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John Massoni With Sonic Boom

Think Of Me When You Hear Waves (RSD23 EDITION)

    THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

    A brand-new John Massoni LP that was produced by his good friend, Grammy nominated producer, Hunter Lea. This is another John Massoni and Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, EAR, Spectrum) collaboration. It will have one side completely mixed by Sonic Boom. Featuring the excellent track ìGreat Godís Giftî this will be pressed in heavy weight 180g solid mustard coloured vinyl.

    John Robb

    The Art Of Darkness: A History Of Goth - SIGNED EDITION

      The first ever complete overview of Goth culture will be released in 2023.

      Finally, after a decade of work, countless interviews and immersing himself into the culture, John Robb's definitive book is a journey far into The Art Of Darkness. The first in-depth book on Goth is a deep dive into the enduring culture and the social, historical and political backdrop that created the space for The Art Of Darkness to thrive.

      680 pages with interviews with the likes of Andrew Eldritch, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, The Cult, The Banshees, The Damned, Einsturzende Neubauten, Danielle Dax, Johnny Marr, Trent Reznor, Adam Ant, Laibach, The Cure, Nick Cave and many others, this is a deepdive and walk on the dark side and into the very heartland of Goth.

      Every generation has got to deal with the blues - embrace the melancholy. Find a beauty in the darkness, a poetry in sex and death...Whether it’s the Roman love of ghost stories, European macabre folk tales of the Middle Ages, Romantic poets, or the original Gothic tribes sacking the Eternal City, a walk on the dark side has always had its attractions. In the post-punk period, Generation Xerox saw music, clothes and culture come together to create one of the most enduring pop cultures of them all that still resonates to this day..
      Goth.
      It may have been a retrospective term for a scene that was already thriving, but its back story goes back millennia. The book starts with the fall of Rome and ends with Instagram and Tik Tok influencers, taking diversions through Lord Byron, European folk tales, Indian sadhus, Gothic architecture, Romantic poets, philosophers and idealists before coalescing through the dark end of the Sixties’ youthquake, and then blooming like Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs Du Mal in the post-punk period.

      Defying the broken heartland of the post-industrial cities, the semi-forgotten satellite towns and the grim real politic of the Thatcher years, this was a post-punk culture full of dark dance and a death disco. The music soundtracked the style and a Stygian obsidian soundtrack fused the many fragments of culture that had been flirted with in the post-war pop narrative; a darker culture that began to coalesce around the holy trinity of the Doors, the Velvets and the Stooges in the late Sixties before flirting with glam rock, being amplified by punk, exploding as Goth, and then splintering into electronic dance music, industrial, psychobilly and new Goth, before finally filtering through dystopian Hollywood blockbusters, modern literature and throughout the modern world.

      In the late Seventies, Goth culture emerged around a clutch of bands who found a new form of beauty in the apocalyptic foreboding, as a new youth tribe took glam rock from the catwalk to the cobbles and onto their own dance floors, creating their own art of darkness.


      JOHN

      Theme New Bond Junior

        Cryptically-named duo JOHN - comprised of John Newton (drums, lead vocals) and Johnny Healey (guitar, backing vocals) - return with their first new music since the release of their acclaimed third album Nocturnal Manoeuvres. It comes in the guise of the blistering 'Theme New Bond Junior', the A-side of a new 7" single, b/w 'Hopper on the Dial'.

        Set to undulating guitar riffs and a greater sense of dynamics than ever before, 'Theme New Bond Junior' finds JOHN tackling the questioning feelings that arose as the band returned to the live circuit once venues began to open their doors as they embarked on a rapturous 30-date UK tour in autumn 2021, as well as recent festival slots at Green Man, End of the Road, Latitude, a main stage appearance at Bearded Theory’s Spring Gathering and a memorable return to the mainland at Belgium’s historic ROCK HERK.

        “The arts function as a mirror of our wider culture, and it’s been interesting to see how the acceleration of the present affects most aspects of our lives - including the production of art and music," says Newton. "The track was a gestation on the speed of consumption: this includes both the constant update/obsolescence of physical products and their resulting affect on the human attention span.”

        “Recently, it’s been concerning to see individuals - who have been pillars of creative action - questioning their ability to continue their jobs (and passions). Especially amongst the, quite frankly ridiculous, calls to ‘retrain’. I felt like the track helped us to keep our own momentum, continuing to stay positive and move forward despite the challenging scenery around us. With this in mind, it felt like the perfect track to act as a call-to-arms, introducing a new chapter as the first glimpse of a barrage of new stuff we’ve been focussing on.”

        'Theme New Bond Junior' also marks a change in production personnel: beginning a collaboration between South London recording engineer Tom Hill of The Bookhouse Studio and mixing engineer Seth Manchester (Battles, METZ, The Hotelier) of Machines With Magnets, Rhode Island, USA.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Laura says: How good is this?! Piccadilly's favourite noise makers return with this superb two tracker. Theme New Bond Junior is a typically JOHN thundering guitar and drum assault while Hopper On The Dial is a more brooding affair that slowly builds to a crescendo of soaring guitars, rumbling drums and half-spoken vocals.

        TRACK LISTING

        A1 Theme New Bond Junior
        B1 Hopper On The Dial

        John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Andres Renteria

        Posh Swat

          Posh Swat, an all percussion improvisation album with John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer & Andres Renteria. Trap kit, Hand percussion, homemade percussion instruments and electronic percussion over flow here with extra weirdness. Sick pop rhythms grinding thru the wasteland. Sand in your hair and bugs in your teeth. Hand on your knife, knife in your sheath. Grimy bass burps thru a fried stack. And the crack of the snare is a mighty pink smack. Bells, whistles conga and vibes. This is a drug record. One thousand times.

          For fans of Niagra, Black Pus, Container, Bruce Ditmas and all things beat driven and drum craven. 

          STAFF COMMENTS

          Barry says: You never expect John Dwyer to stay still for too long, but I really didn't expect his foray with Ryan Sawyer & Andres Renteria to be quite this *drummy*. It's a beautifully expressive and brilliantly organic sounding suite of rhythms punctuated with incidental synth stabs and jagged groove. Unsurprisingly inventive and unique.

          TRACK LISTING

          Intro
          The Spent Sadist
          Chit Chat
          Scavenger
          Red Clay Wall
          Dungeon Crawler
          Bug City
          The Sythe Is Remorseless
          Bricked Rune
          Scatter
          The Hostile Womb
          More Will Be Revealed

          The Orchids

          John Peel Session 09.04.94

            Now you’re gonna want this – more unreleased Orchids material! This is the enigmatic Scottish five-piece’s second session for John Peel, four years after the first, by which time they’d started phoning in football reports to the legendary DJ. Two of these songs were never released at the time, though one came out as a demo about 25 years later (the shoulda-been-single ‘Patience Is Mine’) – and the other two were very different on Striving For The Lazy Perfection. Package also features a set of six postcards with unseen pics from their famous session at Toad Hall Studios in Glasgow.

            TRACK LISTING

            Patience Is Mine
            Waiting Seems Vain
            A Living Ken And Barbie (Back To Basics Mix)
            The Searching

            John Cale

            Mercy

              For nearly 60 years, or at least since he was a young Welshman who moved to New York and formed The Velvet Underground, Cale has been reinventing his music with dazzling and inspiring regularity. There was the bewitching chamber folk of Paris 1919 followed instantly by the gnarled rock of Fear, the provocative and spare song cycle Music for a New Society followed more than 30 years later by mighty and unabashed electronic updates. Once again, here is Cale, reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. His engrossing 12-track MERCY moves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronics toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future.

              On MERCY, Cale enlists some of music’s most curious young minds: Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Actress. They’re only some of the astounding cast here, brilliant musicians who climb inside Cale’s consummate vision of the world and help him redecorate there. Cale turned 80 in March, and he’s watched as many peers have passed away, particularly during the last decade. MERCY is the continuation of a long career’s work with wonder. Cale has always searched for new ways to explore old ideas of alienation, hurt, and joy; MERCY is the latest transfixing find of this unsatisfied mind.

              The writings and recordings that shaped MERCY piled up for years, as Cale watched society totter at the brink of dystopia. Trump and Brexit, Covid and climate change, civil rights and right-wing extremism—Cale let the bad news of the day filter into his lines, whether that meant contemplating the sovereignty and legal status of sea ice melting near the poles or the unhinged arming of Americans. Lessons from a life (still being) richly lived floated to the fore, too, nodded to on the previously released “NIGHT CRAWLING.” If we’re always regretting our past, aren’t we conscripting ourselves to permanent disappointment?

              During “STORY OF BLOOD,” after the piano prelude gives way to a frame-rattling beat and synthesizers that feel like sunshine splashed across a snowfield, the voices of Cale and Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering slide past one another, two phantoms trying to find a partner amid the modern din. “Swing your soul,” they both sing in aspiration. In the final verse, Cale remembers this existence is not just about himself. “I’m going back to get them, my friends in the morning. Bring them with me into the light.” The accompanying video by Emmy-winning director Jethro Waters is a mix of disturbing and serene featuring both Cale and Weyes Blood. Its deep tones and religious images emphasize the track’s dark, spiritual mood.

              Cale elaborates: “I’d been listening to Weyes Blood’s latest record and remembered Natalie’s puritanical vocals. I thought if I could get her to come and sing with me on the ‘Swing your soul’ section, and a few other harmonies, it would be beautiful. What I got from her was something else! Once I understood the versatility in her voice, it was as if I’d written the song with her in mind all along. Her range and fearless approach to tonality was an unexpected surprise. There’s even a little passage in there where she’s a dead-ringer for Nico.”

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Mercy Feat. Laurel Halo
              2. Marilyn Monroe’s Leg (Beauty Elsewhere) Feat. Actress
              3. Noise Of You
              4. Story Of Blood Feat. Weyes Blood
              5. Time Stands Still Feat. Sylvan Esso
              6. Moonstruck (Nico’s Song)
              7. Everlasting Days Feat. Animal Collective
              8. Night Crawling
              9. Not The End Of The World
              10. The Legal Status Of Ice Feat. Fat White Family
              11. I Know You’re Happy Feat. Tei Shi
              12. Out Your Window

              John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, And Daniel Davies

              Halloween Ends Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                After 45 years, the most acclaimed, revered horror franchise in film history reaches its epic, terrifying conclusion as Laurie Strode faces off for the last time against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers, in a final confrontation unlike any captured on-screen before, one where only one of them will survive.

                When the franchise relaunched in 2018, Halloweenshattered box office records, becoming the franchise’s highest-grossing chapter and set a new record for the biggest opening weekend for a horror film starring a woman. In 2021, Halloween Killsearned the biggest opening weekend for any horror film in the pandemic era and simultaneously set a new record for a non-live event premiere streaming on Peacock.

                As Halloween Endsmarks the last chapter of the David Gordon Green trilogy, so it ushers the essential return of original director and composer John Carpenter to score the iconically hair-raising soundtrack alongside Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. Together they once again bring the celebrated music score to the horror movie series, one of the most distinctive aspects of the franchise to date

                Similarly to the last two soundtracks, Halloween Endswas recorded in its entirety at John Carpenter’s home studio and Daniel’s studio. “The three of us compose,perform, and record all the music, and everything is mixed by Daniel together with John Spiker” says John Carpenter.

                The unmistakable mix of software synths, vintage analogue equipment, and live instrumentation is utilized once again to provide the signature sound of Halloween. However, rumors have it that Halloween Ends is going to be somewhat different from the previous two films in the trilogy. With that comes an expanded soundtrack, one that matches the tone of a tangible rise in stakes and conveys the climatic feel of the film. The soundtrack of the third installment broadens old themes whilst creating new ones in an effort to bring renewed life to one of the most epic horror scores ever written. Carpenter elaborates, “The main themes have all been passed down from the original Halloween. We have refined them and created new themes for new characters.

                ”The soundtrack was tracked scene by scene but the album itself plays like a standalone piece of music. The general atmosphereis one of dread yet the record includes some groove laden moments reminiscent of Escape From New York or some of Carpenter’s other more dance-able scores. Exquisite and delicate ambient pieces weave their way between some of the score’s more arresting moments and yet maintain a subtle pop sensibility. The overall achievement showcases three master musicians, one of whom invented the entire horror-synth genre, crafting an evocative, playful and deeply listenable score that honors a legacy and expands on the decades of work that have been leading to this triumphant climax.

                Carpenter is known for directing the original 1978 Halloween, as well as other horror classics like The Thing, The Fog, Escape From New York, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, andThey Live. However John Carpenter is not only a cult movie-maker, he’s also a pioneering electronic composer. Halloween Endsis the soundtrack of the final battle against evil. Watch your back this Halloween, Michael may be near you.

                STAFF COMMENTS

                Barry says: One of the most legendary soundtrack writers and directors of all time, in his newest guise with both Cody (his son) and Daniel Davies bring us the third and final bout of dystopian synths and tense atmospheric drone. A blistering, and perfectly fitting instrumental tour de force.

                TRACK LISTING

                1 Where Is Jeremy?
                2 Halloween Ends (Main Title)
                3 Laurie’s Theme Ends
                4 The Cave
                5 Cool Kid
                6 Drags To The Cave
                7 Evil Eyes
                8 Transformation
                9 Because Of You
                10 Requiem For Jeremy
                11 Kill The Cop
                12 Corey And Michael
                13 Corey’s Requiem
                14 The Junk Yard
                15 Where Are You?
                16 Bye Bye Corey
                17 The Fight
                18 Before Her Eyes
                19 The Procession
                20 Cherry Blossoms
                21 Halloween Ends

                Dylan John Thomas

                EP2

                  This limited edition transparent 12” vinyl is Dylan’s second EP. It includes brand new single ‘If I Didn’t Laugh’, previously released ‘Fever’ plus two brand new songs ‘Now and Then’ and ‘What a Shame’, introduced by opening instrumental ‘Battle of Alesia’.

                  Mentored by Gerry Cinnamon, the singer-songwriter made history selling out King Tut’s quicker than any other artist in the venue’s history. Having played gigs with Sam Fender, Liam Gallagher, Stereophonics and Courteeners, Dylan also played a sold-out headline show at Glasgow’s legendary Barrowland earlier this year. Fresh from making his Glastonbury debut, he will be appearing at festivals throughout the summer, including a main stage slot at TRNSMT, with a headline tour to follow this November.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Battle Of Alesia
                  2. Fever
                  3. If I Didn’t Laugh
                  4. What A Shame
                  5. Now And Then

                  To Rococo Rot

                  John Peel BBC Sessions 97-99

                    Without a doubt, To Rococo Rot are an exception within the German music landscape. From 1995 until they broke up in 2014, the group around Robert Lippok, Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider researched a unique sound between electronic music, ambient, post-melancholy and the further development of a new, free music like krautrock. The trio was invited 3 times by John Peel to record radio sessions in the BBC. Available on record for the first time, which, in addition to the versions of selected album tracks, also contains exclusive, unreleased songs.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    Intro
                    Thomson Colour
                    Tour De Repechage
                    Glück
                    This Sandy Piece
                    Prado
                    A Little Asphalt Here And There
                    Rocket Fuel
                    Telema
                    Esther
                    Glas

                    John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies

                    Firestarter Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                      The horror master John Carpenter is back with his Halloween franchise collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter for their infectious new soundtrack to the 2022 adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter. This marks the first official soundtrack that the team has composed together outside of the Halloween franchise and their inspiration and evolution as a creative team is on full display.

                      The film is a new take on the thriller examining a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers and her fight to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. The film releases theatrically on May 13th, 2022 and stars Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon, Ryan Kiera, is directed by Keith Thomas (The Vigil) and created by the producers of The Invisible Man. The story has become a classic and the intense nature of the film creates a canvas for a dynamic soundtrack.

                      The Firestarter soundtrack utilizes some of the best elements of Carpenter’s famous musical repertoire and charts exciting new territory. The tracks range from fist pumping sci-fi anthems to slow reverb drenched piano ballads and each utilizes a variety of sonic applications. Skulking beats, skittering synths, crushing guitars and an ever-lurking echo come together to create an album that is atmospheric and also deeply melodic, cohesive and eclectic. These three musicians are all working in the peak of their individual and collaborative creativity and this soundtrack further solidifies them as masters of the craft.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      1. Mother’s Love
                      2. Lot 6 (Main Titles)
                      3. Are You Scared Of Me?
                      4. Dodge Ball Heats Up
                      5. Corporate Menace
                      6. Burned Hands
                      7. Rainbird Fights Vicky
                      8. Bless Mommy
                      9. Flashback Kills
                      10. Police Arrive
                      11. Sniper Attack
                      12. Charlie Alone
                      13. Charlie’s Powers
                      14. I’ll Find You
                      15. Charlie’s Rampage
                      16. Rampage Ends
                      17. Firestarter (End Titles)

                      Strut and Art Yard present the culmination of a 5-year project researching the archives of author, DJ and activist John Sinclair with the first ever retrospective of the influential Detroit Artists Workshop spanning 1965 to 1981.

                      “In the mid-‘60s, Detroit was nowhere,” explains Sinclair. “A decaying jazz scene, no community of poets, painters or writers so a group of young Detroit artists, most of us students at Wayne State University, got together in the late Summer of 1964.” Led by Sinclair and trumpeter Charles Moore, the Artists Workshop Society was formed as a co-operative community, drawing upon the resources of every participating individual in order to perpetuate itself. They began to provide spaces in Detroit for musicians to rehearse and to promote live concerts showcasing a range progressive jazz artists across the city.

                      Between the mid-‘60s and the early ‘80s, Sinclair amassed a huge archive of recordings from the Workshop concerts featuring Detroit residents like Moore’s Contemporary 5, Ron English and Lyman Woodard alongside many other US jazz luminaries including Donald Byrd, Sun Ra Arkestra and Herbie Hancock. Dormant in the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Brooklyn for many years, Strut and Art Yard began their research into the archives in 2017.

                      This first compilation of Detroit Artists Workshop is a revelation for any fan of jazz, featuring previously unreleased recordings by Byrd, Moore, English, Woodard, Bennie Maupin and Teddy Harris accompanied by extensive sleeve notes from John Sinclair, Robin Eichele and Herb Boyd. All tracks are remastered from the original tapes by Technology Works.

                      STAFF COMMENTS

                      Matt says: From percussive heavy tribal dancers and boppin' funk that'd make New Orleans take note; to spiritual jazz so deep it'll change your religion! A breath taking comp from the city which seems intrinsic in the story of the jazz. For some the sixties are its golden age and when listening to this double disc spectacular it's hard not to see why.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      A1. John Sinclair Introduction / Yusef Lateef - Happy Ology
                      A2. Donald Byrd - Christo Redentor
                      A3. Donald Byrd - Blackjack
                      B1. Detroit Contemporary 4 - Effi
                      B2. Detroit Contemporary 4 - The Promise
                      B3. Detroit Contemporary 4 - Three Flowers (Cd Only)
                      C1. Bennie Maupin Quartet - Water Torture
                      C2. Ron English - Bees
                      D1. Teddy Harris - Passion Dance
                      D2. Lyman Woodard - Deja Vu
                      D3. Lyman Woodard Organisation - Help Me Get Away

                      John Coltrane

                      Blue Train - The Complete Masters

                        To mark the 65th anniversary of the album’s recording, Blue Train will be released in two special editions on September 16 as part of Blue Note’s acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series.

                        A 1-LP mono pressing of the original album will be presented in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket, while the 2-LP stereo collection Blue Train: The Complete Masters will include a second disc featuring seven alternate and incomplete takes, none of which have been released previously on vinyl, and four of which have never been released before on any format. The Complete Masters comes with a booklet featuring never-before-seen session photos by Francis Wolff and an essay by Coltrane expert Ashley Kahn. Both Tone Poet Vinyl Editions were produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI.

                        Blue Train: The Complete Masters will also be released as a 2-CD set and digital collection.

                        “Few studio experiences I’ve had can compare with the thrill of listening to the original master tapes—mono, stereo and alternate takes—of Blue Train,” says Harley. “I consider these two new versions the definitive editions of this masterpiece performance by John Coltrane.”

