (2023 Dub Mix) 5:44 *
Tainted Love (Aborted 1981 Studio Take) 1:07 *
CD4 - Non-Stop Instrumental Cabaret: Instrumentals & Bonus Demos
Frustration (Instrumental) 04:15 *
Tainted Love (Instrumental) 03:01 *
Seedy Films (Instrumental) 05:10 *
Youth (Instrumental) 03:25 *
Sex Dwarf (Instrumental) 05:15 *
Entertain Me (Instrumental) 02:57 *
Chips On My Shoulder (Instrumental) 04:09 *
Bedsitter (Instrumental) 03:39 *
Secret Life (Instrumental) 04:03 *
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Single B-Side Instrumental) 03:54
A Man Could Get Lost (Original Daniel Miller Instrumental Version) 03:30 *
Torch (Instrumental) 04:12 *
What! (Instrumental) 03:11 *
Insecure Me (Instrumental) 03:12 *
Tainted Love (Original 1981 Daniel Miller Demo) 02:47
Seedy Films (Original 1981 Demo) 04:02 *
Sex Dwarf (Original 1981 Demo) 06:53 *
Chips On My Shoulder (Original Demo) 03:50 *
Secret Life (Original 1981 Demo) 03:39 *
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Original 1981 Demo) 04:39 *
CD5 - Non-Stop Original Cabaret: The 1981 / 1982 12” Mixes & B Sides
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (Original 12" Version) 08:57
Memorabilia (Original 12" Version) 07:47
Torch (Original 12" Version) 08:28
What! (Original 12" Version) 06:09
Tainted Dub (Original Version) 09:14
Persuasion (Original 12" Version) 07:35
Facility Girls (Original 12" Version) 07:16
Fun City (Original Version) 07:33
Insecure Me (Original 12" Version) 08:16
…So (Original 12" Version) 08:29
CD6 - Non-Stop Intimate Cabaret: Live In Concert, London 2021 & 2018
Frustration (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Tainted Love (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Seedy Films (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Youth (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Sex Dwarf (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Entertain Me (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Chips On My Shoulder (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Bedsitter (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Secret Life (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Torch (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Memorabilia (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Insecure Me (Live At 02 Arena London, 30 September 2018
What! (Live At 02 Arena London, 30 September 2018
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (Live At 02 Arena London, 30 September 2018

2LP Black/Coloured
LP1 - Side A
Frustration 04:12
Tainted Love 02:35
Seedy Films 05:05
Youth 03:21
Sex Dwarf 05:47
LP1 - Side B
Entertain Me 03:00
Chips On My Shoulder 04:06
Bedsitter 03:36
Secret Life 03:37
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 05:34
LP2 - Side C
Memorabilia (Single Version) 04:49
A Man Could Get Lost (Single Version) 03:17
Persuasion (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 03:36
Where Did Our Love Go? (Single B-Side) 03:14
Facility Girls (Single B-Side) 02:23
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Single B-side, Instrumental) 03:54
LP2 - Side D
Fun City (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 04:24
Torch (Single Version) 04:08
Insecure Me (Single B-Side) 03:10
What! (Single Version) 02:51
…So (Single B-Side) 03:49

It's been nearly 15 years since this originally hit the shelves, which literally took the immersive atmospheric sound of Echospace and brought it right to the floor. With cv313's "Sailingstars" the spirit continues as they go on to preach the gospel of deep with a rippling exercise in space and bass. A sort of slow motion movement in tone and 38 hz sub frequency which nearly verges on the disturbing, a sonic threshold quite hard to achieve in a vinyl cut. The power of repetition and subtle atmosphere are clearly demonstrated here by bringing the listener to an almost hypnotic state within its melodic spatial grooves. The B side offers two immense reductions, equally effective providing a low end throb, analog spirit and organic textures captured in zero gravity, it's like truly sailing among the stars. Lovingly remastered and mixed down from the original analog 1/4" reel to reel tape, strictly limited to 300 copies for the world. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Steven Hitchell's cv313 project, alongside fellow Detroiter Rod Modal / Deepchord have been instrumental in shaping the dub-techno sound since its very inception. Sharing the top of the pyramid with Basic Channel over in Berlin, there's no-one can touch these seminal dreamscapes of static, throb and sonic winds. A crucial repress and one of those must-have records for techno heads.

TRACK LISTING

A. Sailing Stars
B1. Subtraktive (Intrusion Twilight Dub)
B2. Sailing Stars (Intrusion Reform)

Nearly 15 years have passed since the original release with all tracks lovingly remastered for this new remastered edition; which also includes STL's first ever remix and sounds just as beautiful as the day we first heard it! As Bleep so elegantly stated, "Deep, reduced dub-techno with ethereal production nuances from Stephen Hitchell and Rod Modell. Both original tracks here reveal the duo's obsession with the likes of Maurizio, Basic Channel and Chain Reaction. Features a dreamy, minimal house reduction from STL.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: 2nd crucial repress from Steven Hitchell's cv313 catalogue. Recorded when the project was a duo with Rod Model (Deepchord), it's a perfect rendition of rootsical dubwise bass technology, dreamy cosmic chords and rhythmic static that would define this most seminal of outfits. As is the norm - a beautifully produced, coloured 12" pressed that sounds as good as it looks.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Cv313 - Infinit-1 [original]
A2. Cv313 - Infinit-1 [remodel]
B1. Cv313 - Infinit-1 [stl Remix]

A triple LP Deluxe Edition of Van Morrison’s multi-platinum selling 1970 release Moondance with the original LP remixed by Steven Wilson.

TRACK LISTING

LP 1 The Original Album Remixed By Steven Wilson (2022)
Side A
1. And It Stoned Me
2. Moondance
3. Crazy Love
4. Caravan
5. Into The Mystic
Side B
1. Come Running
2. These Dreams Of You
3. Brand New Day
4. Everyone
5. Glad Tidings

LP 2 Outtakes And Remixes
Side C
1. Into The Mystic (Take 11)
2. Caravan (Take 4)
3. Glad Tidings (Remix 2)
4. These Dreams Of You (Remix)
Side D
1. Come Running (Take 2)
2. Brand New Day (Take 3)
3. Glad Tidings (Alt. Version)
4. Crazy Love (Alternate Mix)

LP 3 Outtakes And Remixes
Side E
1. Caravan (Redo: Take 3)
2. These Dreams Of You (Alt. Version)
3. Moondance (Take 22)
4. Glad Tidings (Take 9)
Side F
1. I Shall Sing (Take 7)
2. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out (Outtake)
3. I’ve Been Working (Early Version, Take 5)

Knitting Factory Records and Partisan Records are proud to release the sixth installment of the much anticipated vinyl reissue box sets from the Fela Kuti catalog.

Vinyl box #6 was curated by actor, producer, DJ, rapper and singer, Idris Elba, aka DJ Big Driis. This edition, out on December 1, features Open & Close, Music of Many Colors, Stalemate, I Go Shout Plenty!!!, Live In Amsterdam, and Opposite People. The artwork for each album has been meticulously recreated from the original vinyl pressings, alongside vintage vinyl label artwork. The box set is a limited edition of 5,000 worldwide. It includes a 24 page booklet featuring lyrics, commentaries by Afrobeat historian Chris May, and never before seen photos; as well as a 16” x 24” poster designed by Lemi Ghariokwu, the creative force behind many of Fela’s album covers. Previous box set curators include Chris Martin, Erykah Badu, Ginger Baker, Brian Eno, and Questlove.

TRACK LISTING

Tracklist:
Open & Close
A1) Open & Close
B1) Swegbe & Pako
B2) Gbagada Gbagada Gbogodo Gbogodo

Music Of Many Colors (Feat. Roy Ayers)
A1) 2000 Blacks Got To Be Free
B1) Africa Centre Of The World

Stalemate
A1) Stalemate
B1) Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message)

I Go Shout Plenty!!!
A1) I Go Shout Plenty!!!
B1) Why Black Men Dey Suffer?

Live In Amsterdam
A1) M.O.P. (Movement Of The People) Political Statement Number 1 (Part 1)
B1) M.O.P. (Movement Of The People) Political Statement Number 1 (Part 2)
C1) Custom Check Point
C2) You Gimme Shit I Give You Shit (Part 1)
D1) You Gimme Shit I Give You Shit (Part 2)

Opposite People
A1) O.P. (Opposite People)
B1) Equalisation Of Trouser And Pant

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’ classic 1998 album 'Car Wheels On A Gravel Road' is now on vinyl for the first time. The album won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album and features the songs 'Can’t Let Go' and 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Right In Time
2. Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
4. Drunken Angel
5. Concrete And Barbed Wire
6. Lake Charles
7. Can't Let Go
8. I Lost It
9. Metal Firecracker
10. Greenville
11. Still I Long For Your Kiss
12. Joy
13. Jackson

Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Akiko Yano reissue program with the reissue of her superb double album recorded with YMO at a time when she was part of the group's touring line up between 1979 and 1980. The album is pure Akiko Yano featuring her superb singing and piano playing, enhanced by touches of YMO's synth-pop sound (check her cult version of YMO's classic, "Tong-Poo"). It is the first time the album is released outside of Japan and the deluxe 2-LP set features the original artwork with gatefold sleeve and 4-page insert.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hitotsudake
2. Les Petit Bon Bon
3. Coloured Water
4. Zaikungtong Shonen
5. High Time
6. Dogs Awaiting…
7. Tong Poo
8. Aoi Sanmyaku
9. Genkotsuyama No Oniguirisama
10. Gokigen Wanisan
11. Mata Aone
12. Te Wa Tsutaeru - Tetsudaeru
13. Gohan Ga Dekitayo
14. You're The One

Wewantsounds continues its Akiko Yano reissue programme with the release of "Iroha Ni Konpeitou," another superb Akiko Yano album and one of her funkiest, highlighting her unmissable singing and songwriting talents. Recorded in Tokyo and New York City, the album features a superb line up of the best musicians from both cities and sees Yano mixing Japanese pop with funk and a touch of electronics, playing a wide array of keyboards programmed by YMO synth wizard Hideki Matsutake. This is the first time the album is released outside of Japan and this deluxe LP edition includes remastered sound, download card plus the original 4-page insert with poster, lyrics and full line-up.

TRACK LISTING

1. KAWAJI
2. Iroha Ni Konpeitou
3. A Long Wait
4. Hourou
5. Ike Yanagida
6. Hai Hai Gasa
7. Potsun
8. Kinou Wa Mou
9. On The Way Home
10. East Wind

Wewantsounds is pursuing its ambitious Akiko Yano reissue program with the release of "Japanese Girl", her landmark debut album from 1976. Backed by Little Feat with Lowell George and by the cream of Japanese musicians (including Haruomi Hosono), Japanese Girl is one of the most important Japanese albums of the 70s, mixing pop, rock, Japanese folk together with Little Feat's superb classic sound. This is the very first time the album is released internationally. The deluxe LP edition includes remastered sound, tip-on LP sleeve, download card plus the original 4-page insert with lyrics and full line-up!

TRACK LISTING

1. Sayonara
2. Kuma
3. Telephone Line
4. Tsugary Tour
5. Funamachi-Uta Pt. 2
6. Oinaru Shiino-ki
7. Hekoriputaa
8. Fuuta
9. Oka Wo Koete
10. Funamachi-Uta Pt. 1

Black vinyl version of the remastered compilation of Stereolab singles and rarities first issued in 1998.

Screen printed gatefold sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

1. Pop Quiz
2. The Extension Trip
3. How To Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
4. The Brush Descends The Length
5. Melochord Seventy-Five
6. Space Moment
7. Iron Man
8. The Long Hair Of Death
9. You Used To Call Me Sadness
10. New Orthophony
11. Speedy Car
12. Golden Atoms
13. Ulan Bator
14. One Small Step
15. One Note Samba / Surfboard
16. Cadriopo
17. Klang Tone
18. Get Carter
19. 1000 Miles An Hour
20. Percolations
21. Seeperbold
22. Check And Double Check
23. Munich Madness
24. Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ Mix)
25. The Incredible He Woman

Released originally by Wall of Sound sublabel We Love You in 2002, ‘Sunshine Hit Me’ was recorded and produced by founding members Paul Butler and Aaron Fletcher in a home garden studio - aka The Shed - on the Isle of Wight, and went on to receive a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, 2003.

Singles from the album include “No Trophy”, “Punchbag”, and a cover of Os Mutantes’ “A Minha Menina”.

TRACK LISTING

Punchbag
Angryman
No Trophy
Binnel Bay
Sunshine
A Minha Menina
This Town
Sweet Like A Champion
Lying In The Snow
Zia
Sky Holds The Sun

CD Bonus Tracks
Seeds
You Got To Leave
Elain
Whistle Chop
Jackel Head
Out For The Count

Sublime electronic underwater score from 1981 by former member of Black Sabbath. Comes with unique blank seascape sleeve with sticker sheet to make your own underwater scene sleeve. How super fucking cool is that?

SLEEVENOTES
Since I started collecting records I have been slightly obsessed with underwater music. I could analyse this in many ways but the most obvious starting point for me was the weekly dose of Sunday afternoon TV onboard the Calypso with Jacques Cousteau throughout the 1970s.

My collection of underwater LPs and singles is now extensive - in the hundreds I reckon. But in amongst it all is only one underwater soundtrack from the UK. And this is it. It took me an age to track down Jezz, but I did. And now you don’t have to take an age to track down an original super rare copy of the 1981 pressing.

These days when there are so may represses, rediscoveries and reissues, I thought we’d make this stand out a little more, so I decided to take us all back to my childhood 1970’s when I used to get a little “Action Transfer” set on very special occasions, and stick the little transfers of scuba divers, fish and mini subs all over a small paper underwater landscape. Sadly we couldn’t get classic rub down Letraset style transfers but I think Kev (DJ Food) has done a miraculous job in creating a modern version.

So sit back (mess about with the stickers) and wonder at the beautiful, submersive electronic sounds created by Jezz all those years ago. Dive in, the water is lovely.
Jonny Trunk 2023.

TRACK LISTING

Side One:
1 Wonderland In The Wilderness
2 Nature On A Knife Edge
Side Two:
3 Sunken Tombs Of The Truk Lagoon
4 Magic Of The Dolphin

The Love Movement" stands as A Tribe Called Quest's fifth studio album. It was initially launched on September 29, 1998, under the Jive Records label. This album is a concept masterpiece delving into the theme of love through its 15 album tracks and 6 bonus tracks, spread across 3 LPs. Notable singles from the album include "Find A Way" and "Hot Sex".

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 - LP - Side A
Start It Up
Find Away
Da Booty
DISC 2 - LP - Side B
Steppin’ It Up
Like It Like That
Common Ground
4 Moms
His Name Is Mutty Ranks
DISC 2 - LP - Side A
Give Me
Pad & Pen
Busta’s Lament
Hot 4 U
DISC 2 - LP - Side B
Against The World
The Love
Rock Rock Ya’ll
DISC 3 - LP - Side A
Scenario (Remix)
Money Maker
Hot Sex
DISC 3 - LP - Side B
Oh My God
Jazzy (We’ve Got) (Re-recording)
One Two Sh*t

Grotesque (After The Gramme) is the third studio album by the Fall. The album reached number one on the UK Independent Chart, spending 29 weeks on the chart in total. The Fall's music at the time was described as "Mancabilly", and by Smith himself as "Country 'n' Northern". In 2020, Rolling Stone included Grotesque (After The Gramme) in its "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list, praising the band for its "ability to craft impossibly catchy songs that simultaneously sound like they're shaking apart at the seams"

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Pay Your Rates
2. English Scheme
3. New Face In Hell
4. C'N'C-S Mithering
5. The Container Drivers

Side B
1. Impression Of J. Temperance
2. In The Park
3. W.M.C - Blob 59
4. Gramme Friday
5. The N.W.R.A.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Turin Brakes’ second album Ether Song, [PIAS] Recordings Catalogue will reissue the long out of print album as a limited 2LP Blue Vinyl.

This reissue will mark the first time that the album has been repressed since original release in 2003.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blue Hour
2. Average Man
3. Long Distance
4. Self Help
5. Falling Down
6. Stone Thrown
7. Clean Blue Air
8. Pain Killer (Summer Rain)
9. Full Of Stars
10. Panic Attack
11. Little Brother
12. Rain City
13. Ether Song

Archaic Devices will also release long-awaited reissues of 2009's psychedelic Observatory EP, 2011’s The Haxan Cloak LP and 2013’s Excavation LP.

Listening to everything Bobby Krlic has recorded as a composer, songwriter and producer is a thought-provoking and exciting experience. With an impressive and ever-growing list of film and television titles to his name, the launch of Archaic Devices allows listeners to revisit his early work as The Haxan Cloak in anticipation of a third full length album that will no doubt be as innovative and metaphysically eye-opening as its predecessors

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
CONSUMED
EXCAVATION (PART 1)
EXCAVATION (PART 2)

SIDE B:
MARA
MISTE

SIDE C:
THE MIRROR REFLECTING (PART 1)
THE MIRROR REFLECTING (PART 2)

SIDE D:
DIEU
THE DROP

Archaic Devices will also release long-awaited reissues of 2009's psychedelic Observatory EP, 2011’s The Haxan Cloak LP and 2013’s Excavation LP.

Listening to everything Bobby Krlic has recorded as a composer, songwriter and producer is a thought-provoking and exciting experience. With an impressive and ever-growing list of film and television titles to his name, the launch of Archaic Devices allows listeners to revisit his early work as The Haxan Cloak in anticipation of a third full length album that will no doubt be as innovative and metaphysically eye-opening as its predecessors

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
RAVEN’S LAMENT
AN ARCHAIC DEVICE

SIDE B:
BURNING TORCHES OF DESPAIR
DISORDER

SIDE C:
THE FALL
THE GROWING

SIDE D:
IN MEMORIAM
PARTING CHANT

Bobby Krlic shares “N/Y,” the first new piece of solo music released as The Haxan Cloak in over a decade. Blistering and propulsive, “N/Y” draws upon the sonic hallmarks Krlic established as fundamental to The Haxan Cloak but with newfound depth drawn from the skills that he has honed over the past decade composing music for film and TV. It is accompanied by a visual also produced and directed by Krlic.

‘N/Y’ is a feeling I’ve had for a really long time,” he says of the track. “It was made with the intention of being something that I could play live only, and was just this burst of intensity that could re-contextualize anywhere I would play it in. I kept working on it and it became something that I wanted to hear regardless of the context. I made the video in the same way. Making charcoal drawings and oil paintings, then fusing these together with self-shot video of myself in my studio. It feels immediate and without compromise. It was made quickly, in a moment, with complete intention. I really hope it changes the space you’re in.”

Krlic’s work in the early 2010’s as The Haxan Cloak bridged the then radically separated worlds of avant garde, drone, metal and electronic music. Earning critical praise from the likes of DAZED, The FADER Pitchfork, Mixmag, The Quietus, The New York Times and The Wire, among others, Krlic’s staunchly independent output brought him to the attention of such luminaries as Björk, Goldfrapp, and Father John Misty as an in-demand producer. Since 2015 he has established himself as a composer for Film, Television and Games, winning a BAFTA award for his score to the Playstation 5 flagship game, Returnal and an Ivor Novello award for his original score for Midsommar, a celebrated artistic collaboration with director Ari Aster. He returned to this collaboration this year with Beau Is Afraid. In addition to his recurring work with Aster, Krlic has flexed his compositional chops for two radically different projects this year, contributing scores to A24 and Netflix’s No.1 acclaimed dark comedy thriller Beef and Warner Bros and DC Studios’ Blue Beetle, the latter of which went on to top the box office upon release.

The release of “N/Y” coincides with the announcement of Archaic Devices, a new label founded by Krlic that will serve as the home for his future releases as The Haxan Cloak alongside reissues of his past work under the moniker. Krlic admits that starting a record label wasn’t something that had occurred to him until he finished building his own home studio in LA and he regained the master tapes to his records from various underground labels. All of his archival releases have been remastered, with aspects of their design and presentation tightened up by Krlic to present his music exactly as he initially intended. Working with revered visual artist Christopher Leckie, Krlic has built a stark, unique identity for his newly minted label Archaic Devices that extends to a new line of merchandise, as well as new visual directions for the label’s first and forthcoming releases. 

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
N/Y

SIDE B:
N/Y

Archaic Devices will also release long-awaited reissues of 2009's psychedelic Observatory EP, 2011’s The Haxan Cloak LP and 2013’s Excavation LP.

Listening to everything Bobby Krlic has recorded as a composer, songwriter and producer is a thought-provoking and exciting experience. With an impressive and ever-growing list of film and television titles to his name, the launch of Archaic Devices allows listeners to revisit his early work as The Haxan Cloak in anticipation of a third full length album that will no doubt be as innovative and metaphysically eye-opening as its predecessors. 

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
OBSERVATORY

SIDE B:
HONFOUR (TEMPLE)

Originally released on vinyl in 1993 via Hut Recordings (UK), Acetone's debut album is now available in an expanded 2LP format and packaged in a gatefold - The is the first pressing in over 30 years.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: Originally released in the UK in 1993 on the long defunct Hut Recordings, everyone at the shop instantly fell in love with this album. Velvets infused slacker rock interspersed with shimmering, Americana tinged melancholy. Amazing!

TRACK LISTING

Come On 
Pinch 
Sundown 
Chills 
Endless Summer
Louise
Don't Cry
No Need Swim 
Barefoot On Sunday

Originally released in 1995 on Vernon Yard Recording - If You Only Knew
is now available for the first time on vinyl - New West Records is proud to
present this record pressed across two LPs and packaged in a full color
gatefold.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: Another classic from Acetone and the first time ever on vinyl for this one.

TRACK LISTING

If You Only Knew
I Don't Really Care
In The Light
I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand
The Final Say
When You're Gone
Hound Dog
99 / What I See
Nothing At All
Esque
Always Late

Originally released in 1997 on Vapor Records - Acetone (Full Album) was the bands most identifiable record - New West Records is proud to present this reissue with an expanded audio format pressed across two LPs and packaged in a full color gatefold.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: An absolute gem of a record! Fragile, hushed vocals over brushed drums and delicate finger picked guitars. On this album they had that slowcore, slacker feel, but intertwined with Americana and a warmth that many of their contemporaries lacked and they sounded like no-one else at the time. Everyone from Jason Pierce to Hope Sandoval has since cites them as an influence and 25 years on from it's original release this LP still sounds incredible.

TRACK LISTING

Every Kiss
All The Time
Germs
Might As Well
Shobud
All You Know
Good Life
Dee
Waltz
Another Minute
So Slow
Chew

Originally released in 2000 on Vapor Records - York Blvd was Acetones last record that they recorded - New West Records is proud to present this reissue with an expanded audio format pressed across two LPs and packaged in a full color gatefold

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Simply wonderful laid back rock with irresistible guitar lines weaving melodies under cool vocal harmonies. Mark Lightcap, Richie Lee and Steve Hadley have recorded a perfect album - steel pedal guitar and Hammond organ add to the rich mix. Previously only available on import, this is a long-time Piccadilly favourite.

TRACK LISTING

Things Are Gonna Be Alright
Wonderful World
19
Vibrato
Like I Told You
It's A Lie
Bonds
One Drop
Vaccination
Stray

The Sultans Of Ping are an Irish band formed in 1988. The band's name is a play on the 1978 Dire Straits song "Sultans of Swing", dating from a time when "it was sacrilege to say anything whatsoever funny or nasty about Dire Straits".

Following a number of lineup changes, the band came to the attention of the Irish and UK music press, when "Where's Me Jumper" was released in January 1992. After several other independently released singles, the band signed to Epic Records, through a deal organized by Rhythm King Records's Martin Heath. With Epic, the band released their debut album Casual Sex In The Cineplex. This debut album from 1993 reached the 23rd position in the UK Albums Chart and includes the singles "Where's Me Jumper", "Stupid Kid", and "You Talk Too Much". These singles respectively reached No. 8, No. 11 and No. 4 in the Irish Singles Chart.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Back In A Tracksuit
2. Indeed You Are
3. Veronica
4. 2 Pints Of Rasa
5. Stupid Kid
6. You Talk Too Much

Side B
1. Give Him A Ball (And A Yard Of Grass)
2. Karaoke Queen
3. Let's Go Shopping
4. Kick Me With Your Leather Boots
5. Clitus Clarke
6. Where's Me Jumper

English indie rock group Black Box Recorder formed in London in 1997 and featured Sarah Nixey, Luke Haines (of The Auteurs), and John Moore (of The Jesus and Mary Chain).

Their debut album, England Made Me, was released on Chrysalis Records in 1998. The album was named after the eponymous Graham Greene novel and fuses indie rock and easy-listening pop stylings with lyrics that explore life and the experience of growing up in England. Pitchfork's Michael Sandlin described the sound of the album as "mildly morose but slightly tongue-in-cheek Sylvia Plath-meets-Paul McCartney pop sensibility".

England Made Me remains a high point in the band's catalogue with standout tracks including 'Kidnapping An Heiress', 'Girl Singing In The Wreckage', and the single 'Child Psychology' which was recently back in the spotlight with a viral moment on social media after being championed by Billie Eilish.

This new anniversary edition has been curated with the assistance of the band and features a newly remaster version of the album, along with a bonus 10" vinyl that includes six b-sides, 4 of which are first time on vinyl. All audio has been remastered from the original production tapes by Phil Kinrade at AIR Mastering and and cut by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios.

