"Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 is the first volume of Captured Tracks’ new venture into compilations – Excavations. Dedicated to compiling forgotten music from the 1970s – 1990s that has a connection to Captured Tracks’ sound and aesthetic, this series will bridge the past to our current roster and showcase the kinds of sounds that inspire us. As an American label, we’ve often wondered why British, Aussie, and Kiwi indie rock from the ‘80s has had the most infuence on modern acts and the collector’s market. Outside of bands like R.E.M., the Rain Parade, the Dream Syndicate, and a few others, most of these bands received little attention from national or international press outlets and markets. The acts on this compilation have a true DiY spirit that lead many of these bands to self-record and self-release within tiny local scenes in small cities and college towns across America.

Strum & Thrum aims to shed light on this forgotten era of jangly, melodic rock music that emerged from the ashes of post punk and helped kick start the indie rock boom of the early ‘90s that continues to this day. Indeed, many artists featured on Strum & Thrum went on to be part of this boom – Archer Prewitt from the Sea & Cake, Jon Ginoli from Pansy Division, Ric Menck from Velvet Crush, Brent Rademaker from Beachwood Sparks, Barbara Manning, and more went on to be in well known bands in the ‘90s. Spread across two LPs, Strum & Thrum includes an 80+ page booklet with an extensive oral history of the ‘80s indie scene, an introduction by Captured Tracks label head Mike Sniper, and tons of archival images and ephemera. Long live the jangle underground!"

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1:
1. The Reverbs - Trusted Woods
2. Start - Where I Want To Be
3. Cyclones - I’m In Heaven
4. Windbreakers - All That Stuff
5. Primitons - All My Friends
6. Bangtails - Patron Of The Arts
7. The Love In - Late As Usual
8. Sex Clark Five - She Collides With Me
9. Three Hits - 5 O’Clock
10. Crippled Pilgrims - Black And White (Alternate)
11. Vandykes - Breakin My Heart
12. Salem 66 - Seven Steps Down
13. The Outnumbered - I Feel So Sorry Now
14. The Darrows - Is It You

Disc 2:
15. Riff Doctors - Say Goodbye
16. The Ferrets - She Was Unkind
17. 28th Day - Pages Turn (Alternate)
18. Great Plains - When Do You Say Hello?
19. Downy Mildew - Purple Parlor
20. The Strand - You And Me
21. The White Sisters - Misery, Me, & You
22. Absolute Grey - Remorse
23. One Plus Two - Promise
24. The Springfields - Sunflower
25. Holiday - Change
26. Pop Art - The Meeting
27. The Reactions - Tomorrow’s Time Today
28. A New Personality - Essential Things

Single-LP Edit Of Piñata Lacquered At Half Speed Master By Metropolis Mastering In London For The Highest Fidelity. Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane. “Piñata is a gangster Blaxploitation ­lm on wax,” says Gibbs. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Supplier
A2. Scarface
A3. Deeper
A4. High (ft. Danny Brown)
A5. Harold’s
A6. Bomb (ft. Raekwon)
A7. Shitsville
A8. Thuggin’
A9. Real
A10. Uno
B1. Robes (ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt)
B2. Broken (ft. Scarface)
B3. Lakers (ft. Ab-Soul & Polyester The Saint)
B4. Knicks
B5. Shame (ft. BJ The Chicago Kid)
B6. Watts (ft. Big Time Watts)
B7. Piñata (ft. Domo Genesis, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko, & Mac Miller).

Joni Mitchell turns 80: Ermitage celebrates the nine times Grammy winner with the release of this vinyl album featuring the artist performing live on the BBC in 1970

Star singer- songwriter of Canadian music and author of songs such as "Big Yellow Taxi", "River" and "A Case of You".

For all the fans around the world always eager for the releases of the great singer- songwriter and particularly since a few months ago she returned to the stage after the brain aneurysm that struck her in 2015 and left her unable to speak or walk let alone play the guitar.

TRACK LISTING

1. Chelsea Morning
2. The Gallery
3. Cactus Tree
4. My Old Man
5. For Free
6. Woodstock
7. All I Want
8. California
9. Big Yellow Taxi
10. Both Sides, Now

Anyone who has followed Emotional Rescue knows it has always done a fine job of documenting punk and dub's early years, not least by showcasing the previously unheralded work of Skinbat Scramble. Now they back that up once more with a new compilation that puts together a selection of the band's previously unreleased recordings. It is a superb trip through a number of decades and finds core members Mark Eason and Fergus Crockford distilling slow tempos, experimental sounds, dub, and much more into leftfield rhythms for body and mind.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Submit
2. Submit (Dub)

Side 2
1. North By Northwest
2. North By Dub

Side 3
1. Skidaddle
2. Skidaddle (Daddy)

Side 4
1. Basement Voltaire
2. Pixie Boot (Dub)

Back in 2019, Emotional Rescue began a series where it licensed some all-time favourites, remastered them and pressed them up with new remixes by modern producers. It now draws to a close after many fine instalments with early 80s band The Impossible Dreamers. Their cult 'Spin' arrives here with an epic nine-minute extended reversion that is heavy on the dub and percussion and also an even more dubcentric reprise from regular label artist Dan Tyler of Idjut Boys and Noid fame, her under his NAD guise. There is plenty of raw and raucous rhythm to this 12" that will enliven any dancefloor and round out this series in style.

TRACK LISTING

Spin
Spin (NAD Reversion)
Spin (NAD Riddim Reprise)

McKeown creates a patchwork of dream sequences and woozy psychedelia that range from low key groove and floating-in-space cosmic horror. “Electronic folk horror” was how it was described to me, and I gotta say I can get on board with that description. But there’s much more happening here. Moments I’m reminded of Colin Stetson’s excellent Color Out Of Space score, while other times there’s a real Tangerine Dream vibe, ala their Legend soundtrack.

The Mysticisms crew is back with a fifth instalment in their Deplete series and this time it takes the form of music from one of the inspirations for the series itself, namely the not-so-well-known but nevertheless influential Digi Dub label. It was headed up by Lee Berwick and echoed the sound of South London squat parties in the 80s and early 90s. Berwick himself got into music production later on and built a studio around the AKAI sampler before hooking up with other like-minded people to create the LZ Diesel alias. Opener 'For The Love Of' is a timeless digi-stepper with dancehall stylings, super sweet vocals and bongos tumbling freely. 'Suicidial Dub' is more busy and percussive with screwy synth energy and 'Skunk Funk' is a slow-motion melon-melter.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. For The Love Of
2. Bad Boys

Side 2
1. Suicidal Dub
2. Skunk Funk

Formed in Bristol, 4-piece LICE have become one of UK experimental rock’s most inventive and ambitious outliers. Their second album ‘Third Time At The Beach’ – a three-part epic exploring our struggle to better understand the world around us – arrives on the 20th September via AD 93. Darting between minimalism, rock, techno and more, it sends us hurtling us through time and space: featuring a cast of astronauts, cavemen and dinosaurs.

This follows LICE’s internationally acclaimed debut album ‘WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear’ (2021). Praised as “exciting, alive, packed with musical ideas” by Financial Times and “a welcome lease of life for British avant-rock that plays with expectation at every turn” by CRACK, it also gained radio support across BBC 6Music, BBC Radio 1 and KEXP. The album led LICE to perform at major festivals including Reading & Leeds, Green Man and End Of The Road, embark on an extensive EU tour supporting Sleaford Mods, and tour across the UK & EU.

‘Third Time At The Beach’’s concept is expressed through three movements. The first (‘Unscrewed’, ‘White Tubes’, ‘Red Fibres’) presents the child being introduced to the world, hammered into shape through prevailing culture, and realising they have reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world. The second (‘To The Basket’, ‘Wrapped In A Sheet’, ‘Scenes From The Desert’, ‘Mown In Circles’) is a disorientating, alien sequence: reevaluating fundamental concepts including money, time, nationhood and language. In the third (‘Fatigued, Confused’, ‘Third Time At The Beach’, ‘The Dance’), the individual embraces these new ideas – granting them a changed understanding of the world, and more agency in the path they take through it.

Everything is always changing in ‘Third Time At The Beach’. The album shifts from lush piano balladry to crushing industrial, and from swampy avant-garde compositions to triumphant rock freakouts. Employing vocal manipulation and field recordings, as well as cutting together studio recordings and home demos, the band produces a spatially elastic, collage-like effect. The album, like the ideas being reached within it, presents a work-in-progress. Lyrically, the record employs a scattershot style to present the experience of learning (or ‘unlearning’). The listener visits ancient civilisations, the Industrial Revolution, outer space and the land of the dinosaurs: encountering mediaeval farmers, silver miners, cavemen, Napoleon and Satan.

Speaking on the record, the band say: “This album’s about trying to understand the world and everything in it: history, science and the way we explain it all to each other. It’s a celebration of feeling confused or intimidated by the processes that shape our lives.”

Of the album’s muscular, agitated lead single ‘Red Fibres’, LICE explain: “This song is about realising you’ve reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world, and feeling confused and frustrated. After visiting some key moments in the history of language, science and the human eye, we arrive at a campsite: where two shipwreck survivors are about to have a fight.”

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
A1. Unscrewed
A2. White Tubes
A3. Red Fibres
A4. To The Basket
A5. Wrapped In A Sheet

Side B:
B1. Scenes From The Desert
B2. Mown In Circles
B3. Fatigued, Confused
B4. Third Time At The Beach
B5. The Dance

Zy The Way hail from Taiwan and are a jazz ensemble that interlaces their dynamic sounds with ancient Chinese poetry compiled by Confucius. They also bring in more contemporary compositions which results in an utterly original sound and great gateway to some of the world's oldest literary works. They recently finished a debut full-length album and now the single 'Blue Collar' from it comes on limited edition vinyl. The track tells the ancient tale of young scholars in love with a powerful narrative and moving melodies. The one and only DJ Spinna steps up on the flip to offer his own classy deep-house remix.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
Blue Collar

Side 2
Blue Collar (DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix)

Chunklet Industries is proud to announce a breakthrough in broadcasting technology. For the first time, the BBC working hand-in-hand with intergalactic audio pioneers Man…or Astro-Man? present to you seven volumes of their famed U.K. radio sessions recorded between 1994 and 1997.

"Even at the time, it felt implausible that Man...or Astro-Man? would do over a dozen sessions at the mighty British Broadcasting Company. Initially it was the legendary John Peel who had the band on his Radio 1 show—six times between 1993 and 2000—after Birdstuff sent him a postcard ordering him never to play the band. Peel allegedly had a shrine to our Auburn heroes at his country estate, and while we believe that to be true, we’ve yet to see photographic evidence. The list of bands that recorded a session for Peel (neé Ravenscroft) is mind boggling and estimable. Most American bands would be lucky to record a single Peel session. For Astro-Man? to have played as much as they did at his request is an indisputable testament to the band’s fevered devotion to performing. But also, let’s be honest: John Peel had pretty great taste. As reference, The Fall performed on Peel’s show more than 25 times between 1977, a year after the band was formed, and the death of leader Mark E. Smith in 2018. The fact that a decidedly obtuse and dorky band from Auburn, Alabama, would perform on Peel’s show more times than The Jesus Lizard, Fugazi, and Nirvana combined is proof positive that Astro-Man truly put in the work... especially on the British airwaves. What the BBC documented in its studios peppered across the country was a band that evolved in plain view from a spazzy surf band into a shit-hot post-punk powerhouse.

More than a decade ago, with my daughter, still in diapers, resting on my lap, I had a sit-down with Coco. He gave my outrageous idea of doing an extended Astro BBC retrospective a cautiously enthusiastic thumbs-up. Flash ahead to 2024: my daughter is now a teenager, and that preposterous idea is finally materialized. Thank the heavens. Thank the stars. The first (and hopefully not the last) Astro box set is now a full-blown reality. To see this completed is a thrill and a privilege, and a highlight of my charmed lifetime as a die-hard Astro fan."—Henry H. Owings (aka The Boo Yaa Boy)

Compiled with guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a beautifully annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with “Crash”, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

Between 1985 and 1987, the band issued five singles/EP’s on independent label Lazy Records (also home to My Bloody Valentine and later Birdland) before signing with RCA.

This 2-CD set also boasts their promo-only live album at the ICA; as such, it offers their entire Lazy output from that period.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Thru The Flowers
2. Across My Shoulder
3. She Don't Need You
4. Lazy
5. Really Stupid
6. We Found A Way To The Sun
7. Where The Wind Blows
8. Stop Killing Me
9. Buzz Buzz Buzz
10. Laughing Up My Sleeve
11. Ocean Blue
12. Shadow (Guitar Version)
13. Thru The Flowers (New Version)
14. Everything Shining Bright
15. Nothing Left
16. Across My Shoulder
17. Crash
18. Spacehead
19. Nothing Left (Sounds Version)

Disc 2
1.I'll Stick With You
2. Dreamwalk Baby
3. Buzz Buzz Buzz
4. Nothing Left
5. Out Of Reach
6. Carry Me Home
7. Don't Want Anything To Change
8. Think I'll Stick With You
9. Dreamwalk Baby
10. Run Baby Run
11. Thru The Flowers
12. Nothing Left
13. Where The Wind Blows
14. Out Of Reach
15. We Found A Way To The Sun
16. Don't Want Anything To Change
17. Across My Shoulder
18.Everything's Shining Bright
19. Buzz Buzz Buzz
20. Stop Killing Me
21. I Wanna Be Your Dog

The debut album from The Supreme Dicks, available on vinyl for the first time.

Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in the lineage of musicians who’ve found a muse in the nasty, brutish brevity of life, Supreme Dicks chose to cloak disarmingly real paranoia and grief in the contemporary trappings of late '80s and early '90s lo-fi college rock. They may have inhabited the same sonic and physical space as colleagues like Dinosaur Jr (Lou Barlow was an occasional Dick, and at least one early Dinosaur Jr show was actually played by Dicks in disguise), but they stripped away all youthful yearning and anticipation in favor of a bleak and unblinking certainty. Honest, frank, and free of ironic distance. Obtuse and yet so essential that it can’t help but feel familiar to anyone who’s ever spent a sleepless night wondering whether there's any point to all of this. And, on occasion, warm, intimate and lovely.

The Supreme Dicks formed while students at Massachusetts’ Hampshire College in the twilight of the Reagan era. The campus was a fractured posthippie free-for-all that many students theorized was a right- wing think tank experiment in pitting progressives against each other. The constantly revolving lineup centered around songwriters Daniel Oxenberg and Jon Shere, and whoever else was around and willing to torture an instrument. They advocated the teachings of Wilhelm Reich and were vocal about focusing their creative energy via celibacy. This may do much to explain the constant, unrelenting tension that provides the driving force behind the most powerful moments in their music. Regardless of tempo or arrangement, Supreme Dicks songs play like soundtracks to autoerotic asphyxiation, haunting tones that ring in the ears at the moment consciousness is lost and not guaranteed to return.

TRACK LISTING

In A Sweet Song The Arabian Song The Sun's Bells
Jack Smith
That I May Never Forget And Stay Garden Of Your
Past Jack-O-Lantern
River Song
The Fallout Song
Azure Dome
The Forest Song (or Especially When The October
Wind With Frosty Fingers, Punishes My Hair)
Hyacinth Girls
Ten Past Eleven
Woody Would've Wanted It That Way
Strange Song

The second album from The Supreme Dicks, available on vinyl for the first time.

Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in the lineage of musicians who’ve found a muse in the nasty, brutish brevity of life, Supreme Dicks chose to cloak disarmingly real paranoia and grief in the contemporary trappings of late '80s and early '90s lo-fi college rock. They may have inhabited the same sonic and physical space as colleagues like Dinosaur Jr (Lou Barlow was an occasional Dick, and at least one early Dinosaur Jr show was actually played by Dicks in disguise), but they stripped away all youthful yearning and anticipation in favor of a bleak and unblinking certainty. Honest, frank, and free of ironic distance. Obtuse and yet so essential that it can’t help but feel familiar to anyone who’s ever spent a sleepless night wondering whether there's any point to all of this. And, on occasion, warm, intimate and lovely.

The Supreme Dicks formed while students at Massachusetts’ Hampshire College in the twilight of the Reagan era. The campus was a fractured posthippie free-for-all that many students theorized was a right- wing think tank experiment in pitting progressives against each other. The constantly revolving lineup centered around songwriters Daniel Oxenberg and Jon Shere, and whoever else was around and willing to torture an instrument. They advocated the teachings of Wilhelm Reich and were vocal about focusing their creative energy via celibacy. This may do much to explain the constant, unrelenting tension that provides the driving force behind the most powerful moments in their music. Regardless of tempo or arrangement, Supreme Dicks songs play like soundtracks to autoerotic asphyxiation, haunting tones that ring in the ears at the moment consciousness is lost and not guaranteed to return.

TRACK LISTING

Synaesthesia
CúChulain (Blackbirds Loom)
Columnated Ruins/Seeing Distant Chimneys
Along A Bearded Glade
Swell Song
Showered
A Donkey's Burial In A Tower On A Mirage
Adoration De L'Agneau Mystique
Porridge For The Calydonian Boar
Siberian Penal Colony (Ode To Joel Stanley)
Green Wings Fly Adventure (Showered Reprise)

The giant avalanche that is THE LONDON DIRTHOLE COMPANY is back with another slab of prime-time partisan punk noise. With a Futurist disdain and Dadaist sense of sardonic humour, the MODERN IST EP celebrates the realities of the Family Of Noise as a truly interactive social experiment. The genuinely odd bunch of protagonists that make up the bands personnel stretch the boundaries of conventional group structure and methods. A truly outsider approach that reverberates with its nebulous intensity and spirit of joy. The result is a fractious cacophony created (on this record) by four drummers, 3 guitarists a bass player and 2 different vocalists. Live the band rotate up to a dozen singers if occasion and availability conspire. The music has elements and attitudes in common with The Monks, Velvet Underground, Pussy Galore and The Fall without any direct plagiarism or imitation. These bands are but ships in the night to the Battleship Dirthole and its crew of desperate fellows. PROFESSOR THE CONFESSOR is an intimate memoir of utterances from the dark recesses of The Professor’s mind. CRYING ONIONS is a sleazy ballad of all-consuming pleasure, timeless romance, sensual purgatory, erotic possession, empty tears, disrobing and eating an onion. TOMORROW, TODAY faces up to the bleak realities of a passion consumed and the vagaries of the staring up from the gutter as you watch your former partner dance the same dance you fell for with someone else. The strapping fit and healthy London Dirthole Company pedigree on this recording; The Nuns, Pulkas, Echobelly, Headbutt, Felix Moment Power Trio, Lot Lizards, Project Dark, Headcleaner.

The holidays are weird, man. Ostensibly, they’re about family and fun and food and festivities, but more often they portend arguing with your family about politics- and that mental dance you have to do where you’re like “Should I get Trevor a gift even though my funds are dwindling and I’m not even sure if he’s going to get me one in return so this could end up being a whole awkward thing???”

The reality of the holidays lies somewhere more liminal, in the space between joy and depression, between excitement and boredom, between “peace on earth and goodwill toward men” and “I think I might murder my entire family.” So who better to teach us the true reason for the season than Dude York, a band whose music so often seems to exist in an in-between space of their own? Dude York are funny and serious and earnest and deeply ironic all at the same time. The three friends who comprise the band—Peter Richards (guitar, vocals), Claire England (bass, vocals) and Andrew Hall (drums, vocals)—have spent their four years together applying their particular Dude York-ian sensibility to topics like mental health, breakups, and the power of art and friendship.

Now they’ve returned with Halftime for the Holidays to pop some chestnuts right on your fire and tackle their most poignant theme yet; THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR. Halftime for the Holidays is a holiday record for how the holidays actually feel. Tracks like “Takin’ Care of Christmas” (it’s exactly what you think it is) and “Jingle Bells Rock” (it’s not) deliver the requisite tacky cheer. “Greatest Gift is You” and “My Favorite Part (Of This Time of Year)” soar like the greatest pop-punk love songs, with the added benefit of CHRISTMAS. And songs like “Long Distance Christmas” and “Break Up Holiday” testify to the loneliness that they can spring on you without warning. It’s a record that manages to wrap the strangeness of sleeping in your childhood twin bed and the soft wonder of waking up to snow into one delightful white elephant present that you won’t re-gift.

Halftime for the Holidays is self-consciously goofy, but refreshing in its willingness to tackle the misery and joy of the season with equal force. So deck the halls, engage in a regrettable make out session underneath the mistletoe, and rest assured that no matter what kind of reindeer games the universe is playing with you this year, Dude York has you covered.

TRACK LISTING

01. Break Up Holiday
02. Hollywood Holiday
03. The Greatest Gift Is You
04. My Favorite Part (Of The Time Of Year
05. Long Distance Christmas
06. Takin Care Of Christmas
07. Jingle Bells Rock
08. True Meaning
09. Silent Night

Multi talented UK Jazz Pianist Greg Foat has teamed up with Mercury Award nominated "The Bees" member and multi instrumentalist Warren Hampshire to collaborate on a new LP drawing on their diverse musical influences. Classic British library music, 60s Italian soundtracks & lost Americana combined with touches of modern classical, minimalism, Jazz and Folk. Featuring many members of Greg and Warren's previous bands and one of the U.Ks finest Jazz drummers, Clark Tracy, the LP also features an Edinburgh orchestra and soloists hand picked and scored by the boys. Recorded all analogue onto 2" multitrack in Edinburgh, mixed down by Mattias Glavå at his studio in Gothenburg, Sweden then mastered and cut in Helsinki, Finland, it's truly a European affair. 

TRACK LISTING

Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand 
Lullaby 
The Solar Winds (& Cadenza) 
A Long Way Home
End Song
All Washed Up 
How The Nights Can Fly 
End Song (Reprise)

Gregory And The Hawk returns with her second FatCat album ‘Leche’, a more mature and honest collection of songs than her previous releases, which sees her expanding instrumentally onto piano and harp yet conveying a sense of her bedroom recording roots.

Contributors include Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers), Rob Laakso (Amazing Baby, Diamond Nights, Mice Parade, Swirlies), and Adam Pierce (Mice Parade, Swirlies).

TRACK LISTING

For The Best
Landscapes
Over And Over
Soulgazing
Geysir Nationale
Frebeight
Olly Olly Oxen Free
A Century Is All We Need
Leaves
Puller Return
Hard To Define
Dream Machine

Iron & Wine's Sam Beam and the members of Calexico convened in December 2004 at Calexico's home base of Wavelab Studios in Tucson, Arizona. The idea of working together had been tossed around for over three years, though neither bands' schedule loaned itself into making it a reality until then. The resulting session "In the Reins", is a mini-album that is a truly harmonious affair sure to satisfy fans of both bands. The seven tracks are Sam Beam originals and were fleshed out by the full Calexico band. The record also features newcomer Natalie Wyants on vocals, Salvador Duran, a local fixture of the Tucson Flamenco scene, on vocals and Botas. Of course no Wavelab experience would be complete without the appearance of Nick Luca (NL Trio/John Doe Band) and Craig Schumacher, both of whom contributed to the record in the form of engineering and performance.

TRACK LISTING

He Lays In The Reins
Prison On Route 41
History Of Lovers
Red Dust
16, Maybe Less
Burn That Broken Bed
Dead Mans Will

Skip James was a Delta blues enigma, whose mesmerizing guitar playing and haunting voice produced bluer than blue masterpieces. This beautifully re-mastered collection of his seminal 1931 recordings shows why his otherworldly blues cast its spell on many blues greats from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton.
Arguably the greatest of the original Delta blues guitarists with his mesmerizing and truly unique style. 'The Rough Guide To Skip James' highlights his diverse repertoire of songs ranging from deep, dark Delta blues to upbeat barrelhouse piano tunes and spirituals.

TRACK LISTING

Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
I’m So Glad
Drunken Spree
If You Haven’t Any Hay Get On Down The Road
Cherry Ball Blues
Be Ready When He Comes
Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
Devil Got My Woman
How Long “Buck”
Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
Cypress Grove Blues
Illinois Blues
22-20 Blues

In May 1976 a record was released that would have an unforeseen and lasting impact on the music industry “Ten Percent” by Double Exposure was an early release on the New York independent label Salsoul Records. America was in the grip of a disco explosion with new clubs opening on a weekly basis; Salsoul saw what was happening and swiftly created a sound for their label, heavily influenced by the music then coming out of Philadelphia, aimed directly at New York’s dance-floors. Records like “Salsoul Hustle,” “Tangerine” and “You’re Just The Right Size” by The Salsoul Orchestra borrowed heavily from the beautifully orchestrated Philadelphia International records but added a more percussive, bass heavy depth that New York’s DJs loved. So what was so special about this particular single then? Double Exposure was, after all, just another band, “Ten Percent” just another song; one of many “disco” records released that week. First of all Salsoul became the first record label to make a twelve inch single available to Joe Public - the exotic format was previously only available to DJs as promotional items or bought under the counter at certain record stores. Not only that though, the extended version was created by Walter Gibbons, a DJ at New York’s Galaxy 21 who’d built his reputation making exclusive versions of tracks to play in his sets.

In 1976 it was unheard of for a DJ to set foot in a recording studio, being seen as little more than living jukeboxes by the serious music industry. Recording studios were strictly the domain of recording artists and producers so Walter found himself in a unique position, gaining access to a world no DJ had been granted before.

Or so we thought...
The Men In The Glass Booth tells the full story. Featuring ground breaking re-edits and remixes by some of the Disco era's most influential DJs including Walter Gibbons, Bobby DJ Guttadaro, Tom Savarese, Jellybean Benitez, Tee Scott and John Luongo, this opulent release also includes a 40 page book which features exclusive photos and insights from some of the story's key figures.

STAFF COMMENTS

Patrick says: BBE answer the prayers of all us non-millionaire disco fans, taking us on a journey through the alternative 12" history via this exhaustive collection of acetates and DJ edits. Mega!