                        TRACK LISTING

                        2CD
                        Blue Train
                        Moment’s Notice
                        Locomotion
                        I’m Old Fashioned
                        Lazy Bird
                        Blue Train (false Start)
                        Blue Train (take 7)
                        Moment’s Notice (alternate Take 4)
                        Lazy Bird (take 1)
                        Blue Train (alternate Take)
                        Moment’s Notice (incomplete Alternate Take 5A)
                        Lazy Bird (alternate Take)

                        1LP
                        LP 1 | Blue Train | Original Album | Studio
                        Side A
                        Blue Train
                        Moment’s Notice
                        Side B
                        Locomotion
                        I’m Old Fashioned
                        Lazy Bird

                        2LP
                        LP 1 | Blue Train | Original Album | Studio
                        Side A
                        Blue Train
                        Moment’s Notice
                        Side B
                        Locomotion
                        I’m Old Fashioned
                        Lazy Bird
                        LP 2 | Blue Train | Alternate And Incomplete Takes
                        Side A
                        Blue Train (false Start)
                        Blue Train (take 7)
                        Moment’s Notice (alternate Take 4)
                        Lazy Bird (take 1)
                        Side B
                        Blue Train (alternate Take)
                        Moment’s Notice (incomplete Alternate Take 5A)
                        Lazy Bird (alternate Take)

                        Retro house sounds from Italy on this release... tunes that still go down well with some of the big name festival dj's during their summer tour! A track that remained unpublished for 33 years until Devil Dee decided to make it public and bring his own voice to the spotlight joined by jazz-blues singer Joan Faulkner, (former supporting voice of Boney M and Milli Vanilli, also known by her stage name 'Dee-Vah'). Devil Dee is Davide Mancori - a cinematograph with a flattering career as a club-dj from 80s-90s onwards - who lovingly produced this release which differs from most of the releases on Best Record by its housey vibe. 'And The Beat Goes On' was written in Germany in 1989 by Leonie Gane and Ryan Paris laying the crucial foundations for an evolutionary step of the italian disco music. A step forward for the 'Italo' movement considered obsolete and defunct. In fact, the track is also referring to the latest Italo-Disco which entirely covered the scene of the 1980s with furious activity, If the meeting between Devil Dee and the famous interpreter of 'Dolce Vita' - Mister Ryan Paris - creates the alchemy, the explosive mix is completed with the precious work of Marco Magrini. The arrangement by Pierluigi Cerin and the executive work of Claudio Casalini close the magic circle. Five friends and a great singer from Indiana to fill the dance floors all over Europe, while the images of the provocative and surreal video-clip capture the audience by splitting in two. There are those who do not want to see certain issues publicized and those who appreciate their cheekiness, such as Best Record which by publishing the vinyl printed at 180 grams celebrates the 40 years of activity.

                        STAFF COMMENTS

                        Matt says: Can you believe this sat unreleased for 33 years? Can you believe it's actually 33 years old?! Unfathomable questions to a record that, if it had been released, would be WAY ahead of its time. Instead, we get it now, and it makes complete sense. Devil Dee - a timing genius.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        01 And The Beat Goes On (marco Magrini Extended Edit)
                        02 And The Beat Goes On (instrumental)
                        03 Devil Dee Ft Joan Faulkner And The Beat Goes On Club Version
                        04 And The Beat Goes On (electro Dub By Devil Dee Claudio Casalini)

                        John Coltrane

                        A Love Supreme - 2022 Reissue

                          Easily one of the most important records ever made, this was Coltrane's pinnacle studio outing that spoke of his search for spiritual and musical freedom, as expressed through polyrhythms, modalities, and purely vertical forms. Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, it became an instant best-seller and received a Grammy nomination. It remains one of the greatest albums ever recorded, and in 2021 was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of 1 million albums in the U.S. The achievement garners Coltrane his first-ever platinum record and is the first jazz album of the 1960s to receive platinum status, underscoring its enduring legacy and importance.

                          This Poison!

                          John Peel Session 30​.​11​.​87

                            “I love this session. Four great songs full of hooks. All of them under the three-minute mark. La-la-la singalongs. Shiny guitars. What more do you want?” Gideon Coe

                            From Perth in Scotland, This Poison! released two classic late 80s singles on the Wedding Present’s Reception Records and that was it. Apart from this stunning Peel session, featuring four songs that never saw the light of day on vinyl during the band’s lifetime. “Rip-roaring stuff!” said John Peel, and he wasn’t wrong. Package also includes download codes, sleeve notes from Derek Moir and a set of postcards – among them one from the great man himself sent to the band, a must for any Peel devotees.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            1. Question Mark (Peel Session) 02:13
                            2. St Johnstoun (Peel Session) 02:45
                            3. Driving Skills (Peel Session) 02:15
                            4. It'll All Work Out (Peel Session) 02:07

                            Marine Research

                            John Peel Session 18​.​05​.​99

                              This is the only BBC session ever recorded by the wonderful Marine Research, the group formed by members of Sarah legends Heavenly following the death of Mathew Fletcher. Gatefold double 7” vinyl has four songs, among them the gorgeous ‘Angel In The Snow’ and previously unreleased ‘Bad Dreams’, featuring David Gedge of the Wedding Present) plus ‘Capital L', which would probably have been a single if the band hadn’t split up. Package includes a set of postcards with previously unseen pics, download codes and informative sleeve notes from Amelia Fletcher. As an added extra freebie on the download, you also get a live show from BBC Sound City in Liverpool in October 1999 - introduced by Peel himself.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              1. I Confess (Peel Session) 03:25
                              2. Angel In The Snow (Peel Session) 04:18
                              3. Bad Dreams (Peel Session) 04:16
                              4. Capital L (Peel Session) 04:55

                              Prolapse

                              John Peel Session 08​.​04​.​97

                                Here's the explosive second Peel session from the masters of discord (or should that be dischord?). You'll want this for 'Deanshanger' alone but the rest's pretty good too – including two previously tracks – made up on the spot according to the group. Features a set of postcards, download codes and sleeve notes from Linda telling us how relieved she was to miss out on TOTP.

                                TRACK LISTING

                                1. Slash/Oblique (Peel Session) 04:19
                                2. Deanshanger (Peel Session) 04:59
                                3. Outside Of It (Peel Session) 06:34
                                4. Place Called Clock (Peel Session) 03:56

                                Prolapse

                                John Peel Session 20​.​08​.​94

                                  On vinyl for the fist time, this is Prolapse's spectacular debut session for John Peel, featuring divergent versions of a couple of classics and the previously unreleased 'Broken Cormorant', the subject of much debate among devotees down the years. As usual, comes with a set of postcards – among them a Joe Dilworth contact sheet – plus download codes for the BBC WAVs. And sleeve notes from Scottish Mick.

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  1. Serpico (Peel Session) 05:40
                                  2. Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc (Peel Session) 04:49
                                  3. When Space Invaders Were Big (Peel Session) 04:25
                                  4. Broken Cormorant (Peel Session) 05:21

                                  Foyer Des Arts

                                  Die John Peel Session

                                    John Peel liked Foyer des Arts so much that he not only played all the songs from their album several times on his show, he also invited the duo to record a session and were one of only a few German-speaking bands to do so. The Berlin duo made their way to London in October 1986, where they were joined by members of The Higsons and The Farmers Boys to record at BBC Maida Vale In the year 2000 Goldt asked the BBC what had happened to the session tapes, only to learn that they had probably been wiped. Twenty years later, the Cologne-based sound engineer Tom Morgenstern, with the help of a colleague from the BBC, managed to unearth the lost tapes. And here they are, 35 years on, as fresh as the day they were made.

                                    John Foxx

                                    The Marvellous Notebook

                                      Spoken word album. Features John Foxx reading from his book, The Quiet Man, which was originally published in 2020. The stunning artwork by Barnbrook, includes a vinyl insert with images by Foxx. 

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      Vinyl
                                      1. The Marvellous Notebook
                                      2. Remember
                                      3. The Quiet Man
                                      *bonus Track On Download Coupon, Under London

                                      CD
                                      1. The Marvellous Notebook
                                      2. Remember
                                      3. Under London
                                      4. The Quiet Man 

                                      John Rocca

                                      Once Upon A Time In N.Y.C.

                                        Beggars Arkive are excited to release ‘Once Upon A Time In N.Y.C.’, a collection of pioneering protoelectro and house music made by in NYC (and London) by Freeez founder John Rocca between 1982 - 1987.The LP is pressed on splattered orange vinyl and contains six tracks. Another two tracks, one of which is the international hit ‘I.O.U.’, are included on a bonus marbled grey 7”.

                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        1.  ‘Once Upon A Time In
                                        2.  N.Y.C.’
                                        3.  I Dub U (Freeez Feat. John Rocca)
                                        4.  Once Upon A Dub (John Rocca)
                                        5.  I Want It To Be Real (Instrumental) (John Rocca)
                                        6.  Englishman In New York(Extended) (John Rocca)
                                        7.  Move (Extended Mix) (John Rocca)
                                        8.  The Dream (Radio Edit) (John Rocca)

                                        Bonus 7”

                                        1.  I.O.U. (7” Version Remastered) (Freeez)
                                        2.  I Want It To Be Real (John Rocca)

                                        Dean Spunt & John Wiese

                                        The Echoing Shell

                                          With their duo debut, Dean Spunt and John Wiese invite you to experience the frenzy of percussive space and discreet sound found inside ‘The Echoing Shell’.

                                          This is the first official collaboration between the two veteran music-makers, though their connection goes back to 1999. As John recalls, “[Dean] was in a high school arts program at CalArts. A friend and I were recording the first Sissy Spacek demo in the design studios there, and taking a tape to my car over and over again to check the mix. Dean was walking through the parking lot with a Locust shirt on, we said hello, and he immediately got into a car with two strangers to ‘listen to a tape’.

                                          "The tape-listening ended well, apparently. Dean and John became friends and fellow travellers in LA circles and beyond: in 2005, John did a remix for Dean’s first band, Wives; in 2007, Dean played percussion with Sissy Spacek’s 13-Tet Los Angeles; John toured with No Age several times and collaborated live with them in 2010.

                                          Under the Sissy Spacek name as well as his own, John’s recordings for his own Helicopter label and many others kicked things off for him around the end of the century; since then, he’s been constantly engaged in solos and collaborations on record, performances, and installations around the world. In addition to Dean’s ever-growing discography with No Age, he curates his own label, Post Present Medium. In 2018, Radical Documents released Dean’s solo debut ‘EE Head’, which explored concrète and experimental techniques in a four-part, album length piece. 

                                          ‘The Echoing Shell’ is born of Dean and John’s shared understanding, using John’s process common to Sissy Spacek: elaborate sound-collage works using source material originating from punk, hardcore and improvised music. A series of impositions, tape manipulation and edits recompose the material, cracking open the crust of the source, freeing its implied guts to steam forth in gushes of extreme noise. On ‘The Echoing Shell’, this is as often noise as it is extreme intimacy, seeming at times to be sourced from within Dean’s drumkit, at other times appearing to emanate from the capsules of microphones and the circuits of the signal path itself.

                                          One may read these collaged sounds as abstraction, but there is a unique language conveyed in their assembly, forming something like word-shapes and meaning. And intention: the two side-long pieces, comprised of many short sections, form a linear whole, creating alternately ripping and discriminating music - and meaning - in the process.

                                          ‘The Echoing Shell’ is a fantastic conception in contemporary musique concrète, combining incendiary post-rock power, dry humour and astonishing depth of field. Whether projecting the sound through headphones, ear buds, bookshelf speakers or your own personal amp stack, crank up ‘The Echoing Shell’.

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          1. Fruit From Color Vapor
                                          2. Black Fruit

                                          John Coltrane

                                          My Favorite Things - 2022 Deluxe Edition

                                            Released in 1961, My Favorite Things made John Coltrane a star with box-office pulling power previously preserved for the likes of Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, the MJQ, and Miles Davis. The dazzling quartet treatment of the Richard Rodgers hit song, features Coltrane on soprano saxophone for the first time on record, exercised a hypnotic effect on all sorts of music lovers and trend-spotters. The title track was a hit single, and the album became a major commercial success. In 1998, the album received the Grammy Hall of Fame award. It attained gold record status in 2018, having sold 500,000 copies. The mono version of this album, believed lost, was recently found, and is included in this deluxe package, as well as the stereo version, both mastered from the original tapes.

                                            The packaging includes liner notes by award-winning writer Ben Ratliff, as well as photos and Atlantic Records ephemera.


                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            Disc 1 (Mono)
                                            Side 1:
                                            1. My Favorite Things (13:41)
                                            2. Everytime We Say Goodbye (5:39)
                                            Side 2:
                                            1. Summertime (11:31)
                                            2. But Not For Me (9:34)

                                            Disc 2 (Stereo)
                                            Side 1:
                                            3. My Favorite Things (13:41)
                                            4. Everytime We Say Goodbye (5:39)
                                            Side 2:
                                            3. Summertime (11:31)
                                            4. But Not For Me (9:34)

                                            Father John Misty

                                            Chloë And The Next 20th Century

                                              Father John Misty returns with 'Chloë and The Next 20th Century', his fifth album and first new material since the release of God’s Favorite Customer in 2018.

                                              'Chloë and the Next 20th Century' was written and recorded August through December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. The album sees Tillman and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson resume their longtime collaboration, as well as Dave Cerminara, returning as engineer and mixer. Basic tracks were recorded at Wilson’s Five Star Studios with strings, brass and woodwinds recorded at United Recordings in a session featuring Dan Higgins and Wayne Bergeron, among others.


                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                              Barry says: Father John Misty has always been one of the most distinctive voices working in the middle ground between modern indie and country music, and his latest is the perfect illustration as to why he's so revered in the field. Beautifully produced and gorgeously evocative throughout, this is classic Misty.

                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              1 Chloë
                                              2 Goodbye, Mr. Blue
                                              3 Kiss Me (I Loved You)
                                              4 (Everything But) Her Love
                                              5 Buddy's Rendevous
                                              6 Q4
                                              7 Olvidado (Otro Momento)
                                              8 Funny Girl
                                              9 Only A Fool
                                              10 We Could Be Strangers
                                              11 The Next 20th Century

                                              Teddy Pendergrass

                                              John Morales Presents Teddy Pendergrass - The Voice - Remixed With Philly Love

                                                BBE Music presents a brand new album celebrating one of Philadelphia soul music’s most iconic figures, Teddy Pendergrass, remixed by pioneering producer and engineer, John Morales. This exploration of 1970s Philly soul at its apex focuses on one of the era’s defining voices, Theodore DeReese Pendergrass. Born in Philadelphia in 1950, Pendergrass sang church music at age two, and was ordained a minister at ten years old. Having learned drums and played in local bands during his teens, at 20 he was hired as a drummer for the Blue Notes by group leader Harold Melvin. After being spotted singing along onstage, he was soon appointed lead singer, and the rest is history… The masterful, revealing remix work of John Morales affords these classic songs improved clarity, allowing each individual player more space to be heard and modernising the recordings without ever losing sight of the original spirit. The virtuoso quality of the songwriting, production, arrangements and performances shine forth anew, and so do some of the music’s subtler qualities and nuanced, sometimes conflicted, subtexts that might have been overlooked in the most conventional view of Pendergrass in his prime. Curated authoritatively, remixed with love and passion, John Morales’ collection revisits our relationship with Teddy’s and Gamble & Huff’s music as compellingly and immersively as when it was new. Teddy’s timeless force resides equally in his talent for portraying truthfully the joys and hurts, beliefs and doubts, blessings and challenges of our lives, and in the bravery of confronting them all with an honesty that is still utterly extraordinary.

                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                Disc: 1
                                                1. The More I Get, The More I Want (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                2. Only You (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                3. If You Know Like I Know (John Morales M + M Mix
                                                4. Now Is The Time To Do It (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                5. The Love I Lost (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                6. I Don't Love You Anymore (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                7. Come Go With Me (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                8. Bad Luck (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                9. If You Don't Know Me By Now (John Morales M + M Mix)

                                                Disc: 2
                                                1. You Can't Hide From Yourself (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                2. Where Are All My Friends (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                3. Life Is A Song Worth Singing (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                4. Satisfaction Guaranteed (Or Take Your Love Back) (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                5. Do Me (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                6. Somebody Told Me (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                7. Is There A Place For Me (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                8. Turn Off The Lights (John Morales M + M Mix)
                                                9. Don't Leave Me This Way (John Morales M + M Mix)

                                                John Grant

                                                Marz - Music Box

                                                  ‘Marz’ is the second song from John Grant’s debut solo album ‘Queen Of Denmark’ which was heralded as an “Instant Classic” by Mojo Magazine and went on to be selected as their choice for Best Album of 2010.

                                                  Recorded in Texas in collaboration with members of Midlake and released on seminal UK label Bella Union, the BBC described it as "one of the most deeply satisfying debut albums of recent times" with The Guardian citing “songs of impossible love recalling Dennis Wilson's masterpiece, ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’."

                                                  This Official Music Box Co version of this bittersweet classic is an evocative echo of the gold-dust in the original track. So why not go to where the green rivers flow and…

                                                  John Coltrane

                                                  Crescent - 2022 Reissue

                                                    Crescent is widely regarded as one of John Coltrane's finest albums, featuring the talents of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. During 1964, John Coltrane spent the least amount of time in the recording studio of his entire career as a leader. It wasn't until April 27th that he, along with Tyner, Garrison and Jones went to the familiar surroundings of Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood Cliffs studio to record all the tracks that appear on Crescent. In a hint of things to come for the Classic Quartet, both Garrison and Jones are featured on extended solos on the album’s second side. Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from the original analog tapes mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QPR. The series is supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, and releases are presented in deluxe gatefold tip-on packaging.

                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                    Crescent [8:40] (Side A)
                                                    Wise One [9:01] (Side A)
                                                    Bessie’s Blues [3:30] (Side A)
                                                    Lonnie’s Lament [11:42] (Side B)
                                                    The Drum Thing [7:20] (Side B)

                                                    John Carroll Kirby

                                                    Cryptozoo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                                                      John Carroll Kirby brings his talents as a composer and producer to film scoring. His vivid imagination, dreamy compositions, and knack for storytelling with instrumental music make for a perfect match with comic book writer, artist and filmmaker Dash Shaw’s vibrant, fantastical animated feature.

                                                      Kirby’s score is at once deeply evocative and mysterious, evoking nostalgia, wide-eyed innocence, and ethereal otherworldliness. As with all of Kirby’s music, the score resists easy genre classification, melding together sounds from New Age, exotica, library music, and the sweeter side of electronic music.

                                                      Cryptozoo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is Kirby’s latest album following the release of his electronic-jazz album Septet in June 2021. He will be touring the UK & Europe in March 2022.


                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      Side A
                                                      1. Luz Mala
                                                      2. Savage Cryptids
                                                      3. Gustav The Faun
                                                      4. Phoebe’s Theme
                                                      5. Tenderfoot Pegasus
                                                      Side B
                                                      1. Joan
                                                      2. Mystic Brine
                                                      3. The Tower
                                                      4. End Credits Theme

                                                      The Weather Prophets

                                                      John Peel 01.12.86

                                                        One of Creation boss Alan McGee’s favourite bands, the Weather Prophets were regulars at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, where they recorded this never-before-released four-song session for John Peel late in 1986 featuring early versions of singles Hollow Heart and She Comes From The Rain. Also included are sleeve notes from Pete Astor, free downloads of original BBC files and a set of postcards.

                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        Swimming Pool Blue
                                                        Hollow Heart
                                                        She Comes From The Rain
                                                        Faithful

                                                        John Coltrane

                                                        'Live' At The Village Vanguard - 2022 Reissue

                                                          'Live' at the Village Vanguard (Impulse! AS-10), was Coltrane’s first official ‘live’ album. Coltrane is joined here on two tunes by Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, plus McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums, and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison alternating on bass. Garrison’s presence on this album makes this the first recording by what came to be known as Coltrane’s ‘Classic Quartet’. Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, November 2 & 3, 1961.

                                                          Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from the original analog tapes mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QPR. The series is supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, and releases are presented in deluxe gatefold tip-on packaging.

                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          Spiritual [13:48] (Side A)
                                                          Softly As In A Morning Sunrise [6:33] (Side A)
                                                          Chasin’ The Trane [16:07] (Side B)

                                                          The script for A Pure Place had a dizzying effect on John Gürtler & Jan Miserre; their minds reeling with the possibilities.

                                                          From Persian sheep bells, Chinese sheng, prepared trombone, quarter-tone piano, a beaten-up cembalo, hand percussion, and a room full of synthesizers, embryonic compositions and experiments came to life early on in the project.

                                                          An electro-acoustic extravaganza, the soundtrack for A Pure Place takes a deep bow towards the many magnificent composers and scores from the late 60s and 70s where orchestral arrangements met with tape loops, psychedelia, and instruments from across the globe. Listening to that era of film music, anything seems possible. The minimalist tones of ‘Ritual Bells’ set the dial to weird in the opening sequence of the movie, whilst ‘The Island’ makes use of ambient vocals recorded through an oil drum, gently introducing one of the score’s main themes with a distant quarter-tone cembalo.

                                                          Acclaimed British artist Shackleton’s eerie original version of ‘Fust’s Song’ (also included) was a tonal keystone for the entire soundtrack. Gürtler and Miserre translated his psychedelic electronic blueprint, layering acoustic instruments and bottom-heavy percussion in their ‘Paradox Paradise’ production style. The vocals, written by Chryssos, and sung by the cast on set, capture the sonics of the actual crypt-like space where cult leader Fust addresses with his following.