TRACK LISTING

LP:
1. Girl Singing In The Wreckage
2. England Made Me
3. New Baby Boom
4. It's Only The End Of The World
5. Ideal Home
6. Child Psychology
7. I.C. One Female
8. Up Town Top / Swinging
9. Kidnapping An Heiress

10”:
1. Hated Sunday
2. Brutality
3. Seasons In The Sun
4. Watch The Angel Not The Wire
5. Factory Radio
6. Wonderful Life
7. Lord Lucan Is Missing

The revelation that you didn’t need formal training to start a band in 1977 and the realization that you don’t need to be Merce Cunningham to dance are one and the same.” - Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork, 2003

47 minutes. Two sides. A single spine jacket. Confident and deliberate. Lightning in a bottle.

The Rapture’s Echoes was and is a clear-eyed kick in the teeth, a band at the peak of their powers and producers with an ambitious vision making. a. point.

The whole “indie crowd finally learns to dance” narrative is overwrought and irrelevant in 2023 - perhaps context is no longer king - but what remains clear is that this album, made by a San Diego punk band who had moved to New York via Seattle, and produced by the DFA in their own studio, where time and gear and ideas both good and bad were aplenty, maintains an energy and search for catharsis that could bulldoze even the most uptight.

For whatever reason, it’s remained out of print on vinyl since its initial run. (Don’t worry, though, there were a lot of CDR promos lying around.)

And now, with minimal pageantry, it’s back. Recut by Bob Weston, loud and clear.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Olio
A2. Heaven
A3. Open Up Your Heart
A4. I Need Your Love
A5. The Coming Of Spring
B1. House Of Jealous Lovers
B2. Echoes
B3. Killing
B4. Sister Saviour
B5. Love Is All
B6. Infatuation

Reissue of classic album originally released by Sub Pop Records in 1990! Now with new artwork + two extra tracks (‘Girl From ’62’ was originally released as the A-side of a single on Regal Select Records, USA 1991 / ‘Troubled Times’ – was the B-side of a single on Dog Meat Records, Australia 1990). 

Q&A with Billy Childish (September 2023)

What’s the story behind the album title?

“Heavens to Murgatroyd, even!” is a term of surprise by Snagglepuss, a bright pink lion, who starred in his very own Hanna-Barbera cartoon. The term was famously employed by The Downliners Sect on the intro to their top tune ‘Leader of The Sect’.

This album originally came out on Sub Pop Records in 1990. The label was known for US grunge at the time, how come they ended up working with a Medway garage ‘n’ racket group?

We prefer the term “Maximum Drums and Racket”. It all came about because a young Steve Turner, of Mudhoney fame, when a young lad visiting England with his father, happened across Thee Mighty Caesars playing at The Cricketers Public House at the Oval. Fast forward five years and he is telling the Seattle Grunge mob all about how great we are. We were then invited to play with Mudhoney on their first Sub Pop jaunt in the UK. Bruce Pavitt, the Sub Pop visionary, saw our mass appeal and asked if we'd knock out an LP for Sub Pop. He also asked me to sign a contract. I replied - “what’s a contract, can you eat it?” By this good chance we still owned the LP.

You recorded the album at Red Studios in Wouldham, near Rochester in Kent. What are your memories of recording there?

It was all fine and dandy, I won’t go into details as I don’t want to embarrass Red Rodders, the engineer. Let’s just say there was a lot of marsh gas down Wouldham way.

Some of the tracks were recorded with Ollie Dolot (The Squares) on bass and backing vocals. How long was he in the band and why did he end up leaving?

Ollie was in for a good few months. Ron (Bruce) roped him in. Then whilst helping out The Cramps with their show at the Town and Country Club (formerly the home of British Fascism) we ran into Tub and knowing him from when he was guitarist with Mike Spenser and The Cannibals we asked if he'd like to twang the onion twine. Ron then told Ollie he was out the band sunshine and that it was me who had thrown him out. Which was not the case, it was Ron. I also think Ollie may have been absent due to being nicked for house breaking, or something. Strange but true.

This new edition is expanded with two non-album tracks and has brand new artwork. What made you want to release it with a different cover?

Sub Pop did the cover without asking - a bit of a shocker! This cover is near to what we would have done ourselves. The two extra tracks would have been on the original LP, but they got swiped as 45s by small labels desperate to get a bit of gold.

Are there any songs on the album that you’re particularly proud of?

They are all pretty top notch but ‘We're Gone’ and ‘Rusty Hook’ sit nicely with ‘Troubled Mind’ and ‘Girl From ‘62’.

Along with the 13 Childish-penned tracks is a cover of ‘Stewball’, a song made famous by Leadbelly and later covered by several artists in the 1960s. What made you want to record your own version?

I just love Leadbelly. I believe we even brought him to the mind of that young fellow-me-lad Kurt Cobain.

TRACK LISTING

Thee Headcoats - Troubled Times
Thee Headcoats - Mantrap
Thee Headcoats - No Way Out
Thee Headcoats - Reindeer Are Wild
Thee Headcoats - Hand To Hand
Thee Headcoats - Headcoat Man
Thee Headcoats - Girl Of Matches
Thee Headcoats - Girl From '62
Thee Headcoats - I Don't Like The Man I Am
Thee Headcoats - Pocahontas Was Her Name
Thee Headcoats - We're Gone
Thee Headcoats - Stewball
Thee Headcoats - I Ain't About To Give You My Name
Thee Headcoats - Rusty Hook

Vs. is the second studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, originally released on October 12, 1993, through Epic Records. After a relentless touring schedule in support of their 1991 debut album Ten, Pearl Jam headed into the studio in early 1993 facing the challenge of following up the commercial success of its debut.

The resulting album, Vs., featured a rawer and more aggressive sound compared with the band's previous release. It was the band's first collaboration with producer Brendan O'Brien and its first album with drummer Dave Abbruzzese.

TRACK LISTING

Double Black Vinyl:
Side A
1 Go
2 Animal
3 Daughter
Side B
1 Glorified G
2 Dissident
3 W.M.A.
Side C
1 Blood
2 Rearviewmirror
3 Rats
Side D
1 Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
2 Leash
3 Indifference

Single LP Clear Vinyl:
Side A
1. Go
2. Animal
3. Daughter
4. Glorified G
5. Dissident
6. W.M.A.
Side B
1. Blood
2. Rearviewmirror
3. Rats
4. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
5. Leash
6. Indifference

The Cult is fronted by Ian Astbury on vocals and Billy Duffy on guitar.

Electric, their third album, came out in 1987 and caused the band to explode to new levels of fame. It contains the massive hits “Love Removal Machine”, Wild Flower” and “Lil’ Devil” and was produced by Rick Rubin. A seminal work, the album features some of the band’s most iconic songs. It is a departure from the band’s previous work, with a raw, aggressive and stripped-down sound. The album’s opening track, “Wild Flower,” sets the tone with its pounding drums, blistering guitar riffs, and Ian Astbury’s powerful vocals.

Electric was a commercial and critical success, propelling The Cult to the forefront of the hard rock scene and cementing their status as one of the most influential bands of the era. The album remains a touchstone for hard rock and heavy metal fans, a classic work that captures the spirit of rebellion and the power of rock and roll.

Ian and Billy recently announced the return of Death Cult. The storied post-punk progenitor to The Cult will return for a sole U.S. performance on Oct. 23 at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. They will follow the Los Angeles outing with a U.K. trek featuring the same, remarkable celebration of The Cult’s origins. Death Cult became The Cult in 1984, releasing Dreamtime that same year and going on to experience a career that has seen the release of 11 full-length albums, as well as numerous international and U.S. gold and platinum certifications.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wild Flower
2. Peace Dog
3. Lil' Devil
4. Aphrodisiac Jacket
5. Electric Ocean
6. Bad Fun
7. King Contrary Man
8. Love Removal Machine
9. Born To Be Wild
10. Outlaw
11. Memphis Hip Shake

Equal parts soft and sorrowful, Myriam Gendron’s stunning Not So Deep As A Well LP became something of a sleeper hit upon its initial release back in 2014. Her debut album shone a warm lamp-light glow upon a curious and captivating new voice in the Quebecois folk world.

Nearly ten years on from its release in her native Canada and America, Not So Deep As A Well gets a European release for the first time this autumn, with a new pressing on the Basin Rock label (Julie Byrne, Aoife Nessa Frances, Trevor Beales, Juni Habel) which features two tracks not included on the original release - ‘Bric-à-brac’ and ‘The Small Hours’ - both written and recorded in the early days of 2014.

Recorded alone in her apartment, with no knowledge of sound engineering, it could almost be a lost artefact, a dust-lined document of a forgotten time and place. Taking the poems of Dorothy Parker, whose work Gendron stumbled upon by chance in a Montreal bookstore, she imbues the words with a graceful, gentle expression, a lingering sense of sorrow always present.

A stark, spellbinding collection, Not So Deep As A Well is raw and unyielding in so many ways we no longer expect to hear. As if sitting in the room with her, Gendron’s voice is cracked and unadorned, quietly forced into a push and pull between the quietude of the songs and the noisy world outside.

TRACK LISTING

1.Threnody
2. Solace
3.The False Friends
4. Ballade Of A Great Weariness
5.Bric-á-brac
6. Recurrence
7. The Red Dress
8. The Last Question
9. Not So Deep As A Well
10.Song Of Perfect Propriety
11. The Small Hours

35th Anniversary of the Platinum-selling Sophomore Album, co-produced by Ice-T and Afrika Islam. Releasing as a Limited Edition 'Ice Cold Gold' Colour Vinyl, this record includes legendary singles like "I'm Your Pusher" and "High Rollers" from one of rap's Original Gangsters.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Intro
2. Power
3. Drama
4. Heartbeat
5. The Syndicate
6. Radio Suckers
Side B:
1. I’m Your Pusher
2. Personal
3. Girls L.G.B.N.A.F.
4. High Rollers
5. Grand Larceny
6. Soul On Ice
7. Outro

Originally released via the legendary Factory Records, Substance compiled all of the band's singles to that point in their 12” versions, and specially new recorded versions of ‘Temptation’ and ‘Confusion’. The album also included the biggest selling 12” single of all time, Blue Monday, alongside other classic singles The Perfect Kiss, Bizarre Love Triangle and the band’s debut single release Ceremony.

The album is the band’s biggest selling to date, with over one million copies sold, going platinum in the UK with a Top 5 hit in True Faith which was accompanied by the seminal video, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
(REMASTERED)
Side 1
Ceremony
Everything’s Gone Green
Temptation 87
Side 2
Blue Monday
Confusion 87
Thieves Like Us
Side 3
The Perfect Kiss
Sub-culture
Shellshock
Side 4
State Of The Nation
Bizarre Love Triangle
True Faith

2CD Tracklisting:
CD1 (REMASTERED)
1. Ceremony
2. Everything’s Gone Green
3. Temptation 87
4. Blue Monday
5. Confusion 87
6. Thieves Like Us
7. The Perfect Kiss
8. Sub-Culture
9. Shellshock
10. State Of The Nation
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. True Faith
CD2 (REMASTERED)
1. In A Lonely Place
2. Procession
3. Cries And Whispers
4. Hurt
5. The Beach
6. Confused Instrumental
7. Lonesome Tonight
8. Murder
9. Thieves Like Us Instrumental
10. Kiss Of Death
11. Shame Of The Nation
12. 1963

4CD Deluxe Tracklisting:
CD1 (REMASTERED)
1. Ceremony
2. Everything’s Gone Green
3. Temptation 87
4. Blue Monday
5. Confusion 87
6. Thieves Like Us
7. The Perfect Kiss
8. Sub-Culture
9. Shellshock
10. State Of The Nation
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. True Faith
CD2 (REMASTERED)
1. In A Lonely Place
2. Procession
3. Cries And Whispers
4. Hurt
5. The Beach
6. Confused Instrumental
7. Lonesome Tonight
8. Murder
9. Thieves Like Us Instrumental
10. Kiss Of Death
11. Shame Of The Nation
12. 1963
CD 3
1. Ceremony (Original)
2. Mesh
3. Temptation (12”)
4. Confusion (Original 12”)
5. Dub Vulture
6. Shellcock
7. Bizarre Dub Triangle
8. True Dub
9. Confusion (Dub 87)
10. True Faith (Remix)
CD 4
Live From Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California 1987
1. Ceremony
2. Everything’s Gone Green
3. Temptation 87
4. Blue Monday
5. Confusion 87
6. Thieves Like Us
7. The Perfect Kiss
8. Sub-culture
9. Shellshock
10. State Of The Nation
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. True Faith

This landmark compilation has introduced generations of fans to the incredible history of the most storied band in music. For its 50th anniversary, the collection has been expanded with 12 additional tracks, including for the first time some of George Harrison’s earliest songs and some classic Beatles versions of R&B and rock ‘n’ roll hits that were so influential on the band. 

The 3LP collection now contains 38 tracks, 30 of which have new mixes for 2023. The set’s 12 newly added tracks are collected on its 3rd LP. An insert contains new sleeve notes by journalist and author John Harris. For current fans and future generations alike, the new 1962 – 1966 collection is a joyous celebration of The Beatles’ timeless musical legacy.

The 2CD collection now contains 38 tracks, 30 of which have new mixes for 2023. The booklet contains new sleeve notes by journalist and author John Harris. For current fans and future generations alike, the new 1962 – 1966 collection is a joyous celebration of The Beatles’ timeless musical legacy.

This landmark compilation has introduced generations of fans to the incredible history of the most storied band in music. For its 50th anniversary, the collection has been expanded with 9 additional tracks added chronologically, including “Blackbird”, “Glass Onion” and the new song, “Now And Then”. The last Beatles song, “Now And Then” completes John Lennon’s 1970s vocal and piano demo recording with parts played by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as well as a new arrangement for strings.

The 3LP collection now features 37 tracks, 6 of which have new mixes for 2023. The set’s 9 newly added tracks are collected on its 3rd LP. An insert contains new sleeve notes by journalist and author John Harris. For current fans and future generations alike, the new 1966 – 1970 collection is a joyous celebration of The Beatles’ timeless musical legacy.

The 2CD collection now features 37 tracks, 6 of which have new mixes for 2023. The booklet contains new sleeve notes by journalist and author John Harris. For current fans and future generations alike, the new 1966 – 1970 collection is a joyous celebration of The Beatles’ timeless musical legacy.

Debut studio album by Dutch electronic music producer and DJ Speedy J (real name Jochem Paap), Ginger was originally released in June 1993 as part of Warp Records’ Artificial Intelligence series.

Remastered in 2021, the reissue contains the original design by longtime Warp collaborators The Designers Republic.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ginger
2. Fill 4
3. Beam Me Up!
4. R2 D2
5. Fill 14
6. Basic Design
7. Perfect Pitch
8. Flashback
9. Pepper
10. De-Orbit

The first full-length studio album by Richie Hawtin, who was 22 years old at the time and living in Windsor, Canada. It was first released in June 1993 under the F.U.S.E. name on Hawtin’s own Plus 8 Records imprint and again on Warp Records as part of the Artificial Intelligence series. Remastered back in 2019, the reissue features original artwork from Richie’s brother, Matthew Hawtin.

TRACK LISTING

1. A New Day
2. F.U.
3. Slac
4. Dimension Intrusion
5. Substance Abuse
6. Train-Trac.1
7. Another Time (Revisited)
8. Theychx
9. UVA
10. Mantrax
11. Nitedrive
12. Into The Space
13. Logikal Nonsense

Originally released on Polydor Records in October 1995, 'All Change' reached No 7 in the UK charts, and spawned four Top 20 singles.

Cast were formed in 1992 and were something of a scouse supergroup, with
leader, guitarist John Power previously bassist in The La's and bassist Peter Wilkinson coming from Shack. Originally a loose conglomerate with various
members, Power added guitarist Liam 'Skin' Tyson and drummer Keith O' Neill, and by 1994 Cast were signed to Polydor.

Led by singles 'Finetime' and 'Alright', Cast's blend of ultra- melodic Merseybeat Britpop proved that they were the right band at the right time. 'All Change' became a runaway success, selling over a million and becoming the fastest-selling debut album in Polydor's history, bolstered by further singles 'Sandstorm' and 'Walkaway'. The catchy, upbeat album closed with the eight- minute epic 'Two Of A Kind', showing that the band had sufficient skills to take on any Britpop heavyweight.

This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1995 Polydor Records UK 2LP release with gatefold sleeve and 12 page booklet and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Alright
2. Promised Land
3. Sandstorm
4. Mankind
5. Tell It Like It Is
6. Four Walls
7. Finetime
8. Back Of My Mind
9. Walkaway
10. Reflections
11. History
12. Two Of A Kind

Bright Eyes’ Christmas Album begins with a piano, flute, ambient noise, and musical saw-driven version of “Away in a Manger,” helping weed out casual Christmas music enjoyers, but all too tempting for the most devout of Conor Oberst’s disciples, who originally learned that the warmth of the holiday season is trumped only by its potential for melancholy back in 2002 with the original Saddle Creek release. Oberst and a small army of friends at his house proceed to jamboree through Christmas classics like “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” and “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem,” Holiday cheer, when delivered with Oberst’s trademark tremble, sounds more like a lament than it does hymns of ecclesiastical joy. But the spirited listener will find that the fragile, homespun, and somewhat blinkered vibe that permeates the album sets itself apart from the bog-standard, less sonically humble offerings of the holidays, and, both strangely and satisfyingly, is probably more aligned with the true spirit of the season.

TRACK LISTING

1) Away In A Manger
2) Blue Christmas
3) Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem
4) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
5) The First Noel
6) Little Drummer Boy
7) White Christmas
8) Silent Night
9) Silver Bells
10) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
11) The Night Before Christmas

“‘Bashed Out’... will also likely be her breakout... get ready to hear a lot more from her.” - Stereogum

This Is The Kit is the much beloved musical project of Kate Stables, born in England and based in Paris. ‘Bashed Out’ was produced Aaron Dessner, a member of The National known for both minting indie icons (Sharon Van Etten, Local Natives) and, more recently, becoming a producer to stars like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. Dessner’s former client Sharon Van Etten called This Is The Kit her “favorite new artist” in Pitchfork.

The backing band gathered for ‘Bashed Out’ combines the talents of This Is The Kit’s touring members alongside session players drawn from the Brooklyn music scene: Bryce Dessner, Thomas Bartlett (Doveman, The Gloaming), Matt Barrick (The Walkmen) and Ben Lanz (Beirut, The National) made key contributions.

Since this LP’s initial release Kate made significant contributions to The National’s 2019 album/film ‘I Am Easy To Find’ and became a touring member on subsequent live dates. In 2020, ‘Bashed Out’’s title track became a streaming hit after an impactful needle drop in a key episode of Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’ series.

This music is honest, human and humane - a folky-lovely slowrumble. It’s rock but of the groovy, hangover-friendly, stoner variety. Stables’ voice hearkens back to the singer-songwriter era - her distinctive, cutting vocals up front in the mix.

The Line of Best Fit has the band as an “essential fixture of British folk music for the past 10 years… one of a handful of truly innovate songwriters working with the British folk template today.”

For fans of Joni Mitchell, Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten, Father John Misty, Gillian Welch, Laura Marling, Natalie Prass, Jose Gonzalez.

This is the first time ‘Bashed Out’ has been widely available on vinyl since 2019.

TRACK LISTING

Misunderstanding
Silver John
Spores All Settling
Magic Spell
Bashed Out
All In Cahoots
Nits
Vitamins
We Are In
Cold And Got Colder

This Is The Kit is the project of Kate Stables, born in England and based in Paris. They first gained notice due to heavy radio play on BBC 6 - and have twice had LPs named to 6 Music’s Album Of The Year lists. Later they gained more notice as a hand-picked opening act for The National, Iron & Wine, Jose Gonzalez, Sharon Van Etten and Alexi Murdoch - musicians who share a similar independent streak and warm-hearted approach to creating modern yet timeless music. In North America, they are regulars on US Triple A radio stations like KEXP, indie folk festival line-ups, and tastemaking platforms such as NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert.

In the years since ‘Wriggle Out the Restless’ was released in 2010, This Is The Kit have continued to gain momentum. Their 2015 follow-up album, ‘Bashed Out’, was made with The National’s Aaron Dessner (producer for Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Mumford & Sons). Stables then sang on The National’s 2019 album/film ‘I Am Easy To Find’ and became a touring member on subsequent live dates. Finally, in 2020, ‘Bashed Out’’s title track became a streaming hit after an impactful needle drop in a key episode of Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’ series.

For fans of Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Beth Orton, Sharon van Etten, Bon Iver, Father John Misty, Joni Mitchell, Sam Amidon, Anais Mitchell.

This is the first time ‘Wriggle Out the Restless’ has been widely available on vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Sometimes The Sea
Easy Pickings
See Here
Waterproof
Spinney
Trick You
The Turnip
White Ash
Earthquake
Sleeping Bag
Moon
Treehouse

More than sixty years old, Walkin' still remains a crucial staging post in the history of jazz. Originally recorded in 1954 and initially issued on a couple of 10 albums, it features a mix of quintet and sextet material, recorded during his spell with Prestige Records and produced by Bob Weinstock. The various tracks were gathered together, along with a previously unreleased track, and issued as a 12 album in 1957. The end result is an important album in the development of bop music, a genre Miles Davis practically owned. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Walkin'
2. Blue N' Boogie
Side B
1. Solar
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. Love Me Or Leave Me 

Released in 1957 on Prestige Records, this album was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on May 31, 1957. It documents Coltrane's first session as a leader, and has been reissued at times under the title The First Trane!. The line-up includes Johnnie Splawn (trumpet), Sahib Shihab (baritone saxophone), Red Garland and Mal Waldron (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums). 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Bakai
2. Violets For Your Furs
3. Time Was
Side B
1. Straight Street
2. While My Lady Sleeps
3. Chronic Blues 

Released in early 1961, Lush Life was assembled from previous unissued tracks from three recording sessions at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1957 and 1958.

John Coltrane’s Prestige years began when he joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1955. During the next few years, when he was either with Davis or the Thelonious Monk Quartet, he functioned as both leader and sideman for this label. These recordings document the first part of his relatively short but highly influential time in the spotlight. Lush Life, a combination of standards and a blues, treated in the unique Coltrane manner - sound wedded to material in a completely personal way - contains three tracks without a piano. This is the first time he recorded in this manner, other than when Monk was 'strolling,' and it offers another aspect from, and of, Trane. 

Coltrane's sessions for Atlantic in late October 1960 were prolific, yielding the material for 'My Favorite Things', 'Coltrane Plays the Blues', and 'Coltrane's Sound'. 'My Favorite Things' was destined to be the most remembered and influential of these, and while Coltrane Plays the Blues is not as renowned or daring in material, it is still a powerful session.

As for the phrase "plays the blues" in the title, it's not so much an indicator that the tunes are conventional blues, but more indicative of a bluesy sensibility.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blues To Elvin
2. Blues To Bechet
3. Blues To You
4. Blues To Elvin [Alternative Take]
5. Mr. Day
6. Mr. Syms
7. Mr. Knight
8. Blues To You [Alternative Take]

‘The Masterplan’ is an extraordinary collection of B-sides originally featured on singles from Oasis’ era-defining first three albums, ‘Definitely Maybe’ (1994), ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ (1995), and ‘Be Here Now’ (1997). Far from being inferior to the singles they backed, many of the 14 tracks that feature on ‘The Masterplan’ have become as cherished as the band’s biggest singles from that seminal period.

The album includes tracks ‘Acquiesce’, ‘Half The World Away’, ‘Talk Tonight’, Oasis’ iconic live cover of The Beatles’ ‘I Am The Walrus’ and the epic title track. Noel has often described ‘The Masterplan’ as one of the best songs he has ever written.

‘The Masterplan’ charted at No.2 in the UK Official Album Chart UK selling over 122,000 copies in its first week. It went on to be certified triple platinum and has sold over three million copies worldwide.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: When you really think about it, it's ridiculous how incredible this collection is. Featuring some of Oasis' best ever tracks, one of which being their best ever ('Acquiesce'), it's hard to imagine there ever being a band who release such high-calibre of B-sides as this - must have for those who still don't have in their collections!

TRACK LISTING

1. Acquiesce (Remastered)
2. Underneath The Sky (Remastered)
3. Talk Tonight (Remastered)
4. Going Nowhere (Remastered)
5. Fade Away (Remastered)
6. The Swamp Song (Remastered)
7. I Am The Walrus – Live Glasgow Cathouse June ‘94 (Remastered)
8. Listen Up (Remastered)
9. Rockin' Chair (Remastered)
10. Half The World Away (Remastered)
11. (It's Good) To Be Free (Remastered)
12. Stay Young (Remastered)
13. Headshrinker (Remastered)
14. The Masterplan (Remastered) 

Twenty-five years after its original release, Belle and Sebastian have produced their most popular album in limited pale blue artwork with matching coloured vinyl. This 25th Anniversary edition also includes an exclusive art print of behind-the-scenes photos from the promotional video for the album, taken by band member Sarah Martin.

This limited pale blue colour artwork is reproduced in the original colour used in 1998 on the album’s promotional poster and T-shirt.