After an epic licensing odyssey that's taken us almost 20 years, we're finally able to announce the 5LP boxset release of the first ever official re-issue of all five of the iconic Lansdowne recording sessions by the legendary UK jazz combo, the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet.
The five albums; Shades Of Blues (1965), Dusk Fire (1966), Phase III (1968), Change Is (1969) and Live (1969), have reached almost mythical status in the collector's world. Regarded as holy grail artefacts for even the seasoned aficionado, the collective second hand market value comes to an astonishing £6000.
Many have tried - and failed - to reissue these albums by legitimate means. However, two decades since our initial approach, Universal Music has gone to great lengths to research their vast archives, and we have finally managed to succeed.
The complete Don Rendell & Ian Carr Lansdowne recording sessions have now undergone a full and unprecedented boxset reissue. We located and acquired the original analogue master tapes from the Universal vaults and created masters at Abbey Road Studios to produce audiophile quality 180g pressings replete with replica artwork - shape, design, and even paper stock. No stone has been left unturned to deliver this absolute labour of love to the highest possible standard! The enclosed booklet contains never before seen photographs, interviews with the remaining living band members and liner notes from BBC Radio 3 presenter and award-winning jazz writer Alyn Shipton.
The band played together for seven years and during this fruitful time they made a plethora of deeply melodic, post-bop British jazz compositions that later on took influences from Indo and more spiritually guided jazz. Produced by the influential Denis Preston and recorded at his Lansdowne Studios in London, the band was primarily made up of saxophonist Don Rendell, trumpeter/composer Ian Carr, and pianist/composer Michael Garrick. This is UK jazz at its absolute finest, and the quality of our box set pays testament to that.

TRACK LISTING

1 Blue Mosque
2 Latin Blue
3 Just Blue
4 Sailin'
5 Garrison '64
6 Blue Doom
7 Shades Of Blue
8 Big City Strut
9 Ruth
10 Tan Samfu
11 Jubal
12 Spooks
13 Prayer
14 Hot Rod
15 Dusk Fire
16 Crazy Jane
17 On! [clip]
18 Les Neiges D'Antan (Snows Of Yesteryear)
19 Bath Sheba
20 Black Marigolds
21 Elastic Dream
22 One Green Eye
23 Boy, Dog And Carrot
24 Cold Mountain
25 Black Hair
26 Mirage
27 On Track
28 Vignette
29 Pavanne
30 Nimjam
31 Voices
32 You've Said It 

The Lumineers’ breakout debut album captured hearts of fans and critics worldwide in 2012, leading to two Grammy-award nominations and a #2 Billboard chart peak. It features the hit singles “Ho Hey” “Stubborn Love” and “Submarines.”

Celebrate the 10th anniversary with a remastered and expanded 2xLP edition pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl, featuring 6 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl, new liner notes, and all-new packaging exclusive behind the scenes photos.

TRACK LISTING

1. Flowers In Your Hair
2. Classy Girls
3. Submarines
4. Dead Sea
5. Ho Hey
6. Slow It Down
7. Stubborn Love
8. Big Parade
9. Charlie Boy
10. Flapper Girl
11. Morning Song
12. Ain't Nobody's Problem
13. This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
14. Elouise
15. Darlene
16. Slow It Down (live)
17. Scotland

Debut album from The Goa Express, led by Clarkey alongside his brother Joe and best friends Joey, Naham and Sam.

They met as young teenagers in Burnley - growing up in the rural shadow of England's industrial north, music was a means of escape and a vessel for friendship. Their shared adolescent experiences shaped their collective attitudes and behaviours and, ultimately, the sound and spirit of their band. 6music playlists and Radio 1 support has followed along with a heavy touring schedule.

TRACK LISTING

Honey
It's Never Been Better
Good Luck Charm
You're The Girl 
Small Talk
Can't Stay Quiet
Better Than OK
Talking About Stuff
Portrait
Prove It

How does a band come into being? What are the myriad forces that shape the sound, look, and identity of an emerging band?In 1993, Oasis signed to Creation Records and were shortly to begin recording their first album. Unknown, and unknowing what was ahead, the following year began with a masterplan - the creation of Oasis. At the centre of this enterprise was Kevin Cummins, brought on board to help the band find a look that fitted their sound.

As chief photographer of Joy Division depicting that band on a snowy bridge and in the chilly environs of Manchester with a backdrop of the black stone of a gothic cathedral, Cummins was well aware of the intersection between the visual and the sonic. Oasis The Masterplan tells the story of how Oasis cemented their identity. Drawing on the first six months of the year, we follow Cummins as he photographs the band in various locations such as London, Manchester and the Netherlands.

Using many unseen images as well as more well-known iconic shots, Cummins guides us through the ways a band can be shaped and designed, such as the famous photographs of the Gallagher brothers in Manchester City shirts - emblazoned with the Brother logo (a Japanese electronics company) which helped provoke worldwide interest in the band. With input from Noel Gallagher, we see how they played with fashion, were taught how to pose, and present themselves as they approached the summer of that year when their first album, Definitely Maybe was released on 29 August. The story from that moment on is well-known.

This book reveals just how effective the masterplan was to get them to that point.

The Darkness's upcoming album 'Dreams On Toast' marks a bold new chapter for the band. With their signature blend of flamboyant rock anthems and tongue-in-cheek lyrics, this album cements their place at the pinnacle of British rock. Expect soaring guitar riffs, infectious hooks, and a nostalgic yet fresh take on the genre that will resonate with longtime fans and new listeners alike.

“You know that thing when God’s breath tickles your soul and tells you to create? Yeah, makes me giggle too. But you can’t resist. God might not be the power she once was, but say what you like about her, she knows damn well that what the world needs now, is rock sweet rock. And who are we, mere mortals of extraordinary ability, to argue with the divine? So we knuckled down and thought really hard about the best of the best, the elite songs, the life-changing music of the ages. Then we popped out a dozen bangers before lunch. And these bangers we present to you here, wallowing in an aromatic aural ragu, served atop the charred remains of our envious contemporaries… ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dreams on Toast. Close your eyes, loosen your cummerbund, and enjoy….” - Justin Hawkins

TRACK LISTING

Tracklist TBA

After nearly 20 years making music, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically-acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘Strange House’, before taking a sharp left turn for their Mercury-nominated follow up ‘Primary Colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed freely between genres. 2011’s ‘Skying’ won the NME Award for Best Album; ‘V’ was heralded as “a triumph” in a five-star Guardian review, while 2021’s pair of EPs - ‘Lout’ and ‘Against The Blade’ - marked a new chapter with their most industrial, uncompromising output yet.

Whilst the end results have changed, however, at their core has always been the same unbending commitment and bloody-minded allegiance to the cause. The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album ‘Night Life’ sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and - this time - a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Ariel
2. Silent Sister
3. The Silence That Remains
4. Trial By Fire
5. The Feeling Is Gone

SIDE B
6. Lotus Eater
7. More Than Life
8. When The Rhythm Breaks
9. L.A. Runaway 

Foreword by Pete Townshend. Tom Wright first met Pete Townshend at Ealing Art School in the early 60s. He became The Who's official tour photographer and manager from 1967 in the US, also managing the Grande Ballroom in Detroit where The Who's rock opera Tommy premiered.

He was much more than the band's photographer, he was a friend and photographed them right up to their farewell tour in 1991. Tom's vast record collection and musical influences had a big impact on the band in their early years. Their Generation covers The Who's first tours of North America, a hugely creative time with explosive performances both on and off stage, the time of their US hit 'I Can See for Miles' and much more.

Through the fabulous photographs, many of which have never been seen before, we see the band backstage, onstage, on tour, at rehearsal, at ease, in studio, at home. The photos will be accompanied by extended captions providing background details of the time, the people and the places. As well as The Who, Tom Wright toured with the Rolling Stones, the Faces, The James Gang, Elvis Costello, The Eagles and many more, documenting their performances and life on the road.

Two Sasamis exist in harmony. First is Sasami Ashworth, the conservatory-trained classical French horn player, producer, and composer - an artist with a studious approach to craft. And then there is all-caps SASAMI, the fearless performer and protagonist of her three increasingly audacious albums. For 'Blood On the Silver Screen', these two sides fused for her most epic and realized music to date: the all-out Sasami pop record.

After establishing herself with the poised melancholia of her eponymous 2019 debut, Sasami embraced volume and control on 2022’s 'Squeeze' - touring with a metal band—but her goal on Blood On the Silver Screen was to speak her truth with conviction by singing. Working with producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam, with Sasami as sole writer, each 'Blood On the Silver Screen' track viscerally captures a different thread of love, sex, power, and embodiment. “Pop music is like fuel,” Sasami says. “It’s just invigorating.”

Across 'Blood On the Silver Screen', Sasami’s lyrics narrate the ecstasies and agonies of being “a modern lover,” she says—writing about “big city dating endeavors” even as she found herself relocating, on a whim, from Los Angeles to rural Northern California. The anthemic 'For the Weekend' explores “modern intimacy, where you can get deep without the relationship being defined,” while the irrepressible 'Just Be Friends' bottles the dizzying longing that can overtake those in-betweens.

“I wanted to go all out with this album,” Sasami continues. “I wanted to, in my tenderness and emotionality, have the bravery to undertake something as epic as making a pop record about love. I hope it makes people feel empowered and embodied, too. It’s important to not box yourself in.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Slugger
2. Just Be Friends
3. I'll Be Gone
4. Love Makes You Do Crazy Things
5. In Love With A Memory Fear. Clairo
6. Possessed
7. Figure It Out
8. For The Weekend
9. Honeycrash
10. Smoke (Banished From Eden)
11. Nothing But A Sad Face
12. Lose It All
13. The Seed

On their debut album Mill On The Hill, Melin Melyn move effortlessly between surf-rock, country, prog-rock and psychedelia with the grace and skill of a band with numerous records under their belt, held together by an efficacious and fantastical thematic principle. Melin Melyn translates to ‘Yellow Mill’ in Welsh, and on this album the Welsh six-piece invite the audience into the world they have quite literally built around them. Mill On The Hill transports the listeners to the utopian ‘Melin Village’, a Seussian world where townsfolk “bask in the beauty of song.”

“Croeso! Welcome, one and all to the magical world of the Mill On The Hill. The yellow mill that sits on top of a hill, looking down on Melin Village and all of its wonderful occupants. Everyone is welcome here.” says Chief Miller Gruff. “Don’t be deceived, this is no ordinary mill. Our duty is to create music inside the mill for all the occupants of Melin Village, and anyone else who’d like to listen. Because, after all, who could imagine a world without music?”

Melin Melyn are more than just a band. They’re world-builders; storytellers absorbing various elements of the increasingly strange times around us and using them to create fables that ruminate on grief, love, and hope.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
Mill On The Hill (Intro)
Vitamin D
Promised Land
Fantastic Food
Dail
Derek

Side B:
Mill On The Hill (Reprise)
The Pigeon And The Golden Egg
18-30
Masterplan
Running On MT
Mill On The Hill (Outro)

Manchester-based poet, writer and producer Antony Szmierek has announced the release of his debut album, Service Station At The End Of The Universe. The past few years have been a wild ride for the artist. Cutting his teeth on the Manchester spoken word scene and gaining notoriety for his seamless flow skewering everything from the hardships of contemporary British life to finding the unexpected beauty in the everyday, it was the 2023 release of his single ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Fallacy’ that kicked off his meteoric ascent. The earworming track soon found its way onto the BBC 6 Music airwaves and led Szmierek to be named an Artist of the Year 2023 by the station. There followed appearances on Later… with Jools Holland, a BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale session, multiple triumphant Glastonbury sets and a flurry of comparisons: to the pavement prose of The Streets, the poetry of John Cooper Clarke if he found himself at the Haçienda, or like Jarvis Cocker for the UK Garage generation.

Yet, with the release of his 2023 indie-influenced EP Poems To Dance To and now his banger-filled, dancefloor-focused debut album, Service Station at the End of the Universe, Szmierek cements his sound as one that is distinctly his own. While the album provides a culmination of the deep dancefloor poetry that began with ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Fallacy’, it also showcases a new side to Szmierek’s writing, producing moments of downbeat, dark poignance. The album produces a cohesive and infectious journey through pop melodic hooks and thumping dancefloor orchestrations.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Service Station At The End Of The Universe
2. Rafters
3. The Great Pyramid Of Stockport
4. Big Light
5. Yoga Teacher
6. Crumb

Side 2:
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Fallacy
8. Passingthru
9. Take Me There
10. Restless Leg Syndrome
11. Crashing Up
12. Angie’s Wedding

Welcome to ‘KOKO’, Lottery Winners’ most adventurous album, while also home to their most infectious songs yet.

Short for Keep On Keeping On, ‘KOKO’’s 12 captivating tracks include a beautiful ode to friendship, a deliriously catchy duet with Reverend And The Makers’ Jon McClure about being unhealthily obsessed with your ex, a literally escapist chantalong funk anthem, a power ballad featuring Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger, a tender song of regret, plus the most uplifting, celebratory songs about panic attacks, ADHD and being expelled from school you’ll ever hear. There’s even a dance routine.

Following on from The Lottery Winners’ third album ART (Anxiety Replacement Therapy) reached No 1 in May 2023, this is set to be another big release.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Superpower
You Again (Feat. Reverend And The Makers)
Panic Attack
UFO
Ragdoll (Feat. Chad Kroger)
Struggling

Side B
Turn Around
Monaco
Three Wishes
Dirt And Gold (Feat. Frank Turner)
The Ceiling (Feat. Shed Seven
Keep On Keeping On

Bonus 7” - Dinked Edition Only
Side A // Letter To Myself (Again)
Side B // Belong (Demo)

There's No Stopping Us Now: The Female Mods' Forgotten Story' - a title that pays homage to one of The Supremes' many infectious floorfillers - is a celebration of the inspirational women singers and groups who provided a brilliant and timeless soundtrack to an exciting moment in British pop culture.