                                                          ‘A Glimpse of the Other Side’ speaks of love and death in a 70s-indebted composition reflecting John and Jan’s shared love for melancholic and suspenseful chord progressions. Meanwhile, the sparkling synths of ‘Athens’ - the children discovering neon-lit civilisation after years confined on the island - transplant us to an entirely different era. Greek artist Maroulita del Kol features heavily throughout - her choir of vocals on ‘Erotica’ were recorded late at night in the studio foyer, capturing its unique tiled reflections and concrete reverb.

                                                          On ‘Purification’ Maroulita’s voice guides us alongside a Moog bass drone, building to an ecstatic climax, whilst she also features in the film’s disco-centric ending credits on ‘Gatoula Mou Mikri’.


                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          A1. Ritual Bells
                                                          A2 .The Island
                                                          A3. Fust’s Song
                                                          A4 Erotica
                                                          A5. Purification
                                                          A6. A Glimpse Of The Other Side
                                                          B1. Fust’s Song (Shackleton’s Orignal Version)
                                                          B2. Athens
                                                          B3. Small Doses
                                                          B4. Holy Soap
                                                          B5. Irinia Takes Over
                                                          B6. Gatoula Mou Mikri (feat. Maroulita Del Kol)

                                                          John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Wilder Zoby & Andres Renteria

                                                          Gong Splat

                                                            • Latest in quickly selling-out series of John Dwyer (OSEES frontman) with friends lock down experimentations and improvisations.

                                                            • Featuring fantastic collage art by Dan Lean.

                                                            • Recorded at Stu-Stu-Studio by John Dwyer in the peak of dope smoke lock down.

                                                            What’s this? Today’s holiday gift? One final transmission from the core of the planet! Cresting slabs of concrete and powdered bone, rich soil—improvisation freak flag flitters atop a gutted highrise: Gong Splat. Featuring Ryan Sawyer on drums, Greg Coates on upright bass, Wilder Zoby on synth and mellotron, Andres Renteria on conga, bongos and hand percussion, and John Dwyer on guitar, synths, pan flute, cuíca, hand percussion, space drum and effects.

                                                            This one is spitting fat and neon night-light city drives, white in the corner of the pilot’s mouth. Furry, fuzzy and frenetic, motorik and full of blood-rich ticks…maggots unite! There’s a show tonight! Welcome back humans.

                                                            STAFF COMMENTS

                                                            Barry says: You always know you're in safe hands with Dwyer & co, and this one is a brilliantly heavy swerve into eastern-influenced psychedelia via garage percussion and brain-melting avant-synth swells. Elsewhere loungy keys meet jazzy tentative drum fills. Predictably brilliant, entirely mad.

                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                            1. Gong Splat
                                                            2. Cultivated Graves
                                                            3. Toagut
                                                            4. Anther Dust
                                                            5. Yuggoth Travel Agency
                                                            6. Hypogeum
                                                            7. Oneironaut
                                                            8. Minor Protocides
                                                            9. Giedi Prime

                                                            John Coltrane

                                                            A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

                                                              Impulse! dig up a never-before-heard live recording from a private collection featuring Coltrane’s Classic Quartet augmented by Pharoah Sanders amongst others. This is one of only three known concert performances of the most iconic suite in jazz.
                                                              Recorded in late 1965 on the culminating evening of a historic week-long run at The Penthouse in Seattle, A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle is a musical revelation of historic importance, capturing Coltrane as he began to expand his classic quartet—adding Pharoah Sanders on second saxophone and Donald Garrett on second bass—and catapulting him into the intense, spiritually focused final phase of his career.

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              1. A Love Supreme Pt. I – Acknowledgement
                                                              2. Interlude 1
                                                              3. A Love Supreme Pt. II – Resolution
                                                              4. Interlude 2
                                                              5. A Love Supreme Pt. III – Pursuance
                                                              6. Interlude 3
                                                              7. Interlude 4
                                                              8. A Love Supreme Pt. IV – Psalm

                                                              In spring 2020, having been forced to postpone any live action due to lockdown, John set to work on the follow up to their Out Here On The Fringes album. It seems that the enforced confinement allowed them time to fine tune both their songwriting and sound and produce their best LP to date. The album opens with “Return To Capital” a brooding, slow-build instrumental that’s escalating nicely until it suddenly plummets head first into “Sibensko Powerhouse”, a ferocious collision of distorted guitars, pounding drums and snarled vocals, which kind of sets the tone for the rest of the album. Being a two piece, they operate with limited tools: drums, guitar and vocals, but that doesn’t in any way limit their sound. Seeing them live reminded me of seeing No Age play live for the first time and being blown away by how much noise two people could generate. And they’re creative with that limited palate too, this isn’t all a 100mph dash for the line, it’s a very nuanced sound, there’s plenty of texture. Idles have been an obvious reference point in recent reviews, but to me their sound is rooted in the US hardcore scene of the 80s: The kind of stuff that was being released by the likes of Touch And Go and Dischord Records. (There are definitely echoes of Mackaye / Picciotto in the dual vocals at times.) That’s not to say their sound is dated, far from it, they’re one of the most vital bands around at the moment.

                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                              Laura says: Ooof! This is just awesome! Intense, dynamic guitar noise that has more in common with the likes of Jesus Lizard or any number of bands from the 80s DC scene than any more contemporary noisemakers. (The dual vocal on Šibensko Powerhouse in particular brings to mind Mackay / Picciotto.) That's not so say their sound is dated, far from it, this is the most vital noise around right now.

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              1. Return To Capital
                                                              2. Šibensko Powerhouse
                                                              3. A Song For Those Who Speed In Built-Up Areas
                                                              4. Haneke'd
                                                              5. Austere Isle
                                                              6. Jargoncutter
                                                              7. Stadium Of No
                                                              8. Power Out For The Kingdom
                                                              9. Northwood Turret
                                                              10. Nonessential Hymn

                                                              John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter And Daniel Davies

                                                              Halloween Kills: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

                                                              In 2018, David Gordon Green’s Halloween, starring icon Jamie Lee Curtis, slaughtered the box office, earning more than $250 million worldwide, becoming the highestgrossing chapter in the four-decade franchise and setting a new record for the biggest opening weekend in history for a horror film starring a woman. The film had the distinction of being the first film in the series with creator John Carpenter’s direct involvement since 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Carpenter served as an executive producer, a creative consultant, and, thrillingly, as a soundtrack composer, alongside his collaborators from his recent solo albums, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                              Barry says: John Carpenter is obviously one of the most legendary figures in the soundtracking biz, and in the newest iteration with Cody &co, we get possibly his strongest late-career work to date. 'Halloween Kills' is a wonderfully evocative, perfectly pitched soundtrack from one of the true masters. Everything you'd expect.

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              01.Logos Kill
                                                              02. Halloween Kills (Main Title
                                                              03. The Myer’s House
                                                              04. First Attack
                                                              05. Stand Off
                                                              06. Let It Burn
                                                              07. He Appears
                                                              08. From The Fire
                                                              09. Strodes At The Hospital
                                                              10. Cruel Intentions
                                                              11. Gather The Mob
                                                              12. Rampage
                                                              13. Frank And Laurie
                                                              14. Hallway Madness
                                                              15. It Needs To Die
                                                              16. Reflection
                                                              17. Unkillable
                                                              18. Payback
                                                              19. Michael’s Legend
                                                              20. Halloween Kills (End Titles) 

                                                              John Holt

                                                              Police In Helicopter

                                                                Classic set from the great John Holt based around his monster 1983 reggae hit title track. Produced by Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes with the Roots Radics. Another of those Greensleeves classics that pretty much any home with a love of lamb's bread but own!

                                                                The cover shot sees John and a huge bag of collie weed with Babylon in hot pursuit via helicopter. Subject matter is lighthearted with a typically JA slant. John is one of reggae's most successful and respected artists and in 2004 he was honoured by the Jamaican government with the Order Of Distinction for his contribution to Jamaican culture!


                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                1. Police In Helicopter
                                                                2. Private Doctor
                                                                3. Last Train
                                                                4. Beach Party
                                                                5. Reality
                                                                6. Fat She Fat
                                                                7. Chanting
                                                                8. Sugar And Spice
                                                                9. Can't Use Me
                                                                10. I Got Caught

                                                                John Cooper Clarke

                                                                I Wanna Be Yours

                                                                  This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator.

                                                                  At 5 feet 11 inches (32in chest, 27in waist), in trademark dark suit, dark glasses, with dark messed-up hair and a mouth full of gold teeth, he is instantly recognizable. As a writer his voice is equally unmistakable and his own brand of slightly sick humour is never far from the surface. I Wanna Be Yours covers an extraordinary life, filled with remarkable personalities: from Nico to Chuck Berry, from Bernard Manning to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Elvis Costello to Gregory Corso, Gil Scott Heron, Mark E. Smith and Joe Strummer, and on to more recent fans and collaborators Alex Turner, Plan B and Guy Garvey.

                                                                  Interspersed with stories of his rock and roll and performing career, John also reveals his boggling encyclopaedic take on popular culture over the centuries: from Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe to Pop Art, pop music, the movies, fashion, football and showbusiness - and much, much more, plus a few laughs along the way.

                                                                  John

                                                                  Out Here On The Fringes - Signed Edition

                                                                    The second pressing of JOHN's second album 'Out Here On the Fringes' . Record includes lyric sheet insert with artwork by John Newton of the band.

                                                                    This duo make superb adrenalin fuelled, intelligent guitar noise.

                                                                    If you're a fan of Metz, Protomartyr, Idles, Fucked Up, then you should check this out. 

                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    1. Future Thinker 03:04
                                                                    2. Standard Hauntings 02:26
                                                                    3. Out Here On The Fringes 03:51
                                                                    4. Western Wilds 02:21
                                                                    5. High Digger 02:48
                                                                    6. Dog Walker 01:59
                                                                    7. Laszlo 04:16
                                                                    8. Midnight Supermarket 02:24
                                                                    9. Solid State 02:48

                                                                    John Coltrane

                                                                    Another Side Of John Coltrane

                                                                      This collection showcases some of Coltrane's best recordings as a side artist and features collaborations with such jazz greats as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Tadd Dameron, and Art Taylor. Primarily focusing on Coltrane's recordings as side man from 1956 and 1957 on the Prestige, Riverside, and Jazzland labels, it also includes a guest appearance (and legendary tenor saxophone solo) with Miles Davis on the track "Someday My Prince Will Come" (from the 1961 Miles Davis Columbia album of the same title).

                                                                      The 2-LP vinyl edition contains two extra tracks that are not available on the CD and digital editions: Nutty (Originally released on the album Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Jazzland JLP 46) and Birks' Works (Originally released on the Red Garland Quintet album Soul Junction featuring John Coltrane and Donald Byrd). The liner notes were written by Doug Ramsey, winner of the Jazz Journalists Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Ramsey is the author of the award-winning biography Take Five, The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond. His other awards include two ASCAP Deems Taylors.

                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                      Side A
                                                                      1. SONNY ROLLINS QUARTET: Tenor Madness (12:08)
                                                                      2. MILES DAVIS AND THE MODERN JAZZ GIANTS: 'Round Midnight (5:22)
                                                                      3. THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET: Oleo (6:17)
                                                                      Side B
                                                                      1. THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET: Airegin (4:21)
                                                                      2. TADD DAMERON WITH JOHN COLTRANE: Soultrane (5:22)
                                                                      3. ART TAYLOR: C.T.A. (4:39)
                                                                      4. THELONIOUS MONK: Monk's Mood (7:48)
                                                                      Side C
                                                                      1. THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE: Epistrophy (Alternate Take) (3:07)
                                                                      2. THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE: Trinkle, Tinkle (6:39)
                                                                      3. *THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE: Nutty* (6:36)
                                                                      4. *RED GARLAND QUINTET FEATURING JOHN COLTRANE AND DONALD BYRD: Birks' Works* (7:32)
                                                                      Side D
                                                                      1. THE RED GARLAND QUINTET WITH JOHN COLTRANE: Billie's Bounce (9:21)
                                                                      2. MILES DAVIS: Someday My Prince Will Come (9:02) 

                                                                      * Vinyl Bonus Tracks.

                                                                      Binker Golding, John Edwards, Steve Noble

                                                                      Moon Day (Repress)

                                                                        Award winning saxophonist and composer Binker Golding returns to Byrd Out with a new trio comprising giants of the experimental scene Steve Noble and John Edwards for an album of unparalleled instant creativity: 'Moon Day'. The album plays with the post truth zeitgeist, using the first major moon conspiracy of 1835 as a launch pad, throwing a sly wink at Buzz Aldrin as the trio impart on their own musical odyssey. The sheer variety of pace, tone and texture across the record is breathtaking, from Golding’s soft, almost weightless opening on ‘One Giant Step’ through to the skittish re-entry of ‘Reflection’ as the musicians ricochet off one another, the album bursts with ideas and energy, yet remains coherent and singular in its purpose. Recorded during a gap between the various lockdowns of 2020, you can sense the release from the musicians as they combine after enforced isolation with a telepathic sense of where to push each other: Noble interjecting both chaos and order from the drums; Edwards the rocket fuel propelling the unit on; and Golding soaring and cutting through on sax. You will not find a better showcase of these musicians’ phenomenal abilities. This is free jazz at its most compelling and most engaging. ‘Moon Day’ is undoubtedly a future jazz classic.

                                                                        Award winning saxophonist and composer Binker Golding returns to Byrd Out with a new trio comprising giants of the experimental scene Steve Noble and John Edwards.

                                                                        From Golding’s soft, almost weightless opening on ‘One Giant Step’ through to the skittish re-entry of ‘Reflection’ as the musicians ricochet off one another, the album bursts with ideas and energy, yet remains coherent and singular in its purpose.

                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        A1. One Giant Leap, Parts I-Iv
                                                                        B1. Reflection
                                                                        B2. Lunar Wind

                                                                        John Murry

                                                                        The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes

                                                                          John Murry’s third album is starlit and wondrous, like being wrapped in the softest black velvet. It’s an album of startling imagery and insinuating melodies, of cold moonlight and searing heat. It’s a record that penetrates to the very heart of you, searing with its burning honesty, its unsparing intimacy and its twisted beauty.

                                                                          ‘The Stars Are God’s Bullet Holes’ is not an album for an ordinary world, because it’s not an ordinary album. It’s an album to dive deep into and submerge yourself in, and to emerge from aware that this world is a remarkable place, and that John Murry is a remarkable artist.

                                                                          STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                          Barry says: There's a palpable sense of rock and roll groove on this one from Murry, with the fuzzy bass and power-chord riffs being wonderfully offset with surprisingly light vocal accompaniments from the backing singers. Dynamically intricate but surprisingly simple audio constructions perfectly displaying Murry's unmatched songcraft.

                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                          1. Oscar Wilde (Came Here To Make Fun Of You)
                                                                          2. Perfume & Decay
                                                                          3. The Stars Are God's Bullet Holes
                                                                          4. Di Kreutser Sonata
                                                                          5. I Refuse To Believe (You Could Love Me)
                                                                          6. Ones + Zeros
                                                                          7. Time & A Rifle
                                                                          8. Ordinary World
                                                                          9. 1(1)1
                                                                          10. Yer Little Black Book

                                                                          PJ Harvey & John Parish

                                                                          A Woman A Man Walked By - Reissue

                                                                            Reissue on vinyl of the second collaboration album between PJ Harvey and John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By.

                                                                            Produced by Parish and Harvey, and originally released in March 2009, A Woman A Man Walked By features the single ‘Black Hearted Love’. Reissue is faithful to the original recording with vinyl cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering, overseen by John Parish.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            Side A
                                                                            Black Hearted Love
                                                                            Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
                                                                            Leaving California
                                                                            The Chair
                                                                            April

                                                                            Side B
                                                                            A Woman A Man Walked By / The Crow Knows Where All The Little Children Go
                                                                            The Soldier
                                                                            Pig Will Not
                                                                            Passionless, Pointless
                                                                            Cracks In The Canvas

                                                                            John Grant

                                                                            Boy From Michigan

                                                                              Produced by longtime friend Cate Le Bon, ‘Boy from Michigan’ is Grant’s most autobiographical and melodic work to date. Grant stopped being a boy in Michigan aged twelve, when his family moved to Denver, Colorado, shifting rust to bible belt, a further vantage point to watch collective dreams unravel. Across 12 tracks, Grant lays out his past for careful cross-examination. In a decade of making records by himself, he has playfully experimented with mood, texture and sound, all the better for actualizing the seriousness of his thoughts. At one end of his musical rainbow, he is the battle-scarred piano-man, at the other, a robust electronic auteur. ‘Boy from Michigan’ seamlessly marries both.

                                                                              With Le Bon at the helm, Grant pared back his zingers, maximizing the emotional impact of the melodies. A clarinet forms the bedrock of a song. One pre-chorus feels lifted from vintage Human League. There is a saxophone solo. ‘Boy from Michigan’ ultimately swings between ambient and progressive, calm and livid. The album’s narrative journey opens with Grant at his artistic prettiest, three songs drawn from his pre-Denver life (the Michigan Trilogy, as Grant calls them): the title track, “The Rusty Bull,” and “County Fair.” Each draws the listener in to a specific sense of place, before untangling its significance with a rich cast-list of local characters, often symbolizing the uncultivated faith of childhood.

                                                                              Elsewhere, tracks like “Mike and Julie” and “The Cruise Room” offer an affecting plunge deep into Grant’s late teenage years in Denver, while the midpoint of the album is highlighted by “Best in Me” and “Rhetorical Figure,” a pair of skittish, scholarly dance tunes that build on the lineage of Grant’s electropop heroes, Devo. Childhood as a horror narrative is the theme of “Dandy Star,” which observes a tiny Grant watching the Mia Farrow horror movie ‘See No Evil’ on an old family TV set, and finally on “The Only Baby” (released this January) Grant removes his razor blade from a pocket to cleanly slit the throat of Trump’s America, authoring a scathing epitaph to an era of acute national exposition.

                                                                              Though he has lived in Iceland since 2011 – the same year he was also diagnosed HIV-positive – Grant spent his childhood and formative years in the US and maintains US citizenship. Growing up, Grant was subjected to a deeply ingrained hatred of anyone perceived as homosexual at school. Following the demise of his first band The Czars, Grant left music entirely for over five years, only to achieve greater success as a solo artist (his acclaimed 2015 solo LP ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ went Top Five in the UK). Grant has sold out Royal Albert Hall, performed at Glastonbury, Latitude + more, and his song “Snug Snacks” was featured on Pitchfork's 'Songs That Define LGBTQ Pride'. BBC Radio 6 host Mary Anne Hobbs described Grant’s music: "Most songwriting, even if it's based on a true story ... is embellished in some way. But John's lyrics — they're so true they might as well be written in blood."

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                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                              Barry says: Absolutely classic modern day John Grant this, filled with the wry self-deprecation and endlessly witty lyricism of Queen Of Denmark / Pale Green Ghosts era but swimming with the shimmering disco synths and snapping electronic groove of the more recent LP's. It's a PERFECT mix and is quite possibly his strongest outing to date. Another outstanding LP from this Piccadilly favourite.

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              1. Boy From Michigan
                                                                              2. County Fair
                                                                              3. The Rusty Bull
                                                                              4. The Cruise Room
                                                                              5. Mike And Julie
                                                                              6. Best In Me
                                                                              7. Rhetorical Figure
                                                                              8. Just So You Know
                                                                              9. Dandy Star
                                                                              10. Your Portfolio
                                                                              11. The Only Baby
                                                                              12. Billy

                                                                              John Carroll Kirby

                                                                              Septet

                                                                                John Carroll Kirby returns with ‘Septet’, a live instrumental album.

                                                                                ‘Septet’ sees the widely acclaimed keyboardist and composer lead a band to perform a new suite of works.

                                                                                Second album for Stones Throw following ‘My Garden’, released in April 2020.

                                                                                From the acclaimed musician John Carroll Kirby, a new electronic jazz album à la Herbie Hancock’s ‘Head Hunters’.

                                                                                All tracks written and arranged by Kirby and performed by him and six additional musicians.

                                                                                Three bonus dubs.

                                                                                John Carroll Kirby has collaborated with artists including Solange, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles, Eddie Chacon and Sebastien Tellier.

                                                                                For fans of Herbie Hancock, Floating Points, Four Tet, Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings.