The album was recorded in Glasgow at CaVa Studios during 1998. Videos were made at that time for Is It Wicked Not To Care, which inspired the 25th Anniversary art print, and Dirty Dream #2 (directed by Lance Bangs) which did not feature any band members.

Belle and Sebastian were awarded Best Newcomer at the 1999 Brit Awards following the release of The Boy With The Arab Strap.

Joining Stuart Murdoch on song writing duties on this album for the first time were band members Stevie Jackson, Isobel Campbell and Stuart David.

The eponymous title track has become one of the most popular Belle and Sebastian songs and an iconic symbol of the live shows, when the band are ritually joined by their fans onstage as they dance to ‘The Boy With The Arab Strap’.

TRACK LISTING

A1. It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
A2. Sleep The Clock Around
A3. Is It Wicked Not To Care?
A4. Ease Your Feet In The Sea
A5. A Summer Wasting
A6. Seymour Stein
B1. A Spaceboy Dream
B2. Dirty Dream Number Two
B3. The Boy With The Arab Strap
B4. Chickfactor
B5. Simple Things
B6. The Rollercoaster Ride

In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, funk-blues fusion that had yet to be normalized in mainstream music – a style that few musicians have come close to replicating. As one of the first Black women to write, arrange, and produce her own albums, Betty was a visionary who disregarded industry boundaries and constraints. Raw, unapologetic and in full control, Betty paved the way for generations of future artists who said “funk you” to the music industry and social norms.

In 1979, when Davis entered an L.A. studio to record her fifth and final album, she was reeling from a series of setbacks. Three years earlier, after recording her fourth album, Is It Love Or Desire, Davis was dropped from her label and the LP was subsequently shelved. In 1978, her beloved band Funk House went their separate ways. Looking for a fresh start, Davis relocated to Hollywood to focus on songwriting. Before long, British manager Simon Lait (Toni Basil), offered to fund her next project.

With renewed vigor, Davis reunited with former Funk House guitarist Carlos Morales and brought together industry veterans like fusion drummer Alphonse Mouzon and session bassist Chuck Rainey. Old friends Anita and Bonnie Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) and Patryce “Choc’let” Banks joined Davis on vocals, as did Motown legend Martha Reeves. The resulting album, Crashin’ From Passion, was her most musically diverse, blending elements of reggae and calypso (“I’ve Danced Before”), jazz (“Hangin’ Out in Hollywood,” “Tell Me a Few Things”), dark synth-pop (“She’s a Woman”), and even disco (“All I Do Is Think of You”). Equally exploratory are Davis’ vocals, as she trades in her signature sass and snarls for more nuanced stylings.
Among the album’s few funk tracks is “Quintessence of Hip,” in which Davis hails musicians like Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Stevie Wonder, and John Coltrane, while deftly integrating elements of their work. The song also offers a moment of stark vulnerability, as she sings, “Isn’t rich? Isn’t it queer? Losing my timing so late in my career.” It would prove to be a prophetic line in the months to follow.

The mixing process was mired by artistic differences and then cut short, amid the death of Davis’ beloved father. Bereft and exasperated, Davis returned home for the funeral, setting into motion her retirement from the music industry. Crashin’ From Passion, meanwhile, would be shelved for 15 years and licensed for a CD-only release, without Davis’ consent, in the ‘90s. This 2023 edition of the album, made with Davis’ full approval and cooperation, marks its first official release and first time ever on vinyl. The package was designed by GRAMMY®-winning artist, Masaki Koike, while the album cover features an incredible shot of Betty captured in London in the mid-1970s by renowned photographer Kate Simon.

Crashin’ From Passion was remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters and pressed on vinyl at Record Technology, Inc. (RTI). The accompanying booklet includes a treasure trove of rare photos from the era, plus lyrics, and new liner notes by writer, ethnomusicologist, and Betty’s close friend, Danielle Maggio, who integrates interviews that she conducted with Davis, marking her last ever interviews.

TRACK LISTING

Quintessence Of Hip
She's A Woman
No Good At Falling In Love
Tell Me A Few Things
I've Danced Before
You Make Me Feel So Good
I Need A Whole Lot Of Love
Hangin' Out In Hollywood
All I Do Is Think Of You
Crashin' From Passion
You Take Me For Granted

Catch A Fire is the fifth studio album by Bob Marley and the Wailers and the first to be released by Island Records UK. Originally having a limited release under the name, The Wailers in a sleeve depicting a Zippo lighter, designed by graphic artists Rod Dyer and Bob Weiner. Future releases would have the classic portrait of Marley smoking a “spliff” and crediting the band as Bob Marley and the Wailers with the image taken by Esther Anderson. A tour taking place in the UK and US generating international interest in the band.

Critical acclaim has included the album being listed at number 126 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, It is regarded as one of the top reggae albums of all time.

In 1971 after a solo tour Marley returned to Jamaica with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer to record Catch A Fire but the sessions were abandoned because of clashes with Johnny Nash and Danny Sims. The band did not have funds to return to Jamaica, nor could they earn money due to work-permit restrictions, The group’s London Road manager, Brent Clarke, recommended they get in contact with Chris Blackwell from Island Records, who had released licensed singles by The Wailers from Studio One in Great Britain. Blackwell gave the group an advance of £4000 to help them get home to Jamaica, and to complete the recording of their next album. In 1972 the album was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica at 3 different studios. As the story goes, in 1972 Marley flew back to London to play the tapes to Chris Blackwell. CBS and Sims, with whom the band were already contracted, took Blackwell and the Island Records label to court over the recording, Island won the case, Blackwell remixed the tracks at the Island Studios on Basing Street and included overdubs.

April 2023 saw the 50th Anniversary of Catch A Fire, to mark this a limited edition 7” featuring 2 alternate versions of Stir It Up (vocal and instrumental) both feature on these releases. The 3LP+12” vinyl package will consist of the studio album, Live at The Paris Theatre London, previously only ever bootlegged, will get its first official release, the package also feature’s Alt, extended and instrumental Jamaican versions of album tracks Slave Driver, 400 Years No More Trouble and Stop That Train, finally on the 12” is 3 tracks from the Wailer’s performance at the Sundown Theatre in the village of Edmonton, North London, playing tracks Slave Driver, Stop That Train & Get Up Stand, Stand up, the reverse side has an etched image of the Zippo lighter.

The third album from Mogwai. Much more song based than their previous outings, but still with plenty of noise and atmosphere. Includes contributions from Dave Pajo (Papa M / Slint), The Remote Viewer, and vocals from Gruff from Super Furry Animals.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sine Wave 
2. Take Me Somewhere Nice 
3. O I Sleep
4. Dial : Revenge
5. You Don'T Know Jesus 
6. Robot Chant
7. Two Rights Make One Wrong
8. Secret Pint

It is impossible to pinpoint when a new album will become a classic. And while sometimes there are signals, often such a designation comes as a complete surprise. When Neil Young's 1973 live album release Time Fades Away arrived, it was obviously a left-field surprise. It was recorded with the Stray Gators, and featured previously unreleased songs. At a time when the Young's popularity was surging following his highly successful studio album Harvest, the new live album raised questions marks and even Young responded at the time, "Time Fades Away was the worst record I ever made, but as a door of what was happening to me it was a great record." In so many ways, this music is the perfect window on the unpredictable trajectory of one of rock & roll's true pioneers. Time Fades Away 50 will be released on limited edition clear vinyl only this November 3, via Reprise Records. This definitive 9 song iteration of the album contains a bonus track of “Last Trip To Tulsa,” which originally appeared on Archives Vol.1 Box set but here now on vinyl only for the first time.

The 50th anniversary release of Time Fades Away is a true celebration of an era in time that marked music forever. In 1973 Young was writing songs that have lasted to this day, and taking bold changes with the way he presented them in-person. It's a trademark of his that still continues. And with the Stray Gators performing with him -- Jack Nitzsche (keyboards); Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar); Kenny Buttrey (drums), to be replaced by Johnny Barbata; and bassist Tim Drummond. David Crosby and Graham Nash also joined on harmony vocals and acoustic guitar. The real magic of this recording has always been how it was such an adventurous risk to take at a time when so much of the contemporary music then was driven by perfection. Recorded directly from the soundboard to 16-track tape and mixed simultaneously to LP cutting, in some ways Young and the band were traveling new sonic roads. Time Fades Away was recorded directly after the mega-success of Young's album Harvest, and it feels like the blueprint of the twists and turns of a career where the blaster rockets are kicking. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Time Fades Away
02 Journey Through The Past
03 Yonder Stands The Sinner
04 L.A.
05 Love In Mind
Side B:
01 Don’t Be Denied
02 The Bridge
03 Last Dance
04 The Last Trip To Tulsa (50th Anniversary Bonus Track)

Produced by The Charlatans and Jim Spencer, and mixed by Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire, Portishead), ‘Modern Nature’ is the band’s 12th studio album. Originally released in 2015, the album features a cacophony of contributors: from drummers Pete Salisbury (The Verve), Stephen Morris (New Order) and Gabriel Gurnsey (Factory Floor), to Kate Bush’s backing singers Melanie Marshall and Sandra Marvin, strings by Sean O’Hagan and brass courtesy of Jim Paterson. Described by Q ‘as one the finest of their career’, the album debuted in the top 10 in the UK Albums Chart . Pressed on transparent yellow vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
1. Talking In Tones
2. So Oh
3. Come Home Baby
4. Keep Enough
5. In The Tall Grass
6. Emilie
Side 2:
1. Let The Good Times Be Never Ending
2. I Need You To Know
3. Lean In
4. Trouble Understanding
5. Lot To Say

The Austrian music duo Kruder & Dorfmeister, consisting of Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister, launched a world career in the 1990s. The duo is known for their down tempo remixes of hip hop, pop and drum and bass songs. Their successful mix album "The K&D Sessions" (1998) was played up and down in clubs from Ibiza to New York and the album is considered a classic of the genre. Throughout time the two musicians were assigned remix work by artists such as Madonna, Depeche Mode and Roni Size.

After this, Kruder & Dorfmeister went their separate ways and were successful with solo projects. In the middle of the 2020 pandemic, they released another album together. It is titled "1995" - a reference to the heyday of Kruder & Dorfmeister.

This remastered "Conversions - A K&D Selection" is now be released on double vinyl for the first time. An almost historic musical document of one of the most successful Austrian music duos.

TRACK LISTING

"Dat's Cool" - DJ Unknown Face
"Searchin'" - Dead Calm
"Come On (Simon Templar Remix)" - The Ballistic Brothers
"Nu Birth Of Cool" - Omni Trio
"One And Only" - PFM
"Find Me" - Skanna
"Speechless Drum & Bass" - Count Basic
"Visible From Space (Aquasky Remix)" - Hunch
"Time Zone" - Space Link
"The Lick" - Earl Grey

‘The Back Room’ is the debut, Mercury-nominated album from Editors, released originally in July 2005. Includes the Top 10 single ‘Munich’ plus singles ‘Bullets’, ‘Blood’ and ‘All Sparks’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lights
2. Munich
3. Blood
4. Fall
5. All Sparks
6. Camera
7. Fingers In The Factory
8. Bullets
9. Someone Says
10. Open Your Arms
11. Distance

Eschewing hand-me-down ghetto tales from an across-the-pond 'hood, the precociously talented Dizzee Rascal instead told it from his (18 year old, East End) angle - unemployment, gun-crime, relationships, MC battles etc. Two years in the making, this LP took in influences from UK garage, hip hop, r'n'b and drum'n'bass, to creat a unique sounding jagged-edged electronic sound.

This 20th Anniversary 3LP release features instrumentals and never before heard rarities, pressed on white, yellow and black vinyl in a wide spine sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

A1: Sittin’ Here
A2: Stop Dat
A3: I Luv U
A4: Brand New Day
B1: 2 Far (Feat. Wiley)
B2: Fix Up, Look Sharp
B3: Cut ‘em Off
B4: Hold Ya Mouf’ (Feat. God’s Gift)
C1: Round We Go
C2: Jus’ A Rascal
C3: Wot U On?
D1: Jezebel
D2: Seems 2 Be
D3: Live O
D4: Do It!


E1: Vexed

E2: Street Fighter

E3: Win Feat. Breeze

E4: We Aint Havin It Feat. Wiley

E5: Kryme Feat. Redrum And Sharky Major

E6: Ready 4 War Feat. Sharky Major, Armour And Stormin

F1: Street Fighter (Instrumental)

F2: Go (Instrumental)

F3: Ho (Instrumental)

F4: String Ho (Instrumental)

F5: Ting Ting (Instrumental)

F6: Wheel (Instrumental)

Legendary Tacoma, Washington mathcore/hardcore/metal band Botch’s final EP An Anthology of Dead Ends was originally recorded in 2002, serving as a swan song sending off one of heavy music’s most inventive groups. Now, the band’s final EP is set to be re-issued on Sargent House over 20 years after its original release. Their monstrous concoction of metal, noise, indie rock guitar trickery, and depth is on full display. This is a last will and testament to the group's drive and intent, cementing their legacy as one of the untouchable greats, already having influenced many a group.

Bassist Brian Cook, guitarist David Knudson, drummer Tim Latona, and vocalist Dave Verellen formed Botch in 1993, eventually becoming one of the most significant bands of their time. Their final show was June 15, 2002, the same day as the original release of An Anthology of Dead Ends. The members would go on to play in These Arms Are Snakes, Minus the Bear, and Russian Circles, among others, with acclaim for the band coming mostly post-breakup. Over 20 years since they played their final show, Botch are reuniting for select dates across the US throughout the end of 2023.

TRACK LISTING

Spaim
Japam
Framce
Vietmam
Afghamistam
Micaragua

The classic third (and final) album gets a 30th anniversary makeover.

IN UTERO 30 – 8LP SUPER DELUXE BOX SET:
Celebrating In Utero’s 30th, the 8LP Super Deluxe features 180-gram pressings of the album + 5 b-sides & bonus tracks newly remastered, 2 complete concerts from Los Angeles ’93 & Seattle ‘94 plus 6 bonus live songs from the tour – 72 total tracks – 53 unreleased tracks. Bonus items: an Angel-on-acrylic panel; 48-pg book with unreleased photos; new 20-pg fanzine; LA gig poster litho; 2 ticket stubs; replicas of the promo Angel mobile, 3 gig flyers, all-access tour laminate & 4 backstage passes.

IN UTERO 30 – 5CD SUPER DELUXE BOX SET:
Celebrating In Utero’s 30th, the 5CD Super Deluxe features the album + 5 b-sides & bonus tracks newly remastered, 2 complete concerts from Los Angeles ’93 & Seattle ‘94 plus 6 bonus live songs from the tour – 72 total tracks – 53 unreleased tracks. Bonus items: an angel-on-acrylic panel; 48-pg book with unreleased photos; new 20-pg fanzine; LA gig poster litho; 2 ticket stubs; replicas of the promo angel mobile, 3 gig flyers, all-access tour laminate & 4 backstage passes.

IN UTERO 30 – LIMITED EDITION 1LP + 10-INCH:
Celebrating In Utero’s 30th, the album pressed on 180-gram vinyl plus 5 b-sides & bonus tracks pressed on a 10-inch have been newly remastered from 96kHz 24-bit transfers of the original analog tapes by original album engineer Bob Weston. Original album artwork has been expanded to a premium tip-on gatefold jacket for the first time with new 10-inch jacket art.

IN UTERO 30 – 2-CD DELUXE EDITION:
Celebrating In Utero’s 30th, the 2CD Deluxe Edition features the album newly remastered plus 14 previously unreleased live tracks from the ‘93/’94 In Utero tour. Each song on In Utero is represented with a live performance from Los Angeles, Springfield, Rome, New York & Seattle plus two cover songs widely played throughout the tour: The Vaselines’ “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For A Sunbeam” & David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World.” Housed in a softpak with newly designed 20-pg booklet.

‘Government Commissions (BBC Sessions 1996 - 2003)’ is a compilation album consisting of sessions recorded between 1996 and 2003 for BBC Radio.

This is the first time that the album has been available on vinyl since the original pressing in 2005.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hunted By A Freak
2. R U Still In 2 It
3. New Paths To Helicon Pt II
4. Kappa
5. Cody
6. Superheroes Of Bmx
7. Like Herod
8. Secret Pint
9. New Paths To Helicon Pt I
10. Stop Coming To My House

‘Ten Rapid’ is a compilation of songs released between 1996 and 1997 on various labels, including their debut single release for their own Rock Action label, ‘tuner’.

LP includes digital download code.

TRACK LISTING

1. Summer
2. Helicon 2
3. Angel Versus Aliens
4. I Am Not Batman
5. Tuner
6. A Place For Parks
7. Helicon 1
8. End

The fourth Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan album, The Nation's Most Central Location is released via Castles in Space and it's another absolute gem. This album sees Gordon Chapman-Fox (the man behind Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan) explore the north-south divide and reflect on 40 years of broken 'levelling up' promises.

With eight tracks across 40 minutes, the album offers Gordon's usual mix of mournful remorse and upbeat optimism. Gordon has now added an underlying anger that burns through on tracks such as London's Moving Our Way and A Brighter And More Prosperous Future.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A much needed repress of the great Warrington Runcorn's 'The Nation's Most Central Location', a benchmark release in the Castles in Space catalogue and a beautifully enchanting LP throughout. You need this in the collection.

ALSO, Gordon's come and signed a load of records for us! When they're gone..

TRACK LISTING

1. Just Off The M56 (J12) 03:06
2. Rocksavage 05:36
3. Daresbury Laboratory 04:51
4. London's Moving Our Way 07:13
5. Thelwall Viaduct 04:37
6. Europa Boulevard 07:05
7. Busway 03:14 
8. A Brighter And More Prosperous Future 04:12

Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. It features guitarist Manuel Göttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke. Engineered by Conny Plank it was recorded in March 1971 and released in June 1971 on Ohr Records.This 50Th Anniversary Album is released in memoriam of all the musical contributors to this release and on Manuel Göttsching´s MG.ART label.

It's the fourth and headlining edition in this series and was finalised, carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching himself in the late Autumn of 2022.

Much has been written about the record and band. Having finished a first musical chapter with their Steeple Chase Bluesband and still at the very young age of only 17 and 18 years old Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke met Klaus Schulze. Together they started to write and compose what, to many, became one the holy grails of Psychedelic Rock and early Electronic Music – the German variant which was later also named “Krautrock”:

“The trio of Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke decided to abandon conventional composition and songwriting, in favour of free-form improvising and developing a new musical language. As such, they became notorious for jams that could exceed 30 minutes.” Says Discogs. “Some of these recordings can be found on Manuel Göttsching´s “The Private Tapes” releases”, which will be re-released on MG.ART as well, following this edition.“

AllMusic called the album "both astonishingly prescient and just flat out good, a logical extension of the space-jam-freakout ethos into rarified realms.”

Here we would like the Band to be heard, for what can easily be said as the first time in 50+ years, with the exception of some early Journalists for whom the young Manuel Göttsching wrote a statement of intent (the original text can be found inside this edition) as following:

“Our musical concept is based on a combination of blues rock and delicate collages of electronic sound. These two elements should remain inseparable. And in their complex unity, the different musical philosophies of each musician find a common sweet spot. Our music is a permanently impulsive experience left to develop as it will, starting from a common fixed point of departure. This is where the difficulty of the music begins: No standardized formulation of our music can and should be possible. Only the constant reaction within the band can determine the musical result. And this requires constant listening with full concentration on the part of the creators. The idea of a particular musician will be – if flexible enough – absorbed by the others, transposed to their own instrument, and reflected back into the music as an individual contribution. This reciprocity within the band is then transferred over to the audience. And this process means that their reaction is not only a contribution to the end result; it actually makes them jointly responsible for the creation of the final musical product. …

On our album, the track “Amboss” represents the first layer. Conventional instruments communicate familiar music which is in part expanded through electronic means. In the second track of the album – “Traummaschine” – the actual basic sound approach is dissolved into an electronic Nirvana which no longer allows the concrete identification of actual instruments. Innocent, virgin listening, free from any and every association, can finally begin – and the music can be absorbed and processed free from the limitations of categorization. That is the purpose of our music: To convey freedom without any predetermined criteria or traditions. Thank you for your attention.”
(Taken from the original A-R-T Bio 1970)

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
"Amboss" (19:40)
Side B:
"Traummaschine" (25:24)

"Led Zeppelin IV," was released in 1971. It includes hits like "Stairway to Heaven" and "Black Dog" and is celebrated for its diverse musical range. The album's enormous commercial success and cultural impact have made it one of the best-selling and most influential rock albums of all time.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
Black Dog
Rock And Roll
The Battle Of Evermore
Stairway To Heaven
Side B:
Misty Mountain Hop
Four Sticks
Going To California
When The Levee Breaks

Sinead was born in Dublin in 1966, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer of U2 proteges In Tua Nua, while singing wedding covers in the city. After cowriting the first In Tua Nua single, she left school to focus on music, studying voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music before relocating to London in 1985.

Released in November 1987, Sinead's striking debut album The Lion and the Cobra was met with critical and commercial success. The album synthesises several of Sinead's influences into a diverse array of sounds and styles, from the hushed, atmospheric 'Troy' and 'Jackie' to the pop-rock hit single 'Mandinka', and the hip-hop inspired 'I Want Your (Hands on Me)'. The album also includes 'Drink Before The War', a song written by Sinead about her experiences at the Catholic reform school she attended, and was recently featured in the HBO series Euphoria.

The album remains a high point.

TRACK LISTING

Jackie
Mandinka
Jerusalem
Just Like U Said It Would B
Never Get Old
Troy
I Want Your (Hands On Me)
Drink Before The War
Just Call Me Joe

Sinead was born in Dublin in 1966, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer of U2 proteges In Tua Nua, while singing wedding covers in the city. After cowriting the first In Tua Nua single, she left school to focus on music, studying voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music before relocating to London in 1985.

Released in September 1994, Universal Mother was described by Sinead as "the first attempt to try to expose what was really underneath a lot of the anger of the other records". The album features sparse, striking but delicate arrangements on intense and honest songs. Standout moments include the singles 'Thank You For Hearing Me' and 'Fire On Babylon', along with contributions from Germaine Greer (opening track 'Germaine'), and Sinead's son Jake Reynolds ('Am I A Human?'), plus a cover of Nirvana's 'All Apologies'.

TRACK LISTING

Germaine
Fire On Babylon
John I Love You
My Darling Child
Am I A Human?
Red Football
All Apologies
A Perfect Indian
Scorn Not His Simplicity
All Babies
In This Heart
Tiny Grief Song
"Famine"
Thank You For Hearing Me

Sinead was born in Dublin in 1966, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer of U2 proteges In Tua Nua, while singing wedding covers in the city. After cowriting the first In Tua Nua single, she left school to focus on music, studying voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music before relocating to London in 1985.

The follow-up album to the hugely successful I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got album, Am I Not Your Girl? was released in September 1992 and features Sinead performing a collection of songs that she had grown up listening to and which had inspired her to become a singer. It was during the promotional campaign for the album when Sinead made a controversial appearance on Saturday Night Live.

Am I Not Your Girl? features Sinead's unmistakable voice accompanied by an orchestra, performing big- band arrangements of tracks such as the single 'Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home' (a Top 20 hit), 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina', and 'Why Don't You Do Right?'.

TRACK LISTING

Why Don't You Do Right?
Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
Secret Love 
Black Coffee
Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
I Want To Be Loved By You
Gloomy Sunday
Love Letters 
How Insensitive
Scarlet Ribbons
Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Instrumental)

First time on colour vinyl with 3 never-heard before bonus tracks! Static is the follow-up to Cults' critically adorned 2010 self-titled, debut release. Written and recorded over the course of 2012 in the band's home base of New York City, Static is produced by Cults with support from Shane Stoneback (Sleigh Bells, Vampire Weekend) and Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Washed Out). The album is comprised of 11 tracks including lead single "I Can Hardly Make You Mine", "High Road" and the platinum-certified crowd favourite "Always Forever,” which is currently the band’s most popular track. In celebration of the 10th anniversary, the Static reissue will feature never-heard bonus tracks on a sky blue color vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. I Know
2. I Can Hardly Make You Mine
3. Always Forever
4. High Road
5. Were Before
6. So Far
7. Keep Your Head Up
Side B
1. TV Dream
2. We've Got It
3. Shine A Light
4. No Hope
5. Barry (Bonus Track)
6. Hurting (Bonus Track)
7. Always Forever - Demo (Bonus Track)

The essential 2015 debut album from the Tenderlonious led jazz outfit - Ruby Rushton. The album tore up the rule book at the time and is a reflective, instrumental composition, nuanced by a fusion of jazz, afro-beat, hip-hop and electronic influences.

'Two For Joy' perhaps came at a time when jazz wasn't cool, but was a triumph nonetheless, fuelled by a love of Coltrane, Yusef Lateef and Fela Kuti to more contemporary artists like Slum Village and Sa-Ra. Recorded way back in 2011, it tore up the rule book reaching beyond traditional jazz and coffee table conformity. The band was a quartet at the time made up of composer and 22a label boss Ed Cawthorne (Tenderlonious) on saxophone, Nick Walters on trumpet, Aiden Shepherd on keys and Yussef Dayes (Yussef Kamaal) on drums. The album fuses jazz, hip hop, Afrobeat and electronic music and captures the sound of London.