Bringing together the queens of Motown and Stax, classy chanteuses from around the world, and some homegrown dancefloor divas, these 98 songs on four discs were not only a key component of the enduring Mod scene, but many of the performers, musicians, songwriters and producers were the audible and visible representation of a way of life that publicist Pete Meaden described as "clean living under difficult circumstances".

The origins of the male Mod style are well documented but female Mods were too often relegated to a supporting role, which makes the work of these singers, and musicians, plus the actresses, artists, designers, media figures, models and writers of the time all the more pioneering.

Of course, female singers had been successful prior to the Mod era (among those included here, the great Dinah Washington made her recording debut in '44) but to add some context, in 2023 - some sixty years after the original flowering of Mod - nine of the 16 UK No. 1 singles were performed by or featured female artists. That compares to none of the 17 chart toppers in 1963. 

The inspiration for this new collection came from the book Ready Steady Girls: The Female Mods' Forgotten Story, first published in 2016 as a (quickly sold out) compendium of first-hand accounts by girls and young women drawn to the Mod way of life in the first half of the '60s, or the revival at the end of the following decade.

In 2024 that book is being made available once again, and we have the opportunity to create a fitting musical companion piece to that volume's striking and original words and images.

This stylishly packaged four disc set features female artists who went on to become household names (including a surprising number who found fame as actors), some one-hit wonders, a few acts who only found their audience years later, and a selection of deeper cuts that should get nodding approval from the Mod cognoscenti of either sex. The extensive sleeve notes provide a track-by-track commentary, with informative details of the singer and the song.

TRACK LISTING

CD1:
1. Aretha Franklin - Respect
2. Erma Franklin - Big Boss Man
3. Doris Troy - You'd Better Stop
4. Dusty Springfield - Can I Get A Witness
5. Martha & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run
6. Dinah Washington Soulville
7. Carla Thomas - Something Good (Is Going To Happen To You)
8. Inez & Charlie Foxx - My Momma Told Me
9. Thelma Jones - Stronger
10. Etta James - I'm So Glad (I Found Love In You)
11. Betty Everett - I've Got A Claim On You
12. P.P. Arnold - If You See What I Mean
13. Billie Davis & The LeRoys - Whatcha Gonna Do
14. The Exciters - Do-Wah-Diddy Diddy
15. Lydia Marcelle - It's Not Like You
16. Brenda Holloway - When I'm Gone
17. Maxine Brown - One Step At A Time
18. Mary Love - Think It Over Baby
19. Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
20. The Cake - You Can Have Him
21. Lesley Gore - California Nights
22. Sharon Tandy - Love Makes The World Go Round
23. Mary Wells - What's Easy For Two Is So Hard For One
24. The Velvelettes - These Things Will Keep Me Loving You
25. The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love

CD2:
1. Ketty Lester - Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
2. Helen Shapiro - Fever
3. Dionne Warwick - Another Night
4. Cilla Black With George Martin's Orchestra - I've Been Wrong Before
5. Julie Driscoll - I Know You Love Me Not
6. Nancy Wilson - Where Does That Leave Me?
7. Baby Washington - That's How Heartaches Are Made
8. Barbara Lewis - Baby I'm Yours
9. Dee Dee Sharp - My Best Friend's Man
10. Timi Yuro - You Can Have Him
11. Patti LaBelle & The Blue Belles - You Forgot How To Love
12. Sonny & Cher - Little Man
13. Ernestine Anderson - Keep An Eye Out For Love
14. Joy Marshall - The More I See You
15. Nico - I'm Not Sayin'
16. Julie Felix - I've Got Nothing But Time
17. Barbara Lynn - You'll Lose A Good Thing
18. Kim Weston - A Little More Love
19. Bettye Swann - Make Me Yours
20. Tammi Terrell - Come On And See Me
21. Jackie Ross - New Lover
22. The Toys - A Lover's Concerto
23. The Shirelles - Too Much Of A Good Thing
24. Kathy Kirby - You're The One

CD3:
1. Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me
2. Dodie West - Goin' Out Of My Head
3. Kiki Dee - (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am
4. Gillian Hills - Look At Them
5. Francoise Hardy - All Over The World
6. Twiggy - Beautiful Dreams
7. The Honeycombs - That's The Way
8. Dick & Dee Dee - Thou Shalt Not Steal
9. Glenda Collins - Baby It Hurts
10. Dana Gillespie - Pay You Back With Interest
11. Louise Cordett - Two Lovers
12. Sandie Shaw - Girl Don't Come
13. Petula Clark - I Know A Place
14. Lulu - Can't Hear You No More
15. Susan Maughan - Call On Me
16. The Caravelles - New York
17. Julie Grant - Can't Get You Out Of My Mind
18. The Shangri-Las - Right Now And Not Later
19. The Dixie Cups - People Say
20. The McKinleys - Sweet And Tender Romance
21. The Orchids - I've Got That Feeling
22. The Breakaways - He Doesn't Love Me
23. Polly Perkins - The Girls Are At It Again
24. Miss X - Christine

CD4:
1. The Chiffons - One Fine Day
2. The Ronettes - Baby I Love You
3. Little Eva - Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
4. The Crystals - I Wonder
5. Candy And The Kisses - Keep On Searchin'
6. The Ad-Libs - The Boy From New York City
7. The Soul Sisters - Good Time Tonight
8. Brenda Lee - What'd I Say?
9. Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Please Please
10. Millie - Sweet William
11. Derrick And Patsy - Troubles
12. Norma Tanega - Bread
13. Irma Thomas - Break-a-way
14. The Shondells - My Love
15. The Sapphires - Evil One
16. Madelaine Bell - I Really Got Carried Away
17. Elkie Brooks - Something's Got A Hold On Me
18. Cleo Laine - Don't You Pass Me By
19. Aretha Franklin - Baby I Love You
20. Sugar Pie DeSanto - I Don’t Wanna Fuss
21. Fontella Bass - Recovery
22. Dee Dee Warwick - Worth Every Tear I Cry
23. Sandy Wynns - A Touch Of Venus
24. The Marvelettes - Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead
25. The Supremes - There's No Stopping Us Now

Local Sugar Diggers is a series from label head Scruscru that draws together a fine selection of re-edits and reworks of a mix of hard-to-find old records, all done by his mates. This time out it is LTF who steps up his 'At The Pier' is an effortlessly funky jam with some laid-back horn work adding extra spice next to the jumbled percussion. Flip it over and you find 'Con Ritmo Y Melodia' which is a slower, steamier, more Latin-flavoured sound with shuffling percussive grooves and big old breaks to get the floor going.

TRACK LISTING

At The Pier
Con Ritmo Y Melodia

Brooke Combe, a rising Scottish singer-songwriter, delves deep into her soulful roots with her new album Dancing at the Edge of the World. This album, produced by The Coral’s James Skelley, marks her most authentic work yet, blending rich, emotive vocals with contemporary soul sounds. Brooke’s music captures the essence of heartbreak, empowerment, and self-discovery, resonating with a broad audience. Dancing at the Edge of the World is a powerful showcase of Brooke's artistry, highlighting her evolution as a leading voice in modern soul music.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Prelude
2. This Town
3. Guilt
4. Shaken By The Wind
5. L.M.T.F.A
6. The Last Time

Side B
1. Pieces
2. If I Could Only Be Yours
3. Lanewood Pines
4. Butterfly
5. Dancing At The Edge Of The World

A supergroup of sorts - Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, Trashmouth Records’ Luke and Liam May, and Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and Warmduscher - Decius have travelled the earth liberating people from banality since the release of Decius Vol. I. They’ve revealed to all those they’ve encountered just what was missing in their lives: pump without borders, pump without reason - absolute pump.

Now they offer up Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience). It throbs with an almost impossible sense of potential, and expands on the lexicon of molten desire. The sound has moved into new territories, with tastes of house, disco and techno, all with an underlying base note of acid on tracks such as the slippery night cruise intensity of ‘Birth of A Smirk’, where Colonel Abrams gets his nipples tortured. ‘Queen of 14th St’ is all watersports and Cybotron force from Detroit via Deptford. First single ‘Walking In The Heat’ struts like a sunburnt and horny Kraftwerk, while ‘Ghent’ is purest uncut ’88 acid. Vol. II is the art of seduction in damp rooms painted black. Keep hydrated from whatever source is available. Be your own pleasure centre. Vol. II is a veritable selection box of booty bumps and illegal highs made at night for the night and beyond. This is music that takes pride in its walk of shame.

TRACK LISTING

1. A1. Birth Of A Smirk (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:39)
2. A2. Walking In The Heat (feat. Lias Saoudi & Alex White) (4:53)
3. B1. Queen Of 14th St (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:51)
4. B2. Ghent (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:46)
5. C1. Ibrahim (feat. Lias Saoudi & Maggie The Cat) (4:57)
6. C2. I Gave Birth 2 U (feat. Lias Saoudi & Maggie The Cat) (5:25)
7. C3. Punishment/Improvement (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5:03)
8. D1. Y U Look At Me That Way? (feat. Fats McCourt) (5:15)
9. D2. We Carry Our Flamboyance As A Warning (4:37)
10. D3. Arctic Spring (feat. Lias Saoudi) (5.20)

An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life-one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in 'slummy, one-horse towns'; obsessive desire; bursts of comedy; and indispensable friendships, reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature helped her on a singular journey to become a beloved, Grammy-nominated artist. Neko Case has long been revered as one of music's most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candour and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl 'raised by two dogs and a space heater' in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent.

In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Case shows readers what it's like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art. The Harder I Fight The More I Love You is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face.

Vin Gordon, also known as Don Drummond Jr, is a celebrated trombonist from Jamaica who now drops a second 12" on Finnish Dub & Sound International with the Dubsetters. It carries on the good work of their first outing with rootsy and organic reggae rhythms topped with the signature smooth sounds of Gordon's melodies up top. After the original version of 'Get On The Groove', the B-side keeps things sweet with a Groove Dub that is as deep as they come and stacked with echo and reverb for that lovely authentic sound and then closing it out is 'Groove 78 Style' which is more percussive, splashy and cavernous with some deft studio effects added in.

TRACK LISTING

Get On The Groove
Groove Dub
Groove 78 Style

This new edition of 'Our Music Is Red - With Purple Flashes' expands on
the compilation released by Demon Records in 1998. It features all The
Creation’s studio recordings in one definitive set. 65 tracks over 4CDs
including 'Making Time', 'Painter Man' & 'Biff Bang Pow'.

Disc 1 features the original compilation in mono. Disc 2 includes Alex
Palao fresh stereo mixes created 2012. Disc 3 and disc 4 consist of the
albums 'Psychedelic Rose' and 'Power Surge' that were released after the
band reunited in 1985. The set is complete with an essay by Lois Wilson
and fresh artwork.

There’s still a very real sense that The Creation never got their proper
due. Perhaps they never will but for those in the know, they know. The
Creation are king

TRACK LISTING

CD1 - Mono Mixes 1966-1968:
1. Making Time
2. Try And Stop Me
3. Painter Man
4. Biff Bang Pow
5. Sylvette
6. If I Stay Too Long
7. Nightmares
8. Cool Jerk
9. Like A Rolling Stone
10. I Am The Walker
11. Can I Join Your Band
12. Hey Joe
13. Life Is Just Beginning
14. Through My Eyes
15. How Does It Feel To Feel (UK Version)
16. How Does It Feel To Feel (US Version)
17. Tom Tom
18. Ostrich Man
19. Sweet Helen
20. Midway Down
21. The Girls Are Naked
22. Bony Maronie
23. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
24. For All That I Am
25. Uncle Bert

CD2 – Stereo Mixes 1966 – 1968:
1. Making Time [instrumental]
2. Painter Man
3. Biff Bang Pow
4. Sylvette [full Length]
5. If I Stay Too Long
6. Nightmares
7. Cool Jerk
8. Like A Rolling Stone
9. Can I Join Your Band
10. Hey Joe
11. Life Is Just Beginning
12. Through My Eyes
13. How Does It Feel To Feel [UK Version]
14. Tom Tom
15. How Does It Feel To Feel [US Version]
16. Midway Down
17. For All That I Am
18. Instrumental # 1
19. How Does It Feel To Feel [instrumental]

CD3 - Psychedelic Rose:
1. Lay The Ghost
2. Psychedelic Rose
3. Radio Beautiful
4. United
5. Doing It My Way
6. Making Time (new Version)
7. Far From Paradise
8. White Knight
9. Spirit Called Love

CD4 - POWER SURGE:
1. Creation
2. Power Surge
3. Someone's Gonna Bleed
4. Shock Horror
5. That's How I Found Love
6. Killing Song
7. Nobody Wants To Know
8. City Life
9. English Language
10. Free Men Live Forever
11. Ghost Division
12. O+N 

Produced with Mark Ralph, who previously worked with them on their 2013 album 'Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action', the album showcases Franz at their most immediate, upbeat and life-affirming, unashamedly going for the pop-jugular in classic Franz style.