                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                Rainmaker
                                                                                P64 By My Side
                                                                                Sensing Not Seeing
                                                                                Swallow Tail
                                                                                Weep
                                                                                Jubilee Horns
                                                                                The Quest Of Chico
                                                                                Hamilton
                                                                                Nucleo (Boy From The Prebiotic Birth)
                                                                                Sensing Dub
                                                                                Jubilee Dub
                                                                                Nucleo Dub

                                                                                David John Morris

                                                                                Monastic Love Songs

                                                                                  Debut solo album by the Red River Dialect songwriter. Recorded at the Hotel2Tango, Montreal, by Howard Bilerman. Featuring Thor Harris (Swans, Thor & Friends, Shearwater) on drums and Thierry Amar (GYBE!, ASMZ) on bass, with guest appearances from Tom Relleen (RIP) (Tomaga, Melos Kalpa), Catrin Vincent (Another Sky) and Coral Rose (The Silver Field, Red River Dialect).

                                                                                  David has written five critically acclaimed collections of songs under the Red River Dialect name. The last two albums (released by Paradise of Bachelors) achieved a glowing Pitchfork review and a Folk Album of the Month award from the Guardian. Selected press below.

                                                                                  “Folk Album of the Month. Alert, anti-colonialist folk. Songwriter David Morris brings alternate seduction and disquiet on this worldly album steeped in the British landscape... a wide-eyed, curious creature, willingly alert to the world.” – 4/5 The Guardian.

                                                                                  “Animated with a new intensity, the Cornwall band’s fifth album may be its most ingenious and immersive mix of folk and rock yet. It’s also Morris’ most compelling set of songs. He invests small sensations with outsize power, finding joy in sensory pleasures as well as in the mystical inquests that music allows. Even as the record is steeped in the long history of British folk music, that balance of the tactile and the spiritual anchors these songs in the present moment.” – Pitchfork.

                                                                                  “The most underrated folk-rock band in Britain. The idea of them as a Cornish-born, Buddhist-inclined Waterboys is more potent than ever. Their fifth album of elementally-battered, rueful and rousing folk-rock ... is as stirringly anthemic as they've managed thus far.” – MOJO.

                                                                                  “A beguilingly atmospheric record… imagine Steve Gunn transplanted to Kernow.” – Clash.

                                                                                  “Gorgeous and moving, anchored by the heft of the physical but reaching for more. The epic spareness, the way it manages to be both still and an enveloping swirl, reminds me most of Talk Talk. There’s a prayerful intensity to the quiet bits, a listening, wondering awe, that makes the rock payoffs more powerful. The album works as a restless, searching, gorgeous whole. Morris and his band have never been better.” – Dusted
                                                                                  “It’s not often that a band comes along and over the course of nine songs both plays to the tradition and stands it on its ear. RRD has taken the challenge of playing with reckless abandon to heart, generating an album that stands on the shoulder of giants showing no fear.” Folk Radio

                                                                                  Monastic Love Songs continues the tradition that David has established over the course of five albums with Red River Dialect: using a song cycle to articulate a relationship with inner and outer landscapes, inspired by the Taoist approach of observing the movement of the heavens in order to understand the cosmos within, and vice versa. The joyful closing track Inner Smile was initially written as a poem of thanks to his Tai Chi teacher Hollis and takes its name from a Taoist practice.

                                                                                  The songs were written during the final weeks of a nine-month retreat at Gampo Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia where David took ordination as Buddhist monk. The album title is sincere, with a little tongue-in-cheek. The songs mostly explore human relationships within the community, with outliers: Gone Beyond shimmers with cosmic devotion, in Rhododendron a reverie grows from the shadow of a flower. Steadfast concerns the love to be found beyond the urge to like and be liked, when you can’t avoid that difficult person. Leonard Cohen, on his six years living in a monastery:
                                                                                  “You know, there’s a Zen saying: ‘Like pebbles in a bag, the monks polish one another.’

                                                                                  David considers this album to be a follow up to 2015’s Tender Gold and Gentle Blue. The cover of that lp featured an image of him on top of Skellig Michael, in the years before the island was made famous as the home of the Jedi. He considers the visit to that abandoned Celtic monastic site to be one of the influences that stirred up his motivation. Skeleton Key speaks of what was given up to go, and what he was giving up to leave, referencing the Tibetan concept of the ‘bardo of becoming’.

                                                                                  The album came about through a series of fortunate encounters. David’s friend Tom Relleen visited him at the Abbey in May 2019, mentioning a postponed plan to visit the Hotel2Tango. A spark was sown: this studio had long figured in David’s imagination. Many of the releases on Constellation Records, which he had become a die-hard fan of in his teens, were recorded there. Tom contributed some Buchla synthesizer to the opener New Safe, which concerns healing in emptiness and light.

                                                                                  In May David was given permission by the senior monastics to acquire a guitar, which was swiftly baptised as “Malibu Barbie”. Having let the identity of being a songwriter loosen up, not playing an instrument in six months, he was unsure what would happen. In the single hour he was permitted to practice each day, songs began to cascade. The first, Purple Gold, concerns a reacquaintance with first love. David wrote to the Hotel2Tango asking if they had any days available in mid-July?

                                                                                  Engineer and studio co-owner Howard Bilerman replied that they did, and a date was set. Did Howard know any local drummers or bass players who might do a session? He did, too many to choose from, what kind of style? David decided to ask for his ideal: did Thierry from Godspeed ever do sessions? Howard sent him the demos. Thierry was up for it. On the day he went deep into the cover of traditional song Rosemary Lane, his double bass singing on this and on Circus Wagon.

                                                                                  David asked if there were any local drummers he would recommend? Thierry said “many, what style?” David tried his luck again, “two of my favourite drummers are Thor Harris and Jim White.” Thierry said let’s invite them. Thor, having met David a decade earlier, flew from Austin to Montreal for that July day in the studio. Nine months of watching thoughts come and go in meditation helped David recognise this as an opportunity to practice enjoying the day without expectations.

                                                                                  He is, however, grateful that this album came out the way it did, channelling some of what it was like to live those nine months in a monastery overlooking the Gulf of St Lawrence, frozen and flowing.

                                                                                  Mixed by Jimmy Robertson at SNAFU, London, mastered by DenisBlackham.


                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                  1 New Safe
                                                                                  2 Purple Gold
                                                                                  3 Rhododendron
                                                                                  4 Circus Wagon
                                                                                  5 Earth And Air
                                                                                  6 Rosemary Lane (trad.)
                                                                                  7 Skeleton Key
                                                                                  8 Steadfast
                                                                                  9 Gone Beyond
                                                                                  10 Inner Smile

                                                                                  John Lennon

                                                                                  Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Mixes)

                                                                                    Plastic Ono Band was the debut solo album by John Lennon. Released on December 11th 1970, John and Yoko had started writing and demoing at Abbey Road (EMI Studios) in the summer, with recording sessions during September/October

                                                                                    After the break-up of The Beatles that year, John and Yoko embarked on a period of self-reflection and experimentation, with the results that the songs and sessions for Plastic Ono Band were heavily influenced by his immersion in Arthur Janov’s primal therapy. John was able to find emotional depth and honesty within himself that few artists had ever done before, with John saying to Rolling Stone “now I write all about me and that’s why I like it. It’s me.” . The result is perhaps the most honest and emotionally raw album that anyone has ever released, let alone someone who was one of the four most famous musicians on the planet. With a small core band comprised of just Ringo Starr on drums and old friend Klaus Voorman on bass, co-produced by Phil Spector, the album peaked at 8 in the UK charts and 6 in the USA. It has come to be regarded by many as John’s finest solo work and has continued to grow in stature and reverence and has often featured in various Best Of lists through the years since. 

                                                                                    Released on the same day was Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band album, the couple regarding the release as a pair of albums rather than two entirely separate projects, albeit of course it not achieving the same sort of coverage or chart success as John’s.

                                                                                    Coming as this does hot on the heels of last year’s much loved and well-reviewed “Gimme Some Truth” set and “Imagine” before that, the audio has been completely remixed from the original studio tapes as part of the ongoing John Lennon Ultimate Mix series. The aim for this mix process is to achieve three things: to remain faithful and respectful to the original recordings; to ensure that the sound is sonically clearer overall and to increase the clarity of John’s vocals. As Yoko says, “it’s about John” and this new mix shows that it is his voice that brings the biggest emotional impact of the album.


                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                    2LP
                                                                                    Side A: The Ultimate Mixes Album And Singles
                                                                                    Mother
                                                                                    Hold On
                                                                                    I Found Out
                                                                                    Working Class Hero
                                                                                    Isolation

                                                                                    Side B: The Ultimate Mixes Album And Singles
                                                                                    Remember
                                                                                    Love
                                                                                    Well Well Well
                                                                                    Look At Me
                                                                                    God
                                                                                    My Mummy’s Dead

                                                                                    Side C: The Ultimate Mixes/Out-takes Album And Singles
                                                                                    Mother / Take 61
                                                                                    Hold On / Take 2
                                                                                    I Found Out / Take 1
                                                                                    Working Class Hero / Take 1
                                                                                    Isolation / Take 23

                                                                                    Side D: The Ultimate Mixes/Out-takes Album And Singles
                                                                                    Remember / Rehearsal 1
                                                                                    Love / Take 8
                                                                                    Well Well Well / Take 2
                                                                                    Look At Me / Take 2
                                                                                    God / Take 27
                                                                                    My Mummy’s Dead / Take 2

                                                                                    John Dwyer, Ted Byrnesm Greg Coatesm Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins

                                                                                    Endless Garbage

                                                                                      “Walk the dog. Exercise. Make art.’The mind is happy when the body is.’ Things I can potentially fill my days with if I am stuck at home for months on end…Then, one day, I hear a frenetic, free drummer playing in his garage a few blocks from me. And I think ‘interesting’. I stand outside his garage staring at the wall, like a fool, for a minute, then decide to leave a note on the car parked there. This is how I ended up meeting and working with Ted Byrnes. He wasn’t creeped out, and he ended up sending me a pile of truly spontaneous drums recordings from the carport to work with. I decided to have every musician come in one at at time and just take a wild pass at their track over the drums. None of these people had ever met or played together. I was the connecting thread. I scratched the surface initially with electric bass, saxophone, guitars, cuica, synthesizers, flute and effects, but soon realized I would need heavy hitters to make this place habitable. “Greg Coates, upright bass expressionist extraordinaire, hacked through the dense weeds, vines and frayed cabling. He lays the map out and makes breathing room. Space to swing a cat. Tom Dolas (keys), my often foil, came in and began tip-toeing through the rubble and refuse. Dotting the layout with flecks of light, flights of fancy and potential tangential trajectories. Then the finisher, Brad Caulkins on horns. As always, Brad came in like grace itself, scanned the floor for food, and huffed and puffed and blew the house down. He takes a bruiser situation and lends it some warmth and hospitality, old school. “After I spent a bit of time mixing and editing this down to a palatable offering I couldn’t help but think about human consumption. ...Endless Garbage seemed a fitting title. A cacophonous and glorious sketch of ourselves. For fans of Albert Ayler, ECM records, Gong, improvisation, sustainability and consumption” - John Dwyer.

                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      1. Vertical Infinity
                                                                                      2. No Flutter
                                                                                      3. Goose
                                                                                      4. Four
                                                                                      5. Lucky You
                                                                                      6. Pro-Death
                                                                                      7. A Grotesque Display
                                                                                      8. No Goodbyes

                                                                                      Father John Misty

                                                                                      Fear Fun - Reissue

                                                                                        Father John Misty is the nom-de-plume of Josh Tillman, who has been recording and releasing solo albums under his own name since 2003 and who recently left Seattle’s Fleet Foxes after playing drums with them from 2008-2011.

                                                                                        When discussing Father John Misty, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: “‘It’s all of me and none of me, if you can’t see that, you won’t get it.’”

                                                                                        ‘Fear Fun’, Father John Misty’s album from 2012 and now available again through Sub Pop, began gestating during what Tillman describes as an “immobilizing period of depression” in his former Seattle home, when he had lost interest in songwriting and wound up finding his voice by writing a novel. After breaking from Seattle and settling in a spider-infested Laurel Canyon treehouse, Tillman spent months demoing songs, eventually liberating himself from his creative impasse. With the help of LA producer/songwriter/pal Jonathan Wilson, a wealth of talented musicians kicking around LA and producer Phil Ek (who everyone knows has worked with Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes), ‘Fear Fun’ blossomed into a fully-formed expression of Tillman’s unrestrained vision.

                                                                                        ‘Fear Fun’ consists of such disparate elements as Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson, Arthur Russell, All Things Must Pass and Physical Graffiti, often within the same song. Tillman’s voice has never been better and often sounds like Roy Orbison at his most joyous, while the music maintains a dark, mysterious yet playful, almost Dionysian quality.

                                                                                        Lyrically, his absurdist fever dreams of pain and pleasure elicit, in equal measures, the blunt descriptive power of Bukowski or Brautigan, the hedonist-philosophy of Oscar Wilde and the dried-out wit of Loudon Wainwright III.

                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                        Funtimes In Babylon
                                                                                        Nancy From Now On
                                                                                        Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
                                                                                        I’m Writing A Novel
                                                                                        O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me
                                                                                        Misty’s Nightmares 1 & 2
                                                                                        Only Son Of The Ladiesman
                                                                                        This Is Sally Hatchet
                                                                                        Well, You Can Do It Without Me
                                                                                        Now I’m Learning To Love The War
                                                                                        Tee Pees 1-12
                                                                                        Everyman Needs A Companion

                                                                                        John Carroll Kirby

                                                                                        Conflict

                                                                                          ‘Conflict’ is an album on inviting peace in from pianist, producer and composer John Carroll Kirby.

                                                                                          Intended as a balm for this time of crisis, ‘Conflict’ aims to provide a welcome opportunity to step away from the breakneck pace and profound anxiety of the news cycle and take a moment instead to listen and reflect.

                                                                                          John Carroll Kirby follows up his Stones Throw debut ‘My Garden’ with this soothing collection of ambient pieces for piano.

                                                                                          For fans of Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, Brambles, Jóhann Jóhannsson, William Basinski, Peter Broderick, Rafael Anton Irisarri.

                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                          A Pilgrims Trail
                                                                                          Anthony Joshua In My House (Anthony Joshua At Home)
                                                                                          Walking Through A House Where A Family Has Lived
                                                                                          Iconic Portraits Mutilated During The Spanish Civil War
                                                                                          Who Will Replace Brandon Lee
                                                                                          Canyon (Waiting Alive In A Canyon)
                                                                                          Inside A Ruin
                                                                                          Wabi

                                                                                          Teena Marie

                                                                                          John Morales Presents Teena Marie - Love Songs & Funky Beats - Remixed With Loving Devotion

                                                                                            Producer extraordinaire John Morales returns to BBE Music, celebrating the life and work of R&B / soul legend Teena Marie with a double album full of brand new remixes, lovingly crafted from the original studio tapes, entitled ‘Love Songs & Funky Beats’. “Teena is somewhat underrated, and people don't really know much about her.” Says Morales. “I set out to immerse people in her music and represent what she really did. That meant for me a dive into more than her R&B hits, to dig into her ballads and dance cuts. People know she was talented. I don't really think they really knew the depth of her abilities, her complete confidence to take it upon herself to do everything – singing, producing, arranging, songwriting. Teena Marie was the total package.” John Morales had the pleasure of mixing many of Teena Marie’s original records over the years, so it felt natural to dig into the archives and select his favourite cuts to rework, extend and subtly update in his own distinctive style. While by no means a definitive collection of Lady Tee’s expansive musical catalogue, ‘Love Songs & Funky Beats’ represents a fitting tribute to a multifaceted and important voice in popular music, by one of the most storied mix engineers and remixers of our age. Jumping into the music industry deep end in 1979 with a three-year mentorship from Berry Gordy & Rick James at Motown, Teena Marie then spent seven fertile years with Epic, which yielded her greatest commercial successes (including the classic album 'Starchild'). After founding an independent label ‘Sarai’, Marie took a ten-year hiatus which ended in 2004 in a deal with hip hop label Cash Money Records; a less unlikely partnership than some might assume, given that Teena was one of the first ‘mainstream’ artists to perform a rap verse, on 1981’s ‘Square Biz’. Teena Marie Brockert forged a unique path through the industry, an artist in-charge of her own destiny, influencing (and heavily sampled by) both the hip hop and R&B sounds of the 90’s and early 2000’s. Her 1982 lawsuit against Motown records resulted in "The Brockert Initiative", which has benefitted literally thousands of other artists by making it illegal for record companies to ‘shelve’ artists by keeping them under contract without releasing their material. She continued to tour regularly and deliver commercially successful, expertly sculpted music, right up until her untimely passing in 2010.

                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                            1 – I Need Your Lovin’ (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            2 – It Must Be Magic (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            3 – Aladdin’s Lamp (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            4 – First Class Love (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            5 – Now That I Have You (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            6 – I’m A Sucker For Your Love (Live In Long Beach, Ca 1981: Alternate Mix / John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            7 – Behind The Groove (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            8 – Love Just Wouldn’t Be Right (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            9 – Portuguese Love (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            10 – Chains (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            11 – 365 (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            12 – Wasn’t I Good To You (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            13 – Square Biz (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            14 – More Love (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            15 – You Got Away (John Morales M+M Mix)
                                                                                            16 – You’re All The Boogie I Need (John Morales M+ M Mix)
                                                                                            17 – Lonely Desire (John Morales M+ M Mix)
                                                                                            18 – Fire And Desire (John Morales M+M Mix)

                                                                                            John Smith

                                                                                            The Fray

                                                                                              Against the backdrop of a universally difficult 2020, songwriter and guitarist John Smith found himself facing personal and unrelenting change. “With newfound pain coming from so many directions, dealing with the uncertainty it brings, I closed the curtains and picked up the pen, turning to songwriting as a lifeline.” On his new album The Fray, Smith gives us an uplifting perspective on the path forward, but pays beautiful homage to the difficulties along the way.

                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                              1. Friends
                                                                                              2. Hold On
                                                                                              3. Sanctuary
                                                                                              4. Deserving
                                                                                              5. The Best Of Me
                                                                                              6. Star-Crossed Lovers
                                                                                              7. To The Shore
                                                                                              8. Eye To Eye
                                                                                              9. Just As You Are
                                                                                              10. The Fray
                                                                                              11. She's Doing Fine
                                                                                              12. One Day At A Time

                                                                                              The Jasmine Minks

                                                                                              John Peel 17.02.86

                                                                                                “The Jasmine Minks were the first real Creation band – their single ‘Think!’ was the fourth single we put out. An amazing unknown gem of a band. Working-class heroes – to me, anyway.” Alan McGee

                                                                                                Formed in Aberdeen in 1983, the Jasmine Minks were one of the original artists on Alan McGee’s fledgling Creation label and regulars at the storied Living Room. They recorded several classic singles for the label – among them ‘Think!’, ‘What’s Happening?!’ and ‘Cold Heart’ – plus a number of LPs. These recordings are their only two sessions for the BBC.

                                                                                                This session for the legendary John Peel show, features the band’s original line-up with powerhouse songwriting duo Jim Shepherd and Adam Sanderson; among tracks included are ‘The Ballad of Johnny Eye’ and ‘Cry For A Man’, both favourites with their fans. 

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                The Ballad Of Johnny Eye
                                                                                                Cry For A Man
                                                                                                You Take My Freedom
                                                                                                I Don't Know

                                                                                                Much has changed in the musical life of renowned composer and director John Carpenter since 2016’s Lost Themes II. Following the release of that album, he went on his first-ever concert tour, performing material from the Lost Themes albums, as well as music from his classic film scores. He re-recorded many of those classic movie themes for 2017’s Anthology album, working alongside son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies. The following year, he was asked to executive produce and compose the music for the new Halloween movie directed by David Gordon Green, which promptly became the highest-grossing installment in the series. Now, he returns with his first album of non-soundtrack music in nearly five years, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death.

                                                                                                Underpinning Carpenter’s renaissance as a musician has been his collaboration with Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. They’ve composed and performed as a trio throughout this entire run, on studio albums, on soundtracks, and onstage. Here, the trio reaches a new level of creative mind meld. Richly rendered worlds are built in the interplay between Davies’s guitar and the dueling synthesizers played by the Carpenters.

                                                                                                “We begin with a theme, a bass line, a pad, something that sounds good and will lead us to the next layer,” John says of the trio’s process. “We then just keep adding on from there. We understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses, how to communicate without words, and the process is easier now than it was in the beginning. We’ve matured.”

                                                                                                Whereas the original Lost Themes album came as a pleasant surprise after years of relative silence from Carpenter, the third installment sees him in the midst of a resurgent moment as a cultural force. The 2018 Halloween score gave his music its biggest audience in decades, and the world he releases his new album into is one that has, at long last, given him the credit he deserves as a founding father of modern electronic music.