TRACK LISTING

1. An Introduction
2. Room With A View
3. Trudi Mary
4. Where Are You Now? (Part 1)
5. Spritely Does It!
6. Two For Joy
7. Aidan's Song
8. For Her
9. Where Are You Know? (Part 2)
10. Room With A View (Reprise)

10th anniversary clear, black and white splatter vinyl reissue of 'Peace on Venus' by Bardo Pond, Philadelphia's foremost purveyors of psychedelic rock. Includes ‘Kali Yuga Blues’, a true behemoth of a song and a shining example of the band’s ecstatic intensity.

Delving deep in to their subconscious to bring it to the conscious, the band’s 2013 effort dazzles, with their gift for heavy riffs laced with soaring vocals and swathes of sound. Bardo Pond has the outward specifications of a rock band but the rivers that converge into the band's oneiric flow have their headwaters in the outlands of ecstatic jazz, free noise and the avant-garde.

The recording process of ‘Peace On Venus’ used the principle of the Quintessence, which is a principle cited by the 16th Century physician Paracelsus, who noted: "Nothing of true value is located in the body of a substance, but in the virtue thereof, and this is the principle of the Quintessence, which reduces, say 20 lbs. of a given substance into a single Ounce, and that ounce far exceeds the 20 lbs. in potency. Hence the less there is of body, the more in proportion is the virtue thereof."

“Obviously, Bardo Pond are the greatest band in the world” Vice.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Kali Yuga Blues
A2 Taste
A3 Fir
B1 Chance
B2 Before The Moon

Lambent Material is the debut album by Eluvium, the moniker for composer Matthew Robert Cooper’s sonic experiments and explorations. First released in May of 2003, Lambent Material was immediately recognized as much for its artful simplicity as it was for its deceptive complexity – an album of melodic austerity, alien transmissions, and titanic waves of cathartic noise.

Previously only available on vinyl as part of Eluvium’s Life Through Bombardment Vol. 1 box set (a 7xLP collection released in 2008 that has been sold out for well over a decade), Lambent Material – Anniversary Edition finally gets its first standalone vinyl release.

It is packaged in a full-colour jacket and heavyweight inner sleeve with fully restored original artwork.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Unfinished (4:38)
2. Under The Water It Glowed (5:10)
3. There Wasn’t Anything (4:41)
4. Zerthis Was A Shivering Human Image (15:35)
5. I Am So Much More Me That You Are Perfectly You (5:50)

October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s classic collection of cover songs, PIN UPS, originally released 19th October 1973 - a mere six months after the legendary ALADDIN SANE and three months after the infamous final Ziggy Stardust show at Hammersmith Odeon, where he put the Ziggy persona to rest along with The Spiders From Mars.

On 20th October 2023, one day after its Golden Jubilee PIN UPS will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP. This new pressing of PIN UPS 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. John Webber cut the half-speed at AIR Studios.

Recorded at Château d’Hérouville in France, where Bowie would later return to record the masterpiece LOW, PIN UPS was a collection of cover songs paying tribute to bands and artists that had inspired him and that he had seen at clubs such as The Marquee in London in the mid to late 60s. Artists he covered for the album included The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, The Who, Pretty Things, The Easybeats and more. 

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
Rosalyn – 2:27
Here Comes The Night – 3:09
I Wish You Would – 2:40
See Emily Play – 4:03
Everything’s Alright – 2:26
I Can’t Explain – 2:07
SIDE TWO
Friday On My Mind – 3:18
Sorrow – 2:48
Don't Bring Me Down – 2:01
Shapes Of Things – 2:47
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere – 3:04
Where Have All The Good Times Gone – 2:35 

Betty Davis was a musical maverick with vision. Image, substance, sex, and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed backbone to the sultry music between the sheets. After cutting two notorious discs for the Just Sunshine label (Betty Davis and They Say I’m Different), and Nasty Gal for Island Records, Davis went to work on her most personal and expressive record yet. After capturing 10 hard-hitting tracks in 1976 at the remote Studio In The Country (Louisiana), a creative difference with her then label caused the platter to be unexpectedly shelved. Davis would cut one final album and soon retreat from the music business, completely disappearing from the public eye.

Is It Love Or Desire is a little-known gem in the Davis catalog. Mastered from the original tapes, and untouched for over 30 years, this release features detailed liner notes, the originally intended artwork housed in a lavishly packaged digipak, rare photos, archival material, and recent interviews with Davis and her skin-tight band Funk House.

Never bootlegged, never released, never heard until now, the secret story of this lost album will finally enter the history books and cement this bold soul sisters contributions to music and popular culture. Its time to get down…

TRACK LISTING

Is It Love Or Desire
Whorey Angel
It's So Good
Crashin' From Passion
When Romance Says Goodbye
Bottom Of The Barrel
Stars Starve
You Know
Let's Get Personal
Bar Hoppin'
For My Man

Their attention to musical detail combined with the heavenly vocal harmonies of ALAN SPARHAWK and MIMI PARKER are perfectly attuned to both traditional carols like “Silent Night” and more contemporary tunes such as “Blue Christmas.”

Christmas contains a selection of seasonal songs, including four originals by the band, mostly recorded at Lowʼs 20º Below studio in Duluth, MN. “If You Were Born Today” and “Blue Christmas” were released as a 7-inch single in 1997 on the English Wurlitzer Jukebox label, while “Taking Down The Tree” is taken from a 1998 compilation of live recordings issue by the Dutch VPRO radio station.

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Laura says: "Just Like Christmas" is a sublime pop song with sleigh bells that give it a sprinkling of festive cheer without coming across all "Now That's What I Call Christmas"!

TRACK LISTING

Just Like Christmas
Long Way Around The Sea
Little Drummer Boy
If You Were Born Today
Blue Christmas
Silent Night
Taking Down The Tree
One Special Gift

Long out of print on vinyl, Tyler, The Creator’s classic album Wolf finally receives an official repress that is set for release on 20th Oct.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. WOLF
2. Jamba
3. Cowboy
4. Awkward
5. Domo23
6. Answer
SIDE B
1. Slater
2. 48
3. Colossus
4. PartyIsntOver/Campfire/Bimmer
SIDE C
1. IFHY
2. Pigs
3. Parking Lot
4. Rusty
SIDE D
1. Trashwang
2. Treehome95
3. Tamale
4. Lone

To celebrate the album’s 25-year anniversary, The Jesus And Mary Chain reissue their long-sold-out sixth studio album ‘Munki’. 

Originally released June 2nd 1998 on Sub Pop / Creation Records, ‘Munki’ was – up until the Mary Chain’s reformation in 2007 – an experimental rock’n’roll masterclass turned swan song for the Reid brothers, whose fractious in-fighting culminated in the band’s break-up less than a year after its release. It was perhaps fitting, then, that ‘Munki’ is argued by some as the definitive Mary Chain record in the way it seemed to chart the full array of musical directions the band had ploughed over the five records that came before.

The decision to bookend the album with Jim’s rousing sing-along ‘I Love Rock 'N' Roll’ and William’s caustic white-noise anthem ‘I Hate Rock 'N' Roll’ perfectly captures the two-fold tension at the heart of the Mary Chain at that time – a tension between noise and melody, and warring brothers. Across the album’s 17 tracks and 70-minute running time, there are the expected abrasive noise-rock epics ‘Cracking Up’ and ‘Degenerate’ by way of fuzzed-out pop hits like ‘Fizzy’ and the tender acoustic slow-burner ‘Never Understood’. Between the Reid’s Glaswegian snarls and unapologetically insolent lyrics – "I'm a mean motherf*cker now, but I once was cool”, “McDonald’s is sh*t!”, “Children are fools!” being just a few lyrical highlights – ‘Munki’ also features two great guest appearances. Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval returns for another Mary Chain duet on ‘Perfume’, which has a swagger that’s equal parts menacing and bittersweet, and the Reid’s younger sister Linda.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Love Rock 'N' Roll
2. Birthday 
3. Stardust Remedy 
4. Fizzy 
5. Moe Tucker 
6. Perfume 
7. Virtually Unreal
8. Degenerate 
9. Cracking Up 
10. Commercial 
11. Supertramp 
12. Never Understood 
13. I Can't Find The Time For Times 
14. Man On The Moon 
15. Black
16. Dream Lover 
17. I Hate Rock 'N' Roll 

Celebrating 20 years since the release of their incredible soundtrack to the experimental Soviet documentary film, ‘Man With A Movie Camera’, The Cinematic Orchestra reissue the album for the first time on 140g colour vinyl, in ashen and pewter grey.

When ‘Man With A Movie Camera’ was eventually recorded and released in 2003 to much acclaim, The Guardian said, “You can perform an autopsy on the jazz instruments, DJ Shadow-like grooves and repeating chord sequences, yet come away scratching your head as to how, in such simple combinations, they make such heartfelt music.”

For fans of Floating Points, Mica Levi, Miles Davis, Vangelis, Jóhann Jóhannsson, BADBADNOTGOOD.

TRACK LISTING

A1. All That You Give (feat. Fontella Bass)
A2. Burn Out
B1. Evolution (feat. Fontella Bass)
B2. Man With The Movie Camera
C1. All Things To All Men (feat. Roots Manuva)
C2. Flite
D2. Everyday
E1. Oregon
E2. Horizon (feat. Niara Scarlett)
F1. Semblance
F2. Flite (Original Version)

The highly sought-after Japanese disco funk soundtrack from 1977 featuring the cream of the Tokyo scene gets officially reissued for the first time outside of Japan. The ‘imaginary’ soundtrack to the adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke, the cult detective book series by writer Seishi Yokomizo is on many DJ want-lists. Arranged by soundtrack master Kentaro Haneda and featuring a mysterious group of the best 70s Japanese Funk musicians, the album is pure undiluted Disco Funk. This reissue is the album's first official release outside of Japan. Remastered from the original tapes, it features artwork by renowned illustrator Ichibun Sugimoto, OBI strip and a 4 page insert with a new introduction by Anton Spice Writer Seishi Yokomizo is an institution in Japan. He could be compared to Agatha Christie with his series of novels based on the adventures of detective Kosuke Kindaichi. The fictional character was born in 1946 with Yokomizo's first novel in the series and solved mysteries until the late 70s under Yokomizo's pen before the death of the writer in 1981. Kindaichi is a peculiar character. He is a sort of goofy, yet scrupulous detective, not dissimilar to Columbo, and has become legendary in Japan over the decades. Yokomizo's novels have been a prime source for film and TV scenarios, so when, in 1977, Japanese label King Records decided to record a concept album based on the Kindaichi novels, it made complete sense. The writer was slightly surprised though. As he wrote on the back of the LP sleeve "When I first heard an album was being made based on my novels, I felt very strange. I could understand if my novels were turned into films and then soundtracks were recorded based on these films. But this time, the music created was directly inspired by my novels. I felt very intrigued, yet very excited." The concept album was arranged by pianist Kentaro Haneda, a key TV and film composer who has worked on many anime films and is also famous outside of Japan for composing the music for the video game 'Wizardry'.

For "The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke" album, he assembled a supergroup of some of the best Tokyo funk and City Pop musicians. The long list includes jazz pianist Hideo Ichikawa who played on the 1971 'Joe Henderson In Japan' album, Jun Moriya (ds), who is on Joe Hisaichi's cult 'Wonder City Orchestra' album, Tadaomi Anai (perc) who played with Disco singer Eri Ohno, Koji Hadori (tpt) who's featured on Haruomi Hosono's "Pacific" album. Also present on the album are Takeru Muraoka (sax) who plays on many Tatsuro Yamashita cult albums including "For You" and "Spacy", Kimiko Yamauchi (koto) who's on Akiko Yano's landmark "Japanese Girl" and, last but not least, Koji Yamaguchi (fr horn) who plays on Yazuaki Shimizu's "Kakashi" album Together they lay the funk on ten instrumentals filled with pur disco and funk breakbeats, making the album one of the highly-coveted Japanese LPs on international cratedigger scene. This reissue which Wewantsounds is delighted to officially put back on the market, features OBI strip and a four page insert faithfully reproduces the original artwork plus audio remastered from the original tapes.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kindaichi Kosuke No Theme
2. Yatsuhakamura
3. Kamen Butoukai
4. Honjin Satsujin Jiken
5. Gokumontou
6. Akuma No Temariuta
7. Meirosou No Sangeki
8. Akuma Ga Kitarite Fue Wo Fuku
9. Mitsukubitou
10. Inugamike No Ichizoku

When it comes to underground New York Disco, Donna McGhee's highly sought-after 1978 LP, "Make It Last Forever," ranks among the best in the genre, thanks to Donna's singing and the production skills of legendary producers Greg Carmichael and Patrick Adams. Featuring five songs penned by the producing pair, it's got their quintessential Disco sound of the late 70s topped by Donna McGhee's superb vocals. These have also blessed recordings by The Fatback Band, Phreek, Bumblebee Unlimited and The Universal Robot Band around the same time. The album has been an elusive affair since it first came out in 1978 and this is one the first times in decades it is widely available in its original form with newly remastered audio.

TRACK LISTING

1. Make It Last Forever
2. Do As I Do
3. It Ain't No Big Thing
4. Mr. Blindman
5. I'm A Love Bug

First-ever official vinyl reissue of Ziad Rahbani's mythical Lebanese Disco 12" "Abu Ali" originally issued in Lebanon in 1978. An ultra-rare and highly collectible album praised by diggers and DJs all over the world (copies exchange hands for £600), it will get its first official reissue by Wewantsounds.

TRACK LISTING

1. Abu Ali
2. Prelude (Theme From Mais El Rim)

1982 album from Japan's visionary saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu, the man behind Mariah 'Utakata Ho Hibi'. Through its 8 suite-like tracks, Kakashi transports the listener into Yasuaki's colourful sound-world, a fusion of outre jazz, new wave, ambient, and dub practices. Another high water mark in the 80s Japanese underground which has gathered cult status in recent years, and considered to be a highlight of Yasuaki's solo career.

The first release from the folk-rock supergroup was a wild success, bringing together members of Buffalo Springfield and The Hollies in Crosby, Stills, and Nash after a meeting at a Laurel Canyon party.

Their self-titled debut, featuring the famous cover photo by Henry Diltz, features their trademark harmonies and guitar work, as well as memorable classics from "Marrakesh Express" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Helplessly Hoping" to "Wooden Ships," all of which became canon of the folk-rock foundation that drove the cultural sea change out of Lauren Canyon in the latter half of the 60s.

The Lovely Eggs are one of the most unique, innovative and genuine bands on the British Underground music scene. Heavier and more in-your-face than anything they’ve done previously, Holly Ross (guitar/vocals) and David Blackwell (drums) bring together a fierce DIY ethos, surreal sense of humour and kitchen-sink realism. Working with a producer for the very first time, Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips) lends his magic dust to bring out the best of The Lovely Eggs’ explosive blend of motorik krautrock, 60s psychedelia and punk rock attitude. They create their own world and invite us to join them in Eggland. The album title is a cheeky nod to Shane Meadows’ series, This Is England. It is a comment on the current state of modern Britain. The album is about being an outsider and doing things differently, eschewing society’s conventions as they have done. The band have built up a cult following, selling out gigs across the UK, as well as gaining support from 6 Music and Radio One. This Is Eggland is a giant leap forward in their wild-ride of a career. The album is like listening in on The Lovely Eggs’ own secret world, with philosophical songs about the mysteries of the universe (“Hello I Am Your Sun”), to abandoning “ the grass is always greener” mentality (“Wiggy Giggy”), to being on the wrong side of society or the music industry (“I’m With You”) and several inspired by local witchcraft. Unashamed to be themselves and have fun while they’re at it, The Lovely Eggs weave an intoxicatingly magnetic magic spell and we’re helplessly and willingly falling under it. 

TRACK LISTING

Hello I Am Your Sun
Wiggy Giggy
Dickhead
I Shouldn't Have Said That
Return Of Witchcraft
I'm With You
Repeat It
Witchcraft
Big Sea
Let Me Observe
Would You Fuck

10 Year Anniversary editions of Chvrches debut album The Bones Of What You Believe remastered for 2023 by Gavin Lurrsen – expanded formats featuring previously unreleased studio & live tracks.

A 10-year anniversary product suite of Chvrche’s 2013 debut album including 2LP edition with bespoke die-cut sleeve, 1LP on crystal clear vinyl & 2CD inc. booklet. The album originally charted at number 9 in the UK & is now gold status with over 170K UK sales – All formats feature 10th anniversary artwork & the album has been newly remastered by Gavin Lurrsen in LA. The band have just come off tour with Coldplay & are playing the Other Stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival.

TRACK LISTING

2LP Deluxe Edition
Side A
The Mother We Share (remastered)
We Sink (remastered)
Gun (remastered)
Tether (remastered)
Lies (remastered)
Under The Tide (remastered)
Side B
Recover (remastered)
Night Sky (remastered)
Science/Visions (remastered)
Lungs (remastered)
By The Throat (remastered)
You Caught The Light (remastered)
Side C
Manhattan
White Summer
Talking In My Sleep
City On Fire
Side D
We Sink (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Now Is Not The Time (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Lies (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Strong Hand (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
By The Throat (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)

1LP Coloured
Side A
The Mother We Share (remastered)
We Sink (remastered)
Gun (remastered)
Tether (remastered)
Lies (remastered)
Under The Tide (remastered)
Side B
Recover (remastered)
Night Sky (remastered)
Science/Visions (remastered)
Lungs (remastered)
By The Throat (remastered)
You Caught The Light (remastered)

2CD
CD 1
The Mother We Share (remastered)
We Sink (remastered)
Gun (remastered)
Tether (remastered)
Lies (remastered)
Under The Tide (remastered)
Recover (remastered)
Night Sky (remastered)
Science/Visions (remastered)
Lungs (remastered)
By The Throat (remastered)
You Caught The Light (remastered)
CD 2
Manhattan
White Summer
Talking In My Sleep
City On Fire
We Sink (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Now Is Not The Time (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Lies (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
Strong Hand (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)
By The Throat (Live At Ancienne Belgique 2013)

Beggars Arkive are happy to announce a vinyl reissue of the second Fields Of The Nephilim album The Nephilim, released 35 years ago by Situation Two/Beggars Banquet in 1988, and not pressed on vinyl since then. The album is pressed on golden brown vinyl and is expanded to a double LP. The album contains their epic, legendary track “Moonchild” plus three bonus tracks.

Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. You can hear their influence on bands like Swans, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky, Wolves in The Throne Room, Behemoth and more.

The Nephilim was recorded in a former courthouse in the Somerset countryside where defendants who were sentenced to death were hung. “Moonchild” is the band’s best known song due to it reaching #28 in the UK single charts, and LouderSound called it a classic and said that it “perfectly encapsulates this era of the band and it has some nifty guitar work, great bass lines from Tony Pettitt, Nod’s stellar drumming and McCoy’s distinctive vocals.”

In a 2013 remembrance of the album, PopMatters said “The band’s sophomore effort, regarded not only as its best work but also as one of the UK goth scene’s masterpieces, is a seamless, hour-long trek into a surreal land populated by chiming guitars, hypnotic bass, found samples, and McCoy’s storytelling.”

TRACK LISTING

1 - Endemoniada
2 - The Watchman
3 - Phobia
4 - Moonchild
5 - Chord Of Souls
6 - Shiva
7 - Celebrate
8 - Love Under Will
9 - Last Exit For The Lost
10 - Celebrate (Second Seal)
11 - Psychonaut Lib III

"I first heard Slint before they were called that, but the difference between them and their contemporaries was already in concrete. From the outset they made music to suit themselves, not an audience, and their dogged pursuit of the sound of their imagination is still utterly unique. Tendrils of continuity between the doom of heavy metal, the drama of modernist classical music, and the rude musk of punk may not be apparent at first glance, but they glow like a web when illuminated by the fire of Slint’s muse. Nobody thinks about their music, or music itself, like Slint. Love this fucking band." Steve Albini, 2014.

Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991, the six songs on Spiderland methodically mapped a shadowy new continent of sound. The music is taut, menacing, and haunting; its structure built largely on absence and restraint, on the echoing space between the notes, but punctuated by sudden thrilling blasts of unfettered fury. It is a sound that no one had heard before and that no one will ever forget. The eerie, now-iconic black and white cover photo of the four-band member’s heads breaking the surface of the water was taken by their friend Will Oldham. Spiderland spawned a whole new genre, frequently called PostRock, and came to be regarded as one of the most important and influential records of the past thirty years.

SLINT broke up shortly before Spiderland was released. Band members went on to play in Tortoise, the Breeders, Palace, The For Carnation, Papa M, Evergreen, Interpol, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Breadcrumb Trail
2. Nosferatu Man
3. Don, Aman
Side B:
4. Washer
5. For Dinner…
6. Good Morning, Captain 

Pink Floyd announced the upcoming stand-alone release of the newly remastered ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ on CD, LP and Blu-ray. These versions will be released on October 13th.

First released as part of ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ 50th Anniversary Box Set, this is the first time that the new mix of the classic album will be available on its own in physical formats. The Blu-ray contains the Dolby Atmos mix, a 5.1 Surround mix and the remastered Stereo mix. The package comes with commemorative postcards, stickers and a 24-page booklet.

Originally released in 1973 and becoming one of the most iconic and influential albums ever, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ continues to find new audiences globally. The famous sleeve, which depicts a prism spectrum, was designed by Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and drawn by George Hardie. ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ has sold over 50 million copies worldwide.

“The songwriter that helped kick off indie rock as we know it" NPR…

Remixed and remastered under the supervision of Martin Phillipps, this expanded edition of The Chills’ debut album is reissued for the first time in over 35 years. The newly mixed edition features additional rarities and unreleased tracks from The Chills vaults, along with brand new reimagined artwork by Martin Phillipps and a host of additional liner notes.

Originally produced by Mayo Thompson (Pere Ubu/Red Krayola) and featuring standout tracks ‘Wet Blanket’, ‘Night Of Chills Blue’, this extended 18-track edition includes much-lauded tracks from the era, such as ‘House With A Hundred Rooms’ and the awesome ‘Party In My Heart’.

Part of the 80s extraordinarily vibrant and innovative independent music scene in New Zealand, The Chills became flag bearers, taking the Dunedin sound, as championed by the Flying Nun label, to the world. Long recognised as one of New Zealand's most influential bands, Brave Words is a shining example of their unique sound and has been praised as a masterpiece by critics and fans alike.

“‘Brave Words’ may well be The Chills' finest album.” AllMusic.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1 Push (Remastered)
A2 Rain (Remastered)
A3 Speak For Yourself (Remastered)
A4 Look For The Good In Others And They'll See The Good In You (Remastered)
A5 Wet Blanket (Remastered)
A6 Ghosts (Remastered)
Side B
B1 Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Remastered)
B2 Night Of Chill Blue (Remastered)
B3 16 Heart-Throbs (Remastered)
B4 Brave Words (Remastered)
B5 Dark Carnival (Remastered)
B6 Creep (Remastered)
Side C
C1 The Oncoming Day (Remastered)
C2 I Think I’d Thought I'd Nothing Else To Think About (Remastered)
C3 House With A Hundred Rooms (Remastered)
Side D
D1 Party In My Heart (Remastered)
D2 Living In A Jungle (Remastered)
D3 Rain (Alternate Instrumental Version - Remastered)

This is what a living legend looks and sounds like” Rolling Stone.

The Chills reissue their celebrated early singles compilation, this 24-track expanded version of Kaleidoscope World gathers together tracks from the ‘Dunedin Double’ compilation, live recordings, ‘Doledrums’ single and the band’s seminal ‘Pink Frost’.

The collection also contains ‘The Lost EP’, with early takes on their groundbreaking ‘Submarine Bells’ album, alongside the aching ‘I Love My Leather Jacket’, perfectly illustrating the rollercoaster ride of Martin Phillipps and The Chills as portrayed in the award film The Triumph And The Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps.

“Singer/guitarist Martin Phillipps’ group was at the forefront of the extraordinary little guitar-pop scene in New Zealand in the early ’80s.. Kaleidoscope World is the major document of their early era.” Pitchfork

Part of the 80’s extraordinarily vibrant and innovative independent music scene in New Zealand, The Chills became flag bearers, taking the Dunedin sound, as championed by the Flying Nun label, to the world. Long recognised as one of New Zealand's most influential bands, Kaleidoscope World is a definitive artifact from Martin Phillipps’ groundbreaking project.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1 Kaleidoscope World
A2 Satin Doll
A3 Frantic Drift
A4 Rolling Moon
A5 Bite
Side B
B1 Flame Thrower
B2 Pink Frost
B3 Purple Girl
B4 This Is The Way
B5 Never Never Go
B6 Don't Even Know Her Name
B7 Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
Side C
C1 Whole Weird World
C2 Dream By Dream
C3 Doledrums
C4 Hidden Bay
C5 I Love My Leather Jacket
C6 The Great Escape
Side D
D1 Oncoming Day (Early Version)
D2 Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Unplugged)
D3 Martyn’s Doctor Told Me
D4 I'll Only See You Alone Again
D5 Green-Eyed Owl (Live)
D6 Smile From A Dead Dead Face (Live)

Little Creatures is the sixth studio album by Talking Heads and was originally released in 1985. The album examines themes of Americana and incorporates elements of country music, with many songs featuring steel guitar. Little Creatures the classics “And She Was” and “Road To Nowhere”.