Recorded at AYR studios in Scotland, the 11-songs on 'The Human Fear' all allude to some deep-set human fears and how overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives.

Ever since their beginnings, throwing illegal parties in condemned Glasgow buildings, Franz Ferdinand have been defined by a fresh, unfading, forward-facing outlook, a transgressive art-school perspective, but with a love of a big song and 'The Human Fear' undoubtedly continues in this tradition; distinct yet new, musically, and creatively it’s a record eager to push forward.

Pretty much all written before they hit the studio, the idea was to have a songbook ready before they started recording and once in the studio it was all quickly executed - a lot of it recorded live with the band in the room and many of the vocals on the album being the original takes.

The first studio album to feature members Audrey Tait and Dino Bardot, the record also sees Julian Corrie step forward to collaborate with Alex Kapranos and Bob Hardy on song writing and creative duties.

A band for whom the aesthetic and style is almost as important as the sound, as ever the importance of this is reflected in the cover artwork which was inspired by Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer’s self-portrait 7 Twists - Maurer’s work appealed because it does exactly what they want from their music: a striking immediacy that is impossible to ignore, but with a depth and vulnerability that bears many returns and satisfactory repetition.

Maybe this is a set of songs about fear, maybe this is a set of bangers from an era-defining band continuing their unquestionably living legacy. Is that something to be afraid of?

TRACK LISTING

1. Audacious
2. Everyday Dreamer
3. The Doctor
4. Hooked
5. Build It Up
6. Night Or Day
7. Tell Me I Should Stay
8. Cats
9. Black Eyelashes
10. Bar Lonely
11. The Birds

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.

Since I Left You has a reputation amongst its advocates that exceeds those of nearly all of its closest peers. Yet despite the inordinate amount of attention this album has received, it has never been thoroughly examined in context. While repeatedly celebrated for its artistry, technical skill, and emotional resonance - in particular its sample-based material and then-cutting edge technological feats within the electronic music genre - it has never been definitively placed in the world that produced it.

Charles Fairchild studies this album in a way no one else has. Since I Left You is placed in its historical, technological, and cultural contexts and is examined for the social and aesthetic attributes it was said to possess at the time of its release. There is a focus on the clear set of aesthetic aspirations that guided the album's creators and how those creators pasted together the fragments of many sound worlds.

‘The Clocks' was originally issued in 2007 as a CD-only limited edition of 110 for members of 'The Bevis Frond Online Community'. It comprised 19 previously unissued tracks. Most of these were home demos featuring just Frond frontman Nick Saloman on all instruments and vocals. Since then, it has never been re-issued in any format. It is therefore with great pleasure that Blue Matter are re-issuing it for the first time, and now as a vinyl double album and limited CD. Due to certain circumstances, three of the original tracks could not be used, so these have been replaced these with another three previously unheard tracks from Nick Saloman's extensive archives. These songs include the seven minute 'She's Taken It All', originally intended for 2004's 'Hit Squad' album but dropped at the last minute due to timing constraints. The beautiful 'You Better Make Do' and the edgy 'Devil Doll' have also been added. We are delighted to be able to make this 'long lost' album available once again and think it will be a welcome addition to the Bevis Frond canon.

TRACK LISTING

Side One.
1 Worlde Is Older
2 The Clocks
3 Home Is Where The Head Is
4 Cut To The Quick
Side Two.
5 Bless Him
6 Anything You Say
7 Devil Doll
8 God
9 When I’m Gone
10 I Need The Rush.
Side Three.
11 Watch The Sun
12 You Better Make Do
13 Little Ray
14 She’s Taken It All.
Side Four.
15 Things He Said
16 I’ll Save Myself
17 I Wasn’t There
18 I’m Better Now
19 Shades 

2010 compilation from the Electronic duo, Thievery Corporation. The album is a collection of tracks specially selected by Rob Garza and Eric Hilton for longtime fans and for music lovers who have heard of Thievery Corporation but may have never listened to the band. It Takes a Thief features 'Lebanese Blonde,' the beautiful track used on the Grammy award-winning Garden State Soundtrack, as well as 'Sound the Alarm', the funk-infused track that has become a staple opening track for the band's live shows. First time ever available on vinyl. This vinyl release is part of a larger lead up to a 2025 box set celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Amerimacka
2. Lebanese Blonde
3. Facing East
4. Holographic Universe

Side B:
5. Shadows Of Ourselves
6. Sound The Alarm
7. Until The Morning
8. Sweet Tides

Side C:
9. Satyam Shivam Sundaram
10. All That We Perceive
11. Air Batucada
12. Exilio (Rewound)

Side D:
13. Vampires
14. Warning Shots
15. The Richest Man In Babylon
16. The Passing Stars

The long-awaited analog release of past singles by Nectar Woode, a singer of Ghanaian and British descent whose debut EP 『Nothing To Lose』 became a smash hit!

Side A features "Waiting," characterized by delicate, enveloping harmonies and a relaxed swing. Side B offers "For The Best," a track filled with vibrant melodies and an organic, gentle vocal that radiates euphoria. This 7-inch record allows you to fully enjoy the music of female neo-soul and contemporary R&B artist Nectar Woode.

TRACK LISTING

1. Waiting
2. For The Best

Rahim Redcar (fka Christine and the Queens) presents his new album “Hopecore”. Collector Transparent Blue Vinyl. Includes “DEEP HOLES”. 

TRACK LISTING

A Side
A1. Forgive 8888888
A2. Elevate
A3. Ins8de Of Me
A4. Deep Holes
A5. Red Birdman Emergency

B Side
B1. Opera - I Understand
B2. Manuela Danse 

Rome is the definitive live document of The National. Recorded live (without overdubs) on June 3, 2024 at the architecturally stunning venue Parco Della Musica Ennio Morricone, named for the famed Italian film composer, the 21-track LP showcases scintillating versions of beloved songs like "Bloodbuzz Ohio," "Don't Swallow the Cap," "I Need My Girl," "The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness," “England” and "Fake Empire"; plus sharpened readings of recent tracks "Eucalyptus," "New Order T-Shirt," "Tropic Morning News" and the boundary pushing "Smoke Detector."

The double album, mixed by longtime collaborator Peter Katis, spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how each song has taken on a new life in its live performance. “You have to see this band live” is often said about The National, and now, Rome is the next best thing to actually being there.

Reflecting how the band changes setlists significantly from night to night to cast fresh light on hidden gems from the catalog, Rome is marked by rarities such as show opener “Runaway,” “Lemonworld,” “The Geese of Beverly Road,” “Lit Up” and a tour de force pairing of “Humiliation” from the critically acclaimed album Trouble Will Find Me into Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers’ “Murder Me Rachael.”

The Rome encore features the election anthem “Mr. November,” and, from High Violet, “Terrible Love” and the show-closing fan singalong, “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.”

TRACK LISTING

Runaway
Eucalyptus
Tropic Morning News
New Order T-Shirt
Don't Swallow The Cap
Bloodbuzz Ohio
The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
I Need My Girl
Lemonworld
The Geese Of Beverly Road
Lit Up
Alien
Humiliation
Murder Me Rachael
England
Graceless
Fake Empire
Smoke Detector
Mr November
Terrible Love
Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks

Neil Young and Reprise Records announce the release of On The Beach 50th Anniversary Edition, a special 140g clear vinyl pressing, celebrating this milestone birthday of his classic 1974 album, due for release on 8th November.

The follow-up to Harvest, On The Beach was Neil's fifth studio album, and featured musicians from Crazy Horse, The Band, as well as David Crosby and Graham Nash. 

RECORDED AT:
Studio, Broken Arrow Ranch;
Sunset Sound, Hollywood

PRODUCED BY:
Neil Young, David Briggs, Mark Harman, Al Schmitt

MUSICIANS:
Neil Young: vocal, guitar, harmonica, Wurlitzer, banjo, electric tambourine
Ben Keith: bass, slide guitar, vocal, steel guitar, Wurlitzer, dobro, organ, percussion
Rusty Kershaw: slide guitar, fiddle
David Crosby: rhythm guitar
George Whitsell: guitar
Graham Nash: Wurlitzer
Tim Drummond: bass, percussion
Billy Talbot, Rick Danko: bass
Ralph Molina: drums, vocals, hand drums
Levon Helm: drums
Joe Yankee: harp, electric tambourine

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Walk On (2:40)
2. See The Sky About To Rain (5:03)
3. Revolution Blues (4:02)
4. For The Turnstiles (3:13)
5. Vampire Blues (4:11)

Side Two
1. On The Beach (7:04)
2. Motion Pictures (4:20)
3. Ambulance Blues (8:57)

The final recordings by Annapolis early emo pioneers the Hated, Flux compiles their 1989 acoustic and electric sessions, home demos, and live shards from their extensive archive. The accompanying 24- page book outlines the last year of the band with essays from founders Dan Littleton and Erik Fisher, a track-by-track oral history, photos, flyers, and lyrics from this vital post-hardcore unit.

“Hostile and magnetic—like perfume wafting through a barbed wire fence.” -  Washington Post

TRACK LISTING

A
1 The Flux
2 Two People Blue
3 Lighthouse
4 Wherever You Go

B
1 T.S. Eliot
2 The Ballad Of Dexter Bunk
3 Miggy’s Delight
4 Fly

C
1 The Flux Too
2 Tumbling Ground
3 Echoes Of Whistletree Park

D
1 Changing Chekov
2 The Flux (live)
3 The Races
4 Third Birthday 

The limited edition, deluxe version of the vinyl record includes a 7” with the 2 bonus tracks housed in the LP sleeve and is pressed on silver vinyl.

Featuring two new songs, the previously released ‘ECRP’ and new track ‘Bangin’ On The Freeway’, which is accompanied by a video directed by Coco Gordon Moore.

Kim spoke on the new release and 2024, saying, “Feel like I’m just getting started! Thanks for all the love!"

Gordon had a whirlwind year, playing packed rooms and festivals across the world including performances at Glastonbury, Le Guess Who, Bumbershoot Festival and Ohana Festival. Gordon also made her explosive solo late night television debut, performing 'BYE BYE' on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Recorded in Gordon’s native Los Angeles, The Collective follows her 2019 full-length debut 'No Home Record' and continues her collaboration with Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. The album advances their joint world building, with Raisen’s damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Gordon’s intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, which conjure communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklist:
1. BYE BYE
2. The Candy House
3. I Don’t Miss My Mind
4. I’m A Man
5. Trophies
6. It’s Dark Inside
7. Psychedelic Orgasm
8. Tree House
9. Shelf Warmer
10, The Believers
11. Dream Dollar

7” Tracklist:
1. Bangin' On The Freeway
2. ECRP

The latest in Fuzz Club's King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard official bootleg series arrives in the shape of 'Nonagon Infinity Live'. It's a live version of the cult Australian psych-rock band's breakthrough 2016 album 'Nonagon Infinity' compiled by Fuzz Club (with the help of the /KGATLW Reddit community) out of live recordings captured at Bonnaroo Festival (2022), Brussels' Ancienne Belgique (2019), the Red Rocks Amphitheatre (2022) and Chicago's The Salt Shed (2023).

All of the tracks have been mixed by King Gizz's own Stu Mackenzie and remastered exclusively for this Fuzz Club bootleg by James Plotkin. Limited to 999 copies, it arrives as a 'gold nugget'-coloured, nonagon-shaped double LP with printed inners and a handnumbered gatefold jacket with gold foil detailing and an exclusively licensed photo by Jamie Wdziekonski / Sub-Lation on the inside that nods to the inside-gatefold photo on the original studio album.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1
SIDE A
1. Robot Stop (Live At Bonnaroo '22)
2. Big Fig Wasp (Live In Brussels '19)
SIDE B
1. Gamma Knife (Live At Red Rocks '22)
2. People-Vultures (Live At Red Rocks '22)
3. Mr. Beat (Live At Red Rocks '22)

DISC 2
SIDE C
1. Evil Death Roll (Live In Chicago '23)
SIDE D
1. Invisible Face (Live In Chicago '23)
2. Wah Wah (Live In Chicago '23)
3. Road Train (Live In Chicago '23)

There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I’d suddenly realised, they did still. One winter’s night, Alex James received an unexpected call.

Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn’t spoken to – or even shouted at – each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run.

This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the scenes of a raucous, rollercoaster year, Alex describes how the band made a surprise – and emotional – return, recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world, from Colchester to Colombia and beyond. Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his ‘Britpop Trousers,’ somehow organised an entire festival of his own, and tried to perfect the recipe for a giant Frazzle.

Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world’s biggest bands. It is a love letter to Blur, to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that, however old – or hungover – we might feel, nothing’s ever truly over: it’s always just the start of the next thing.

RAVE:N, The Remixes is a collection of re-worked and re-imagined songs from Kelela’s critically acclaimed February 2023 album, Raven. As an artist spearheading the new age sound of today’s generation, Kelela never fails to provide a refreshing and eclectic twist to every genre she approaches.