                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                Barry says: There are very few forces more influential in the world of soundtrackery than John Carpenter, and it's no mean feat that his music outside of soundtracks is every bit as impressive. Featuring once again his son Cody and Daniel. Davies, Lost Themes III is every bit the pulsing, synthy wonder and helps further cement Carpenter's place in the annals of musical history.

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                Alive After Death (4:05)
                                                                                                Weeping Ghost (3:33)
                                                                                                Dripping Blood (3:54)
                                                                                                Dead Eyes (3:26)
                                                                                                Vampire’s Touch (4:30)
                                                                                                Cemetery (4:11)
                                                                                                Skeleton (3:13)
                                                                                                Turning The Bones (3:33)
                                                                                                The Dead Walk (4:25)
                                                                                                Carpathian Darkness (5:36)

                                                                                                Bob Dylan

                                                                                                John Wesley Harding - 2021 Coloured Vinyl Edition

                                                                                                  John Wesley Harding (2010 mono version) is the eighth studio album by American singersongwriter Bob Dylan, released on December 27, 1967, by Columbia Records. Produced by Bob Johnston, the x12 song album marked Dylan's return to semi-acoustic instrumentation and folk-influenced songwriting after three albums of lyrically abstract, blues-indebted rock music. 

                                                                                                  Round

                                                                                                  Days - Inc. John Talabot / Ex-Terrestrial / Fit Siegel Remixes

                                                                                                    'Days' is like no other track Round has produced to date. For a start, it's the first song he has ever written without using samples. It's also the first time he's worked with a vocalist. Truth is that everything surrounding the track's conception is somehow exceptional. The melody came to Torsten as a sudden spark, which he discretely hummed into his phone while walking in Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen. "I always feel an urge to make music when I feel emotional, and like many other people I remember the emotional periods in my life", he recalls when questioned about what inspired him of that particular time and space. He then asked danish singer Astrid Engeberg to record vocals and after some work with the laptop the song was born. So simple, so special. The three remixes manage to be faithful to the original's haunting oddness while offering radically different takes on it. First off John Talabot pushes it into slow and sludgey mollusc break territories with a shamanic translation, then Ex-Terrestrial offers a sedated IDM interpretation for fans of BOC etc, finally the Fit Siegel gets his music box on with a deranged bit of technofunk.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    A1. Days
                                                                                                    A2. Days (John Talabot Skoooldub Remix)
                                                                                                    B1. Days (Ex-Terrestrial Remix)
                                                                                                    B2. Days (Fit Siegel's Bow Legged Mix)

                                                                                                    John Prine

                                                                                                    John Prine

                                                                                                      John Prine’s self-titled debut album continues to sound as fresh as it did back in 1971, with Rolling Stone ranking it amongst its 500 greatest albums of all time. It includes some of Prine’s finest works such as “Sam Stone,” “Paradise,” and the famous “Angel From Montgomery.” After initially being spotted by famed singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, John Prine’s debut album earned him a number of admirers, including the likes of Bob Dylan. Tracks such as “Paradise” resonated with many, quickly becoming a bluegrass standard. Originally written by John for his father, the track has since been covered by a number of artists such as Johnny Cash and The Everly Brothers.


                                                                                                      John Prine

                                                                                                      Common Sense

                                                                                                        Common Sense was John Prine’s fourth studio album, and final album released with Atlantic Records before moving to Asylum. Produced by Booker T. & the M.G.’s guitarist and songwriter Steve Cropper, the album features a number of headline collaborators such as Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Glenn Fray; as well as Steve Goodman continuing to feature with Prine. Tracks such as “Forbidden Jimmy” and “Saddle In The Rain” show a slight change in Prine’s sound with Cropper’s production. The album also features a cover of Chuck Berry’s “You Can Never Tell.”

                                                                                                        John Prine, who passed away in April, was one of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of his generation and recipient of the 2020 Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award. Considered a true folk-singer, Prine was known for his raspy voice and equally admired for his unique songwriting ability. His career spanned over five decades, during which he created witty and sincere country-folk music that drew from his Midwestern American roots and incorporated sounds from rockabilly, R&B and rock 'n' roll.

                                                                                                        In addition to earning the Lifetime Achievement Award this year, Prine also won Grammy® Awards for The Missing Years (1991) and Fair and Square (2005). His songs have been recorded by a long list of well-respected artists, including Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, George Strait, Norah Jones, John Denver, Miranda Lambert, The Everly Brothers, Bette Midler, Paul Westerberg, Tammy Wynette and Dwight Yoakam.


                                                                                                        John MOuse

                                                                                                        The Goat

                                                                                                          When lockdown commenced John MOuse seized the opportunity to create a new album. The concept behind The Goat, was to write, record and release a song on a weekly basis. Each song was then uploaded to bandcamp. The album was remixed and mastered for both vinyl and digital and the initial recordings were then ordered in a cohesive and exciting running order. Social distancing meant that the music for the album was created Lincolnshire by long term collaborator Phil Pearce and then sent to John in Cardiff who worked on the lyrics and vocal melody for each track. The result is a typically idiosyncratic, electronic pop album, heavy on spoken word content and catchy chorus hooks, these songs possess musical hints of everyone from Adian Moffat, Momus to early Pulp.

                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                          Side A
                                                                                                          Le Pigeon
                                                                                                          A Well-Planned Part
                                                                                                          Kerplunk Sticks
                                                                                                          Felix And Sebastien
                                                                                                          The People Vrs Charles Mitchlemore
                                                                                                          Buy To Let Industry Expert

                                                                                                          Side B
                                                                                                          Professor Max Beta
                                                                                                          Use Neutral Tones To Accent Eyes
                                                                                                          The Raven Argonette
                                                                                                          O’Sullivan, Reardon, Doherty, Bond

                                                                                                          John Frusciante

                                                                                                          Maya

                                                                                                            John Frusciante releases the first instrumental electronic album under his own name on Aaron Funk's Timesig label. The record is dedicated to his cat Maya who recently passed away, a fellow traveller in his otherwise solitary music making sessions. 'Maya' is inspired by John's favourite music: '91 to'96 UK breakbeat hardcore and jungle. It’s a varied and personal take with sophisticated, authentic production balanced against John’s acute sense of melody, an inspired blending of machines and samples infused with a joyful energy. "I don't have that interest in singing or writing lyrics like I used to. The natural thing when I'm by myself now, is to just make music like the stuff being released this year. I really love the back and forth with machines and the computer." The fun he’s having on 'Maya' is infectious

                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                            A: Brand E Usbrup Pensul
                                                                                                            B: Flying Pleasure Explanation Blind Aim
                                                                                                            C: Reach Out Amethblowl
                                                                                                            D: Zillion Anja Motherless

                                                                                                            John Coltrane

                                                                                                            Giant Steps - 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

                                                                                                              John Coltrane is one of the most renowned jazz artists and influential saxophonists in music history

                                                                                                              Within the span of less than three weeks, John Coltrane completed his work with Miles Davis on what would become the bestselling jazz title in history (Kind of Blue) and embarked on his first record with Atlantic that would become the landmark recording Giant Steps.

                                                                                                              Saying farewell to bebop, "Giant Steps" was Coltrane's second album to be recorded for the Atlantic label, and marked the first time that all of the pieces on a recording had been composed by him. The recording exemplifies Coltrane's melodic phrasing that came to be known as 'sheets of sound', and features the use of a new harmonic concept later to be known as 'Coltrane changes'. The set features early versionss of "Naima", "Cousin Mary", "Mr PC", "Spiral", and "Syeeda's Song Flute".

                                                                                                              A remastered, deluxe 180g 2-LP and 2-CD, each with the original album plus a bonus disc of alternate takes and versions – including rehearsal and incomplete tracks, as well as false starts – only previously included in The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane boxed set.


                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                              Barry says: There are few artists more important to the history of jazz than John Coltrane, and ‘Giant Steps’ is one of the reasons why. From bebop to the development of free-jazz, you can hear the influence that Coltrane took in, and in turn his influence on the world of music. Now, we get a deluxe double album reissue with an extra disc of unheard outtakes. It’s a no-brainer for any jazz fan.

                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                              2LP / 2 CD

                                                                                                              DISC ONE – STANDARD ALBUM (Side A)
                                                                                                              1. Giant Steps
                                                                                                              2. Cousin Mary
                                                                                                              3. Countdown
                                                                                                              4. Spiral

                                                                                                              DISC ONE – STANDARD ALBUM (Side B)
                                                                                                              5. Syeeda’s Song Flute
                                                                                                              6. Naima
                                                                                                              7. Mr. P.C.

                                                                                                              DISC TWO – THE OUTTAKES (Side A)
                                                                                                              1. Giant Steps (Alternate, Take 1, Incomplete)
                                                                                                              2. Naima (Alternate Take)
                                                                                                              3. Like Sonny (Alternate Take)
                                                                                                              4. Countdown (Alternate Take)

                                                                                                              DISC TWO – THE OUTTAKES (Side B)
                                                                                                              5. Syeeda's Song Flute (Alternate Take)
                                                                                                              6. Cousin Mary (Alternate Take)
                                                                                                              7. Giant Steps, Take 5 (Alternate)
                                                                                                              8. Giant Steps, Take 6 (Alternate)

                                                                                                              John Massoni & Sonic Boom

                                                                                                              The Sundowner Sessions

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                                                                                                                Not previously released on vinyl Originally recorded in Seattle, in 2000 and released on CD only later the same year 'The Sundowner Sessions' is a recording featuring John Massoni (electronics) and Sonic Boom (custom human voice synthesizer). "[Sonic} can make something out of almost anything.He'd just pick out a tape of mine (I have a bunch of tapes with sound and drone experiments), and work something into a piece.His focus and ability not to be undermined by the limits surrounding him is really amazing to watch.We worked well into the night - thus 'The Sundowner Sessions' were born." - John Massoni. Never before released on vinyl but now re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studio especially for vinyl release for RSD 2020.

                                                                                                                Freeez & John Rocca

                                                                                                                Southern Freeez / Variations On A Theeem

                                                                                                                  Beggars Arkive is excited to reissue the classic FREEEZ debut album SOUTHERN FREEEZ. The second LP contains seven brand new tracks from the band’s leader John Rocca.

                                                                                                                  Freeez were a legendary group from London, known as one of the UK’s main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s…aka Brit funk. Led by John Rocca, Freeez consisted of various musicians, originally with Rocca and others including Andy Stennet (keyboards), Peter Maas (bass guitar) and Paul Morgan.

                                                                                                                  Their debut album Southern Freeez was released in 1981 and contains the hit song “Southern Freeez” which included guest vocals by Ingrid Mansfield Allman. John Rocca initially released the album it on his own Pink Rythm label before being signed to Beggars Banquet.

                                                                                                                  A few years later, they had even more hits. Their biggest, “IOU”, was a #1 club single and was written and produced by renowned producer Arthur Baker with lyric contributions and lead vocals by John Rocca and remixed by Jellybean Benitez and Baker. It was a hit in the US in addition to the UK and was used in the legendary breakdancing movie Beat Street. “Pop Goes My Love” was another hit. Rocca also had a hit as a solo artist in 1984 with “I Want It To Be Real”.

                                                                                                                  While they may not be a household name, if you know, you know. They have been sampled many times, by artists including Jamie xx, Coolio, Brandy, Madlib and more.

                                                                                                                  Nearly 40 years after the original release of Southern Freeez, after being contacted by Beggars Arkive about a reissue, John was inspired to go back to his roots. He pulled together some of the work that he had been experimenting with over the years and enlisted some musicians (including his nephews) to play on the tracks, saying that doing so “was a nice reflection of the past meeting the present”.

                                                                                                                  “"The melancholic suburban soul of ‘Southern Freeez’ never gets tired for me....an album that has remained at the top of my Brit Funk pile!" - GILLES PETERSON

                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                  LP1/FREEEZ – SOUTHERN FREEEZ
                                                                                                                  A1 Mariposa
                                                                                                                  A2 Caribbean Winter
                                                                                                                  A3 Easy On The Onions
                                                                                                                  A4 Sunset
                                                                                                                  B1 Flying High
                                                                                                                  B2 Southern Freeez
                                                                                                                  B3 Roller Chase
                                                                                                                  B4 First Love
                                                                                                                  B5 Finale

                                                                                                                  LP2/John Rocca
                                                                                                                  A1 Southern Freeez 20+20
                                                                                                                  A2 Feeel The Music
                                                                                                                  A3 Simple Breeez
                                                                                                                  B1 My Name Is Love Part 1 + 2
                                                                                                                  B2 Slow Down (ordinary Dawn)
                                                                                                                  B3 Rain

                                                                                                                  John Mulaney And The Sack Lunch Bunch

                                                                                                                  John Mulaney And The Sack Lunch Bunch

                                                                                                                    Emmy Award-winning comedian John Mulaney aims to recapture the magic of that bygone television era - when children sang songs about their feelings with celebrity guests on funky outdoor sets - with ‘John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch’, a television special that premiered December 24, 2019 on Netflix. Now, Christmas is coming again like never before, with physical editions of the soundtrack. This includes a special peelable sticker on the cover of the LP edition, allowing children of all ages to pick at it. 

                                                                                                                    Who are John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch and what is this album? Well, John Mulaney is a 6ft tall comedian with many credits and two awards and he was born on a humid August night in 1982. The Sack Lunch Bunch is a group of children ages 8-13, born after the turn of the 21st Century, and they are each unique human beings with way more talent than Mr. Mulaney.
                                                                                                                    With the brilliant musical chameleon and Emmy nominated composer Eli Bolin, Mulaney and his co-writer Marika Sawyer put together some songs and then were joined by guests like David Byrne, Tony Awardwinner André De Shields, Annaleigh Ashford, Shereen Pimentel and Jake Gyllenhaal. 

                                                                                                                    There are probable hits like ‘Grandma’s Boyfriend Paul’, inspired by the breezy piano pop of Carole King’s ‘Really Rosie’. ‘Plain Plate of Noodles’ may be a child’s existential food lament but you can still dance to its Three Dog Night-inspired funk. ‘I Saw a White Lady Standing on the Street Just Sobbing (and I Think About It Once a Week)’ is a daydream made of the rich major 7th chords of Laura Nyro layered with the warm flugelhorn that seems to whisper Burt Bacharach. 

                                                                                                                    Calypso, New Orleans jazz and even the Alan Parsons’ Project’s ‘Eye in the Sky’ make up the DNA of other Sack Lunch songs. David Byrne lent his time, his voice and his whole essence for a song that demands the listener ‘Pay Attention’. Bolin, Byrne, Sawyer and Mulaney wrote it in 2019 but it’s also a nod to a bizarre boy back in the 1980s named John who was thunderstruck by Talking Heads’ ‘Warning Sign’ and its command: “Pay Attention, Pay Attention/I’m talking to you and I hope you’re concentrating.”

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    1. It’s John Mulaney And The Sack Lunch Bunch
                                                                                                                    2. Grandma’s Boyfriend Paul
                                                                                                                    3. Algebra Song!
                                                                                                                    4. Googy’s Theme
                                                                                                                    5. Plain Plate Of Noodles
                                                                                                                    6. Do You Wanna Play Restaurant?
                                                                                                                    7. Pay Attention!
                                                                                                                    8. Do Flowers Exist At Night?
                                                                                                                    9. I Saw A White Lady Standing On The Street Just Sobbing (and I Think About It Once A Week)
                                                                                                                    10. Music, Music Everywhere!

                                                                                                                    John Foxx & The Maths

                                                                                                                    Howl

                                                                                                                      John Foxx And The Maths return with a new line-up on their 5th studio album, Howl. Former Ultravox guitarist Robin Simon joins Foxx, Benge (Ben Edwards) and Hannah Peel after previously guesting with The Maths at their debut Roundhouse show in 2010. ‘For years, I'd wanted to work with Robin Simon again,’ says Foxx. ‘There’s something central about what he does - and I always miss it, no matter who I work with. It’s what Rob can do with a song, and with the sheer power of sound.’

                                                                                                                      Work on the album began back in April 2019 at Benge’s Memetune studios in Cornwall with Rob Simon involved right from the start, his contributions instantly mutating the original ideas into something new. ‘Give him a song and he’ll give you three takes - all utterly different incarnations,’ enthuses Foxx who first worked with Simon on Ultravox’s Systems Of Romance album in 1978. ‘And it will all be much better. Demolition intercision is what he does and when you get used to the violence he can wreak, it’s a true delight.’

                                                                                                                      Foxx and Benge originally got together back in 2010, playing a headline show at the Roundhouse in London as the first ever John Foxx And The Maths show before they’d even finished their debut album, Interplay, which came out a few months later in 2011. Forward-looking, intuitive and risk taking from the start (Critic Mark Fisher summed them up as ‘a glimpse into another world in which rock ’n’ roll was invented on Moogs’) their passion for the strange sounds and atmospheres they seduce and rip from the machines in Benge’s studio has inspired a series of fiercely personal electronic records - the Shape Of Things (2012), Evidence (2013) and The Machine (2017), an eerie instrumental score for the theatre production of E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops. Along the way they’ve collaborated with The Soft Moon, Gazelle Twin, ADULT., Xeno & Oaklander, Gary Numan, Matthew Dear and many more, but at the core of everything is Foxx and the Cornish-based artist/producer. ‘Benge is this generation’s Conny Plank’, grins Foxx. ‘Original thinker, open mind, eager conspirator in insanity and the desire to push everything beyond its limits and record it all perfectly - but holding no daft prejudices. In other words, the kind of captain you always want at the helm of the Enterprise.’

                                                                                                                      Hannah Peel joined the line-up on the Interplay tour in 2011 and has played every show since, while also adding violin to Evidence and of course, Howl. ‘Hannah did a few star turns on the album,’ says Foxx, referring to the vicious noises that she conjured up as textures on a few songs. However on the electro-psychedelic ‘Everything Is Happening At The Same Time’, the complex interplay of the ‘The Dance’ and the romantic longing of ‘Strange Beauty’, Foxx describes her string-led contributions as ‘luscious, expansive and eloquent.’

                                                                                                                      The Maths have created an album of dark, writhing glamour. Opener ‘My Ghost’ sounds like haunted static in a cold wind, the title track is a twisted glam-punk celebration of ‘the outsider’ who leaves the fringes to make himself visible, while Foxx switches to a sinister Ferry-esque croon on ‘Tarzan And Jane Regained’.‘New York Times’ is a report back from the city of the 1970s, with Foxx’s vocals gently coaxing out the vulnerability of its street characters and Factory stars, while ‘Last Time I Saw You’ revels in an ice-cool narrative illuminated by neon-lit transformations and flickering revelations - this song is built for streets and strobes. The album ends with ‘Strange Beauty’, where Foxx sounds like an echo from the 1950s - a voice that is still searching across all these years for something just out of reach.


                                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                      Barry says: There's a whole world of influence here being semlessly integrated into one cohesive whole. Elements of post-punk and synthpop mix with the headier aspects of industrial (distorted basses, jagged melodies a-la NIN), and more percussive, beat-led DFA style rhythms. A collection that is, amazingly, more than the sum of its parts.

                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                      1. My Ghost
                                                                                                                      2. Howl
                                                                                                                      3. Everything Is Happening At The Same Time
                                                                                                                      4. Tarzan And Jane Regained
                                                                                                                      5. The Dance
                                                                                                                      6. New York Times
                                                                                                                      7. Last Time I Saw You
                                                                                                                      8. Strange Beauty

                                                                                                                      John Carroll Kirby

                                                                                                                      My Garden

                                                                                                                        My Garden is the Stones Throw debut of pianist, producer and composer John Carroll Kirby. An album written, recorded and produced entirely by Kirby, My Garden is a pure distillation of his sound — soulful, spiritual, and evocative. Demonstrating perfectly why Kirby is the go-to collaborator for artists ranging from experimental auteurs Bat for Lashes and Connan Mockasin to pop megastars Harry Styles and Kali Uchis, and R&B innovators Solange and Frank Ocean, My Garden is also a testament to the clarity and singularity of Kirby's vision.

                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                        1. Blueberry Beads
                                                                                                                        2. By The Sea
                                                                                                                        3. Night Croc
                                                                                                                        4. Arroyo Seco
                                                                                                                        5. Son Of Pucabufeo
                                                                                                                        6. San Nicolas Island
                                                                                                                        7. Humid Mood
                                                                                                                        8. Lay You Down
                                                                                                                        9. Wind

                                                                                                                        Peter Bjorn And John

                                                                                                                        Endless Dream

                                                                                                                          Peter Bjorn & John celebrate their 20-year anniversary in 2020 with the release of ninth full-length studio album.