Naked is the eighth studio album by Talking Heads and was originally released in 1988. The album peaked at number three in the UK Albums Char and includes the singles “(Nothing But) Flowers” and “Blind”. Reissued for the first time since the original release.

Originally released in 1958 on Sun Records, Johnny Cash's second album was a smash success, with singles such as "I Walk The Line", "Guess Things Happen That Way", and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" shooting to the top of the charts and earning Cash a reputation as one of country's greatest songwriters and performers. The Man In Black is accompanied by Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant, known at the time as The Tennessee Two. The album was produced by Sun Records founder, Sam Phillips, and Jack Clement.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
Ballad Of A Teenage Dream
There You Go
I Walk The Line
Don’t Make Me Go
Guess Things Happen That Way
Train Of Love
SIDE B
The Ways Of A Woman In Love
Next In Line
You’re The Nearest Thing To Heaven
I Can’t Help If If I’m Still In Love With You
Home Of The Blues
Big River

Australian punks The Chats' album, Get Fucked, is fully loaded with 13, high-velocity punk tracks that rip from start to finish, and lyrically cover panic attacks, junkies, prison breaks, the price of smokes, surf mafia, being drunk in every pub in Brisbane and many more based on personal experiences.

TRACK LISTING

1. 6L GTR
2. Boggo Breakout
3. Struck By Lightning
4. Southport Superman
5. Panic Attack
6. Ticket Inspector
7. The Price Of Smokes
8. Dead On Site
9. Paid Late
10. I've Been Drunk In Every Pub In Brisbane
11. Emperor Of The Beach
12. Out On The Street
13. Getting Better

In 1999 Aim changed the game with debut album Cold Water Music. Timeless and genre defining, Cold Water Music crossed musical boundaries, inspired countless producers and 125,000+ physical copies and millions of streams later sounds as fresh and as relevant today as it ever did.

In 2002 Aim achieved the seemingly impossible with his critically acclaimed follow up Hinterland. At once a continuation and development of his trademark sound, Hinterland proved the notoriously difficult second album could not only equal its predecessor but surpass it. Featuring intricate instrumentals and inspired guest spots from the likes of Diamond D (‘The Omen’), Souls of Mischief (‘No Restriction’) and Stephen Jones (’Good Disease’), Hinterland is an understated masterpiece that seamlessly combines crisp hip-hop beats (‘Linctus’, ‘From A Seaside Town’) and up-tempo grooves (’Guimar’, Vipco’) with Aim’s bucolic aesthetic and ever-present sense of blissful melancholy.

Over twenty years on from its original release ATIC Records is thrilled to present the definitive Hinterland vinyl reissue. Fully remastered from the original DAT master tapes with all-new artwork, Aim explains why it’s taken so long; “I’ve wanted to re-release Hinterland on vinyl for years but it’s only now that the time felt right. I found the perfect new cover image and, amazingly, the long-lost instrumental of ‘A Twilight Zone’ turned up in a dusty attic corner. I was never comfortable with my singing on this track and replacing the vocal version with the instrumental makes Hinterland the record I always thought it should be. I think it’s my best album and it’s exciting to get it out there again for fans that have hounded us for a fresh vinyl release for years and for new ears yet to discover it.”

Hinterland Remastered. Some things are worth waiting for.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Forlorn (Intro)
A2. The Girl Who Fell Through The Ice Feat. Kate Rogers
A3. What Do People Do All Day
A4. No Restriction Feat. Souls Of Mischief
B1. Fall Break
B2. Guimar
B3. Good Disease Feat. Stephen Jones
C1. The Omen Feat. Diamond D
C2. Linctus
C3. Vipco
D1. A Twilight Zone (Instrumental)
D2. From A Seaside Town
D3. Hinterland

Moonshake was formed in 1991 by David Callahan (vocals, guitars, samplers), formerly of The Wolfhounds, and New York musician Margaret Fiedler (vocals, guitars, samplers). Callahan and Fiedler recorded a demo for Creation Records, and were joined by John Frenett (bass) and Miguel Morland (“Mig”, drums) to record and release the First EP for Creation in 1991 . They took their name from a 1973 single by Can. Both Fiedler and Callahan wrote songs, and they would (generally) sing on the songs that they wrote. Their output of shared inspiration produced wildly different results - Can, PIL, Kraftwerk, MBV, Erik B & Rakim were a melting pot that made Moonshake somewhat uncategorizable, and as Margaret noted in an interview, “Moonshake was a collision - it was supposed to be a collision.”

Their debut album Eva Luna took its name from a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende and the tracks on it are split evenly between the two songwriters. Callahan’s songs are somewhat

angry, dissonant, post-punk affairs, while Fiedler’s are just as angular, but her quieter sometimes near whispered vocals compliment her writing partner’s equally. Producer/engineer Guy Fixsen, fresh from his work on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, was instrumental in making the album cohesive.

This album has been critically revisited often since its original release, with Tiny Mix Tapes describing their sound as “an updated take on Can and Public Image Limited’s rhythmic propulsion with noisier guitar work and a predilection for sampling influenced by The Young Gods.” Last year, in a wonderfully long piece to celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary, Louder Than War wrote that they were blown away by the album’s “utterly spellbinding, dizzyingly genre-defying approach at articulating explicitly the sound of a city in the throes of urban psychosis and derangement...Eva Luna really is one hell of a ground-breaking record, and it stands resolutely alone among all of the albums released in 1992 as no other band has managed to create anything remotely similar before or since. It really is a unique album with few equals.”

In 1993, the original incarnation of the band split up, and Margaret Fiedler and John Frenett went on to form Laika with Guy Fixsen. Callahan and Morland continued on with guest musicians, with Callahan ultimately remaining the band’s sole original member. Moonshake ended in 1997 but their legacy is indisputable.

TRACK LISTING

1. City Poison
2. Sweetheart
3. Spaceship Earth
4. Beautiful Pigeon
5. Mugshot Heroine
6. Wanderlust
7. Tar Baby
8. Seen & Not Heard
9. Bleach & Salt Water
10. Little Thing
11. Secondhand Clothes
12. Blister
13. Beeside
14. Home Survival Kit
15. Drop In The Ocean
16. Coming (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
17. Beautiful Pigeon (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
18. Sweetheart (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
19. Mugshot Heroine (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)

Celebrate 5 of Tom Waits’ albums from the Island years, all of which have had an incredible impact on music history.

All remastered to HD audio.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
The Earth Died Screaming
Dirt In The Ground
Such A Scream
All Stripped Down
Who Are You
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
Jesus Gonna Be Here
A Little Rain
Side B
In The Colosseum
Goin' Out West
Murder In The Red Barn
Black Wings
Whistle Down The Wind
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Let Me Get Up On It
That Feel

Celebrate 5 of Tom Waits’ albums from the Island years, all of which have had an incredible impact on music history.

All remastered to HD audio.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Lucky Day Overture
The Black Rider
November
Just The Right Bullets
Black Box Theme
'Tain't No Sin
Flash Pan Hunter/Intro
That's The Way
The Briar And The Rose
Russian Dance
Side B
Gospel Train/Orchestra
I'll Shoot The Moon
Flash Pan Hunter
Crossroads
Gospel Train
Interlude
Oily Night
Lucky Day
The Last Rose Of The Summer
Carnival

Fourth album from Glasgow cosmic post-rock band, following 2001's "Rock Action". Expanding on that album's more melodicsound rather than the loudness of their "My Father My King" EP, this record is subtler, more expansive and organic than anything they have done. It is modestly described on the band's website as 'forty one minutes fifty seconds of total unadulterated brilliance'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hunted By A Freak 
2. Moses? I Amnt
3. Kids Will Be Skeletons
4. Killing All The Flies
5. Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep 
6. Ratts Of The Capital
7. Golden Porsche 
8. I Know You Are But What Am I?
9. Stop Coming To My House

Recorded with Andy Miller at Chemikal Underground and mixed by Gareth Jones at Castle Of Doom, ‘The Hawk Is Howling’ saw Mogwai return to a totally instrumental landscape on their sixth studio album. The album features the single ‘Batcat’.

To celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the release, the album is available as a newly remastered 2LP White Vinyl on September 22nd, fifteen years to the day since the album’s original release.

The album was remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios.

"Mr Beast" is the band's fifth album and the follow-up to 2003's "Happy Songs For Happy People" and was recorded in the band's new Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow. As the title suggests, this is a record of considerable size and weight - a monster creation that started out as a return to the heady, bone-crushing volume and intensity of earlier recordings, and then mutated into a many headed, many mooded beast. It opens with "Auto Rock" - whose sweetly melancholic, central piano motif is gradually engulfed by a swell of fulsome guitars and pummelling drum beats - and closes with lurching, psych-rock behemoth "We're No Here". In between are eight future Mogwai classics, including the heads-down "Glasgow Mega-Snake", where what must surely be a dozen guitars swarm around a molten metal core like crazed killer bees, the drum machine-driven country gospel of "Acid Food", which features pedal-steel guitar, the wintry splendour of "Friend Of The Night" and the impossibly poignant "I Chose Horses", featuring guest vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa (of Japanese hardcore band Envy) and a keyboard contribution from composer/arranger Craig Armstrong. Whether light and lean or dark and monstrous, however, these songs underline Mogwai's belief that to have meaning, rock needs both mass and monumentality. If "Mr Beast" has one thing, it's presence.

Remain in Light is the fourth studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on October 8, 1980. The album features the singles ‘Once in a Lifetime’, ‘Houses in Motion’, ‘Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)’ and ‘Crosseyed and Painless’.

True Stories is the seventh studio album by Talking Heads and was originally released in 1986. The album includes the singles “Wild Wild Life” and “Love For Sale”. Back on vinyl for the first time since it’s original release.

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Jon Hopkins’ seminal fourth album, Immunity, a newly remastered version of the record is now available.

A confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place, Immunity felt and still feels, like the accompaniment to a journey of creativity, a trip inside Hopkins’ mind. It brought together everything he had learnt and experienced already but also paved the way for the evolution of his future records, most recently, 2021’s Music For Psychedelic Therapy.

Immunity was a turning point in Hopkins’ career. On its release in 2013, Immunity announced itself as a powerful, multi-faceted beast, packed with the most aggressively dancefloor-focussed music Hopkins had ever made. However, Immunity was never just about the techno behemoths - of which there were several. Hopkins wanted the album to help people to reach different states of mind. From graceful and mournful piano notes, stirring choral drones, he was always seeking new melodic routes to aid this and his desire to use physical, real-world sounds as the basis for many of the album’s rhythms allowed him to craft one of the most human electronic albums.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. We Disappear - Remaster 2023
2. Open Eye Signal - Remaster 2023
3. Breathe This Air - Remaster 2023
4. Collider - Remaster 2023
5. Abandon Window - Remaster 2023
6. Form By Firelight - Remaster 2023
7. Sun Harmonics - Remaster 2023
8. Immunity - Remaster 2023

Disc 2 (CD And Download + Download Code With Vinyl)
1. Immunity (Asleep Version)
2. Form By Firelight (Asleep Version)
3. Breathe This Air (Asleep Version)
4. Open Eye Signal (Asleep Version)
5. Abandon Window (Moderat Remix)
6. Breathe This Air (feat. Purity Ring)
7. We Disappear (feat. Lulu James)
8. Open Eye Signal (George Fitzgerald Remix)
9. Collider (Pangaea Remix)

Cult classic Some of my Best Friends are DJs is given a new lease of life on the 20th anniversary of release.

It's the Kid Koala you know and love, a turntablised soundtrack of more antics of the cranky and mysterious characters from Kid Koala's comic book land of Nufonia.”

Some of My Best Friends are DJs comes complete with the original 50-page comic book and mini chess game from the first pressing.

On original release, the album was supported by a cabaret-style tour known as “The Short Attention Span Theatre”, which featured 3 DJs on 8 turntables, a slide show and a bingo game among other quirky surprises.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Strat Hear
A2. Basin Street Blues
A3. Radio Nufonia
A4. Stompin At Le Savoi
A5. Space Cadet 2
A6. Grandmaphone Speaks
A7. Skanky Panky
A8. Flu Season
B1. Robochacha
B2. Elevator Hopper
B3. Annie's Parlor
B4. Bonus Materials: On The Set Of Fender Bender
B5. More Dance Music
B6. Vacation Island
B7. Negatron Speaks

Kveikur is the seventh album by Sigur Rós, originally released on XL Recordings in June 2013. Completely out of print worldwide, the album will now be re-released on the band’s own label, Krunk. Described by the band as “more aggressive” than any of their previous work, Kveikur – which means ‘fuse’ or ‘candle wick’ in the band’s native Icelandic – is heavier, both thematically and sonically. All of the lyrics are sung in Icelandic rather than the wordless “Vonlenska” (Hopelandic) as on ( ), providing a more grounded experience.

NME - 4/5 - “Sigur Rós are at their blackest and most sinister, sounding not so much reborn as in the ferocious throes of an almighty exorcism.”

Kick Out the Jams is the debut album by American proto-punk band MC5. It was released in February 1969, through Elektra Records. It was recorded live at Detroit's Grande Ballroom over two nights, Devil's Night and Halloween, 1968.

The LP peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the title track peaking at No. 82 in the Hot 100.

"Back in the USA" is MC5's 1970 second album, celebrated for its energetic proto-punk vibe and departure from their previous style. Its fast-paced tracks, like "Ramblin' Rose" and "Back in the USA," showcase the band's rebellious spirit and helped shape the punk and garage rock genres that followed. The album's enduring influence on rock music solidifies its place in the annals of musical innovation.

High Time is the second studio album (third album overall) by the American rock band MC5, released in 1971 by Atlantic Records.

The Stooges, originally billed as the Psychedelic Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander. Initially playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll, the band sold few records in their original incarnation and gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, which often involved acts of self-mutilation by Iggy Pop.

Funhouse is the second studio album by American rock band the Stooges. It was released on July 7, 1970, by Elektra Records. Though initially commercially unsuccessful, Funhouse developed a strong cult following. Like its predecessor (1969's The Stooges) and its successor (1973's Raw Power), it is generally considered integral in the development of Punk Rock.

Neil Gust and Elliott Smith arrived in Portland, OR together in the summer of 1991 to start a new band with drummer/producer Tony Lash. Within a year of adding bassist Brandt Peterson on bass, they were playing across the West Coast and demoing dozens of songs for their first LP. Six of these tracks were self-released on the cassette titled “The Music of Heatmiser” which was sold at shows, local record shops, and handed out to record labels.

The sound of the band changed a lot over 3 LP’s, but this is Heatmiser right out of the gate. New, energetic, excited, moving quickly through styles, totally broke and making it work in whatever way possible. It’s guitar rock, full-blast, through 100 watt Marshall half stacks, when grunge was ascendant in the Pacific Northwest and the Portland scene was exploding. Fast, tight, loud, fun.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1
1. Lowlife ('92 Cassette)
2. Bottle Rocket ('92 Cassette)
3. Buick ('92 Cassette)
4. Just A Little Prick ('92 Cassette)
5. Dirt ('92 Cassette)
6. Mightier Than You ('92 Cassette)
7. Can't Be Touched (Cavity Search Single)
8. Wake (Cavity Search Single)
9. Stray (Cavity Search Single)
SIDE 2
1. Dead Air (Demo)
2. Sands Hotel (Demo)
3. Mock Up (Demo)
4. Cannibal (Demo)
5. Candyland (Demo)
6. Still (Demo)
SIDE 3
1. Man Camp
2. Laying Low
3. Bloody Knuckles
4. Father Song
5. Glamourine
6. Meatline
7. Revolution
SIDE 4
1. Blackout (Live On KBOO)
2. Bottle Rocket (Live On KBOO)
3. Dirt (Live On KBOO)
4. Still (Live On KBOO)
5. Candyland (Live On KBOO)
6. Don't Look Down (Live On KBOO)
7. Lowlife (Live On KBOO)

Black Sabbath was formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums and percussion). Originally formed as a heavy blues-rock band named Earth, the band began incorporating occult and horror-inspired lyrics with tuned-down guitars, changing their name to Black Sabbath and releasing multiple gold and platinum records in the 1970s.

The Ultimate Collection was curated by band members, resulting in a 17-track collection that features the band’s classic songs including “Paranoid,” “Iron Man,” “War Pigs,” “N.I.B.” and “The Wizard,” as well as choice cuts from their classic albums. Remastered by renowned engineer Andy Pearce (Motörhead, Deep Purple, Lou Reed, Iggy & The Stooges) in 2009.

TRACK LISTING

1. Paranoid
2. Iron Man
3. Children Of The Grave
4. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5. Back Street Kids
6. War Pigs
7. Black Sabbath
8. Sweet Leaf
9. Snowblind
10. Hole In The Sky
11. N.I.B
12. Planet Caravan
13. Never Say Die
14. The Wizard
15. Fairies Wear Boots
16. Supernaut
17. Changes

Bristol, UK 5-piece Idles (aka “the UK's best punk band" - The Guardian) release their sophomore LP - ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance.’ 

Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan & Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance.’ takes aim at everything from toxic masculinity, nationalism, immigration, and class inequality - all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarizes: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Colossus
2. Never Fight A Man With A Perm
3. I’m Scum
4. Danny Nedelko
5. Love Song
6. June
7. Samaritans
8. Television
9. Great
10. Gram Rock
11. Cry To Me
12. Rottweiler

Forever, originally released in 1993, continues the trend of Crane's previous albums, revolving largely around Alison Shaw's distinctive vocals. The album contains elements of shoegaze, dream pop and gothic rock, and features the singles "Adrift" and "Jewel".

The album starts with hypnotizing acoustic guitar chords on the first track "Everywhere". Songs like "Cloudless", "And Ever" and "Far Away" show the band taking an extremely minimalist approach to their songwriting with sometimes nothing more than a piano accompanying Alison's voice. The songs "Adrift" and "Clear" are heavy post-punk rockers and "Jewel" is one of the brightest and most colorful songs that Cranes have ever produced.

"Jewel" ended up being an underground hit in the U.K. and U.S., thanks to a somewhat transformed remix courtesy of longtime Cranes fan Robert Smith (Forever takes its name from a The Cure rarity of the same title) and Forever turned out to be a favorite amongst fans and critics. It's a lost treasure of early 90s dream pop, delivering unique and mesmerizingly beautiful music. The hidden track "Shine Like Stars" is included on the LP.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Everywhere
2. Cloudless
3. Jewel
4. Far Away
5. Adrift

Side B
1. Clear
2. Sun And Sky
3. And Ever
4. Golden
5. Rainbows
6. Shine Like Star (Hidden Track)

Reissue of debut album from 1995, now including their 1994 Drop EP.
First time available on vinyl in nearly two decades.
On Pitchfork’s Best Shoegaze Albums Of All Time list.
Included in Andrew Earles’s Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996.

This new double LP version restores the track “Deep Sky Objects” to the original running order of the album as it was left off of the original single LP version due to side length restraints. This is the first time this album has been available on vinyl in almost two decades, and the first time the Drop EP has been available in any format since original release in 1994.

At the same time, Kranky is making the CD version available once again for the first time in many years, with the Drop EP tracks also included.

The debut album from New York City’s Bowery Electric was released by Kranky in late summer 1995 after they came to the label’s attention via their self-released 2x7-inch Drop EP from the year previous. The first in a trio of albums released by the core duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener finds them in their most raw form.

“The perfect realization of their aesthetic, each word and chord tuned and focused for maximum impact.” — Pitchfork

“Genuinely hypnotic.” —The Wire 

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Sounds In Motion.
2. Next To Nothing.
3. Long Way Down.
4. Another Road
Side B:
1. Over And Over
2. Deep Sky Objects
3. Slow Thrills
Side C:
1. Out Of Phase
2. Drift Away
Side D (Drop EP):
1. Drop
2. Let Me Down
3. Head On Fire
4. Only Sometimes

It's already been a full decade since mega pop star Miley Cyrus went on a crash course to shatter her Hannah Montana image with the "controversial" Bangerz. Cropping her hair to near skinhead levels, endorsing free love and marijuana usage, and shooting an array of music videos that became viral hits thanks to endless twerking and nakedly riding atop a wrecking ball, the era was a ludicrous yet retrospectively vital time in the pop icon's career. The semi-aforementioned 'Wrecking Ball' would become a global smash hit while 'We Can't Stop' and 'Adore You' also made for chart-toppers that led to the album becoming an assured outlier in the once Disney-approved songstress' catalogue. Celebrating its ten year anniversary with a sea glass double LP reissue, there's never been a more ideal time to revisit this array of transformative, carefree bangers.

First released in 2006, ‘Get the Message: The Best Of Electronic’ is the career spanning collection from the Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner band who released a string of critically acclaimed hits including their debut single ‘Getting Away With It’, ‘Get The Message’ ‘Disappointed’ and ‘Feel Every Beat’. This compilation captures the very essence of their groundbreaking sound, blending Marr’s distinctive guitar work with Sumner’s vocals and guest features from Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant (Getting Away With It, Disappointed) and Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos (For You, Imitation Of Life). 

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl:
Side A
1. Forbidden City
2. Getting Away With It
3. Get The Message (Single Remix)
4. Feel Every Beat
Side B
1. Disappointed (Single Mix)
2. Vivid (Radio Edit)
3. Second Nature
4. All That I Need
Side C
1. Prodigal Son
2. For You
3. Imitation Of Life (New Edit)
Side D
1. Out Of My League
2. Like No Other
3. Twisted Tenderness
4. Late At Night (Radio Edit)

CD:
CD1
1. Forbidden City
2. Getting Away With It
3. Get The Message (Single Remix)
4. Feel Every Beat
5. Disappointed (Single Mix)
6. Vivid (Radio Edit)
7. Second Nature
8. All That I Need
9. Prodigal Son
10. For You
11. Imitation Of Life (New Edit)
12. Out Of My League
13. Like No Other
14. Twisted Tenderness
15. Late At Night (Radio Edit)
CD2
1. Getting Away With It (Vocal Remix)
2. Lucky Bag
3. Feel Every Beat (DNA Remix)
4. Lean To The Inside (2013 Edit)
5. Get The Message (DNA Groove Mix)
6. Free Will (Edit)
7. Disappointed (12” 808 State Remix)
8. Idiot Country Two (Edit)
9. Gangster (FBI Mix)
10. I Feel Alright
11. A New Religion
12. Turning Point
13. Until The End Of Time (Fluffy Dice Remix)
14. King For A Day
15. Radiation

Jason Isbell's songs are filled with ghosts. They're haunted by spirits both welcome and unwelcome, by the personal and historical legacies that make us who we are. Nowhere is this more evident than on his 2013 breakthrough album Southeastern. Isbell offers confessions, reflections, and promises that confront and make communion with those who have come before and remain with us still. Its twelve tracks represent an extended meditation on the concept articulated by another celebrated southern storyteller, author William Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It isn't even past"

TRACK LISTING

Black Vinyl / Coloured Vinyl Tracklisting
1. Cover Me Up
2. Stockholm
3. Traveling Alone
4. Elephant
5. Flying Over Water
6. Different Days
7. Live Oak
8. Songs That She Sang In The Shower
9. New South Wales
10. Super 8
11. Yvette
12. Relatively Easy

3CD / 4LP Tracklisting
CD1/LP1
1. Cover Me Up
2. Stockholm
3. Traveling Alone
4. Elephant
5. Flying Over Water
6. Different Days
7. Live Oak
8. Songs That She Sang In The Shower
9. New South Wales
10. Super 8
11. Yvette
12. Relatively Easy
CD2/LP2
1. Cover Me Up (Demo)
2. Stockholm (Demo)
3. Traveling Alone (Demo)
4. Elephant (Demo)
5. Flying Over Water (Demo)
6. Different Days (Demo)
7. Live Oak (Demo)
8. Songs That She Sang In The Shower (Demo)
9. New South Wales (Demo)
10. Super 8 (Demo)
11. Yvette (Demo)
12. Relatively Easy (Demo)
CD3/LP3&4
1. Cover Me Up (Live)
2. Stockholm (Live)
3. Traveling Alone (Live)
4. Elephant (Live)
5. Flying Over Water (Live)
6. Different Days (Live)
7. Live Oak (Live)
8. Songs That She Sang In The Shower (Live)
9. New South Wales (Live)
10. Super 8 (Live)
11. Yvette (Live)
12. Relatively Easy (Live)

One can hardly imagine the genre-busting, culture-crossing musical magic of Outkast, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rick James, The Roots, or even the early Red Hot Chili Peppers without the influence of R&B pioneer Betty Davis. Her style of raw and revelatory punk-funk defies any notions that women can’t be visionaries in the worlds of rock and pop. In recent years, rappers from Ice Cube to Talib Kweli to Ludacris have rhymed over her intensely strong but sensual music.

There is one testimonial about Betty Davis that is universal: she was a woman ahead of her time. In our contemporary moment, this may not be as self-evident as it was thirty years ago – we live in an age that’s been profoundly changed by flamboyant flaunting of female sexuality: from Parlet to Madonna, Lil Kim to Kelis. Yet, back in 1973 when Betty Davis first showed up in her silver go-go boots, dazzling smile and towering Afro, who could you possibly have compared her to? Marva Whitney had the voice but not the independence. Labelle wouldn’t get sexy with their “Lady Marmalade” for another year while Millie Jackson wasn’t “Feelin’ Bitchy” until 1977. Even Tina Turner, the most obvious predecessor to Betty’s fierce style wasn’t completely out of Ike’s shadow until later in the decade.