Boasting a dynamic set of collaborators, including Shygirl, Yaeji, Liv.e, BbyMutha, LEECH, and more, RAVE:N, The Remixes is a testament to Kelela’s artistry and an ode to the culture that birthed her. This album is a moshpit of imagination, immortalised for her fans to discover and rediscover as time goes by.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Raven (Agazero Remix Feat. Bbymutha)
A2. Contact (Karen Nyame KG Remix)
A3. Closure (Flexulant X BAMBII Remix Feat. Rahrah Gabor + Brazy)
B1. Holier (JD. REID Remix Feat. Shygirl)
B2. Bruises (SUCIA! Remix)
B3. Washed Away (Ethereal Remix Feat. Liv.e)
B4. Far Away (DJ Swisha Remix)
C1. Raven (TYGAPAW Remix Feat. Rochelle Jordan)
C2. Sorbet (LSDXOXO Remix)
C3. Divorce (DJ Manny Remix)
D1. Fooley (LEECH Ambient Queen Remix)
D2. Missed Call (KYRUH Remix)
D3. Happy Ending (A.G Remix)
E1. Let It Go (NGUZUNGUZU X DJ GAY-Z Remix)
E2. On The Run (River Moon Remix Feat. ThugPop)
E3. Enough For Love (TAYHANA Remix)
E4. Enough For Love (Yaeji Heart+beat Remix)
F1. Divorce (Loraine James Remix)
F2. Far Away (DJ LHC Remix)
F3. Far Away (SUUTOO His Eye Is On The Raven Remix Feat. Ms. Carrie Stacks)

Available in a first edition print run strictly limited to 4,000 copies, fabric tells the story of one of the most revered clubs in the history of dance music culture. fabric captures the journey of a small group of enthusiasts who, rebelling against the commercialisation of the rave scene, converted a derelict meat store in an unfashionable part of London into a venue that remains a cathedral for undiluted dance music with a global following. Featuring stories about the club's birth, struggles and successes, as well as rare photography and iconic artwork, and an oral history by Joe Muggs featuring over one hundred testimonies from the legendary DJs associated with fabric, this is a celebration of the colossal impact fabric has had on club culture over the last quarter of a century.

Above all, it's a story about the misfits and visionaries who made it happen, the curators and resident DJs who have kept it true to its roots, and the experiences of clubbers on the dancefloor.

Sole Aspect takes us around the world and to the studios of artists based across Madrid, Switzerland, Los Angeles and Detroit on The Mystic Embrace EP. Opening it up is Ernes Joey & Robbin Hauz with 'U Should Know' (feat Shea Doll - Age Of Rage remix) which is a version by Dubbyman alongside Dan Piu with some delightfully jazzy keeps, seductive deep house drums and aching vocals full of heart. The original is a stripped-back sound with less melodic luxuriousness but the still superb vocal front and centre. Dubbyman then mixes Klima Project's 'Sweetback' into a mid-tempo, cuddly back room deep house sound and Patrice Scott Reshapes it with some crystal-cut synth lines that bring cosmic charm.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Ernes Joey & Robbin Hauz - "U Should Know" (feat Shea Doll - Age Of Rage Remix)
2. Ernes Joey & Robbin Hauz - "U Should Know" (feat Shea Doll - Original Mix)

Side 2
1. Klima Project - "Sweetback" (Dubbyman Mix)
2. Klima Project - "Velvet Moon" (Patrice Scott Reshape)

A limited-edition 4CD box set released to coincide with the cult shoegaze label’s 20th anniversary. It features 62 tracks, many of which are previously unreleased, plus rare remixes, showstopping live recordings and a shoegaze Christmas compilation. Includes Slowdive, Andy Bell (Ride), Emma Anderson (Lush), bdrmm, Whitelands and deary, plus remixes by Andrew Weatherall, James Holden, David Holmes, Daniel Avery and many more. Across the four discs, the box set tells the story of Sonic Cathedral from its humble beginnings as a club night in 2004 to its present-day position at the centre of the never-ending shoegaze revival, after playing a huge part in repopularising the once maligned genre over the past two decades.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: Banging the drum for shoegaze when nobody was listening, this absolutely sensational box set celebrates 20 years of one of the best labels around - Sonic Cathedral. With contributions from shoegaze legends (Slowdive, Andy Bell) to current torchbearers (Deary, Whitelands), this set is perfect for both newcomers and veterans of the genre alike.

TRACK LISTING

CD1 - Celebrate Yourself! A Compilation Of Sonic Cathedral Classics
1. Pye Corner Audio Feat. Andy Bell – Warmth Of Te Sun (Edit) – First Physical Release
2. Te Early Years – Fluxus
3. Mark Peters Feat. Dot Allison – Switched On – First Physical Release
4. Dot Allison Feat. Andy Bell – Unchanged (Edit) – First Physical Release
5. Cheval Sombre – It’s Not Time
6. Neil Halstead – Spin Te Botle (Alternative Version) – First Physical Release
7. Mildred Maude – CPA II
8. Yeti Lane – Dead Tired
9. Lorelle Meets Te Obsolete – Balance
10. Horsegirl – Sea Life Sandwich Boy – First Time On CD
11. Dummy – Slacker Mask – First Time On CD
12. Tree Quarter Skies – On Fire (Edit) – First Physical Release
13. Moon Diagrams – Rewop
14. Andy Bell – Skwalker (Edit) – First Physical Release
15 Not Me But Us – When We See (Edit) – First Physical Release
16. MOLLY – Te Golden Age (Edit) – First Physical Release
17. Emma Anderson – Queen Moth – Exclusive To This Release
18. Deary – Fairground
19. Whitelands Feat. Dotie – Tell Me About It
20. Bdrmm – A Reason To Celebrate

CD2 - Recalibrate Yourself! A Collection Of Sonic Cathedral Remixes
1. Andy Bell – Te Sk Without You (David Holmes Radical Mycology Remix)
2. Pye Corner Audio Feat. Andy Bell – Saturation Point (Sonic Boom Remix) – First Time On CD
3. Lorelle Meets Te Obsolete – Unificado (Pye Corner Audio Remix) – First Time On CD
4. Not Me But Us – When We See (Maps Remix) – First Physical Release
5. Te Early Years – Hall Of Mirrors (Andrew Weatherall Remix II) – First Time On CD
6. Cheval Sombre – Couldn’t Do (Justin Robertson’s Deadstock 33s Remix) – First Time On CD
7. Bdrmm – Port (Daniel Avery Remix)
8. Sobrenadar – Del Tiempo (Slowdive Remix) – First Time On CD
9. XAM Duo – Cold Stones (James Holden Remix) – First Time On CD
10. Dot Allison Feat. Andy Bell – Unchanged (GLOK Remix) – First Physical Release
11. Mark Peters Feat. Dot Allison – Sundowning (Richard Norris Ambient Remix) – First Physical Release

CD3 - Reverberate Yourself! A Congregation Of Sonic Cathedral Live Recordings
1. Lorelle Meets Te Obsolete – What’s Holding You? – Golden Hair (Recorded At Te
Victoria, London 10.04.14) – First Time On CD
2. Andy Bell & Masal – Hallogallo (Recorded At Te Social, London 21.05.23) – First Time On CD
3. Disappears – Speed Of Life (Recorded At Te 100 Club, London 23.11.15) – First Time On CD
4. Te Early Years – Te Simple Solution (Recorded At Te 100 Club, London 15.10.14) – First Time On CD
5. Bdrmm – Momo – Push/Pull (Recorded At Te Nave, Leeds 16.08.20) – First Time On CD
6. Pye Corner Audio – Excerpt From Social Dissonance (Recorded At Te Social, London 23.10.19) – First Time On CD
7. XAM Duo – Excerpt From Live At Te Total Refreshment Centre (Recorded At Te Total Refreshment Centre, London 05.11.16) – First Time On CD
8. Mark Peters – Sundowning (Recorded At Te Band Room, Yorkshire 08.04.23) – First Physical Release
9. Sennen – Nightime (Recorded At Goldsmiths Music Studios, London 12.06.21)
10. Dean Wareham – When Will You Come Home (Recorded At St Pancras Old Church, London 05.12.13) – First Time On CD
11. Cheval Sombre – Where Did Our Love Go (Recorded At St Pancras Old Church,
London 22.11.12) – First Time On CD
12. Deary – Want You (Recorded At St Pancras Old Church, London 23.11.23) – First
Physical Release
13. Slowdive– Golden Hair (Recorded At Te Teatre At Ace Hotel, Los Angeles 09.11.14) – First Time On CD

CD4 - Celebrate Your Elf! A Constellation Of Sonic Cathedral Christmas Songs
1. Mark Peters – Te Box Of Delights – First Time On CD
2. Tree Quarter Skies – Holy Water (Single Version) – First Time On CD
3. Andy Bell – Listen, Te Snow Is Falling
4. Pye Corner Audio – Omnichord Omnishambles (At Xmas) – First Physical Release
5. Younghusband – I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You – First Physical Release
6. Spectres – Wonderful Christmastime – First Time On CD
7. A Place To Bury Strangers – Celebration – Exclusive To This Release
8. Fairewell – Christmas Eve – First Time On CD
9. Pye Corner Audio – A Winter Drone For Christmas – First Physical Release
10. Mark Peters – Silent Night – First Physical Release
11. Dawn Chorus And Te Infallible Sea – O Holy Night – Exclusive To This Release
12. MOLLY – Andachtsjodler – Exclusive To This Release
13. Deary – 2000 Miles
14. Mark Peters – Jingle Bells – First Physical Release
15. Fairewell – In Te Bleak Midwinter – First Time On CD
16. Pye Corner Audio – Get Tee Behind Me Santa – First Physical Release
17. Mark Peters – Te Box Of Delights (Maps Remix) – First Time On CD
18. Maps - Stay Another Day - First Official Release

'Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road' features 12 Beatles songs that include classic hits such as 'Can’t Buy Me Love,' 'With A Little Help From My Friends' and 'Something.' Williams and her band also take on beloved deeper tracks such as 'I’m So Tired,' 'I’ve Got A Feeling,' and 'Yer Blues.' Being raised on the blues in the South, the latter is a song Williams was clearly meant to sing. Recorded at The Beatles' legendary studio in London, the new collection serves as Vol. 7 of her celebrated Lu’s Jukebox series and is the first new volume in almost four years.

While many great artists have recorded in the hallowed Abbey Road Studios, as it turns out, Williams is the first major artist to actually record Beatles’ songs there aside from the Fab Four themselves.

As an acclaimed, award-winning singer/songwriter for more than four decades, Williams’ music has been highly influential and covered by a multitude of artists. Williams is also an extraordinary interpreter who, like all great interpreters, has the ability to inhabit a song and make it her own. She does just that throughout this selection of Beatles tracks, as she has done on each Lu’s Jukebox volume.

TRACK LISTING

1 Don't Let Me Down
2 I'm Looking Through You
3 Can't Buy Me Love
4 Rain
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6 Let It Be
7 Yer Blues
8 I've Got A Feeling
9 I'm So Tired
10 Something
11 With A Little Help From My Friends
12 The Long And Winding Road

It has been said that Robbie Basho's art was strongest in concert. To what extent the experience can be reconstituted is uncertain. Whatever the case, 'Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan' is the mother lode of Basho live recordings. On these five discs we are treated to some remarkable pieces that have never been published, as well as surprising renditions of old favourites. Compiled from Basho’s sprawling personal collection of master tapes (discovered during the production of Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho), and potentially encompassing his entire career, this edition represents a live companion to the studio set Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes (Tompkins Square, 2020). While the tapes have (in the main) survived incredibly well over the decades (against the odds), please note that some previously unpublished tracks with subpar to poor fidelity have been included.

TRACK LISTING

CD1:
1.Chung Mei - The Chinese Orchid
2. Some Summer Day
3. Sligo River Blues
4. Autumn Nocturne
5. In The Meadows
6. Snow Beneath The Belly Of A White Swan

CD2:
1. The Falconer's Arm
2. Himalayan Highlands
3. The Golden Shamrock
4. Bear Medicine
5. Charles Ives Paints Modern America
6. Portrait Of Fahey As A Young Dragoon

CD3:
1. Song Of God
2. Kowaka D'Amour
3. Pasha
4. Cathedrals Et Fleur De Lis
5. Cantos California

CD4:
1. Green River Suite
2. California Raga
3. Silver Curls
4. The Lady She Is A Waiting
5. Chaconne Fandango
6. Song Of The Stallion
7. A North American Raga (The Plumstar)

CD5:
1. Eagle Sails The Blue Diamond Waters
2. Kateri Tekakwitha
3. Orphan's Lament
4. A Song Of Kings
5. Moon Milk
6. Wonder Song

Enigmatic instrumental group from The Pro-Teens pay tribute to the late great rapper MF DOOM, reimagining 14 iconic cuts through a wonky boom bap funk lens.