                                                                                                                          Dr. John

                                                                                                                          Babylon

                                                                                                                            Get On Down is all too eager to reissue this unique record for Record Store Day Black Friday, which has not been repressed on vinyl in over 40 years. In keeping with the album's hallucinogenic sound, it is presented on trippy splatter colored vinyl, and housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket

                                                                                                                            'In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada asked John Coltrane to record the soundtrack for a French-language film titled “Le chat dans le sac” (“The Cat in the Bag”).  Amazingly, no announcement was made that the iconic Coltrane was adding new performances to this film.In June of that year, Coltrane’s ‘Classic Quartet’ entered Rudy Van Gelder’s studio and recorded five previously- recorded Coltrane originals. For many years, viewers of the film who recognized the music thought that they were listening to the original recordings, though in fact they were new and had never been heard. Now, with the release of Blue World, we can hear these newly-discovered recordings for the first time.

                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                            A1. Naima (Take 1)
                                                                                                                            A2. Village Blues (Take 2)
                                                                                                                            A3. Blue World
                                                                                                                            A4. Village Blues (Take 1)
                                                                                                                            B1. Village Blues (Take 3)
                                                                                                                            B2. Like Sonny
                                                                                                                            B3. Traneing In
                                                                                                                            B4. Naima (Take 2)

                                                                                                                            Echo & The Bunnymen

                                                                                                                            The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983

                                                                                                                              Echo & The Bunnymen - ‘The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983’ is a collection of all the Radio 1 John Peel sessions that they performed in the formative years of the band, and in celebration of these early recordings, a double black LP and a 1CD of this set will be released.

                                                                                                                              Significantly, this collection of 21 tracks are from the very beginning of the bands existence. With little money, the band used them to demo new material. Many of the songs were written due to the fact a Peel session had been booked, not because the show loved the new songs - demonstrating the level of trust, confidence and love they had for the band.According to Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant, these recordings could quite simply be some of the most significant in the bands career - “Without John Peel sessions, Echo And The Bunnymen in my opinion, would not exist! It’s that simple. The band got so much support from him and John Walters (Peel’s producer). Recording a Peel session was essential to the development of our songwriting skills while at the same time giving us amazing exposure and self-belief.”


                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                              LP1
                                                                                                                              Side One
                                                                                                                              1. Read It In Books (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              2. Stars Are Stars (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              3. I Bagsy Yours (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              4. Villiers Terrace (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              5. The Pictures On My Wall (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              6. All That Jazz (John Peel Session)

                                                                                                                              Side Two
                                                                                                                              1. Over The Wall (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              2. All My Colours (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              3. That Golden Smile (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              4. Heaven Up Here (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              5. Turquoise Days (John Peel Session)

                                                                                                                              LP2
                                                                                                                              Side One
                                                                                                                              1. Taking Advantage (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              2. An Equation (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              3. No Hands (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              4. Silver (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              5. Seven Seas (John Peel Session)

                                                                                                                              Side Two
                                                                                                                              1. The Killing Moon (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              2. Nocturnal Me (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              3. Watch Out Below (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              4. Ocean Rain (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              5. My Kingdom (John Peel Session)

                                                                                                                              CD Track List:
                                                                                                                              1. Read It In Books (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              2. Stars Are Stars (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              3. I Bagsy Yours (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              4. Villiers Terrace (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              5. The Pictures On My Wall (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              6. All That Jazz (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              7. Over The Wall (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              8. All My Colours (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              9. That Golden Smile (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              10. Heaven Up Here (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              11. Turquoise Days (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              12. Taking Advantage (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              13. An Equation (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              14. No Hands (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              15. Silver (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              16. Seven Seas (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              17. The Killing Moon (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              18. Nocturnal Me (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              19. Watch Out Below (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              20. Ocean Rain (John Peel Session)
                                                                                                                              21. My Kingdom (John Peel Session

                                                                                                                              Mastodon

                                                                                                                              Stairway To Nick John

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                                                                                                                                10" Black Vinyl single

                                                                                                                                Technological force-of-nature Leafcutter John teams up with fellow stalwarts of idiosyncratic electronica Border Community for the release of his masterful seventh artist album: the small-yet- perfectly formed joyously utopian artefact ‘Yes! Come Parade With Us’.

                                                                                                                                Interweaving layers of lyrical modular synth and occasional guest drums (from Tom Skinner and Sebastian Rochford) with a set of field recordings collected during his sixty mile walk along the Norfolk coastal path during the summer of 2017, these seven bright-eyed folk anthems sing with positivity and a sense of place and see Leafcutter John on career-defining form.

                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                Doing The Beeston Bump
                                                                                                                                Yes! Come Parade With
                                                                                                                                Us
                                                                                                                                Pillar
                                                                                                                                Elephant Bones
                                                                                                                                Stepper Motor
                                                                                                                                This Way Out
                                                                                                                                Dunes

                                                                                                                                John Lennon & Yoko Ono

                                                                                                                                Wedding Album

                                                                                                                                  Originally released in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Wedding Album’ was the couple’s third experimental album length record and one of the most remarkable of the duo’s testaments to an intense romantic and artistic partnership that would last fourteen years, until Lennon’s tragic passing in 1980.

                                                                                                                                  On March 20, 1969, John and Yoko were married in a civil service in Gibraltar. To celebrate the event, in lieu of a conventional honeymoon, the newlyweds spent a week in bed at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, inviting members of the press into their room for interviews and photo sessions and using their fame and the publicity generated by their ‘Bed-in’ to call attention to their campaign for world peace.

                                                                                                                                  With ‘Wedding Album’, John and Yoko created an enduring snapshot of a vibrant pop-cultural moment, with the hostilities of the Vietnam War as its bracing backdrop. It captures the humour, earnestness, and spontaneity that marked the early years of the ‘Ballad of John and Yoko’ era.

                                                                                                                                  ‘Wedding Album’’s innovative, original packaging, created by graphic designer John Kosh, included a box filled with souvenirs of John and Yoko’s nuptials: photographs, a copy of the couple’s marriage certificate, both Lennon’s and Ono’s drawings, a picture of a slice of wedding cake and more. Now, with a faithful recreation of ‘Wedding Album’ on special edition white vinyl LP, as well as compact disc, Secretly Canadian are making one of the most unusual and emblematic recordings of the Sixties available again - fifty years after John and Yoko were married - to mark the Golden Wedding anniversary of two of the 20th Century’s most emblematic cultural figures.

                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                  John & Yoko
                                                                                                                                  Amsterdam

                                                                                                                                  John Coltrane

                                                                                                                                  1963: New Directions

                                                                                                                                    'In the brief, bright arc that is the career of John Coltrane, 1963 marks a point of transition between past jazz masterpieces and future work which would transcend the boundaries of the music itself.  That year's recorded output shows movement in many directions: a look back at the past, continued examination of a familiar repertoire, exploration of more traditional formats and a look forward at compositions and approaches that would further extend the reach of jazz. John Coltrane 1963: New Directions collects all of John Coltrane’s 1963 Impulse recordings in the order in which they were recorded

                                                                                                                                    5-LP, 3-CD sets include artwork featuring original collages.

                                                                                                                                    The box is meant to show the growth in Coltrane’s musical journey in 1963 that ultimately resulted in 1964’s “Crescent” and, especially, “A Love Supreme” // Music comes from the original albums “Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album”, “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman”, “Dear Old Stockholm” (released after Coltrane’s death), “Newport ‘63” and “Live at Birdland”.

                                                                                                                                    Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss

                                                                                                                                    Old fat furry cat-puss

                                                                                                                                    Wake up and look at this thing that I bring

                                                                                                                                    Wake up, be bright

                                                                                                                                    Be golden and light

                                                                                                                                    Bagpuss, Oh hear what I sing

                                                                                                                                    12th of February, 1974, and for an audience of small children at 1:45pm, a life irrevocably coloured by the wayward wonderings of one saggy cloth cat. Some 44 years later and Earth Recordings opens the door to Bagpuss & Co. once again, revealing for the first time the original music in all its newly-mastered splendour.

                                                                                                                                    The 32 tracks that make up the main body of the compositions are – like all good folk music – a patchwork of traditional pieces, half-remembered tunes and pure improvisation. It's testament to Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner's musicianship that the recordings work so well, not only within the context of the television episodes, but as an album in its own right. Of the recording, Oliver Postgate (in his exquisite autobiography 'Seeing Things') says: "Between them Sandra and John could play every sort of instrument from a mountain dulcimer to an Irish fiddle. They knew and could sing every tune in the world and didn't bother with written music, except as a last resort. They were exactly suited to Gabriel the Toad and Madeleine the Rag Doll and in those roles were happy to play whatever music and sing whatever songs would be needed."

                                                                                                                                    Those songs manifested themselves as reworkings of familiar tunes ('I Saw A Ship'; 'Row Your Boat'; 'Bucket's Burning'), takes on traditional ballads ('Brian O'Lynn'; 'The Frog Princess'; 'Weaving Song'; 'The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket') and delicious flights of fancy ('The Bony King of Nowhere'; 'Turtle Calypso'; 'Uncle Feedle'). The counterpart to Madeleine and Gabriel's more polished ditties are the interludes from the mice; a raggle-taggle chorus that accompanies the creatures' efforts of help (with the mice once famously going on strike when they were not permitted sang as they worked). Again, Postgate muses: "Once I had worked out a few episodes I would make a very rough list of the bits where I though music would be appropriate. I would send it to [Sandra and John] to think about. Then we would borrow a fairly silent room in a remote house and, taking the various articles that we intended to celebrate with us, would spend a happy day with a tape recorder, thinking up and recording whatever songs and tunes came to mind."

                                                                                                                                    The outtakes provide an intimate – and often very humourous – insight into the trio's work ethic, if it can be called such a thing. (By all accounts they sound as though they're having a very jolly time indeed.) Highlights include alternative opening words and end music, as well as Postgate sound-checking in character as Bagpuss. This never-before heard audio provides a real treat for fans (and indeed those new to the Smallfilms stable) – affirmation again to the enduring quality of these special recordings, and the beloved programme that inspired them.

                                                                                                                                    "An accidental classic of the folk-roots underground that we never dared hope we’d hear with such clarity." -Stewart Lee.

                                                                                                                                    And so their work was done.

                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    1 Opening
                                                                                                                                    2 We Will Wash It
                                                                                                                                    3 I Saw A Ship
                                                                                                                                    4 We Will Rub It
                                                                                                                                    5 The Bony King Of Nowhere
                                                                                                                                    6 Cat And Bird Tone Phone
                                                                                                                                    7 Princess Suite
                                                                                                                                    8 The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe
                                                                                                                                    9 Row The Boat
                                                                                                                                    10 We Will Lace It
                                                                                                                                    11 Ballerina Music Box
                                                                                                                                    12 Porcupine Song
                                                                                                                                    13 Here's A Pin
                                                                                                                                    14 We Will Fix It
                                                                                                                                    15 Turtle Calypso
                                                                                                                                    16 The Elephant's Fable
                                                                                                                                    17 The Miller's Song
                                                                                                                                    18 We Will Find It
                                                                                                                                    19 The Town Band
                                                                                                                                    20 Song Of The Flea
                                                                                                                                    21 We Will Do It (Undo It)
                                                                                                                                    22 The Weaving Song
                                                                                                                                    23 Charliemouse Weaving
                                                                                                                                    24 Bucket's Burning
                                                                                                                                    25 Brian O'Lynn
                                                                                                                                    26 Lullaby For Cabbages
                                                                                                                                    27 We Will Do It (Go Through It)
                                                                                                                                    28 The Old Woman Tossed Up In A Basket
                                                                                                                                    29 Mouse Ragtime
                                                                                                                                    30 We Will Fold It
                                                                                                                                    31Uncle Feedle
                                                                                                                                    32 Closing
                                                                                                                                    33 Opening Words (Outtake)
                                                                                                                                    34 Introducing The Characters (Outtake)
                                                                                                                                    35 Characters Waking Up (Outtake)
                                                                                                                                    36 Bagpuss Soundcheck
                                                                                                                                    37 I Saw A Ship A-Sailing (Alternate Version)
                                                                                                                                    38 Mermaid Song
                                                                                                                                    39 Captain Bagpuss Poem
                                                                                                                                    40 Owls Of Athens Story
                                                                                                                                    41 Birdsong
                                                                                                                                    42 Princess Suite (Outtake)
                                                                                                                                    43 The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe (Outtake)
                                                                                                                                    44 Porcupine Song (Outtake)
                                                                                                                                    45 Bagpipes
                                                                                                                                    46 Brian O'Lynn (Outtake )
                                                                                                                                    47 Agricultural Jig
                                                                                                                                    48 Percy Pratt Poem
                                                                                                                                    49 End Music (Outtake) 

                                                                                                                                    When the new Halloween movie hits theaters in October 2018, it will have the distinction of being the first film in the series with creator John Carpenter’s direct involvement since 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Carpenter serves on the new David Gordon Green-directed installment as an executive producer, a creative consultant, and, thrillingly, as a soundtrack composer, alongside his collaborators from his three recent solo albums, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

                                                                                                                                    The new soundtrack pays homage to the classic Halloween score that Carpenter composed and recorded in 1978, when he forever changed the course of horror cinema and synthesizer music with his low-budget masterpiece. Several new versions of the iconic main theme serve as the pulse of Green’s film, its familiar 5/4 refrain stabbing through the soundtrack like the Shape’s knife. The rest of the soundtrack is just as enthralling, incorporating everything from atmospheric synth whooshes to eerie piano-driven pieces to skittering electronic percussion. While the new score was made with a few more resources than Carpenter’s famously shoestring original, its musical spirit was preserved.

                                                                                                                                    “We wanted to honor the original Halloweensoundtrack in terms of the sounds we used,” Davies explained. “We used a lot of the Dave Smith OB-6, bowed guitar, Roland Juno, Korg, Roli, Moog, Roland System 1, Roland System 8, different guitar pedals, mellotron, and piano.”

                                                                                                                                    Unlike the Lost Themes albums, where the composers wrote the soundtracks for imaginary movies, Halloween saw the Carpenters and Davies collaborating on music set to images for the first time. Though it marked a significant change from their previous creative process, the trio thrived under the constraints and tight deadlines that film scoring work demands.

                                                                                                                                    “Being limited by the length of time in scoring the sequence, we focused on the director’s tempo, timing, and vision,” Davies said. “He would tell us what he had in mind, how long the cue should be, what emotion he wanted, and we would take it from there. It’s only the three of us, there is no elaborate system. We wrote, performed, and orchestrated everything.”

                                                                                                                                    For John Carpenter, who reunited on the new film with original Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis, composing the score felt like a homecoming. Not only had he not worked on a Halloween movie in 35 years, he hadn’t composed a soundtrack since his 2001 sci-fi thriller Ghosts of Mars.

                                                                                                                                    “It was great,” Carpenter said of the experience. “It was transforming. It was not a movie I directed, so I had a lot of freedom in creating the score and getting into the director's head. I was proud to serve David Gordon Green’s vision.”

                                                                                                                                    For Cody Carpenter, John’s son, and Davies, his godson, it was surreal to work on something that means so much to generations of fans, and that they grew up around.

                                                                                                                                    “It was an honor for us to be involved, and we are really happy to be a part of something that so many people are anticipating and excited about,” Davies said. “Working together with both the director of the new Halloween and the creator of the original Halloween was really a fantastic experience.”

                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    1. "Halloween Theme" 2:21
                                                                                                                                    2. "Halloween 1963" 3:11
                                                                                                                                    3. "The Evil Is Gone!" 4:08
                                                                                                                                    4. "Halloween 1978" 2:50
                                                                                                                                    5. "The Boogeyman Is Coming" 0:40
                                                                                                                                    6. "The Shape" 1:43
                                                                                                                                    7. "The Hedge" 1:35
                                                                                                                                    8. "He Came Home" 2:40
                                                                                                                                    9. "Trick Or Treat" 0:39
                                                                                                                                    10. "The Haunted House" 1:43
                                                                                                                                    11. "The Devil's Eyes" 1:39
                                                                                                                                    12. "The Boogeyman Is Outside" 1:27
                                                                                                                                    13. "Damn You For Letting Him Go!" 1:34
                                                                                                                                    14. "Empty Street" 0:33
                                                                                                                                    15. "See Anything You Like?" 2:22
                                                                                                                                    16. "Lock The Door" 2:53
                                                                                                                                    17. "He's Here?" 0:55
                                                                                                                                    18. "Light's Out" 2:49
                                                                                                                                    19. "Cut It Out" 1:19
                                                                                                                                    20. "Tombstone" 1:19
                                                                                                                                    21. "The Shape Stalks Laurie" 1:35
                                                                                                                                    22. "Turn Around" 0:33
                                                                                                                                    23. "Unlock The Door" 2:53
                                                                                                                                    24. "The Hanger" 3:04
                                                                                                                                    25. "Call The Police" 0:28
                                                                                                                                    26. "Last Assault" 1:34
                                                                                                                                    27. "Was That The Boogeyman?" 0:32
                                                                                                                                    28. "End Credits/Halloween Theme (Reprise)" 3:36

                                                                                                                                    The White Stripes

                                                                                                                                    The Complete John Peel Sessions

                                                                                                                                      At both our Nashville and Detroit locations as well as a record store near you, we present the first-ever official release of The White Stripes Peel Sessions on 2 stuffed-to-the-brim discs.

                                                                                                                                      Capturing Jack and Meg at the precipice of international renown in the hubbub of “White Blood Cells," their two live sessions with famed BBC DJ John Peel are arguably the best document of the White Stripes at that time. Having been widely bootlegged since their initial broadcast in 2001, these recordings are enjoying their first authorized release in celebration of their 15 year anniversary.

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      VOL 1:
                                                                                                                                      A1 Let's Shake Hands
                                                                                                                                      A2 When I Hear My Name
                                                                                                                                      A3 Jolene
                                                                                                                                      A4 Death Letter
                                                                                                                                      A5 Cannon
                                                                                                                                      A6 Astro / Jack The Ripper
                                                                                                                                      A7 Hotel Yorba

                                                                                                                                      B1 I'm Finding It Hard To Be A Gentleman
                                                                                                                                      B2 Screwdriver
                                                                                                                                      B3 We're Going To Be Friends
                                                                                                                                      B4 You're Pretty Good Looking
                                                                                                                                      B5 Boll Weevil
                                                                                                                                      B6 Hello Operator
                                                                                                                                      B7 Baby Blue

                                                                                                                                      VOL 2:
                                                                                                                                      C1 Lord Send Me An Angel
                                                                                                                                      C2 Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
                                                                                                                                      C3 I Think I Smell A Rat
                                                                                                                                      C4 Lets Build A Home / Goin’ Back To Memphis
                                                                                                                                      C5 Little Room
                                                                                                                                      C6 The Union Forever
                                                                                                                                      C7 The Same Boy You've Always Known
                                                                                                                                      D1 Look Me Over Closely
                                                                                                                                      D2 Looking At You
                                                                                                                                      D3 St James Infirmary Blues
                                                                                                                                      D4 Apple Blossom
                                                                                                                                      D5 Rated X
                                                                                                                                      D6 Little Girl That Says
                                                                                                                                      D7 Jumble, Jumble
                                                                                                                                      D8 Little People

                                                                                                                                      It's been a hell of a recent past for John Grant, who, aside from getting the unquestionable delight of getting to see our faces every time he comes to Manchester (and us, his), has produced a superb album with Stephen Mallinder of Cab Voltaire and Wrangler fame under their collaborative moniker, 'Creep Show', and a string of live dates in the diary. All of this while recording his oft-teased new LP, 'Love Is Magic'. 

                                                                                                                                      'Metamorphosis' kicks things off, bringing together stabbing saw-waves and Grant's unmistakeable vocal acrobatics, tumbling atop off-piste melodic turns and new-beat percussives, setting a brilliantly warped precident before what may well be Grant's finest work to date in the stunning titular piece, 'Love Is Magic'. Treading familiar minor-key ground, we get a solemn but hopeful progression played out by stabbing synth lines and huge gated snare hits, covering all the sonic space necessary while keeping the mess down to a minimum and allowing John's voice to really shine before launching into the mindblowingly beautiful chorus (the vocal harmonies, attributed to Paul Denton of Midlake have an ethereal and dynamic momentum that is unmistakeable) and staggered but determined forward-thrust. 

                                                                                                                                      I could keep running through the tracks, but some of our readership would doubtless give up or expire before i'd finished blathering on, so i'll keep it to a few key points. 'Smug Cunt' while clearly filled with the wry venom we've come to know and love from Grant is an unimaginably deep cascade of dytopian synth pulses and resonant bass,  launching into a spine-tinglingly effective culmination of gloom and euphoria. 'He's Got His Mothers Hips' brings the camp disco vibes spectacularly, with a truncated snappy analogue bassline swirling around beneath the syncopated vox before exploding into a major key serotonin release in the hand-waving chorus. 