Ms. Davis’s unique story, still sadly mostly unknown, is unlike any other in popular music. Betty wrote the song “Uptown” for the Chambers Brothers before marrying Miles Davis in the late ‘60s, influencing him with psychedelic rock, and introducing him to Jimi Hendrix — personally inspiring the classic album ’Bitches Brew.’

But her songwriting ability was way ahead of its time as well. Betty not only wrote every song she ever recorded and produced every album after her first, but the young woman penned the tunes that got The Commodores signed to Motown. The Detroit label soon came calling, pitching a Motown songwriting deal, which Betty turned down. Motown wanted to own everything. Heading to the UK, Marc Bolan of T. Rex urged the creative dynamo to start writing for herself. A common thread throughout Betty’s career would be her unbending Do-It-Yourself ethic, which made her quickly turn down anyone who didn’t fit with the vision. She would eventually say no to Eric Clapton as her album producer, seeing him as too banal.

In 1973, Davis would finally kick off her cosmic career with an amazingly progressive hard funk and sweet soul self-titled debut. Davis showcased her fiercely unique talent and features such gems as “If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up” and “Game Is My Middle Name.” The album Betty Davis was recorded with Sly & The Family Stone’s rhythm section, sharply produced by Sly Stone drummer Greg Errico, and featured backing vocals from Sylvester and the Pointer Sisters.

TRACK LISTING

If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up 
Walkin Up The Road 
Anti Love Song 
Your Man My Man
Ooh Yea 
Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes 
Game Is My Middle Name 
In The Meantime

One can hardly imagine the genre-busting, culture-crossing musical magic of Outkast, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rick James, The Roots, or even the early Red Hot Chili Peppers without the influence of R&B pioneer Betty Davis. Her style of raw and revelatory punk-funk defies any notions that women can’t be visionaries in the worlds of rock and pop. In recent years, rappers from Ice Cube to Talib Kweli to Ludacris have rhymed over her intensely strong but sensual music.

There is one testimonial about Betty Davis that is universal: she was a woman ahead of her time. In our contemporary moment, this may not be as self-evident as it was thirty years ago – we live in an age that’s been profoundly changed by flamboyant flaunting of female sexuality: from Parlet to Madonna, Lil Kim to Kelis. Yet, back in 1973 when Betty Davis first showed up in her silver go-go boots, dazzling smile and towering Afro, who could you possibly have compared her to? Marva Whitney had the voice but not the independence. Labelle wouldn’t get sexy with their “Lady Marmalade” for another year while Millie Jackson wasn’t Feelin’ Bitchy until 1977. Even Tina Turner, the most obvious predecessor to Betty’s fierce style wasn’t completely out of Ike’s shadow until later in the decade.

Ms. Davis’s unique story, still sadly mostly unknown, is unlike any other in popular music. Betty wrote the song “Uptown” for the Chambers Brothers before marrying Miles Davis in the late ’60s, influencing him with psychedelic rock, and introducing him to Jimi Hendrix - personally inspiring the classic album 'Bitches Brew'.

But her songwriting ability was way ahead of its time as well. Betty not only wrote every song she ever recorded and produced every album after her first, but the young woman penned the tunes that got The Commodores signed to Motown. The Detroit label soon came calling, pitching a Motown songwriting deal, which Betty turned down. Motown wanted to own everything. Heading to the UK, Marc Bolan of T. Rex urged the creative dynamo to start writing for herself. A common thread throughout Betty’s career would be her unbending Do-It-Yourself ethic, which made her quickly turn down anyone who didn’t fit with the vision. She would eventually say no to Eric Clapton as her album producer, seeing him as too banal.

Her 1974 sophomore album 'They Say I’m Different' features a worthy-of-framing futuristic cover challenging David Bowie’s science fiction funk with real rocking soul-fire, kicked off with the savagely sexual “Shoo-B-Doop and Cop Him” (later sampled by Ice Cube). Her follow up is full of classic cuts like “Don’t Call Her No Tramp” and the hilarious, hard, deep funk of “He Was A Big Freak.”

TRACK LISTING

Shoo-B-Doop And Cop Him 
He Was A Big Freak 
Your Mama Wants Ya Back
Don't Call Her No Tramp 
Git In There 
They Say I'm Different 
70's Blues 
Special People

Real Gone Music is proud to present Germfree Adolescents, one of the signature albums of the early (1978) British punk movement, in an "x-ray clear" vinyl edition that serves as an ideal prism through which to see the hypocrisy of consumerist culture. The one and only LP release from X-Ray Spex and its irrepressible frontwoman Poly Styrene has been deemed by everybody from Greil Marcus to Robert Christgau to Spin to Mojo as one of the greatest punk albums ever made, and for this reissue, we've done it right; besides the clear vinyl (offering excellent sound), we've reproduced the inner lyric sheet, where you can read Poly's brilliant observations about the plastic, corporate nature of modern society. All of which she sings in a passionate yowl all her own (with Lora Logic among others backing on saxophone); this is not only one of the most penetratingly observant punk records, it's also one of the most passionate, and, surprisingly enough, catchy. Check out "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" and "Germ Free Adolescents" if it's hooks you're after; if it's righteous anger and a noisy racket you're seeking, every track will do ya.

TRACK LISTING

Art- I- Ficial
Obsessed With You
Warrior In Woolworths
Let's Submerge
I Can't Do Anything
Identity
Genetic Engineering
I Live Off You
I Am A Poseur
Germ Free Adolescents
Plastic Bag
The Day The World Turned Dayglo
Highly Inflammable
Age

Holly Johnson is proud to present a 35th anniversary reissue of his 1989 number one debut solo album.

Blast will be available on limited edition red vinyl (Pressing of 1500 copies worldwide).

Here’s what Holly calls "Blast in a Nutshell” - "My exploding red hot vinyl, from the fag end of the nineteen eighties. It's not purple, but it's mine all mine. Thirty five years in the same house, the vibes are still here. Still alive in 2023.”\

Prepare to blast off once more.

TRACK LISTING

1. Atomic City
2. Heaven's Here
3. Americanos
4. Deep In Love
5. S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
6. Love Train
7. Got It Made
8. Love Will Come
9. Perfume
10. Feel Good

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released by Rhino Records in 2005. It peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard 200, debuting at that position on April 2, 2005 with first week sales of 33,000 copies, and spending eight weeks on the chart. Its current sales sit at over 640,000. The album was dedicated to Cass Elliot with great thanks to Neil Young.

TRACK LISTING

1. Teach Your Children (2:59)
2. Wooden Ships (5:29)
3. Delta (4:15)
4. 49 Bye-Byes (5:05)
5. Wasted On The Way (2:52)
6. Carry On / Questions (4:25)
7. In My Dreams (5:12)
8. Cathedral (5:17)
9. Daylight Again (2:28)
10. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (7:25)
11. Long Time Gone (4:17)
12. Just A Song Before I Go (2:13)
13. Southern Cross (4:44)
14. Marrakesh Express (2:36)
15. Helplessly Hoping (2:41)
16. Shadow Captain (4:34)
17. Our House (3:02)
18. Guinnevere (4:40)
19. See The Changes (2:57)

Keep It Hid was originally recorded by Auerbach as he was building his first home studio in Akron, Ohio - a precursor to his Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville, where Auerbach now records and produces most of the label’s current releases. Inspired by trips to many of his all-time favorite rooms - from Suma Recording in Cleveland to Robin Hood in Texas to Toe Rag in London - Auerbach discovered a passion for studio work that remains at the center of his musical world nearly fifteen years on. Also tapping into his love of record-collecting and crate-digging more than ever before, Keep It Hid was inspired by forgotten 60s psych rock, obscure British power-pop, bluegrass family bands and even the lyricism of his own father, Chuck Auerbach (Dan would go onto produce Chuck’s debut album, Remember Me, in 2018). Another major influence was Dr. John's acid-voodoo classic Gris-Gris, one of Auerbach’s heroes that he would go on to produce just a few years later. The resulting collection spans from echo-laden garage rock ("Heartbroken, In Disrepair") and fuzz-scarred blues ("The Prowl") to haunted Southern soul ("Real Desire") and bittersweet-country comfort ("When The Night Comes"). The album was hailed as “intimate and thrilling” by NPR’s Fresh Air upon its original release, with reviewer Ken Tucker adding it “sounds like a clearing of the throat and mind.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Trouble Weighs A Ton
2. I Want Some More
3. Heartbroken, In Disrepair
4. Because I Should
5. Whispered Words (Pretty Lies)
6. Real Desire
7. When The Night Comes
8. Mean Monsoon
9. The Prowl
10. Keep It Hid
11. My Last Mistake
12. When I Left The Room
13. Street Walkin’
14. Goin’ Home 

The band’s first hits collection, from 1966, this 14-track hits collection is still one of pop music’s most compelling and potent singles compilations ever released. Reflecting the band’s remarkable run of singles through the early to mid-sixties, it includes six UK number ones!

Celebrate the 5th anniversary of Leon Bridges Grammy-winning album Good Thing. The limited-edition title features a custard colour variant, the original track list and a bonus track “Naomi” originally released on the 2018 Japan Edition. Good Thing was nominated for Best R&B Album, and the track “Bet Ain’t Worth The Hand” won Best Traditional R&B Performance at the 2019 Grammy Awards. 

TRACK LISTING

01) Bet Ain't Worth The Hand
02) Bad Bad News
03) Shy
04) Beyond
05) Forgive You
06) Lions
07) If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be)
08) You Don't Know
09) Mrs.
10) Georgia To Texas
11) Naomi (bonus Track)

Ladies of the Canyon is the third studio album by Joni Mitchell. The album was originally released in 1970 and has now been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman under the supervision of Joni Mitchell. Includes some of Mitchell’s most well know songs including ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, ‘Woodstock’ and ‘The Circle Game’. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Morning Morgantown
2. For Free
3. Conversation
4. Ladies Of The Canyon
5. Willy
6. The Arrangement
7. Rainy Night House
8. The Priest
9. Blue Boy
10. Big Yellow Taxi
11. Woodstock
12. The Circle Game

Court and Spark is the 6th studio album by Joni Mitchell. Includes the singles ‘Raised on Robbery’, ‘Help Me’ and ‘Free Man in Paris’. Originally released in 1974, it has been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman under the supervision of Joni Mitchell.

TRACK LISTING

1. Court And Spark
2. Help Me
3. Free Man In Paris
4. People’s Parties
5. Same Situation
6. Car On A Hill
7. Down To You
8. Just Like This Train
9. Raised On Robbery
10. Trouble Child
11. Twisted

Miles of Aisles is the first live album by Joni Mitchell, released in 1974. The album was recorded during her tour in support of Court and Spark and features her backing band for the tour, the L.A. Express. Contains the songs ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, ‘A Case of You’, ‘Both Sides Now’ and ‘Blue’. Album has been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman under the supervision of Joni Mitchell. 

TRACK LISTING

You Turn Me On I’m A Radio
Big Yellow Taxi
Rainy Night House
Woodstock
Cactus Tree
Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
Woman Of Heart And Mind
A Case Of You
Blue
Circle Game
People’s Parties
All I Want
Real Good For Free
Both Sides Now
Carey
The Last Time I Saw Richard
Jericho
Love Or Money

The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the 7th studio album by Joni Mitchell originally released in 1975. Features the single ‘In France They Kiss on Main Street’. The album has been remastered by Bernie Grundman under the supervision of Joni Mitchell. 

TRACK LISTING

1. In France They Kiss On Main Street
2. The Jungle Line
3. Edith And The Kingpin
4. Don’t Interrupt The Sorrow
5. Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
6. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
7. The Boho Dance
8. Harry’s House/Centerpiece
9. Sweet Bird
10. Shadows And Light

Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster’s 1998’s debut Stratosphere simultaneously capped off and reinvented the slow core’s first wave. A four track dreamscape that will wake the neighbors and then lull them back to sleep. Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over a deliberate drummer with no real place to be, as semi-inaudible vocals warn of millennial malaise and subtly encourage the listener to “rock out, rock out, rock out, rock out.”

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1 Moon Age
2 Heading For The Door
3 Gold Dust
4 Topical Solution
5 Docking The Pod
6 The Landing
7 Constellations
8 The Queen Of Hearts

SIDE B
9 Two Way Radio
10 Inside Out
11 Stratosphere
12 Reed To Hillsborough
13 Shadows Of Planes
14 Earth Moon Transit
15 The Twins/Romantica
16 Sideria
Bonus Track: Echo, Bravo *CD Only

Recorded by the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, and featuring the infectiously appealing ‘Cannonball’, Last Splash immediately became an alt-rock classic, achieving platinum status in the UK and US, and is ranked in Pitchfork’s Top 100 Records of the 1990s.

To celebrate this anniversary, the album has been remastered from the original analog tapes – previously thought to be lost – a process which also brought to light two unreleased tracks, a discovery that will delight fans.

Entitled Last Splash (the 30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition), this special edition will span two 12” 45rpm vinyl discs, plus an exclusive, one-sided etched 12” disc containing two forgotten tracks from the original Last Splash sessions: ‘Go Man Go’, a track that Kim co-wrote with Black Francis, and ‘Divine Mascis’, a version of ‘Divine Hammer’ with lead vocals provided courtesy of Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis.

For this special edition, the original, iconic sleeve art by the late visionary designer Vaughan Oliver has been gloriously reimagined by his long-time design partner Chris Bigg.

TRACK LISTING

1. New Year
2. Cannonball
3. Invisible Man
4. No Aloha
5. Roi
6. Do You Love Me Now?
7. Flipside
8. I Just Wanna Get Along
9. Mad Lucas
10. Divine Hammer
11. S.O.S
12. Hag
13. Saints
14. Drivin’ On 9
15. Roi (Reprise)

12” Included With LP's
1. Go Man Go
2. Divine Mascis

The third BASEMENT JAXX album KISH KASH features an array of stellar guest vocalists including punk icon Siouxsie Sioux on the title track, London grime superstar Dizzee Rascal on “Lucky Star”, the mighty pipes of Rock n’ Soul diva Lisa Kekaula (of LA”s “The Bellrays” ) on “Good Luck” and rounds off with the mellow tones of Meshell Ndegeocello.

Released on XL Recordings in 2004, the album subsequently won the inaugural GRAMMY award for “Best Dance/Electronic Album” and was nominated for the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Good Luck (ft. Lisa Kekaula)
A2. Right Here’s The Spot (ft. Meshell Ndegeocello)
A3. Petrilude
A4. Supersonic Ft. Totlyn Jackson
B1. Benjilude
B2. Lucky Star (ft. Dizzee Rascal)
B3. Plug It In (ft. JC Chasez)
C1. Living Room
C2. Cish Cash (ft. Siouxsie Sioux)
C3. Tonight (ft. Phoebe)
D1. Hot ‘n’ Cold
D2. Cosmolude
D3. If I Ever Recover
D4. Feels Like Home (ft. Meshell Ndegeocello)

Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an iteration of the track “Frank’s Wild Years” from Waits’ 1983 album Swordfishtrombones.The album divides the story neatly into two acts and although titled “un operachi romantic”, there is no opera in Franks. There is a hilarious touch of operatic styling by Waits himself in the song “Temptation.” His vocal character varies wildly throughout the work’s 17 songs, and is no more impressive than when the gruff, growly singer turns to impeccable Sinatra-esque phrasing on the Vegas number, “Straight To The Top.” While Franks featured a 14-member cast on stage, the album is all-Waits—yet suggests a multitude of characters by virtue of his chameleon vocals. The album is a startling group of lost dreams, bad dreams, dreams that might not even be dreams. The music is nightmarish, ethereal, beautiful. Think broken calliopes played by genius children, horns played at dawn in a graveyard, banjos leaking through practice room walls. Titles evoke Frank’s dime-store Odyssey: “Straight To The Top,” “Blow Wind Blow,” “Temptation,” “I’ll Be Gone.” NME ranked the work the number five album of 1987.

Newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Franks Wild Years includes tracks such as “Cold Cold Ground,” “Way Down In The Hole” – versions of which were used as the theme music of HBO’s series The Wire – and “Temptation.”

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Hang On St. Christopher
Straight To The Top (Rhumba)
Blow Wind Blow
Temptation
Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
I'll Be Gone
Yesterday Is Here
Please Wake Me Up
Franks Theme
Side B
More Than Rain
Way Down In The Hole
Straight To The Top (Vegas)
I'll Take New York
Telephone Call From Istanbul
Cold Cold Ground
Train Song
Innocent When You Dream (78)

Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like "explosive" and "thunderous" barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billowing smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts, earning legions of zealous fans along the way. This is the highly-requested, unbelievably-anticipated official vinyl release of Boris's 2002 album and first dive into the stoner rock idiom, originally released in Japan on CD only. Heavy Rocks (2002) is heavy, sure, but fuses sludge, noise, stoner rock and hardcore all together for a deeply bone-shaking and unforgettable trip. For fans of: Melvins, Kyuss, Fu Manchu, BORIS

TRACK LISTING

1. Heavy Friends
2. Korosu
3. Dyna-Soar
4. Wareruraido
5. Soft Edge
6. Dronevil
7. Death Valley
8. Koei
9. The Bell Tower Of A Sign
10. 1970
11. Rattlesnake
12. Wareruraido (Demo Version)
13. 1970 (Demo Version)

Beach House’s critically acclaimed 2007 sophomore album, ‘Devotion’, is also finally back on vinyl via Bella Union.

“Crisper, brighter, bolder songs that retain the Baltimore dream-pop duo’s melodic sense and vibe of elegant decay.” - Pitchfork (8.5 - Best New Music)

TRACK LISTING

Wedding Bell
You Came To Me
Gila
Turtle Island
Holy Dances
All The Years
Heart Of Chambers
Some Things Last A Long Time
Astronaut
D.A.R.L.I.N.G
Home Again

Beach House’s 2006 self-titled debut album is finally back on vinyl, released on Bella Union. Contains the song ‘Master Of None’, which was famously sampled by The Weeknd on his song ‘The Party & the After Party’.

“In the tradition of Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500, Spiritualized, and Slowdive, this Carpark duo - singer / organist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally - crafts lovesick, narcotized rock with lots of depth and sweep.” - Pitchfork (8.1)

TRACK LISTING

Saltwater
Tokyo Witch
Apple Orchard
Master Of None
Auburn And Ivory
Childhood
Lovelier Girl
House On The Hill
Heart And Lungs

Psychedelic warriors Föllakzoid began in Santiago, Chile from what they described as the result of “a product of a trance experience between friends, sort of a soul abduction in which they’ve been living since 2008.” They believe that there is some sort of gravitational force that makes South America able to dialogue directly with other places, times, and dimensions.

II is an album comprised of five songs and some of the finest kraut-rock, a record that is ready to take you on a serpentine journey through their mystical Chilean land.

This masterpiece originally released in 2013 is now getting a long awaited repress after being sold out for quite some time, and in an irresistible gold colour. 

TRACK LISTING

1. 9
2. Rio
3. Trees
4. 99
5. Pulsar 

Sly & The Family Stone’s Anthology is an essential collection for any fan of funk, soul, or R&B music. The 1981 compilation album features the band’s greatest hits, including US Billboard chart-topping “Family Affair”, “Everyday People” & “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”.

The music of Sly & The Family Stone has influenced countless artists over the years and this anthology is a testament to their enduring legacy. A compilation album full of infectious grooves, catchy hooks and powerful messages of unity and positivity.

Anthology spans the band’s career, from their early recordings in the mid-1960s to their later hits in the 1970s.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Dance To The Music
2. M'lady
3. Life
4. Fun
5. Sing A Simple Song
6. Everyday People

Side B
1. Stand!
2. I Want To Take You Higher
3. Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey
4. You Can Make It If You Try
5. Hot Fun In The Summertime

Side C
1. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
2. Everybody Is A Star
3. Family Affair
4. Runnin' Away
5. (You Caught Me) Smilin'

Side D
1. Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa
2. Babies Makin' Babies
3. If You Want Me To Stay
4. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

“Twisted Nerve’s most stand out feature was Bernard Herrmann’s magnificently creepy-catchy whistling score” - Quentin Tarantino” - October 2014

A 1968 British psychological horror film from the Boulting Brothers, ‘Twisted Nerve’ starred Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills and Billie Whitelaw. The film itself has little to offer, however its soundtrack remains one of Herrmann's finest and, alongside the film, would have probably languished in obscurity but for the intervention of Quentin Tarantino who revived its main whistle theme for his 2002 film ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 1’, bringing Herrmann's music to a whole new audience. At long last, the soundtrack to Elle Driver’s infamous hospital scene in ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 1’ and the inspiration for countless ringtones and samples the world over comes to record stores in 2015 - when ‘Twisted Nerve’ is released in a Super-Deluxe soundtrack package by Stylotone working closely with the composer’s family, The Bernard Herrmann Estate and with a little help from director Quentin Tarantino. The complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann for the Boulting Brothers’ Production of ‘Twisted Nerve’ has been Assembled, Mastered and Cut at London’s world famous Abbey Road Studios to produce a stunning Master that is “enough to make even Hitchcock jump!”. The audio for this release has been overseen from start to finish by Grammy®-winning engineer Sean Magee, a member of the team that remastered The Beatles Catalogue in 2007 – he was also personally responsible for cutting their recent mono and stereo vinyl editions. Over 75 minutes of music – across three formats (Vinyl, CD & Download - Hi-Resolution & MP3) in two Super-Deluxe packages!

Our super-deluxe package has been produced to the absolute highest possible standard as if it had been released at the same time as the film, having sourced manufacturers who are able to produce all the parts on exactly the same machines as used in the 1960s. The ‘Twisted Nerve’ Super-Deluxe soundtrack package will be available in two “blood-spattered” coloured vinyl editions - one yellow and one transparent - featuring spot laminated 320gsm tip-on gatefold sleeves. Each edition includes:

● A heavyweight 180g 12” vinyl LP, cut at 45RPM

● An expanded ‘Vinyl’ replica CD, housed in a scale-copy of the gatefold sleeve - containing the LP programme plus unused alternate and rehearsal takes and the original ‘Whistle’ sessions.

● An exclusive free 45rpm three-track radio promo 7” single featuring pop and jazz versions of the film’s main theme – arranged and conducted, at the composer’s request, in 1968 by composer Howard Blake OBE (‘The Duellists’).

● A download card offering exclusive access to high-resolution 24-bit WAV and 320kbps CBR MP3 digital downloads of the entire deluxe soundtrack package and more. Alongside both the vinyl and CD album presentations, purchasers can download the complete unedited recording sessions, experiencing at first-hand what it was like to be in the same studio as Bernard Herrmann!

● A 30” x 40” (762mm x 1016mm) British Quad Film Poster, newly commissioned to complement the soundtrack album artwork. The poster has been specially printed using original 1960s production processes - matching not only the poster weight of the time but also the correct machine folds (since film posters would be machine folded and inserted into large brown envelopes before arriving in the post at cinemas – this was before digital media, kids!).

● A certificate of authenticity personally signed by Mrs Norma Herrmann, the composer’s widow. To round off the Super-Deluxe package director Quentin Tarantino and Bernard Herrmann’s biographer, Steven C. Smith, both offer a unique and compelling insight into this legendary soundtrack with their own sleeve notes.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Main Titles
A2. The Detective
A3. Henry Complains
A4. Twisted Nerve (Jazz Version)
A5. Second Meeting
A6. Martin’s Anger
A7. The Mirror
A8. The Letter
A9. Georgie
A10. Washing-up
A11. Playing Cards
A12. Psychopathia Sexualis/Hot Chocolate
A13. The Rocking Horse
A14. The Scissors / Peeping Georgie / Leaving The House
A15. The Murder / Henry’s Dead
A16. Georgie’s Nightmare / Just Lie Still / Ready And Willing

A17. The Body
A18. Twisted Nerve (Pop Version)
B1. Swimming /Drowning
B2. Getting Dressed / Flowers I / The Kiss
B3. Flowers II / Henry Calls
B4. The Signature
B5. The Newspaper
B6. The Shed /The Portrait
B7. The Dresser / The Axe
B8. The Telephone / There Was No Reply / The House / The Front Door
B9. The Bedroom / No Bloody Wood / He’s Not A Mongrel / The Struggle
B10. The Assault
B11. Georgie’s Madness
B12. The Cell
B13. Finale* [Additional CD Tracks – In Track Sequence]

Additional CD Tracks – In Track Sequence
32. Prelude To Main Titles (Re-Takes)
33. Prelude To Main Titles (Alternate)
34. Main Titles (Alternate Ending)
35. Twisted Nerve (Alternate)
36. Second Meeting (Rehearsal)
37. Martin’s Anger (Film Version)
38. Whistle Sessions

Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011), composer and concept artist, is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Beuys and Stockhausen, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (together with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums - The red album from 1973 was Schnitzler's first solo LP.