Helmed by Hudson Whitlock, prolific drummer and percussionist of Karate Boogaloo and Surprise Chef, Melbourne’s The Pro-Teens is a collective of instrumentalists making weirdo instrumental soul records. Drawing from the community of musicians from such bands in the College Of Knowledge orbit, The Pro-Teens’ incorporate the comic book stylings of DOOM and Kool Keith, the dark and exotic flavors of Gravediggaz and Wu-Tang Clan, the cinematic compositional mastery of Galt MacDermot, Richard Evans and Marc Moulin, culminating in an unorthodox patchwork of cinematic soul, boom-bap funk breaks and left-field instrumental textures. 'MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed' recognises the legacy of rap’s Illest Villain, traversing MF DOOM’s discography and personas, flipping selections from Madvillain, 'MM.. FOOD', 'Viktor Vaughan', 'Danger Doom' and more, taking care to ensure recognisable tunes such as 'Doomsday' and 'Curls' are represented alongside more obscure cuts such as 'The Gas Face', the Third Bass song that featured the first recorded verse from MF DOOM in his original moniker of Zev Love X of KMD. The full-length album follows the Pro-Teens now collectible 7”s of The Pro-Teens’ renditions of 'Peachfuzz b/w One Beer' and 'Doomsday b/w Curls', releases that built a feverous anticipation for the complete album. 'MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed' comes after 2021’s Snooch Dodd & The Pro-Teens - 'I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly', co-released with UK tastemaker label Mr Bongo.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Gas Face
2. The Time We Faced DOOM
3. Peachfuzz
4. Curls
5. Doomsday
6. Sofa King
7. Kon Queso
8. One Beer
9. Can I Watch?
10. A Dead Mouse
11. Microwave Mayo
12. Supervillain Theme
13. Benzie Box
14. Charsnuka

In November of 1980, post-punk legends The Sound released their debut album Jeopardy, a critically acclaimed yet often overlooked record compared to other releases in the musical soundscape of the early 80s. The Sound, which initially evolved from punk group The Outsiders, is a band that many musicians and many devoted fans alike consider to be one of the most underrated post-punk bands of all time. They sadly never had a huge following relative to their creative output despite being championed by famous Radio DJ John Peel, and Korova label mates Echo and The Bunnymen, as well as touring with The Comsat Angels.

On April 26, 2024 it will be exactly 25 years since Adrian Borland of The Sound passed away. We are commemorating this by organizing a special event at Poppodium Boerderij together with the Opposite Direction Foundation on this day. With a book presentation, film, concert and exhibition. It was December 5, 1987 that Adrian Borland walked off the stage halfway through the concert of The Sound at De Boerderij. It would later turn out that this had been The Sound's last concert. Adrian then made five more solo albums, but unfortunately his illness always slumbered in the background and on April 26, 1999 he decided to end his life.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. “I Can’t Escape Myself”
2. “Heartland”
3. “Hour Of Need”
4. “Words Fail Me”
5. “Missiles”
Side B
1. “Heyday”
2. “Jeopardy”
3. “Night Versus Day”
4. “Resistance”
5. “Unwritten Law”
6. “Desire”

From the Lions Mouth is the second studio album by English post-punk band The Sound, released in November 1981 on record label Korova. Following the release of their previous album Jeopardy, keyboardist Belinda "Bi" Marshall left the group and was replaced by Colvin "Max" Mayers. For their new album, The Sound worked with producer Hugh Jones, as well as co-producing the album themselves.

On April 26, 2024 it will be exactly 25 years since Adrian Borland of The Sound passed away. We are commemorating this by organizing a special event at Poppodium Boerderij together with the Opposite Direction Foundation on this day. With a book presentation, film, concert and exhibition. It was December 5, 1987 that Adrian Borland walked off the stage halfway through the concert of The Sound at De Boerderij. It would later turn out that this had been The Sound's last concert. Adrian then made five more solo albums, but unfortunately his illness always slumbered in the background and on April 26, 1999 he decided to end his life.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. “Winning”
2. “Sense Of Purpose”
3. “Contact The Fact”
4. “Skeletons”
5. “Judgements”
Side B
1. “Fatal Flaw”
2. “Possesion”
3. “The Fire”
4. “Silent Air”
5. “New Dark Age”

All Fall Down is the third studio album by English post-punk band the Sound, recorded from March to August 1982 and released in November 1982.

On April 26, 2024 it will be exactly 25 years since Adrian Borland of The Sound passed away. We are commemorating this by organizing a special event at Poppodium Boerderij together with the Opposite Direction Foundation on this day. With a book presentation, film, concert and exhibition. It was December 5, 1987 that Adrian Borland walked off the stage halfway through the concert of The Sound at De Boerderij. It would later turn out that this had been The Sound's last concert. Adrian then made five more solo albums, but unfortunately his illness always slumbered in the background and on April 26, 1999 he decided to end his life.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. “All Fall Down”
2. “Party Of The Mind”
3. “Monument”
4. “In Suspense”
5. “Where The Love Is”
Side B
1. "Song And Dance”
2. “Calling The New Tune”
3. “Red Paint”
4. “Glass And Smoke”
5. “We Could Go Far”
6. "The One And A Half Minute Song"
7. "Sorry"
8. "As Feeling Dies"

This book is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. It explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what it means to have been a punk – how punk unravels as a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what that unravelling means in the context of post-peace-process Northern Ireland.

In doing so, it suggests a critical understanding of sectarianism, subjectivity and memory politics in the North, and argues for the importance of placing punk within the segregated structures of everyday life described by the interviewees. Belfast punk and the Troubles is an intervention in Northern Irish historiography stressing the importance of history from below, and will be compelling reading for historians of Ireland and of punk, as well as those interested in innovative approaches to oral history. -- .

The Woodentops are long-time Balearic bossmen and peerless party starters and now their music is under the spotlight on this new remixes EP from Hottwerk. It is their tune 'A Pact' that gets four different versions here starting with a nice loose-limbed and percussive house workout from the UK veteran Bushwhacka!. Then Skyscraper HiFi B aka Anglo-Swedish pair Jon Dasilva and Jonas Nilsson offer a remix that slows it right down to a nice downtempo jam with indie vocals and then offer a second remix that is more sleazy and raw with a low-slung house grove topped with acid madness. Last but not least is the label head Spatial Awareness with a remix which glides on silky synths and airy drum loops with some nice trippy vocal touches.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. "A Pact" (Bushwacka! Remix)
2. "A Pact" (Skyscraper HiFi Remix B)

Side 2
1. "A Pact" (Skyscraper HiFi Remix A)
2. "A Pact" (Spatial Awareness Remix)

After the reissues of The Beloved's indie-facing compilation of early singles 'Where It Is' and their first studio album 'Happiness', next up is their second studio album, 'Conscience'.

'Conscience' was originally released in 1993, reaching No. 2 in the UK album chart hitting 100,000 selling BPI Gold status. It contains their biggest hit to date, the BPI Silver disc awarded 'Sweet Harmony', a top 10 in the UK and across Europe. Other singles include double A-side of 'Celebrate Your Life' and 'You've Got Me Thinking', 'Outerspace Girl', which both hit the UK top 40 and 'Rock To The Rhythm Of Love', which was released in the United States only.

Available as a 180g heavyweight double vinyl package for the first time, 'Conscience' has been remastered from the original analogue studio masters (by John Davis at Metropolis Studios) boasting louder and clearer audio than the original release. Original pressings of the album are currently selling on Discogs for an average of £75.00

This is a limited run of white heavyweight vinyl, with a standard heavyweight black vinyl release with extra artwork + liner notes following in 2025.

'Conscience' is a timelessly classic album, still sounding fresh 30 years after its original release.

TRACK LISTING

1. Spirit
2. Sweet Harmony
3. Outerspace Girl
4. Lose Yourself In Me
5. Paradise Found
6. You've Got Me Thinking
7. Celebrate Your Life
8. Rock To The Rhythm Of Love
9. Let The Music Take You
10. 1000 Years From Today
11. Dream On

‘What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?’ is the eighth studio album by British post-punk legends Echo & The Bunnymen, released on April 16, 1999.

With an inspired selection of collaborators including strings from the London Metropolitan Orchestra and two songs featuring the American rap rock band Fun Loving Criminals, ‘What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?’ featured two singles, the title track, and the atmospheric fan favourite ‘Rust’, which would mark the band’s final Top 40 UK single.

TRACK LISTING

Side One
What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?
Rust
Get In The Car
Baby Rain

Side Two
History Chimes
Lost On You
Morning Sun
When It All Blows Over
Fools Like Us 

With its ethereal, buzzing acoustic riffs, helix of resonant drones and vocal delivery that often sounds like an ancient form of prayer, Julie Beth Napolin’s Only The Void Stands Between Us sure-footedly takes its place in the post-’70s experimental folk lineage.

“This is cosmic folk of the highest caliber. Julie’s vocal melodies grow in your mind like they were planted on the shortest day of the year. An absolute treat for all of us temporal adventurers.” – Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance).

TRACK LISTING

1. Only The Void Stands Between Us
2. Sawdust
3. Fire In The City
4. Pray For The Living
5. Time Image
6. In The Dark
7. Heaven And Earth

Do It With Soul comes through with a healthy dose of dancefloor heat featuring a pair of well-executed new edits. On the A-side of this limited edition 7" is 'Get Up Gaff,' a James Brown-inspired rework with some nice analogue 808s driving forward the raw vocal loops and jacked-up drum hits. On the flip, 'Mango In the Jungle' channels more James Brown energy as it collides 'Mango Meat' with 'Give It Up and Turn It Loose.' The result is a wild mix of funk breaks, squealing organs and soulful vocal details that keep things moving and grooving.

TRACK LISTING

Get Up Gaff
Mango In The Jungle

Warm, rich and sumptuous in sound, ‘Three Piece Suit’ is a heartwarming tribute to the Nigerian immigrant experience. An initial draft of the track first began life at Kokoroko’s studio under the working title ‘Get The Message’.

Crackling through the track’s snug and patiently arranged grooves are subtle touches of funk, adding new dimensions to the band's signature afrobeat and jazz sound in a way that recalls the work of Cymande. Further caressing the instrumentation is the incorporation of the Brazilian nose flute and woozy-sounding synth lines, effortlessly transporting the listeners back in time.

The forthcoming EP will mark Kokoroko’s first dose of new music since the release of ‘Could We Be More Remixes’. The experimental and kaleidoscopic sister project to their 2022 debut album ‘Could We Be More’ which upon initial release earned critical plaudits from the likes of The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, Jazzwise, CRACK Magazine and Downbeat Magazine. The release would also garner their first Top 40 placement on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at No.30.

Enlisting some of contemporary music’s most forward-thinking artists like KeiyaA, Ash Lauryn, Stefan Ringer and Hagan to re-imagine the original album through a club-focused lens, ‘Could We Be More Remixes’ marked the beginning of the band being cast beyond spaces unrelated to the jazz sphere. A signal of their incoming next phase.

TRACK LISTING

1. Higher
2. Sweeter Than
3. My Prayer
4. Three Piece Suit (feat. Azekel)

Formed in Sunderland in 2000, The Futureheads spearheaded the UK’s post-punk revival with angular guitars, unconventional song structures and intricate four-part vocal harmonies.

The band’s debut album ‘The Futureheads’ (2004), which included their iconic cover of Kate Bush's ‘Hounds of Love’ (NME Single of the Year 2005), reached number 11 in the UK charts. Praise in 2006 was followed by extensive world touring and further albums; ‘This Is Not The World’ (2008), ‘The Chaos’ (2010) and a cappella album ‘Rant’ (2012) all on their own label, Nul Records.

After a hiatus, The Futureheads returned in 2019 with ‘Powers’ cementing their reputation as a band of joyous vitality.

Ross Millard - Vocals and Guitar
David "Jaff" Craig - Vocals and Bass Guitar
Barry Hyde - Vocals and Guitar
Dave Hyde – Vocals and Drums

TRACK LISTING

1 The Beginning Of The Twist
2 Hounds Of Love
3 Decent Days And Nights
4 Struck Dumb
5 Meantime
6 Skip To The End
7 Good Night Out
8 Radio Heart
9 Carnival Kids
10 Beeswing
11 Jekyll
12 Walking Backwards
13 Worry About It Later
14 A To B
15 Area
16 First Day
17 I Can Do That
18 Listen, Little Man!
19 Heartbeat Song

Using the original 1964 mono master, new lacquers have been cut all-analogue by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. By constantly referring to the original first pressing, the album is faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. Featuring faithfully replicated artwork and a new four-panel insert with essay by American Beatles historian, Bruce Spizer. 180gram audiophile pressing.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Want To Hold Your Hand
2. I Saw Her Standing There
3. This Boy
4. It Won’t Be Long
5. All I’ve Got To Do
6. All My Loving
7. Don’t Bother Me
8. Little Child
9. Till There Was You
10. Hold Me Tight
11. I Wanna Be Your Man
12. Not A Second Time

1964 was the year that the U.S.A. first fell head-over-heels for The Beatles, with an unprecedented run of albums and singles topping the charts and going on to sell millions of copies. But these albums are not simply replicas of the 1963 and 1964 albums released by Parlophone in the UK and rest of world. Seeing a different opportunity, Capitol Records and United Artists compiled these albums for U.S. release between January 1964 and March 1965.