                                                                                                                                      Move on a little and the spoken-word commentary of 'Diet Gum' takes an admittedly hilarious step into the leftfield, perfectly illustrating JG's clever tongue-in-cheek sense of humour 'Did you really think you could seduce me in a leisure suit?... well.... fair enough' and captivating presence before bringing it back to the sublime with the tear-inducing majesty of 'Is He Strange'. Stunning piano and vocal harmonies meet together into the perfect storm of majesty and misery. The closing duo of 'The Common Snipe' and 'Touch And Go' are once again perfectly matched, with the minimalistic backline and flickering sample and hold synth lines peaking lightly behind the former, and the anthemic, rolling stagger of the latter closing off a stunning and career-defining collection. It's a testament to Grant's sphere of influence and ability as a songwriter and producer that so many influences can be absorbed into his sound without sounding forced or disjointed. A brilliantly melodic, heart-warmingly anomalous wonder.  

                                                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                      Barry says: Once again, John Grant pulls out a diverse range of influences (we've seen what records he buys!) into a cohesive and superb combination of off-piste vocal timbres, mind-melting synths and spine-tingling melodies. Punctuated with moments of introspective melancholy but quickly resolved into a warm bath of huge rock progressions and gritty synth swirls. Absolutely brilliant, and undoubtedly the best work of his career.

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      1 Metamorphosis
                                                                                                                                      2 Love Is Magic
                                                                                                                                      3 Tempest
                                                                                                                                      4 Preppy Boy
                                                                                                                                      5 Smug Cunt
                                                                                                                                      6 He's Got His Mother's Hips
                                                                                                                                      7 Diet Gum
                                                                                                                                      8 Is He Strange
                                                                                                                                      9 The Common Snipe
                                                                                                                                      10 Touch And Go

                                                                                                                                      John Smith is an acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist from Devon, England. He has played to audiences all over the world in living rooms, festival tents and sold-out concert halls. He is a genuine folksinger, an inquisitive truth-seeker, devoted song interpreter, and enchanting writer. A contributor and collaborator, John quickly and effortlessly earns the esteem of his comrades and heroes. He has opened for folk greats including John Martyn, Davy Graham and John Renbourn, who called John Smith “the future of folk music.” On the contemporary side, he has also opened for Iron and Wine, Tinariwen, and Ben Howard. He has guested with artists such as Jackson Browne, Jerry Douglas, Glen Hansard and Rodney Crowell. He has played guitar for artists such as David Gray, Lisa Hannigan, Joe Henry and Joan Baez. John described his reason for making Hummingbird "

                                                                                                                                      Ever since my teenage epiphany at the altar of Folk Music, hearing Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn for the first time, I have been a devotee. The six strings of my guitar have granted me access to a sacred space between things, the unconscious interweaving sensations that allow us that gentle buzz on hearing a good folk song. It was with this in mind that I returned to Sam Lakeman’s Somerset studio in March of 2018, two years since recording my previous album ‘Headlong’ in that same place, to commit six of my favourite folk songs to tape, alongside one cover version and three original songs. The tracks quickly took on their own shape in Sam’s able hands. I invited several good friends to join me in this process: Cara Dillon, John McCusker and Ben Nicholls. "

                                                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                      Barry says: Superbly toeing the line between traditional folk and more pop song structures, John Smith presents a brilliantly cohesive and heart-warmingly beautiful collection of perfectly measured odes to love, life and loss. Nice one John.

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      1. Hummingbird
                                                                                                                                      2. Lowlands Of Holland
                                                                                                                                      3. Boudicca
                                                                                                                                      4. Hares On The Mountain
                                                                                                                                      5. Lord Franklin
                                                                                                                                      6. Master Kilby
                                                                                                                                      7. The Time Has Come
                                                                                                                                      8. Willy Moore
                                                                                                                                      9. Axe Mountain
                                                                                                                                      10. Unquiet Grave

                                                                                                                                      The Wolfhounds

                                                                                                                                      Hands In The Till: The Complete John Peel Sessions

                                                                                                                                        Originally formed as teenagers in 1984, The Wolfhounds released four critically acclaimed LPs and numerous singles, appeared on the NME’s influential C86 cassette, extensively toured the UK and continental Europe, finally disbanding in 1990. The band reformed in 2006 at the request of St Etienne’s Bob Stanley to celebrate 20 years since the release of C86, and inflicted a severe guitar noisefest on an unsuspecting indiepop crowd at London’s ICA. Since 2012 they have been recording and releasing new material.

                                                                                                                                        At the peak of media attention over the new bands promoted by the C86 cassette, The Wolfhounds recorded three four-song sessions for the BBC’s legendary late-night John Peel Show between March 1986 and January 1987, capturing all the excitement and youthful exuberance of a band just catching the public imagination. With an energy born of sweaty, rammed gigs in the function rooms of London pubs and a willful experimentation nurtured in suburban bedrooms and garages away from watchful eyes, The Wolfhounds blasted their raw live sound straight to tape with little in the way of overdubs or the more considered studio polish of their excellent albums.

                                                                                                                                        Every song from these sessions is now gathered together on Hands In The Till, making a surprisingly coherent whole despite the heady disorganized thrust of the times and a couple of line-up changes in the meantime. More wiry and angular than most of their C86 peers, The Wolfhounds had more in common with The Fall than The Byrds, and "Hands In The Till" shows them at their caustic best.

                                                                                                                                        The Wolfhounds are now (hyper-)active again, releasing two full-length LPs in recent years and performing at several popfests (including Berlin and New York) and Stewart Lee’s All Tomorrow’s Parties, as well as regular club dates of their own. The band continue to be more relevant than ever, grabbing their home country’s woes by the horns on the recent double LP, "Untied Kingdom or How to Come to Terms with your Culture" (which featured guest musicians from such bands as PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk, Scritti Politti and Evans The Death), Hands In The Till is sure to illuminate such an expansive modern work’s precocious teenage beginnings, as well as providing the band’s contemporary listeners a nostalgic buzz – forever, a real all-ages show!


                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                        1) The Anti-Midas Touch
                                                                                                                                        2) Hand In The Till
                                                                                                                                        3) Me
                                                                                                                                        4) Whale On The Beach
                                                                                                                                        5) Boy Racer RM1
                                                                                                                                        6) Disgusted E7
                                                                                                                                        7) Rule Of Thumb
                                                                                                                                        8) Sandy
                                                                                                                                        9) Happy Shopper
                                                                                                                                        10) Non-specific Song
                                                                                                                                        11) The William Randolph Hearse
                                                                                                                                        12) Son Of Nothing

                                                                                                                                        John Maus

                                                                                                                                        We Must Become The Pitless Censors Of Ourselves (Reissue)

                                                                                                                                          John Maus lives in his birthplace of Austin, Minnesota. Whilst working towards his PhD in Political Science he also composes music that taps into melancholic fantasy and affirms that we are all truly alive. Questing synthesisers, tensely strung bass lines and chasing drum machines providing the perfect backdrop for John's deeply resonant reverb-drenched vocal. Born in the decade of synth pop and sharing his birthday with George Frideric Handel, John started making music when Nirvana posters went up on every teenager’s wall. It’s this curious conflux of influences that partially helps to describe John’s music. It’s a world where the Germs jam with Jerry Goldsmith, Cabaret Voltaire relocate to Eternia and Josquin des Prez writes a new score for RoboCop. The confrontation of punk, the fleeting poignancy of 80’s movie soundtracks, the insistent pulse of Moroder and the spirituality of Medieval and Baroque music all find salvation in John Maus.

                                                                                                                                          After a spell working alongside Ariel Pink (whom Maus met whilst studying at Cal Arts in Los Angeles) and Gary War in Haunted Graffiti, 2006 saw the release of John’s debut album proper through Upset The Rhythm. It was a record permeated with aching memories; a perfect testimony to lost romance and longing. It’s awe-inspired follow-up ‘Love Is Real’ (released on UTR, 2007) proved a more cohesive listen in terms of focus and emotional depth. Like an apocalyptic journey through the nostalgic streets of a common hometown, deep into the recesses of the human heart, ‘Love Is Real’ still stands out as an impressive whole. Both albums made an impact which grew and grew during some quieter academic years for Maus in the Hawaiian heat, before he returned last year to the heavy snows of the Midwest to finish album number three, ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’.

                                                                                                                                          ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’ breaks new ground for Maus. The shirt pulling and air punching of his impassioned live performance is finally captured in all its frenzied appeal alongside a tender inner space. After stretching muscles with opener ‘Streetlight’, arpeggiators bubble up to new levels with ‘Quantum Leap’, a song full of dead zones, glancing slaps and oscillating solos. “Heart to heart, mind to mind, we are the ones who seem to travel through time,” intones Maus resolutely through the mist. John’s lyrics are as likely to touch upon themes of Cronenberg gore just as much as the musings of Jacques Rancière. It’s this no-brow approach that makes things interesting, casting Maus as a savant and allowing his music to startle us in ways whereby we open up to the unimaginable.

                                                                                                                                          John’s preoccupation with truth, love and eternity are perfectly suited to this treatment as seen with “And The Rain’ and the softly cascading ‘Keep Pushing On’ .The songs are devastatingly catchy, saturated with keyboards and overflowing with Maus’ allegorical summons. The hypnotic fugue ‘We Can Break Through’ treads new territories into minimalism for Maus, seeing the phrase “Break through this” repeated almost like a mind control procedure scored by Bach and Suicide.

                                                                                                                                          ‘Pitiless Censors’ as an album displays a more delicate touch than its predecessors. ‘Hey Moon’ is John’s first duet, performed with Molly Nilsson, who originally wrote the song. It’s a serene and elegiac song, which subtly weaves an impression of nocturnal loneliness and romantic dreams. Closing track ‘Believer’ is equally evocative with its bells, choral soaring and echoing sentiment. Of course, a John Maus album wouldn’t be a John Maus album without the same anthemic genius and dark humour that we’ve seen previously with songs like ‘Maniac’ and ‘Rights For Gays’ and this new album finds its succour in ‘Cop Killer’. The eerie waltz-time offspring of Body Count’s controversial 90’s protest track, ‘Cop Killer’ is dystopian, bleak and ridiculous and in short, classic Maus.

                                                                                                                                          Unlike the last two albums, Pitiless Censors looks towards the future in all its absurdity. It’s a record where promise takes the lead for the first time, providing a counterpoint to John’s default existential calling. The cover of Pitiless Censors depicts an airbrushed lighthouse, thrashed by wave after wave, bringing to mind Beckett’s quote "Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea." The everyday realm where our lives seem both familiar and equally strange is where John Maus resides. His surreal touch is disarming, opening our eyes to the reality outside the four walls. Perhaps we’re all like “the human being who finds himself in the locker” in ‘Head For The Country’ in that if we surprise ourselves and open the door we can let the light in despite the storm.


                                                                                                                                          Father John Misty

                                                                                                                                          God’s Favorite Customer - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                                                          Written largely in New York between Summer 2016 and Winter 2017, Josh Tillman’s fourth Father John Misty LP, ‘God’s Favorite Customer’, reflects on the experience of being caught between the vertigo of heartbreak and the manic throes of freedom.

                                                                                                                                          God’s Favorite Customer reveals a bittersweetness and directness in Tillman’s songwriting, without sacrificing any of his wit or taste for the absurd. From “Mr. Tillman,” where he trains his lens on his own misadventure, to the cavernous pain of estrangement in “Please Don’t Die,” Tillman plays with perspective throughout to alternatingly hilarious and devastating effect. “We’re Only People (And There’s Not Much Anyone Can Do About That)” is a meditation on our inner lives and the limitations we experience in our attempts to give and receive love. It stands in solidarity with the title track, which examines the ironic relationship between forgiveness and sin. Together, these are songs that demand to know either real love or what comes after, and as the album progresses, that entreaty leads to discovering the latter’s true stakes.

                                                                                                                                          God's Favorite Customer was produced by Tillman and recorded with Jonathan Rado, Dave Cerminara, and Trevor Spencer. The album features contributions from Haxan Cloak, Natalie Merring of Weyes Blood, longtime collaborator Jonathan Wilson, and members of Misty’s touring band.

                                                                                                                                          STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                          Andy says: Tillman segues into Beck territory a little here, with falsetto harmonies and jagged college-rock melodies, tastefully accentuated with staggered percussion and swooning loungey piano. As ever, FJM smashes out another killer album, conceptually clever and brilliantly accomplished, exactly as you'd expect.

                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          1 Hangout At The Gallows
                                                                                                                                          2 Mr. Tillman
                                                                                                                                          3 Just Dumb Enough To Try
                                                                                                                                          4 Date Night
                                                                                                                                          5 Please Don't Die
                                                                                                                                          6 The Palace
                                                                                                                                          7 Disappointing Diamonds Are The Rarest Of Them All
                                                                                                                                          8 God's Favorite Customer
                                                                                                                                          9 The Songwriter
                                                                                                                                          10 We're Only People (And There's Not Much Anyone Can Do About That)

                                                                                                                                          John Humphreys presents his 15-track suite of throbbing syntheisisers, percussive breakdowns and atmospheric, simmering pads. 

                                                                                                                                          Cinematic epic, 'Wathching Memories' takes the central refrain, abstracts and adds to it to twist it into a slow ballad from a highly charged synth-pop number into ambient territory before breaking down into a driven house number. 

                                                                                                                                          Likewise, 'Armands Clouds' relies on a throbbing central motif, with layered bass-heavy reverbed synth pulses and a kicking bass drum, this time opting for the instrumental appeal rather than the more song-based lyrical approach. 

                                                                                                                                          In all, we have a confident and varied outing, beautifully constructed and warmingly diverse, all brought together with Humphries' deft hand. 




                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          1. Intro
                                                                                                                                          2. Watching Memories
                                                                                                                                          3. Would I Lie To You (Progress Mix) 
                                                                                                                                          4. State Of Taylor
                                                                                                                                          5. Wishing On A Star
                                                                                                                                          6. Armands Clouds
                                                                                                                                          7. John Prayzz
                                                                                                                                          8. Belinda
                                                                                                                                          9. Finally
                                                                                                                                          10. EDD
                                                                                                                                          11. Joker
                                                                                                                                          12. Nothing's Changed
                                                                                                                                          13. SpreadoutandSkattah
                                                                                                                                          14. Whole Again
                                                                                                                                          15. Gwen

                                                                                                                                          Creep Show (John Grant & Wrangler)

                                                                                                                                          Mr. Dynamite

                                                                                                                                          Creep Show brings together John Grant with the dark funk of analogue electronic band Wrangler (Stephen Mallinder/Phil Winter/Benge) to create Mr Dynamite - a debut album packed with experimental pop and surreal funk. Recorded in Cornwall with a lifetime’s collection of drum machines and synthesisers assembled by Benge and explored by every member of Creep Show, there’s a real sense of freedom in the shackles-off grooves, channelling the early pioneering spirit of the Sugarhill Gang through wires and random electric noise. This sense of adventure is also part of the interplay between the two vocalists, John Grant and former Cabaret Voltaire frontman Stephen Mallinder, who switch between oblique wordplay to sinister humour as Phil Winter and Benge continue to man-handle the machines. The creepy ‘alter-ego’ title track, ‘Pink Squirrel’’s vocoder kaleidoscope and Grant’s exhilarating croon on the nine minute ‘Safe And Sound’ are just some of the twists and hooks to be explored on this consistently inventive record.

                                                                                                                                          STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                          Barry says: So, imagine John Grant's unmistakeable vocal serenades over the top of some rhythmic Bureau B synth pulses, swirling synth patterns and sickly-sweet Linn stabs. What could possibly go wrong? Absolutely nothing is what, it's superb, like we'd expect any different from our John.

                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          1 Mr. Dynamite
                                                                                                                                          2 Modern Parenting
                                                                                                                                          3 Tokyo Metro
                                                                                                                                          4 Endangered Species
                                                                                                                                          5 K Mart Johnny
                                                                                                                                          6 Pink Squirrel
                                                                                                                                          7 Lime Ricky
                                                                                                                                          8 Fall
                                                                                                                                          9 Safe And Sound

                                                                                                                                          John Bramwell

                                                                                                                                          Leave Alone The Empty Spaces

                                                                                                                                            I Am Kloot’s songwriter and frontman, John Bramwell, has announced the release of his first studio solo album “Leave Alone The Empty Spaces” The record is a stunning showcase of John’s skillful, widely acclaimed songwriting and his unique voice.

                                                                                                                                            It’s the first completely new collection of songs by John as a solo artist since he started his adventures away from I Am Kloot. “Leave Alone The Empty Spaces” has been inspired by John’s travels around the UK and Europe performing more than 300, intimate solo gigs.

                                                                                                                                            Travelling in his VW Campervan with his dog Henry, the experience allowed John to explore parts of the country hitherto unknown, develop his solo sound and ideas, and meet an awful lot of interesting people...

                                                                                                                                            The album is inspired by the spirit of liberty, independence, adventure and solitude that John has enjoyed on the road, as well as the diverse emotions that escape and travel can bring about - from sadness to exhilaration.

                                                                                                                                            It’s about rediscovering the romance, intimacy and magic of the live music experience, one to one with the audience.

                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                            A Field Full Of Secrets
                                                                                                                                            Who Is Anybody
                                                                                                                                            Times Arrow
                                                                                                                                            From The Shore
                                                                                                                                            Sat Beneath The Lightning Tree
                                                                                                                                            The Whipperwill
                                                                                                                                            Tallulah
                                                                                                                                            Leave Alone The Empty Spaces
                                                                                                                                            Meet At The Station

                                                                                                                                            John Zorn

                                                                                                                                            The Hermetic Organ:Philharmonie De Paris

                                                                                                                                              John Zorn. Rituel * Une Crise de Nerfs * Prière Empoisonné * L’heure des Sorcières John Zorn returns to his original instrument with a new volume of organ improvisations recorded at his infamous Weekend in Paris in April 2017. The organ at the Grand Salle Pierre Boulez is one of the most powerful and versatile in France, and Zorn approaches it with great sensitivity and wild abandon. Includes both the full 40 minute concert recording, and over 30 additional minutes of Zorn alone at the manuals in rehearsal the same day.

                                                                                                                                              It has been six years since We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves appeared like a thunderbolt of maniacal energy and turned everyone’s heads around. After touring in support of the album, releasing a collection of rarities and unreleased tracks, Maus receded from the public spotlight, returning to his academic pursuits. Years later, after completing his doctorate in Political Philosophy, he began building his own modular synthesizers, etching the printed circuit boards, soldering components, and assembling panels, until he had an instrument that matched his vision.

                                                                                                                                              His music is a highly mutable affair. Whilst often described as retro-futurist on behalf of the 80’s drum machines and synth sounds employed, John’s music is more personal than the nostalgic re-tread implied. He’s more interested in seeking cadence, through his love of Renaissance polyphony and the experimentation behind post punk. It’s an amalgamation of musical ideas as radical as its intent.

                                                                                                                                              Screen Memories was written, recorded, and engineered by Maus over the last few years in his home in Minnesota, known genially as the Funny Farm. It’s a solitary place situated in the corn plains of the rural American Midwest. The landscape is as majestic as it is austere and inevitably some of the sub-zero winter temperatures creep into the songs, as do the buzzing wasps of summer.

                                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                              Barry says: As soon as you get a load of synths, some electronic drums and a boatload of reverb in the mix, i'm pretty much game. What makes this even more appealing is that it sounds like it was recorded when I was 5-10. This is ace, retrotastic synth swells, twee percussives and echoes for days. What's not to love?

                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                              1. The Combine
                                                                                                                                              2. Teenage Witch
                                                                                                                                              3. Touchdown
                                                                                                                                              4. Walls Of Silence
                                                                                                                                              5. Find Out
                                                                                                                                              6. Decide Decide
                                                                                                                                              7. Edge Of Forever
                                                                                                                                              8. The People Are Missing
                                                                                                                                              9. Pets
                                                                                                                                              10. Sensitive Recollections
                                                                                                                                              11. Over Phantom
                                                                                                                                              12. Bombs Away

                                                                                                                                              John Wall & Mark Durgan

                                                                                                                                              Contrapt

                                                                                                                                                John Wall and Mark Durgan return after a lengthy absence [ there first release together was in 2011] Theirs is a fractured sound world woven together from improvisations that took place in the Utterpsalm Studio in London between 2012-15. The resultant seven tracks are an attempt at imposing order,structure and "expression" without meaning or intentionality onto a huge amount of heavily edited sonic material

                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                1/Contrapt
                                                                                                                                                2/Ontrapt
                                                                                                                                                3/Ntrapt
                                                                                                                                                4/Trapt
                                                                                                                                                5/Rapt
                                                                                                                                                6/Apt
                                                                                                                                                7/Pt

                                                                                                                                                John Murry

                                                                                                                                                A Short Piece Of Decay

                                                                                                                                                  John Murry was adopted at birth into the family of William Faulkner. Some have speculated that the Faulkner blood might also run in his veins, but that should be left for a Southern Gothic novel yet to be written (or perhaps re-written)..Raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, in the shadow of Elvis, his undiagnosed autism led to troubles at an early age which led to prescribed medication, which led to unprescribed medication which led to being institutionalised for addiction and mental health issues at a too young age. Eventually, discarded onto the streets of Memphis, he found music, which became the one constant positive force in his life. Memphis led to San Francisco and San Francisco led to heroin and heroin led to a near fatal overdose on the corner of 16th and Mission, so harrowingly memorialised in his song Little Coloured Balloons.