There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Konrad Schnitzler. Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered unbridled artistic and social development. Radical utopias, excessive experiment- ation with drugs, ruthless (in a positive way) transgression of aesthetic frontiers were characteristic of the period. The magic words were "subcultur", "progressivity" and "avantgardism". West Berlin, with its unique political status, was a crucible of turbulence. Founded in 1968, Zodiak was the ultimate point of convergence for subculture in West Berlin, with Konrad Schnitzler the driving force behind it. It was also here that Tangerine Dream and Kluster first met up to perform in public.

The red album ("Rot") was Schnitzler's first solo effort. As a member of Tangerine Dream, however, he had participated in the band's debut release "Electronic Meditation" some three years earlier (1970). He, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius had also already founded Kluster, whose first album "Klopfzeichen" attracted a wealth of attention. On "Rot", meanwhile, Schnitzler uncompromisingly pursued his very own vision of electronic music. As an acolyte of action and object artist Joseph Beuys, Schnitzler embraced the former's "extended definition of art", in which controlled randomness assumed an important role. Schnitzler actually extended the concept of "music". Or to put it another way: he cared not one iota for existing rules of music, preferring to create his own or conceptualizing a certain degree of lawlessness. Improvisation grew in importance. The most exciting aspect of Schnitzler's music is not the fact that he only used synthetic sound and noise; the apparently chaotic movements of his microscopic particles of sound draw the listener into a paradoxical, yet also crystalline and vibrant artistic world. It doesn't get much more outlandish than this. Schnitzler's debut surpassed virtually every other pioneering artist of the day in terms of radicalness. Not content merely with making psychedelic soundtracks, he turned these on their head with his defiant artistic will. The rigour of his approach has never been matched. Schnitzler's inimitable cascades of sound and their transparency were, and remain, unique.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Meditation
Side 2
Krautrock

Sundazed Music is proud to reissue Another Side Of This Life, 13 previously unheard demo recordings of Gram Parsons, country-rock pioneer and former member of the Byrds and founding member of the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Another Side, features Parsons, singing and playing acoustic guitar, recorded from March 1965 to April 1966 at the home of his friend. Another Side Of This Life also features rare photos and a detailed liner essay by noted writer Stanley Booth (The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones).

TRACK LISTING

Codine
Wheel Of Fortune
Another Side Of This Life
High Flyin' Bird
November Nights
Zah's Blues
Reputation
That's The Bag I'm In
They Still Go Down
Pride Of Man
Brass Buttons
I Just Can't Take It Anymore
Candy Man

"The Stix" combines the digital-dancefloor-jazz-jiggery-pokery of their debut with the energy and exuberance of their live shows. As well as the gentle flowing loose avant-jazz grooves of previous tracks, "The Stix" includes much more upbeat tracks that take 70s jazz-fusion and time changing jazz-rock as a starting point and add modern production techniques to create fresh new sounds.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Kitty Wu
Day
Another Day
Side B
Suomi Finland
Aerial Bright Dark Round
Side C
Toxic Dart
I Could Have Killed Him In The Sauna
Doppelganger
Side D
Reminders
The Stix 

“Mia Gargaret” is an ambient, (mostly) instrumental album by Chicago, IL singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & producer Gia Margaret. It’s also not the follow-up she intended after the critical success of her 2018 debut, “There’s Always Glimmer”. But after she suddenly found herself without use of her primary instrument, she had to rethink her methods, at least temporarily. Gia explains: “After having to cancel tours because of illness, I was unable to sing for nearly half of the year. This left me feeling like a shell of myself, so I turned to my synthesizer for comfort. These compositions helped me hold onto my identity as a music maker. At times this music helped soothe my anxiety more than therapy or anything else could.” Documenting her self-healing and without singing or lyrics to steal the focus, the instrumental tracks on “Mia Gargaret” shine a light on Gia’s skills as a musician, composer & producer. Spare but immersive arrangements of synthesizer, piano & acoustic guitar simultaneously ache & soothe, building emotional landscapes that rise & recede like scenery through a train window. “Mia Gargaret” is a gorgeous experiment & a memorable meditation on the healing power of music. This version is a limited edition of 200 – pressed on pale blue vinyl with an exclusive lithograph print.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Apathy
A2. Body
A3. INWIW
A4. Barely There
A5. For Zoya In China
B1. No Sleep No Dream
B2. Lakes
B3. Sadballad
B4. 3 Movements
B5. Ash
B6. Lesson

The House Of Love – guitarist and vocalist Guy Chadwick, lead guitarist Terry Bickers, bassist Chris Groothuizen and drummer Pete Evans – formed in London in 1986 - Chadwick had been around the music industry for several years, but was energised seeing The Jesus And Mary Chain, inspiring him to form the band - Signing to Creation, The House Of Love were greeted enthusiastically by the music press and their single, Shine On and self-titled debut album became indie disco classics - By 1989, the band were big news and had signed to Fontana, part of the PolyGram group.

Released in July 1993 Audience Of The Mind makes a claim for being the great lost House Of Love album, slipping into the UK charts for a solitary week, and having no singles taken from it. Self-produced and recorded as a three-piece in under two weeks, Audience Of The Mind feels as fragmentary as 'The Butterfly Album' feels fulsome. There are some great moments – the moody-yet-melodic Haloes, Shining On (featuring a guest appearance from guitarist Sean O'Hagen), the eight- minute Into The Tunnel and the acoustic title track with Chadwick sounding something like an aggrieved indie Nick Drake. It is a work ripe for rediscovery.

TRACK LISTING

Sweet Anatomy
Audience With The Mind
Haloes
Erosion
Call Me
Shining On
Portrait In Atlanta
Corridors
Hollow
All Night Long
Into The Tunnel
You've Got To Feel

The House Of Love – guitarist and vocalist Guy Chadwick, lead guitarist Terry Bickers, bassist Chris Groothuizen and drummer Pete Evans – formed in London in 1986 - Chadwick had been around the music industry for several years, but was energised seeing The Jesus And Mary Chain, inspiring him to form the band - Signing to Creation, The House Of Love were greeted enthusiastically by the music press and their single, Shine On and self-titled debut album became indie disco classics - By 1989, the band were big news and had signed to Fontana, part of the PolyGram group.

The touring and promotion for The House Of Love took its toll on the group with lead guitarist Terry Bickers leaving the group to be replaced with Simon Walker. Taking its name from a Peter Blake painting, Babe Rainbow was released in July 1992. Overseen by The The and Julian Cope producer Warne Livesey, it has a tremendous urgency and greater unity than their previous album. Trailed by the single The Girl With The Loneliest Eyes, Babe Rainbow also contains live favourite Crush Me, the brooding High In Your Face and Top 50 hits Feel and You Don't Understand. Simon Walker left the group and was replaced with Simon Mawby, who himself was to depart by the end of 1992.

TRACK LISTING

You Don't Understand
Crush Me
Cruel
High In Your Face
Fade Away
Feel
The Girl With The Loneliest Eyes
Burn Down The World
Philly Phile
Yer Eyes

Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump is the fifth studio album by De La Soul, released on August 8, 2000

Among the guests on the album are, Redman, Tash and J-Ro of Tha Liks, Xzibit, Busta Rhymes, Mike D and Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, Busy Bee, Freddie Foxxx and Chaka Khan. Mosaic Thump returned De La Soul to chart territory again thanks to the hit singles "Oooh.", and "All Good?".

"Oooh" was nominated for a Source Award and the album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo or Group.

TRACK LISTING

Spitkicker.Com/Ray R.
U Can Do (Life)
My Writes
Ooooh
Thru Ya City
I. C. Y'all
View
Interluden
Set The Mood
AllGood?
Declaration
Squat!
Words From The Chief Rocker
With Me
Copa (Cabanga)
Foolin'
The Art Of Getting Jumped
U Don't Wanna B.D.S.

AOI: Bionix is De La Soul's sixth full length album, released on December 4, 2001.

The first single, "Baby Phat" featuring Yummy Bingham and Devin the Dude, was an ode to larger sized women.

Elsewhere, "Held Down", featuring Cee- Lo, found Posdnuos in an introspective mood as he mused on fatherhood, religion, and fame. Slick Rick also made an appearance on "What We Do (For Love)"; a humorous song about puberty and sexual discovery.

The album featured skits with a character by the name of Reverend Do Good, which worked as social commentary as well as the intros and outros of the songs. The final Reverend Do Good skit acts as one final advertisement for Ghost Weed as heard on De La Soul's previous album, Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump. A mischievous teenager takes a hit of the substance, then morphs into Slum Village frontman J Dilla, who provides the intro and outro to the marijuanathemed song "Peer Pressure" (which he also produced).

TRACK LISTING

Intro
Bionix
Baby Phat
Simply
Simply Havin'
Held Down
Rev. Do Good # 1
Watch Out
Special
Rev. Do Good # 2
The Sauce
Am I Worth You?
Pawn Star
What We Do (For Love)
Rev. Do Good #3
Peer Pressure
It's American
Trying People

Wewantsounds is proud to announce the reissue of Ryuichi Sakamoto's third solo album "Hidari Ude No Yume" (Left Handed Dream), originally released in 1981 on the Alfa label. Save for a small-scale Dutch vinyl release in 1981, it is the first time the album's original Japanese edition is released outside of Japan (the European release on Epic Records included significantly different tracks and mixes). Newly remastered from the original tapes by renowned engineer Bernie Grundman, this LP edition comes with original artwork featuring a striking cover shot by famous photographer Masayoshi Sukita (sourced from the original negative), OBI strip and 4-page insert with new introduction by journalist Anton Spice. The album will also be released as a 2-LP limited edition gatefold including the album's full instrumental mix.

TRACK LISTING

1. Boku No Kakera
2. Saru To Yuki To Gomi No Kodomo
3. Kacha Kucha Nee
4. The Garden Of Poppies
5. Relâché
6. Tell 'Em To Me
7. Living In The Dark
8. Slat Dance
9. Venezia
10. Saru No Ie

Space Is The Place – highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track – is both an essential album and a great onramp for new listeners to travel the spaceways of Sun Ra’s other-worldly blend of avant-garde jazz, experimental rock, and Afrofuturism.

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

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Space Is The Place
2. Images
Side B
3. Discipline 33
4. Sea Of Sound
5. Rocket Number Nine

Kansas City born Hammond B3 organ dynamo Big John Patton made a stellar run of soul jazz albums for Blue Note thru the 1960s but Let ‘Em Roll stands among the finest with Patton adding vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson to a standard organ trio line-up with guitarist Grant Green and drummer Otis Finch.

This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

TRACK LISTING

1. Let 'Em Roll (Side A)
2. Latona (Side A)
3. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Side A)
4. The Turnaround (Side B)
5. Jakey (Side B)
6. One Step Ahead (Side B)

It’s a testament to Jimmy Smith’s volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics—Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack—in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums.

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Midnight Special
2. A Subtle One
Side B
3. Jumpin' The Blues
4. Why Was I Born
5. One O'Clock Jump

Super Furry Animals were one of the first post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres - including power pop, punk rock, techno, and progressive rock - creating a shimmering, melodic, irreverent, and wilfully artsy rock & roll.

Produced by the band, ‘Phantom Power’, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023, keeps a much lower profile than the band’s previous work. The album, for the most part, is awash with pedal steel, acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies. But if you think the creative juices have ceased, you could barely be more wrong.

Gruff Rhys' songwriting moves a step forward on ‘Phantom Power’, with playful story-based lyrics about turtles, mingers, ninjas and cabbages contrasting with lines about death, radiation and war.

This 2LP heavyweight black vinyl deluxe reissue, with original artwork and die-cut sleeve, has been carefully remastered from the mixdown tapes and includes liner notes from the album’s executive producer Kurt Stern.

If you need more Super Furries, the remastered album is also available as a 3CD format, with two CDs packed with loads of bonus material, including out-takes, demos, and live versions, much of it previously unreleased.

TRACK LISTING

CD1 / 2LP Tracklisting:
1. Hello Sunshine
2. Liberty Belle
3. Golden Retriever
4. Sex, War & Robots
5. The Piccolo Snare
6. Venus & Serena
7. Father Father #1
8. Bleed Forever
9. Out Of Control
10. Cityscape Skybaby
11. Father Father #2
12. Valet Parking
13. The Undefeated
14. Slow Life

CD2
1. Father Father #3
2. Summer Snow
3. Blue Fruit
4. Cowbird
5. Sanitizzzed
6. Motherfokker Feat. Goldie Lookin Chain
7. Lost Control
8. The Man Don’t Give A Fuck (Live)

CD3
1. Father Father*
2. Hello Sunshine*
3. Aluminum Illuminati
4. Cabbages (retitled Cityscape Skybaby)*
5. Golden Retriever*
6. Hummingbird (retitled Cloudberries)*
7. Billy’s Gone (retitled Out Of Control)*
8. Head First (retitled Paddling Pools)*
9. No Go (retitled Summer Snow)*
10. Father Father*
11. Sex, War & Robots**
12. Bluebird 1**
13. Bluebird 2**
14. Bluebird 3**
15. Bluebird 4**
16. Walk You Home**
17. The Undefeated**
18. Every Building Has Been Built**
19. Blue Fruit**
20. Valet Parking**
21. Valet Parking***
22. Out Of Control ***
23. Paddling Pools***
24. Miami Vice***
25. Slow Life***

*Stiwdio Ofn Demo, Gwanwyn 2002
**AV Happenings Demo, Chwefror 2002
***Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002

The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and music enthusiasts across genres and across the globe, including super-fan Kurt Cobain. Emerging in the mid-eighties under the wing of The Pastels’s Stephen McRobbie, The Vaselines came to define the sly wit and irresistible pop hooks of the era’s Scottish indie scene. Sub Pop's remastered reintroduction of The Way of The Vaselines is an opportunity for those already familiar with the Scottish band's brief career to delve deeper into their body of work, while those new to their music can experience firsthand why so many hold them in such high regard. Originally mastered from a cassette tape (and since remastered on much better equipment in the new millennium), The Way of The Vaselines compiles the band's two EPs (Son of a Gun and Dying for It) and their sole LP release (Dum-Dum). This 2023 edition is the first ever vinyl release of The Way of The Vaselines, which originally came out on CD in 1992.

TRACK LISTING

1. Son Of A Gun
2. Rory Rides Me Raw
3. You Think You’re A Man
4. Dying For It**
5. Molly’s Lips
6. Teenage Superstars
7. Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
8. Sex Sux (Amen)
9. Slushy
10. Monsterpussy
11. Bitch
12. No Hope
13. Oliver Twisted
14. The Day I Was A Horse
15. Dum-Dum
16. Hairy
17. Lovecraft
18. Dying For It (The Blues)
19. Let’s Get Ugly

The Flaming Lips will announce the gold vinyl edition of their first official “hits” collection, to be released on 8 September via Warner Records. Greatest Hits Vol. 1 compiles eleven Warner-era singles and album tracks on a single gold LP. This release includes singles from Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (1993), Clouds Taste Metallic (1995), The Soft Bulletin (1999), Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002), At War With The Mystics (2006), Embryonic (2009) and Oczy Mlody (2017). The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” is also featured on the Marvel Studios’ Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3: Awesome Mix Vol. 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), available now on Hollywood Records.

TRACK LISTING

Side One:
1. Do You Realize??
2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1
3. Race For The Prize
4. Waitin' For A Superman
5. When You Smile
6. She Don't Use Jelly
Side Two:
1. Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version)
2. The W.A.N.D.
3. Silver Trembling Hands
4. The Castle
5. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

With the follow-up to the hugely successful Batman soundtrack album, Prince returned with yet another soundtrack album in 1991, this time featuring songs from his self-directed movie Graffiti Bridge. Features the hit Prince single “Thieves In The Temple”, plus the Prince-produced Tevin Campbell single, “Round And Round".

TRACK LISTING

A1 Can't Stop This Feeling I Got (4:24)
A2 New Power Generation (3:39)
A3 Release It (3:54)
A4 The Question Of U (3:59)
B1 Elephants & Flowers (3:54)
B2 Round And Round (3:55)
B3 We Can Funk (5:28)
B4 Joy In Repetition (4:53)
C1 Love Machine (3:34)
C2 Tick, Tick, Bang (3:31)
C3 Shake! (4:01)
C4 Thieves In The Temple (3:19)
D1 The Latest Fashion (4:02)
D2 Melody Cool (3:39)
D3 Still Would Stand All Time (5:23)
D4 Graffiti Bridge (3:51)
D5 New Power Generation (Pt. II) (2:57)

Coming off the back of the expensive Lovesexy Tour, Prince needed to replenish his coffers and agreed to record nine original songs for Tim Burton's box office smash movie, Batman, starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger. The 1989 album was a huge success, and featured hit singles “Batdance” and “Partyman”, as well as “Scandalous”.

TRACK LISTING

A1 The Future (04:07)
A2 Electric Chair (04:07)
A3 The Arms Of Orion (05:02)
A4 Partyman (03:11)
A5 Vicki Waiting (04:51)
B1 Trust (04:23)
B2 Lemon Crush (04:15)
B3 Scandalous (06:14)
B4 Batdance (06:13)

Released for the first time on vinyl, Perry Blake's critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album will be released with 3 stunning bonus tracks, Killing Time, Ulysses The Sorrow of Spring...

Perry Blake is a deep and complex album, full of dark melancholic masterpieces that is a swirl of deep, emotional & haunting vocals, which gained him an abundance of 5 star reviews across the UK & Europe...

With his first 2 singles from this album, ‘The Hunchback of San Francisco’ and ‘Genevieve’ were Jo Whiley singles of the week on BBC Radio 1 in the UK...

Perry Blake, Sligo-born singer / songwriter, is one of music’s great untapped resources. After his first 3 singles taken from his debut album, received Singles of the week on Jo Wiley BBC Radio 1, Blake moved to France, where he was met with critical acclaim with his next 4 albums, touring Europe with Carla Bruni and wrote 2 songs for Francoise Hardy’s platinum selling album ‘Tant de belles choses’ appearing on various TV shows in France as her special guest…

TRACK LISTING

1. Little Boys & Little Girls
2. The Hunchback Of San Francisco
3. 1971
4. Anouska (I Want To Come Home)
5. Broken Statue
6. Genevieve (The Pilot Of Your Thighs)
7. So Long
8. Naked Man
9. Widows By The Radio
10. Weeping Tree
11. House In The Clouds
12. Killing Time (Bonus Track)
13. Ulysses (Bonus Track)
14. The Sorrow Of Spring (Bonus Track)

Here’s what we said about this album on it’s original release in 2003, and it still stands up today. One of the most original singer songwriters of her generation and one of the most gifted pianists too. "Scarlet's Walk" features her finest songs since "Under The Pink" and will please all the converted and maybe open up a few eyes and ears as well. There's a return to a simpler piano sound with the only other instruments on many tracks being bass and drums. Over 74 minutes long it's an epic voyage for the listener as well as 'Scarlet'.

The Boo Radleys reveal a vinyl reissue to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their nineties genre-hopping masterpiece “Giant Steps”.

NME’s 1993 Album Of The Year, named in the Top 20 of Pitchfork’s The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time and lauded as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, The Boo Radleys’ classic album, Giant Steps is reissued, on special remastered vinyl almost 30 years to the day since its original release. The band’s genre-ambiguous and widely-acclaimed masterpiece will become available to fans old and new.

Only the second of their five albums to be released on the legendary Creation Records, at a time when label mates including Slowdive, Teenage Fanclub and Ride were also casting long shadows across the indie landscape, pre-the Oasis hurricane making landfall at the label, Giant Steps broke into the canon of great, experimental rock albums soon after its release. It’s first single, Lazarus, issued as a standalone release in November 1992, its blend of brass and guitar-squall and acutely introspective lyrics, gave a hint of what was to come and remains lodged in the band’s most-loved and best-known songs. For the 2023 reissue, Lazarus’ 12” version appears on the all-formats track listing for the first time.

Recorded at London’s Protocol Studios, where Carr and Brown took on self-production duties with support from engineer, Andy Wilkinson, The Boo Radleys set about responding to their shared sense of dissatisfaction with their 1992 album, Everything’s Alright Forever. Free to do as they please, they set about making a record of complete artistic freedom, bringing in reggae (Upon 9th And Fairchild), dance (Rodney King) and irresistible, warped indie pop (Barney And Me) influences into the studio and, without limitation, weaved them into the satisfyingly complex fabric of Giant Steps. Snapshot incidentals, intermissions and between-radio-station static intro/outros added to the sense of unrestrained exploration.

Writing about the album, drummer, Cieka reflected on Giant Steps, stating: “Creation loved it, people's reactions seemed really positive. I do listen to it from time to time and still find great moments I’d forgotten about. I think it stands up pretty well today. I'm always left feeling happy to have been a part of the record.”

"Wow, now THIS is what music can be!" – The Quietus on Giant Steps.
“It deserved the accolades and praise heaped on its shoulders.” – The Line of Best Fit.
“A masterwork...” – Pitchfork.

TRACK LISTING

A1 I Hang Suspended
A2 Upon 9th & Fairchild
A3 Wish I Was Skinny
A4 Leaves And Sand
B1 Butterfly McQueen
B2 Rodney King (Song For Lenny Bruce)
B3 Thinking Of Ways
B4 Barney (…and Me)
C1 Spun Around
C2 If You Want It, Take It
C3 Best Lose The Fear
C4 Take The Time Around
C5 Lazurus
D1 One Is For
D2 Run My Way Runway
D3 I’ve Lost The Reason
D4 The White Noise Revisited

CD BONUS TRACKS
18 Lazarus (Saint Etienne Remix)
19 Rodney King (Saint Etienne Remix)
20 Peachy Keen

There are certain albums in the extensive Neil Young Archives that take on a unique life of their own. Maybe it's their rarity, or a galvanizing reputation that sets them apart. One of the most anticipated releases in this ongoing musical march is the live collection ODEON BUDOKAN, recorded with Crazy Horse, scheduled for September 1st, release via Reprise Records, Neil Young's home label for over 50 years.

Originally recorded in 1976 almost a world apart at two overseas venues: Hammersmith Odeon in London and Nippon Budokan Hall In Tokyo. The ten-track album includes an electrifying range of songs, from well-known classics to true surprises. Tracks on Side 1 were recorded in London March 31, 1976, and feature Neil Young's solo set on guitar and piano from the first half of the concert. Side 2 tracks were recorded two weeks earlier on March 11, 1976, with Young and Crazy Horse at an early electric apex.

This is the first official vinyl release of the previously unissued ODEON BUDOKAN. It has only been available on Compact Disc as part of Neil Young's ARCHIVES VOLUME II box set.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 The Old Laughing Lady
02 After The Gold Rush
03 Too Far Gone
04 Old Man
05 Stringman
Side B
01 Don't Cry No Tears
02 Cowgirl In The Sand
03 Lotta Love
04 Drive Back
05 Cortez The Killer 

After two solid albums on Motema, both of which earned GRAMMY nominations, Gregory Porter made his Blue Note debut with Liquid Spirit in 2013. Recommencing with the water analogy that characterized his debut disc, Porter saw Liquid Spirit as a logical progression in his burgeoning discography as it touched on some of the same themes, particularly the highs and lows of romance, his childhood, and socio-political observations. The strength of Liquid Spirit lies in Porter's songs, based upon personal experiences with a relatable and emotional immediacy. Even more, his hooky melodies penetrate instantly.

Hailed by public and critics alike, Liquid Spirit won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2014. Platinum in the UK and Germany, gold in France, the Netherlands and Austria, the album has sold over a million copies worldwide.

Marking the 10th anniversary of the album, Blue Note presents a special vinyl edition bringing together the original album on 2LP and a disc of bonus tracks and remixes, with 5 tracks available on vinyl for the first time.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
No Love Dying 3:56
Liquid Spirit 3:36
Lonesome Lover 3:11
Water Under Bridges 3:33
Hey Laura 3:33
SIDE B
Musical Genocide 3:45
Wolfcry 4:10
Free 5:01
Brown Gras 4:17
SIDE C
Wind Song 3:24
The In Crowd 3:37
Movin’ 4:50
When Love Was King 6:53
SIDE D
I Fall In Love Too Easily 7:49
Time Is Ticking 3:23
Water Under Bridges (Rubato Version) 4:43
SIDE E
Water Under Bridges (featuring Laura Mvula) 3:51 *
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (featuring Jamie Cullum) 2:58
Grandma's Hands (featuring Ben L’Oncle Soul) 3:33 *
SIDE F
Hey Laura (Rainer & Grimm Remix) 3:36 *
Liquid Spirit (Claptone Remix) 2:44
Liquid Spirit (20syl Remix) 3:27 *
Musical Genocide (Ludovic Navarre Aka St Germain Version) 5:02
Liquid Spirit (Knuckle G Remix) 4:46 *

* First Release On Vinyl

65daysofstatic celebrate 10 years of ‘Wild Light’ in 2023, with a long overdue vinyl repress of that much-loved album on 180g transparent magenta vinyl. Originally released in 2013, the bands sixth studio album was called “an exploration and expression of sonic freedom” by The Quietus, and has since become a favourite amongst fans.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Heat Death Infinity Splitter - 65daysofstatic
2. Prisms - 65daysofstatic
3. The Undertow - 65daysofstatic
4. Blackspots - 65daysofstatic

SIDE B
1. Sleepwalk City - 65daysofstatic
2. Taipei - 65daysofstatic
3. Unmake The Wild Light - 65daysofstatic
4. Safe Passage - 65daysofstatic

All-time classic dub album from legendary producers Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson, aka The Mighty Two.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Read the above! ALL TIME CLASSIC. All three volumes are dub reggae corner stones. For a while the licenses were feverishly contested (and consequently bootlegged to buggary), but VP seem to have sorted all that out with an official set that sounds crisper and fatter than all those dodgy boots. Maximum jahs on this one folks!