                                                                                                                                                  Music again came to his rescue and led him to Tim Mooney (American Music Club) and the group of musicians that helped create his 2012 masterpiece "The Graceless Age". The album was hailed by MOJO magazine and received a 5 out of 5 rating, UNCUT called it a "masterpiece", both magazines included it in their Top 10 albums of the year; American Songwriter put it in their Top 5 of the year and The Guardian included it in their best of the year as well. The accolades rolled in and John toured the world. He entranced and devastated audiences with his raw, unfiltered live performances, and it looked like his trajectory was set, that music had won and would have the final word. And then Tim Mooney, John’s mentor, his beacon, his bedrock, died suddenly and unexpectedly… and John’s world fell back in to chaos.

                                                                                                                                                  Over the next few years, John would lose the footing that he had struggled so hard to establish. He would lose his wife, his daughter, temporarily his freedom and ultimately his country. Somewhere along this volatile journey, John crossed paths with Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies . John had opened for the band at a show in Glasgow and Michael watched side-stage transfixed by John’s performance. Over the next few years the two of them kept in touch, they talked about the music business, politics, books, but most of all they talked about music. And they talked about making an album together.

                                                                                                                                                  Eventually John completed his descent and landed in Kilkenny, Ireland where he found some solid ground as part of a welcoming arts community. Michael then convinced him to travel to his Toronto studio where Michael put a band together consisting of brother Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) on drums and Josh Finlayson (Skydiggers, Gord Downie, Lee Harvey Osmond) on bass. John brought along Cait O’Riordan (The Pogues, Elvis Costello) whom he had met in Ireland and who wanted to be a part of John’s journey. The five of them put aside five days to record all bedtracks and overdubs, with the brief that they would let the songs dictate where the journey took them, spontaneity was the order of the week. Michael Timmins describes the sessions, "I felt that it was important that John got out of his own way and that we set up a situation where he would just play and sing and the rest of us would just react, no second guessing, just react and capture the moment. It was a very inspired and inspiring week of playing and recording. Very intense. And I think we captured the raw essence of John’s writing and playing".

                                                                                                                                                  A Short History Of Decay is an intensely personal document of an artist’s fall from grace. It contains all the tragic elements of that unwritten Southern Gothic novel: the revelations of a man coming to terms with the personal shortcomings, the flaws and the perverse twists of fate that led him to the end of one journey and the beginning of another.

                                                                                                                                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                  Barry says: Murry has always been known for his true life confessionals, and this outing is no different. Hard hitting rocking Americana anthems like 'Defacing Sunday Bulletins' and 'Under A Darker Moon' sit confortably alongside minimal acoustic odes like 'Wrong Man', or driven guitars and melancholic harmonies of 'Come Five & Twenty'. Lovely stuff all-round.

                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                  1. Silver Or Lead
                                                                                                                                                  2. Under A Darker Moon
                                                                                                                                                  3. Wrong Man
                                                                                                                                                  4. Defacing Sunday Bulletins
                                                                                                                                                  5. When God Walks In
                                                                                                                                                  6. Come Five & Twenty
                                                                                                                                                  7. One Day (You’ll Die)
                                                                                                                                                  8. Countess Lola’s Blues (All In This Together)
                                                                                                                                                  9. Miss Magdalene
                                                                                                                                                  10. What Jail Is Like

                                                                                                                                                  An introduction to a new mystical world, Waiting Around fuses the great Brit folk-jazz traditions of Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, with further-flung sounds of Gene Rains, Eden Ahbez, Moondog and Sun Ra.

                                                                                                                                                  Whilst their influence would not sit so brazenly on John’s rolled-up sleeves, each one possesses inspiring techniques; “I deliberately listen to how music is recorded and put that into my process,” John explains. “A lot of percussion in exotica stuff or Indian, South American folk gives me ideas. Things like a distorted reggae hi hat or a backing vocal that’s way too loud and bleeds all over the other musicians – I like natural accidents which you only get with tape.”

                                                                                                                                                  Fittingly titled, Waiting Around is the fruits of melodic craftsman, John Stammers’ labour. Arriving no sooner than six years since the release of his 2011 debut; a physically demanding day job and fascination for all things analogue has made way for a record of stark beauty and enduring quality - delayed only by an unyielding sense of intrepid experimentalism.

                                                                                                                                                  Sounding like its own reel of ticker tape, Waiting Around is punched with even more magical moments; given its name, it’s a wake-up call (“It means you’re wasting your life and not being as productive as you or I should be!” John says), whilst beautifully warm songs recall friends as well as past and present loves. ‘Stepping Round Her Clothes’ captures the feeling of being young and in love whilst fiancée Yasmin plays a starring role in ‘Woman.’ “’Risky Flowers’ is about a troubled young man I knew who smoked heroin; he didn’t do it regularly but then I once met him and he looked bad. People said they didn’t recognize him. Then I didn’t see him for ages – that was three years ago,” John says.

                                                                                                                                                  Waiting Around also features the varied skillset of John’s many musical friends. Paddy Steer (Home Life, 808 State) lends his expertise by way of homemade percussion, Nancy Elizabeth plays Celtic harp and adds warmth with her vocals, piano melodies are provided by Aidan Smith and Alfie’s Ben Dumville plumps up proceedings with rousing trumpet sounds.

                                                                                                                                                  Produced by Jim Spencer (The Charlatans, Bert Jansch), Miles Copeland (Superimposers), and Dan Munslow (The Monks Kitchen, Luca Nieri), the album was recorded in Eve studio, nestled in Manchester’s city suburbs. “The idea was to book the studio for two weeks and rehearse in my cellar,” tells John. “We got to choose which tape machine to use, synths, compressors – the perfect place to record if you’re geared to analogue and like 18th century chapels.”


                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                  1. Waiting Around
                                                                                                                                                  2. Stepping Round Her Clothes
                                                                                                                                                  3. Woman
                                                                                                                                                  4. Risky Flowers
                                                                                                                                                  5. Miss Valentine
                                                                                                                                                  6. I See The Signs
                                                                                                                                                  7. Oblivion
                                                                                                                                                  8. Your Time 

                                                                                                                                                  John Coltrane

                                                                                                                                                  Giant Steps (Mono Edition)

                                                                                                                                                  John Coltrane’s landmark Atlantic album in glorious mono.

                                                                                                                                                  Saying farewell to bebop, "Giant Steps" was Coltrane's second album to be recorded for the Atlantic label, and marked the first time that all of the pieces on a recording had been composed by him. The recording exemplifies Coltrane's melodic phrasing that came to be known as 'sheets of sound', and features the use of a new harmonic concept later to be known as 'Coltrane changes'. The set features early versionss of "Naima", "Cousin Mary", "Mr PC", "Spiral", and "Syeeda's Song Flute".

                                                                                                                                                  John Coltrane

                                                                                                                                                  Trane: The Atlantic Collection

                                                                                                                                                  To coincide with the release of the John Coltrane documentary Chasing Trane, this 1 LP & 1 CD compilation with unique artwork, remastered for the release, is designed as an introduction to John Coltrane’s revered Atlantic recordings. Trane: The Atlantic Collection includes the hit single ‘My Favorite Things,’ the iconic ‘Giant Steps, ‘Naima’ and more, from one of the legends of the jazz world. The album features a new liner notes essay by Ben Ratliff, former NY Times jazz critic, & author of the 2007 biography ‘Coltrane: The Story of a Sound.’

                                                                                                                                                  John Matthias & Jay Auborn

                                                                                                                                                  Race To Zero

                                                                                                                                                    ‘Race To Zero’ is the new album by musician and composer John Matthias and producer, musician and composer Jay Auborn, via the Village Green label.

                                                                                                                                                    The album’s starting point was a series of acoustic improvisations recorded in a variety of locations, from a 700-year-old chapel in the Devon countryside to a basement studio in Reykjavík, Iceland. In an attempt to create a fractured sense of space reflective of the digital condition, the duo found themselves working within a place that could only exist in the digital landscape. By crushing the recordings through a hundred different virtual rooms of reverb and other chaotic digital processes they collided, soared and splintered into sweeping new rhythms, melodies and drones. Pushing the computer’s processor beyond its limits threw up sonic ‘errors’ that wouldn’t be easily possible to create through standard methods. In response, these outcomes created new and unplanned inspiration for further composition. Elements of the album were then produced binaurally adding a three dimensional listening experience. The outcome is a unique landscape that blurs the line between the virtual and physical worlds.

                                                                                                                                                    “Cerebral yet accessible” - Uncut (8/10)

                                                                                                                                                    “A fascinating album that continually surprises with its neo-classical meets electronic template” - Clash

                                                                                                                                                    John Moreland

                                                                                                                                                    Big Bad Luv

                                                                                                                                                      The new album from John Moreland is an honest, bruising experience. A beautiful record about love, faith and the human condition, Big Bad Luv is John’s fourth album to date and also his debut for 4AD.

                                                                                                                                                      Hailing from Tulsa, OK, John composes both pointedly and prodigiously, and has released largely self-produced albums every other year since 2011. Playing an equally pivotal role in his rise have been his mesmeric solo performances (including his TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last year), which coupled with his incredible records, has helped to create a real word-of-mouth about him. Big Bad Luv, was recorded in Little Rock, AK, and mostly with a crew of Tulsa friends: John Calvin Abney (piano and guitar), Aaron Boehler (bass), Paddy Ryan (drums), Jared

                                                                                                                                                      Tyler (dobro) and Lucero's Rick Steff (piano). Coming together in three sessions over ten months, which were sandwiched between touring dates and life, the final album was then mixed by GRAMMY winning Tchad Blake, who has worked with iconic acts from Al Green to Tom Waits.

                                                                                                                                                      Since 2012, Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, has unexpectedly emerged as a singular (if not undeniably, um, idiosyncratic) voice. Whether by virtue of his lyrics, which routinely defy the presumed polarities of wit and empathy; his live performances which may perhaps be described best as “intimately berzerk”, or the infuriating line he seems to occupy between canny and total fraud online or in interviews, Father John Misty has cultivated a rare space for himself in the musical landscape - that of a real enigma. Pure Comedy sees Tillman at the height of these powers: as a lyricist, and equally so a cultural observer - at times bordering on freakishly prescient. Tillman’s bent critiques, bared humanity and gently warped classic songwriting are all here in equal measure and - at 75 minutes - there’s a veritable fuck ton of it. The album navigates themes of progress, technology, fame, the environment, politics, aging, social media, human nature, human connection and his own role in it all with his usual candour, and in terms as timely as they are timeless.

                                                                                                                                                      Tillman wrote the majority of Pure Comedy throughout 2015 and recorded all the basic tracking and vocals live to tape (in no more than two takes each) at United Studios (fka the legendary Ocean Way Studios, favored by Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys) in Los Angeles March 2016.

                                                                                                                                                      Pure Comedy was co-produced once again by Josh Tillman and long-time producer Jonathan Wilson; mixed by Tillman, Wilson and Trevor Spencer, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios. The album features string, horn and choral arrangements from classical iconoclast Gavin Bryars (Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Sinking Of The Titanic), with additional contributions from Nico Muhly and Thomas Bartlett.

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      1. Pure Comedy
                                                                                                                                                      2. Total Entertainment Forever
                                                                                                                                                      3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution
                                                                                                                                                      4. Ballad Of The Dying Man
                                                                                                                                                      5. Birdie
                                                                                                                                                      6. Leaving LA
                                                                                                                                                      7. A Bigger Paper Bag
                                                                                                                                                      8. When The God Of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell To Pay
                                                                                                                                                      9. Smoochie
                                                                                                                                                      10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives
                                                                                                                                                      11. The Memo
                                                                                                                                                      12. So I’m Growing Old On Magic Mountain
                                                                                                                                                      13. In Twenty Years Or So

                                                                                                                                                      Domino Records reissue John Cale’s classic live album ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’, featuring his revered interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ amongst many solo versions from his enduring catalogue and previously unreleased outtakes.

                                                                                                                                                      ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’ was the first live John Cale album to feature him performing solo and ‘unplugged’ - before that term became a mid 1990s buzzword.

                                                                                                                                                      In contrast to the jaundiced punk truculence of ‘Sabotage/Live’ (1979) or ‘Even Cowgirls Get The Blues’ (1986), ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’ gives us Cale at his most melodic and moving, a mellowed and certainly a soberer man in a Yamamoto jacket and a lopsided haircut running through a selection of his prettiest songs. It’s a Cale many love deeply, a man alone at a concert-hall Steinway revisiting the pop-rock of ‘Paris 1919’ and ‘A Child’s Christmas In Wales’, as wistful and whimsical as any 70s singer songwriter holding court at LA’s Troubadour club. It’s the Cale who disavowed the spiky nihilism and decadence of the Velvets, inspired instead by melodicism of Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson (to whom he’d paid haunting homage on ‘Slow Dazzle’s brilliant Beach Boys pastiche ‘Mr. Wilson’). It’s the Cale who improbably took a staff job at Warner-Reprise in LA and - for an all-too-brief moment - became part of the Burbank producers’ mafia alongside Lenny Waronker and his laidback chums. (Lest we forget, 1973’s ‘Paris 1919’ featured members of Little Feat and The Crusaders among the backing musicians.)

                                                                                                                                                      Cale being Cale, ‘Fragments Of A Rainy Season’ isn’t all rueful tenderness. The deceptively jaunty ‘Darling I Need You’ is flippantly introduced as a song about “religious awakening in the southern part of the United States,” while Elvis’ ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ is no less gothic in the solo version here than it is in the Grand Guignol horror show of the original on ‘Slow Dazzle’. ‘Guts’ is as close as Cale ever came to Lou Reed at his most withering.

                                                                                                                                                      It’s easy to forget that - years before Jeff Buckley and The X-Factor - he was the first artist to recognize the hymnal majesty of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, or that it was his original 1991 reading of the song that popped up on the soundtrack of ‘Shrek’.

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      On A Wedding Anniversary
                                                                                                                                                      Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
                                                                                                                                                      Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
                                                                                                                                                      Cordoba
                                                                                                                                                      Buffalo Ballet
                                                                                                                                                      A Child’s Christmas In Wales
                                                                                                                                                      Darling I Need You
                                                                                                                                                      Guts
                                                                                                                                                      Ship Of Fools
                                                                                                                                                      Leaving It Up To You
                                                                                                                                                      The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
                                                                                                                                                      Chinese Envoy
                                                                                                                                                      Dying On The Vine
                                                                                                                                                      Fear (Is A Man’s Best Friend)
                                                                                                                                                      Heartbreak Hotel
                                                                                                                                                      Style It Takes
                                                                                                                                                      Paris 1919
                                                                                                                                                      (I Keep A) Close Watch
                                                                                                                                                      Thoughtless Kind
                                                                                                                                                      Hallelujah
                                                                                                                                                      Fear (Is A Man’s Best Friend) (Outtake)*
                                                                                                                                                      Amsterdam (Outtake) *
                                                                                                                                                      Broken Hearts (Outtake) *
                                                                                                                                                      I’m Waiting For The Man (Outtake) *
                                                                                                                                                      Heartbreak Hotel (Outtake - Strings) *
                                                                                                                                                      Fear (Is A Man’s Best Friend) (Outtake - Strings) *
                                                                                                                                                      Paris 1919 (Outtake - Strings) *
                                                                                                                                                      Antarctica Starts Here (Outtake - Strings) *

                                                                                                                                                      * = Bonus Track (REWIGCD107X & REWIGLP107X [& REWIGLP107 As
                                                                                                                                                      Digital Download] Only)

                                                                                                                                                      John Lennon & Yoko Ono

                                                                                                                                                      Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life With The Lions

                                                                                                                                                      The sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It’s when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording collaboration and something closer to a performative documentary, a declaration of “Our life and our love is our art - every nitty, gritty part of it.”

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      Cambridge 1969
                                                                                                                                                      No Bed For Beatle John
                                                                                                                                                      Baby’s Heartbeat
                                                                                                                                                      Two Minutes Silence
                                                                                                                                                      Radio Play

                                                                                                                                                      John Zorn

                                                                                                                                                      Sacred Visions

                                                                                                                                                      Sacred Visions presents two Zorn masterpieces touching upon the mediaeval world. The Holy Visions is a Mystery Play in eleven strophes concerning the life, work and philosophy of 12th century composer, healer and visionary mystic Hildegard von Bingen, and is one of Zorn’s most beloved and acclaimed works for voice. Here is it coupled with Zorn’s latest string quartet The Remedy of Fortune, six tableaux depicting the changing fortunes of romantic love, which was inspired by the work of 12th century troubadour Guillaume de Machaut and receives a precise and passionate reading by the brilliant JACK quartet. Two brilliant modern compositions drawing on mediaeval spirituality, both sacred and secular! 


                                                                                                                                                      John Paul White was formerly one-half of Grammy Award winning duo The Civil Wars. His first solo album in nearly a decade, 'Beulah' is a remarkably & assuredly diverse collection spanning plaintive folk balladry, swampy southern rock, lonesome campfire songs, & dark acoustic pop. Gothic & ambitious, with a rustic, lived-in sound, it’s a meditation on love curdling into its opposite, on recrimination defining relationships, on hope finally filtering through doubt.

                                                                                                                                                      White threw himself into the project, no longer the reluctant songwriter but a craftsman determined to make the best album possible. He cut several songs at the renowned FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals. One product of those sessions is “What’s So,” which introduces itself by way of a fire-&-brimstone riff, as heavy as a guilty conscience with gritty & soulful vocals. At the other end of the spectrum is “The Martyr,” the spryness of the melody imagines Elliott Smith wandering the banks of the Tennessee River, yet the song is shot through with a pervasive melancholy as White wrestles with his own demons

                                                                                                                                                      Some of the quieter songs were created in the Single Lock offices/studio, including the ominously erotic opener “Black Leaf” & the Southern gothic love song “Make You Cry.” As he worked, a distinctive & intriguing aesthetic began to grow clearer & clearer, one based in austere arrangements & plaintive moods. These are songs with empty spaces in them, dark corners that could hold ghosts or worse.

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      1. Black Leaf
                                                                                                                                                      2. What's So
                                                                                                                                                      3. The Once And Future Queen
                                                                                                                                                      4. I Want To Make You Cry
                                                                                                                                                      5. Fight For You
                                                                                                                                                      6. Hope I Die
                                                                                                                                                      7. I've Been Over This Before – Featuring The Secret Sisters
                                                                                                                                                      8. The Martyr
                                                                                                                                                      9. Hate The Way You Love Me
                                                                                                                                                      10. I'll Get Even

                                                                                                                                                      Peter Bjorn And John

                                                                                                                                                      Breakin' Point

                                                                                                                                                      ‘Breakin’ Point’ is about the band's newfound search for another career high. “We started with some other album title ideas – like 'Thriller 2'. Then we realised we were pushing the envelope so got into the idea of a breaking point. If we broke it once, we can break it twice,” says Bjorn. That's why the album artwork features a hammer with three heads on it, not just to strike your nightmares, but to send a message out to everyone.

                                                                                                                                                      The trio's previous record 'Gimme Some' was Peter Bjorn and John's “power pop, guitar statement”, focused on recreating in the studio what they were confidently doing live. This time they wanted to do the total opposite. “This was about doing big pop songs,” says Bjorn, who recalls sitting around listening to ABBA with his bandmates, marvelling at how they made it sound and look so easy.

                                                                                                                                                      On ‘Breakin’ Point’ the band have worked with producers Patrick Berger (Icona Pop, Robyn), Paul Epworth (Florence And The Machine, U2, Paul McCartney), Greg Kurstin (Sia, Adele), Emile Haynie (Lana Del Rey, FKA Twigs, Kanye West) and Pontus Winnberg (Miike Snow).

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      Dominos
                                                                                                                                                      Love Is What You Want
                                                                                                                                                      Do-Si-Do
                                                                                                                                                      What You Talking About?
                                                                                                                                                      Breakin' Point
                                                                                                                                                      A Long Goodbye
                                                                                                                                                      Nostalgic Intellect
                                                                                                                                                      In This Town
                                                                                                                                                      Hard Sleep
                                                                                                                                                      It's Your Call
                                                                                                                                                      Between The Lines
                                                                                                                                                      Pretty Dumb, Pretty Lame


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