TRACK LISTING

African Dub
Universal Dub
Midnight Movie
Getto Shank
Lime Key Rock
Lovers Serenade
Treasure Dub
Schooling The Beat
Campus Rock
Half Ounce
Worrier
East Africa

If you love 70s Dub reggae then this is a crucial addition to your collection.

All-time classic dub album from legendary producers Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson, aka The Mighty Two.

TRACK LISTING

Chapter Three - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Rema Dub - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Tribesman Rockers - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Freedom Call - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Jubilation Dub - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
The Entebbe Affair - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Angolian Chant - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Zion Gate - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Jungle Dub - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Dub Three - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals

If you love 70s Dub reggae then this is a crucial addition to your collection. All-time classic dub album from legendary producers Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson, aka The Mighty Two.

TRACK LISTING

Crucial Attempt - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Behind Iron Bars - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Ghetto Slum - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Yard Music - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Iron Gate - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Power Pack - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Free The Children - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Fashion One - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Rhythm Tackle - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals
Sniper - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals

Real people music recorded at a Quaker Boarding school in the mid-’70s. Mixing soft psych, vocal jazz, and sunshine soul, Shira Small and her high school music teacher Lars Clutterham created a peerless artifact of outsider magic. Imagination, wonder, the existential dread of Vietnam and math class and getting caught smoking weed in Nixon’s America… it’s all here. Is your life alright?

TRACK LISTING

1. Lights Gleam Lonely
2. Here I Stand
3. Cool Dude
4. My Life’s All Right
5. I Want To Lay With You
6. Eternal Life
7. Gimme Magic
8. Touch Of Blue
9. Fingerpainter
10. In An Open Field

Formed in Manchester in 2007 after Jonathan Higgs and Jeremy Pritchard met at Salford University; they were joined by Higgs's Northumberland school friends Michael Spearman and Alex Niven - High concept coursed through Everything Everything from the off: they unwittingly named themselves after a Radiohead song (in the manner that that band named themselves after a Talking Heads song); soon there was a great deal of record company interest in their work - Niven left the group to take his doctorate at Oxford and was replaced by Alex Robertshaw – this line up remains intact today

Working with Bat For Lashes producer David Kosten (aka Faultline), the recording of Man Alive was completed mainly in a chapel in North Wales. The album sounded unique. Nothing dates like the future, yet Man Alive sounds dateless, placeless, and as a result, stands up perfectly many years later.

Man Alive was only the beginning of the group's adventures in – to use their words – 'Mismatched styles of music mashed together.' The result is often exhilarating; there are Brazilian drums and a prog guitar breakdown in Schoolin', classical influences, as well. Its subject matter is often way outside the realms of conventional songwriting; MY KZ, UR BF explored the different Americas: the cosy self-centred domesticity of programmes such as Friends versus a foreign policy based on killing

The album's artwork was striking – a photograph of a fox by Swiss photographer, Laurent Geslin, reflecting the track Tin (The Manhole) which deals with the theme of depression, through, as the band said in 2010, "the story of an urban fox that ingests all our pollution and grows massively in a sort of dream sequence. We chose photos of an urban fox for this reason, but we partly attacked the code of the digital image to create a glitch distortion . . . a reference to digital manipulation and chaos as well as our modern lives online".

TRACK LISTING

Standard LP Tracklisting
MY KZ, UR BF
Qwerty Finger
Schoolin'
Leave The Engine Room
Final Form / Photoshop Handsome
Two For Nero
Suffragette Suffragette
Come Alive Diana
NASA Is On Your Side
Tin (The Manhole)
Weights

Deluxe LP Tracklisting
MY KZ, UR BF
Qwerty Finger
Schoolin'
Leave The Engine Room
Final Form / Photoshop Handsome
Two For Nero
Suffragette Suffragette
Come Alive Diana
NASA Is On Your Side
Tin (The Manhole)
Weights
Luddites & Lambs
Suffragette Suffragette (2008 Single Version)
Crisis Over (Demo)
Come Alive Diana (Demo)
Hey Jude Law (Demo)
The Kids Are Obese (Demo)
Riot On The Ward
DNA Dump
Photoshop Handsome (2009 Single Version)
Even The Dogs / Hiawatha Doomed
Schoolin’ (Acoustic)
Wizard Talk

In 2009 the band, then known as British Sea Power, were commissioned by the Edinburgh Film Festival to create their own soundtrack for the 1934 quasi-documentary, which they premiered by playing along live during a screening at the event.

A studio version of the album followed in May the same year, while more screening/performances took place at the BFI in London and at cinemas in Brighton and Sheffield, while events were also staged on a series of islands, including Jersey, the Hebrides and a Norwegian islet in the Arctic Circle.

Charting the activities of fisherman based on a remote outcrop in mouth of Galway Bay in western Ireland, Robert J Flaherty’ Man Of Aran captured a disappearing way of life as Aran’s inhabitants battled daily against the elements to survive, something that chimed deeply with Sea Power’s own curiosity for the past and their urgent, environmentally-driven concerns for the future.

The resulting, mainly instrumental score, proved to be a true artistic collaboration that stretched across the decades, earning the group widespread acclaim upon its release, both for the music’s simpatico relationship with the original film and as a stand alone work in its own right.

Declared by The Quietus on release as a “perfect symbiosis that should rightly be regarded as something of an understated classic,” Ireland’s Hot Press called it “Stunning... breath-taking” while NME encouraged listeners to “let it all gloriously wash over you.”

Fans will finally be able to experience that artistic and emotional depth on vinyl with this reissue.

TRACK LISTING

A1 - Man Of Aran
A2 - The South Sound
A3 - Come Wander With Me
B1 - Tiger King
B2 - The Currach
B3 - Boy Vertiginous
C1 - Spearing The Sunfish
C2 - Conneely Of The West
C3 - The North Sound
D1 - Woman Of Aran
D2 - It Comes Back Again
D3 - No Man Is An Archipelago

This classic album from 1973 saw its creator, Lee 'Scratch' Perry exploring synths and starting to develop his Black Ark sound - the enigmatic producer was at the time in the process of building his famous studio and honing his ideas about dub as a musical form.

The LP opens with the eerie “Kentucky Skank”, Perry's ode to KFC, complete with frying chicken sounds, spliced between winding tapes, a ghostly trumpet, and futuristic moog synthesizer, overdubbed at London's Chalk Farm studios.

U Roy's “Double Six” and I Roy's “High Fashion” & “Hail Stones” illustrate just how strong The Upsetter's deejay material had become, while versions of the Chi-Lites' “We Are Neighbours”, Sam & Dave's “Soul Man” and a re-working of Al Green's “Love and Happiness” (retitled “Jungle Lion”) all betray the funky soul influence that was increasingly shaping his work.

The backing tracks illustrate the producer at his best; the audio spectrum is fully differentiated while spatial placement an important component - something it would take years for him to achieve at the Black Ark.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Kentucky Skank - The Upsetters
2. Double Six - U Roy
3. Just Enough To Keep Me Hanging On - David Isaacs
4. In The Iaah - The Upsetters
5. Jungle Lion - The Upsetters
6. We Are The Neighbours - David Isaacs

Side B
1. Soul Man - The Upsetters
2. Stick Together - U Roy
3. High Fashion - U Roy
4. Long Sentence - The Upsetters
5. Hail Stones - The Upsetters
6. Ironside - The Upsetters
7. Cold Weather - The Upsetters
8. Waap You Waa - The Upsetters

The Undertones formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1975 and released their fourth album ‘The Sin Of Pride’ in 1983 which peaked at #43 in the UK Album Charts.

The Sin of Pride was by far the most exploratory album the Undertones ever issued. For their fourth album, the band injected more post-punk dance into their growing soul sound and so the album is looser and more focused on mood and groove than their previous titles.

The record still offers some classic tracks from the Northern Irelanders, including ‘’Got To Have You Back", "Chain of Love" and fan favourite "The Love Parade’’.

Covers such as Leon Ware's "Got to Have You Back," which opens the LP, and Smokey Robinson's "Save Me," which closes it, are bookends for a moving blend of funky, driving, deeply textured psychedelic soul music that makes pearls of tracks such as "Untouchable".

This reissue is an exact replica of the original release and has been pressed on plum colour vinyl for the first time. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Got To Have You Back
Valentine's Treatment
Luxury
Love Before Romance
Untouchable
Bye Bye Baby Blue
Side B
Conscious
Chain Of Love
Soul Seven
The Love Parade
Save Me
The Sin Of Pride

The Undertones formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1975 and released their third album ‘Positive Touch’ in 1981 which peaked at #17 in the UK Charts.

The Undertones' Positive Touch marks the departure from speedy pop-punk of their first two debut albums though the songwriting remains as tight and lively with plenty of hooks that keep you listening.

The punk-derived energy is almost entirely gone, replaced by a more varied and softer instrumental palette that features new textures like piano (courtesy of Paul Carrack, then in Squeeze) recorders and brass instrumentation.

Features the lovely "Julie Ocean" which has an undercurrent of anxiety, as well as much faster tracks like the pounding opener "Fascination" and the near-paranoid "His Goodlooking Girlfriend" are downright nerve-wracking.

This reissue is an exact replica of the embossed original sleeve and has been pressed on white colour vinyl for the first time. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Fascination
Julie Ocean
Life's Too Easy
Crisis Of Mine
You're Welcome
His Goodlooking Girlfriend
The Positive Touch
Side B
When Saturday Comes
It's Going To Happen
Sigh And Explode
I Don't Know
Hannah Doot
Boy Wonder
Forever Paradise

10th anniversary of his fifth full-length and first 2xLP, ‘Wakin on a Pretty Daze’ (2013).

To celebrate this milestone, it has been brought back as a yellow vinyl version of the record.

Where previous albums alternated between gorgeous fingerpicking and heavy guitar workouts, ‘Wakin’ blended the two into dreamy and expansive songs that frequently stretched well out beyond the five-minute mark.

Back then we said: “It’s a record that would have sounded great 30 years ago, sounds great today, and will still sound great 30 years from now.” Ten years down the line, we’re still confident that ‘Wakin’ will deliver the goods – yesterday, today, and in 2043.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Wakin On A Pretty Day
A2. KV Crimes
A3. Was All Talk
B1. Girl Called Alex
B2. Never Run Away
B3. Pure Pain
C1. Too Hard
C2. Shame Chamber
C3. Snowflakes Are Dancing
D1. Air Bud
D2. Goldtone

Auger Incorporated is a career spanning triple vinyl / double CD compilation of the legendary Brian Augers’ music. Lauded and loved by artists as diverse as Mose Allison to Emma-Jean Thackray, his tracks have been sampled by Mos Def & Common, his original compositions covered by Sarah Vaughan, Richard 'Groove' Holmes and The Main Ingredient. He is a Grammy nominee and recipient of a US Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition for his ‘contribution to the American art form of Jazz’.

Auger Incorporated includes classic album tracks, rarities and live concerts performances, some of which have never released before from Brian’s ground-breaking, genre busting catalogue, and reaches back to his early 60’s debut as an poll-winning jazz piano prodigy, his transformation into swinging London’s premier Hammond Organ player via his groups’ The Steam Packet and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, and his flagship 70’s band – The Oblivion Express - Auger's blend of jazz, R&B and pop idioms saw him credited as one of the earliest protagonists of jazz fusion.

Particularly rare highlights include The Steam Packet’s blistering instrumental version of Robert Parkers’s R&B smash Watch Your Step, the 2 tracks by Sonny Boy Williamson backed by Brian The Trinity with a young Jimmy Page as guest, the live 1960’s versions of Save Me & Red Beans & Rice and the recently unearthed version of the jazz dance classic Jeannine featuring the unmistakable voice of Julie Driscoll.

From The Oblivion Express era, there’s an intense and driving live version of Freedom Jazz Dance, and the alternative mix/radio edit of Marvin Gaye’s Inner City Blues, Brian’s mid 80’s Italo-disco hit ‘Night Train To Nowhere’ – Auger Incorporated has something for the die hard fan and all those new to this extraordinary musicians unmatchable 60 year career.

TRACK LISTING

LP1
A1 The Preacher
A2 Poinciana
A3 Watch Your Step – The Steampacket
A4 The Sidewinder - The Steampacket
B1 Walkin’ - Sonny Boy Williamson
B2 See A Man Downstairs - Sonny Boy Williamson
B3 In & Out
B4 Red Beans & Rice LIVE (Ce Soir On Danse, Paris)
B5 I Wanna Take You Higher

LP2
C1 Indian Rope Man
C2 Light My Fire
C3 This Wheels On Fire
C4 Save Me (Live - Piper Club, Rome)
C5 Jeanine
D1 Total Eclipse
D2 A Better Land
D3 Fill Your Head With Laughter

LP3
E1 Whenever You’re Ready
E2 Straight Ahead
E3 Inner City Blues - Alternative Mix
E4 Freedom Jazz Dance (Live At Winter Garden)
F1 Planet Earth Calling
F2 Night Train To Nowhere
F3 Splatch
F4 Freddie' S Flight

As part of The Roaring Forty (1983-2023) celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of Life's A Riot with Spy vs Spy, Cooking Vinyl has repressed the 30th Anniversary Edition of the album on black vinyl. Comprising the original album, plus a live solo version by Billy recorded as a unique encore at his London Union Chapel show on Wednesday 5 June 2013. Life's A Riot (30th Anniversary Edition) features a sleeve based on the original 1983 Barney Bubbles artwork in a vinyl card sleeve with inner sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Milkman Of Human Kindness
2. To Have And To Have Not
3. Richard
4. A New England
5. The Man In The Iron Mask
6. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
7. Lovers Town Revisited
8. Intro (Live)
9. Lovers Town Revisited (Live)
10. To Have And To Have Not (Live)
11. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Live)
12. The Man In The Iron Mask (Live)
13. Richard (Live)
14. The Milkman Of Human Kindness (Live)
15. A New England (Live)

Back in 2003, during an incredible period of growth and reinvention for legendary artist MF DOOM, he introduced us to one of his numer- ous alter egos, Viktor Vaughn. As the story goes, Viktor Vaughn was an interdimensional time-traveling MC from an alternate realm where Hip-Hop was banned. He’d been exploring time and space looking for new dimensions to sharpen him to 90s era NYC, where he found himself stranded due to a mechanical mishap with his time machine. He began hitting open mics and small venues, battling other MCs and picking up a few side-hustles in order to raise enough funds to repair his time machine and get back to his travels.

Vaudeville Villain is a concept album like no other, where MF DOOM re-envisions himself as a younger, hungrier, more brazen persona, in order to explore subjects new and old from a different point of view. Of course, developing a second self from a more technologically advanced universe, he wanted to take a new approach to the produc- tion too. Viktor Vaughn fittingly raps over next-school beats that move freely in spaces between Electronica and Hip Hop, all courtesy of Sound-Ink producers King Honey, Heat Sensor and Max Bill, with the exception of one track produced by RJD2. Featuring all original lyrics by DOOM, with a few notable guest appearances from M. Sayyid (Anti-Pop Consortium), Lord Sear, Apani B Fly MC, Louis Logic, and more, Vaudeville Villain is one of the more uniquely creative entries in the MF DOOM universe.

TRACK LISTING

01 - Overture
02 - Vaudeville Villain
03 - Lickupon
04 - The Drop
05 - Lactose And Lecithin
06 - A Dead Mouse
07 - RaeDawn
08 - Let Me Watch Feat. Apani B. As Nikki
09 - Open Mic Nite, Pt. 1 Feat. Brother Sambuca, Lord Sear, Louis Logic, Rodan As Dr. Moreau.
10 - Saliva
11 - Modern Day Mugging
12 - Open Mic Nite, Pt. 2 Feat. AJ Ready Wright, Creature, Lord Sear
13 - Never Dead Feat. M. Sayyid As Curtis Strifer
14 - Popsnot
15 - Mr. Clean
16 - G.M.C.
17 - Change The Beat

Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia was Guided By Voices’ third album, self-released by the band in 1988 in a pressing of 500. While both of the band’s earlier albums exhibit strong songwriting and plenty of vision, it is here that the GBV sound really begins to coalesce. While Devil Between My Toes is rife with contrasts, variety, and dark psychedelia, and its follow up Sandbox is a cohesive ’60s-influenced affair, Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia marries the two approaches to outstanding effect.

Unsurprisingly, recording began before Sandbox was even done pressing. These sessions would yield an aborted LP titled Learning To Hunt, but after personnel changes and second thoughts, Robert Pollard shelved most of the tracks, dismissing them as too similar to those on Sandbox. Fair enough, as many of Pollard’s more recent songs were simply on another level than previously. Here are the first of the classic Pollard slow-burners, often built on a simple melodic or rhythmic figure that circles itself ever outward, accumulating heft, variation, and inevitability as the song evolves into something unexpected yet inevitable. It’s the aural equivalent to watching a butterfly grow out of its cocoon.

A few things are unique to this particular LP. Original powerhouse drummer Peyton Eric returns for nearly half the tracks, while engineer and lead guitarist Steve Wilbur shines at his brightest, resulting in some of the most thoroughly rocking GBV songs to ever be cut to lacquer, such as “Earful o’ Wax,” which simply explodes out of the speakers when the solo section begins. On the other end of the spectrum, you get Pollard recording perfect pop gems at home with just voice and guitar, which would become a calling card on later GBV albums. There’s simply a tremendous variety of material, all strung together in such a way that the album is all of one piece, a mosaic.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Future Is In Eggs
2. The Great Blake Street Canoe Race
3. Slopes Of Big Ugly
4. Paper Girl
5. Navigating Flood Regions
6. An Earful O’ Wax
7. White Whale
8. Trampoline
9. Short On Posters
10. Chief Barrel Belly
11. Dying To Try This
12. The Qualifying Remainder
13. Liar’s Tale
14. Radio Show (Trust The Wizard)

Formed in Great Yarmouth in 1990, Catherine Wheel – singer guitarist Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes and drummer Neil Sims – are possibly one of the greatest lost bands of that fabled decade - Swimming against several tides, they were loosely defined as 'shoegaze', and failed to fit in with the grunge or britpop movements in those years.

They were of a size and scale to be supported by the upcoming Radiohead. Melody Maker said that Radiohead were like Catherine Wheel as they "function along a similar catharsis/ contrivance axis, ladling existential angst into skilfully imposing song structures."

After a contract race with Creation and Opal Records, Catherine Wheel signed to Fontana. In June 1992, they released their debut album, Ferment, which was produced by Tim Friese-Greene, who had just recently finished working with Talk Talk. Its muscular rock was often mesmeric, and its lead single Black Metallic created huge interest. The album was ranked No 23 in Pitchfork's 50 Best Shoegaze albums of all time.

This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1992 Fontana UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl

TRACK LISTING

Texture
I Want To Touch You
Black Metallic
Indigo Is Blue
She's My Friend
Shallow
Ferment
Flower To Hide
Tumbledown
Bill And Ben
Salt

Shallow (Live)
I Want To Touch You (Live)
Salt (Live)

Formed in Great Yarmouth in 1990, Catherine Wheel – singer guitarist Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes and drummer Neil Sims – are possibly one of the greatest lost bands of that fabled decade - Swimming against several tides, they were loosely defined as 'shoegaze', and failed to fit in with the grunge or britpop movements in those years.

They were of a size and scale to be supported by the upcoming Radiohead. Melody Maker said that Radiohead were like Catherine Wheel as they "function along a similar catharsis/ contrivance axis, ladling existential angst into skilfully imposing song structures."

1995's Happy Days found the group travelling further into a hybrid of heavy metal and improvisation – certainly with the addition of Mark Feltham (from Nine Below Zero) on harmonica, who had added his distinctive sound to the later Talk Talk albums, the group create a mesmerising sound on the more ambient tracks, offering a clear pathway to later groups such as Mogwai. There is still room for some anthemic shoegaze, however, on tracks such as Shocking and Judy Staring Up At The Sun, which features guest vocals from Tanya Donelly.

This re-issue replicates the original 1994 Fontana UK 2LP release with gatefold sleeve and bonus track "Glitter" and is pressed onto high quality 180g black vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

God Inside My Head
Waydown
Little Muscle
Heal
Empty Head
Receive 
My Exhibition 
Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck
Shocking
Love Tips Up
Judy Staring At The Sun
Hole
Fizzy Love
Glitter
Kill My Soul

Originally Released January 27, 1992. With a few EPs and a mini-album (Scar) having set the scene, Spooky is Lush’s 1992 debut studio album. A key text for British indie music after the turn of a decade, it was produced by label mate Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and features the singles “Nothing Natural,” “For Love” and “Superblast!.”

TRACK LISTING

A1. Stray
A2. Nothing Natural
A3. Tiny Smiles
A4. Covert
A5. Ocean
A6. For Love
B1. Superblast!
B2. Untogether
B3. Fantasy
B4. Take
B5. Laura
B6. Monochrome

Originally Released June 13 1994. Featuring the singles “Desire Lines” and “Hypocrite,” Split is the second full studio album by Lush. Produced by Mike Hedges - famed for his work on The Cure’s Seventeen Seconds & Siouxsie and the Banshees’s A Kiss in the Dreamhouse – and mixed by Alan Moulder, Split sees the band hit a more direct sound whilst retaining their almost pitch-black feel.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Light From A Dead Star
A2. Kiss Chase
A3. Blackout
A4. Hypocrite
A5. Lovelife
A6. Desire Lines
A7. The Invisible Man
B1. Undertow
B2. Never-Never
B3. Lit Up
B4. Starlust
B5. When I Die

Originally Released March 5 1996. Lush’s final studio album, Lovelife, dealt “Britpop the feminist counterpoint it sorely needed,” (Pitchfork). Produced by Pete Bartlett (Therapy?, Kitchens of Distinction), it features three of the band’s biggest singles in “Single Girl,” “Ladykillers” and “500 (Shake Baby Shake),” with Jarvis Cocker also featured on first-half closer “Ciao!”.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ladykillers
A2. Heavenly Nobodies
A3. 500
A4. I’ve Been Here Before
A5. Papasan
A6. Single Girl
A7. Ciao!
B1. Tralala
B2. Last Night
B3. Runaway
B4. The Childcatcher
B5. Olympia

‘Chrome Dreams’, one of Neil Young's most individual and powerful albums, was scheduled to be released in 1977, but as is often the case with Young, things change. And then change again.

With ‘Chrome Dreams’, it has been a long time coming to get to this final version of an album that includes some of rock's most unforgettable songs - and now it is set to be released on August 11 as Neil Young envisioned it. It’s time for ‘Chrome Dreams’ to find its way into the world.

The music included on ‘Chrome Dreams’ is the debut release of the legendary lost 1977 album that features 12 classic Neil Young songs, including four originals. The 1974-1976 studio recordings include two previously unreleased versions, four tracks never before released on vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Pocahontas
02 Will To Love
03 Star Of Bethlehem
Side B
04 Like A Hurricane
05 Too Far Gone
06 Hold Back The Tears
07 Homegrown
Side C
08 Captain Kennedy
09 Stringman
10 Sedan Delivery
11 Powderfinger
12 Look Out For My Love
Side D
Etching

David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust, his most famous alter-ego, in front of 5000 stunned fans at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Now, the fully restored film and soundtrack will be released for the first time for the 50th anniversary of the show. Renowned filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, Bob Dylan - Don’t Look Back, Depeche Mode - 101) captured the momentous event by filming Bowie and The Spiders From Mars backstage and onstage.

Although filmed 50 years ago, the film was not widely seen for over a decade. However, the film and its soundtrack have been newly remastered with the medley of ‘The Jean Genie/Love Me Do’ medley and ‘Round And Round’ featuring the late legendary Jeff Beck reinstated - the latter track making its very first appearance anywhere. Both performances were newly mixed by long-time Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti.

The show featured Bowie’s famous speech just before the final encore, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’, where he revealed that he was retiring the Ziggy Stardust persona. The shocking announcement came as a surprise to all in attendance – including members of his band and was the first proclamation of its kind in rock and roll.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
Introduction
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Watch That Man
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
All The Young Dudes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Moonage Daydream
Side 2
Changes
Space Oddity
My Death
Cracked Actor
Time
Side 3
The Width Of A Circle
Let’s Spend The Night Together
Suffragette City
Side 4
White Light/White Heat
Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie (feat. Jeff Beck)
Round And Round (feat. Jeff Beck)
Farewell Speech
Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide

This white vinyl LP was recut from the Silver Sonya re-masters in November 2008 at Chicago Mastering Service, and features an album sleeve redesign from the original artwork.

Ian MacKaye vocals Lyle Preslar guitar Steve Hansgen bass Brian Baker guitar Jeff Nelson drums.

Recorded At Inner Ear Studios Produced By Minor Threat.

TRACK LISTING

1. Betray
2. It Follows
3. Think Again
4. Look Back & Laugh
5. Sob Story
6. No Reason
7. Little Friend
8. Out Of Step
9. Cashing In