To celebrate the momentous year when Beatlemania exploded across the U.S., seven Beatles albums are collected for a spectacular new 8LP vinyl box set. 'Meet The Beatles!'; 'The Beatles’ Second Album'; 'A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)'; 'Something New'; 'The Beatles’ Story' (2LP); 'Beatles ’65'; and 'The Early Beatles' all feature faithfully replicated artwork and new four-panel inserts with essays written by American Beatles historian and author Bruce Spizer. The albums’ new vinyl lacquers were cut by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios with constant reference to the original vinyl first pressings to ensure they are faithful to the original release, while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. 180 gram audiophile pressing. 'The Beatles’ Story' 2LP is exclusive to the box set.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 - Meet The Beatles!:
1. I Want To Hold Your Hand
2. I Saw Her Standing There
3. This Boy
4. It Won’t Be Long
5. All I’ve Got To Do
6. All My Loving
7. Don’t Bother Me
8. Little Child
9. Till There Was You
10. Hold Me Tight
11. I Wanna Be Your Man
12. Not A Second Time

LP2 - The Beatles' Second Album:
1. Roll Over Beethoven
2. Thank You Girl
3. You Really Got A Hold On Me
4. Devil In Her Heart
5. Money
6. You Can’t Do That
7. Long Tall Sally
8. I Call Your Name
9. Please Mister Postman
10. I’ll Get You
11. She Loves You

LP3 - A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack):
1. A Hard Day’s Night
2. Tell Me Why
3. I’ll Cry Instead
4. I Should Have Known Better (Instrumental)
5. I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
6. And I Love Her (Instrumental)
7. I Should Have Known Better
8. If I Fell
9. And I Love Her
10. Ringo’s Theme (This Boy) (Instrumental)
11. Can’t Buy Me Love
12. A Hard Day’s Night (Instrumental)

LP4/5 - The Beatles Story:
1. On Stage With The Beatles
2. How Beatlemania Began
3. Beatlemania In Action
4. Man Behind The Beatles – Brian Epstein
5. John Lennon
6. Who's A Millionaire?
7. Beatles Will Be Beatles
8. Man Behind The Music – George Martin
9. George Harrison
10. A Hard Day's Night – Their First Movie
11. Paul McCartney
12. Sneaky Haircuts And More About Paul
13. The Beatles Look At Life
14. 'Victims' Of Beatlemania
15. Beatle Medley
16. Ringo Starr
17. Liverpool And All The World!

LP6 - Something New:
1. I’ll Cry Instead
2. Things We Said Today
3. Any Time At All
4. When I Get Home
5. Slow Down
6. Matchbox
7. Tell Me Why
8. And I Love Her
9. I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
10. If I Fell

LP7 - Beatles ’65:
1. No Reply
2. I’m A Loser
3. Baby’s In Black
4. Rock And Roll Music
5. I’ll Follow The Sun
6. Mr. Moonlight
7. Honey Don’t
8. I’ll Be Back
9. She’s A Woman
10. I Feel Fine
11. Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby

LP8 - The Early Beatles:
1. Love Me Do
2. Twist And Shout
3. Anna
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
8. PS I Love You
9 .Baby It’s You
10. A Taste Of Honey
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret

"For me this is a testimonial. When I was growing up an important part of church service was people having the opportunity to stand up and give public testimony on their trials, tribulations, and triumphs. After the celebratory atmosphere that followed MICHAEL I was reminded that tribulations never cease, but God is always with me and this is a testimonial of my tumultuous times, my trials, and my continued triumph in spite of doubt, outright hate, and fear. I am here to speak to and with my fellow sinners and Saints.” - KILLER MIKE

MIchael & The Mighty Midnight Revival - Songs For Sinners And Saints", a ten song collection that provides a bookend to the 3 time GRAMMY winning MICHAEL era and puts the speculation about the aftermath of February 4 to bed. Killer Mike states "This is the epilogue to MICHAEL. This is what comes after Feb 4th. I had a year to live with MICHAEL and realized I had more I wanted to do with this sound before moving on."

TRACK LISTING

1. BUSSIN BRICKS INTRO
2. NOBODY KNOWS (feat. Anthony Hamilton, Jordan Alyssa, Troy Durden & Adonica Nunn)
3. HUMBLE ME
4. HIGHER LEVEL (feat. Jori & Adonica Nunn)
5. EXIT 9 Scenic Route (feat Offset, Blxst, Lena Byrd Miles & Troy Durden)
6. LORD PREPARE ME (feat. Bellygang Kush, Jane Handcock, Adonica Nunn)
7. SLUMMER 4 JUNKIES (feat. Lena Byrd Miles, Alicia Peters-Jordan, Jori, Adonica Nunn, Jordan Alyssa & Troy Durden)
8. HAD TO GO GET IT (feat. Troy Durden)
9. ’97 3-6 FREESTYLE
10. STILL TALK’N THAT SHIT (feat. Key Glock & Project Pat)
11. HIGH & HOLY (Physical Only)

TRACK LISTING

State Of The Nation
Shame Of The Nation

TRACK LISTING

Touched By The Hand Of God
Touched By The Hand Of Dub

Commenting on the reissue Isobel Campbell says: “I have such fond and special memories of writing and producing this album. 'Ballad of The Broken Seas' is so very dear to my heart and Mark is very much missed.” Originally released in 2006, 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas' has remained a touchstone for fans of folk and Americana, revered for its haunting melodies, rich storytelling, and the captivating interplay between Campbell's ethereal vocals and Lanegan's gravelly baritone. The album was the first in a celebrated trilogy of albums that Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan recorded together, being followed by 'Sunday at Devil Dirt' in 2008 and 'Hawk' in 2010. The album garnered widespread acclaim, with the duo being hailed as a modern day Nancy & Lee, and went on to be shortlisted for the Mercury Prize. From the brooding opener 'Deus Ibi Est' to the melancholic 'The False Husband' and the poignant title track, 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas' resonates as powerfully today as it did upon its initial release

TRACK LISTING

1. Deus Ibi Est
2. Black Mountain
3. The False Husband
4. Ballad Of The Broken Seas
5. Revolver
6. Ramblin' Man
7. (Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me?
8. Saturday's Gone
9. It's Hard To Kill A Bad Thing
10. Honey Child What Can I Do?
11. Dusty Wreath
12. The Circus Is Leaving Town

Using the original 1964 mono master, new lacquers have been cut all-analogue by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. By constantly referring to the original first pressing, the album is faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. Featuring faithfully replicated artwork and a new four-panel insert with essay by American Beatles historian, Bruce Spizer. 180gram audiophile pressing.

TRACK LISTING

1. Roll Over Beethoven
2. Thank You Girl
3. You Really Got A Hold On Me
4. Devil In Her Heart
5. Money
6. You Can’t Do That
7. Long Tall Sally
8. I Call Your Name
9. Please Mister Postman
10. I’ll Get You
11. She Loves You

Using the original 1964 mono master, new lacquers have been cut all-analogue by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. By constantly referring to the original first pressing, the album is are faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. Featuring faithfully replicated artwork and a new four-panel insert with essay by American Beatles historian, Bruce Spizer. 180gram audiophile pressing.

TRACK LISTING

1. A Hard Day’s Night
2. Tell Me Why
3. I’ll Cry Instead
4. I Should Have Known Better (Instrumental)
5. I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
6. And I Love Her (Instrumental)
7. I Should Have Known Better
8. If I Fell
9. And I Love Her
10. Ringo’s Theme (This Boy) (Instrumental)
11. Can’t Buy Me Love
12. A Hard Day’s Night (Instrumental)

Using the original 1964 mono master, new lacquers have been cut all-analogue by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. By constantly referring to the original first pressing, the album is faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. Featuring faithfully replicated artwork and a new four-panel insert with essay by American Beatles historian, Bruce Spizer. 180gram audiophile pressing.

TRACK LISTING

1. I’ll Cry Instead
2. Things We Said Today
3. Any Time At All
4. When I Get Home
5. Slow Down
6. Matchbox
7. Tell Me Why
8. And I Love Her
9. I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
10. If I Fell

Using the original 1964 mono master, new lacquers have been cut all-analogue by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. By constantly referring to the original first pressing, the album is faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. Featuring faithfully replicated artwork and a new four-panel insert with essay by American Beatles historian, Bruce Spizer. 180gram audiophile pressing.

TRACK LISTING

1. No Reply
2. I’m A Loser
3. Baby’s In Black
4. Rock And Roll Music
5. I’ll Follow The Sun
6. Mr. Moonlight
7. Honey Don’t
8. I’ll Be Back
9. She’s A Woman
10. I Feel Fine
11. Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby

Using the original 1965 mono master, new lacquers have been cut all-analogue by Kevin Reeves at Nashville’s East Iris Studios. By constantly referring to the original first pressing, the album is faithful to the original release while also enabling more musical information to be heard than was possible before. Featuring faithfully replicated artwork and a new four-panel insert with essay by American Beatles historian, Bruce Spizer. 180gram audiophile pressing.

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Me Do
2. Twist And Shout
3. Anna
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
8. PS I Love You
9 .Baby It’s You
10. A Taste Of Honey
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret

'Peace Of Action' is the latest release from artist Earl “Damu the Fudgemunk” Davis, and also, the newest installment of Def Pressé’s series of projects made in partnership with KPM (and associated music libraries).

With several titles in the series with notable names like Blockhead and Stro Elliot since its inception in 2021, Def Pressé Editions x KPM returned the artist that launched the line: Washington D.C.’s Damu the Fudgemunk marked the beginning of the Def Pressé Editions x KPM Crate Diggers legacy with his critically acclaimed (as featured on NPR) 'Conversation Peace' in late summer of 2021. Three years later all original parties have teamed up to present album 2, 'Peace of Action'.

“It’s a pleasure to present Peace of Action. So much excitement went into the initial venture to collaborate with KPM and become part of their history. When I listen to the final album, I hear all the excitement and passion I had for the music. Discovering things in their archive helped me discover and rediscover things about myself that I usually restrict in previous work. It was fun to break some rules and still maintain some limitations especially after 20 plus years of creating music. Being very pleased with the artistic and commercial success of my first Def Pressé x KPM album in 2021, I’m proud to expand the storyline with this particular energy and themes in 2024.” Earl Davis (Damu the Fudgemunk)

Damu alluded to a part 2 in the liner notes of 'Conversation Peace' and has kept his word. Like it’s predecessor, 'Peace Of Action' features 9 all new tracks, however this album contains no guests or vocals and is fully instrumental. With dozens of titles under his belt over the past 2 decades highlighting his musicality and a reputation built on beats, it may be of a surprise to many that this will be the Fudgemunk’s first official instrumental project in over 7 years. Yes, 7 years is quite some time, but don’t confuse the decision to prioritize making music with vocals to any inactivity on his part.

Check the catalog and you’ll see productions for MC’s like Raw Poetic and Blu account for lost time. During the particular hiatus from making solely Hip Hop records in the conventional form, Damu has composed, produced and performed on some really exciting Jazz projects. His work with Archie Shepp has met with great success and the album they made together, Ocean Bridges is often talked about years after release and heralded by people like Gilles Peterson. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Matriarch
2. Sparks
3. Stone Carving
4. Le Grand
5. Between Black & Green
6. The Education
7. Dot Matrix
8. Heir Born
9. Isaac’s Divine Image Of Joy

The Prisoners were a regular live act in London's psychedelic and mod
revival scene of the early 1980s. 

They recorded some fantastic material blending garage-punk, soulful vocals, and electrifying Hammond organ, but never quite made it. They called it a day in 1986, and most band members went on with new musical projects, including The Prime Movers and The James Taylor Quartet. The love of the Prisoners' music has grown ever since though, and the original four members have done several reunions over the years on stage and released a long-awaited comeback album this year. Their lasting infuence can be detected on subsequent generations of musicians, including many of the Madchester bands of the early 90s, notably the Charlatans and the Inspiral Carpets, and serves as a blueprint for Britpop and beyond.

TRACK LISTING

1. Whenever I'm Gone
2. I Am The Fisherman
3. Melanie
4. Say Your Prayers
5. Hurricane
6. The Last Thing On Your Mind
7. Nobody Wants Your Love
8. Coming Home
9. Better In Black
10. Pretend
11. Revenge Of The Cybermen
12. Till The Morning Light
13. Reaching My Head

'We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit', a sort of sequel to Tashi’s first DC release 'Stateless', takes the torch and storms forward, with ten improvised acoustic guitar anthems. These musical thoughts are torn from the fabric of Tashi’s life and music. “Strumming in opposition to the towers” (as he puts it) is part of an existence that is always political, even in its most abstract iterations – a truth laid bare in these deep, raw performances.

TRACK LISTING

1. Begin From Here
2. We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit
3. Requiem For Jonas
4. Center Can’t Hold...
5. Flowers For The Unsung
6. Impossible Friendship
7. ...And The State Sank Into Abyss
8. New Signals///////
9. Rhythm/Refrain
10. Meet Me Under The Ruins

This release has been liaised and approved by the band's founder and main songwriter Jerry Dammers.

Formed in Coventry in the mid-1970s, The Specialswas the idea of musician Jerry Dammers, who brought together an eclectic array of individuals to fulfill his vision of a multi-racial band, fusing the energy of punk with the legendary but, at the time, often overlooked, sound of Jamaican ska. The band rose to prominence along with the 2Tone movement, which included two No. 1 singles, Too Much too Young and 1981's Ghost Town, which theme still resonates today before Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staple left to form the Fun Boy Three and Roddy Byers left to tour with his band the Tearjerkers.

The remaining members, Dammers, Bradbury and Panter, recruited guitarist John Shipley from The Swinging Cats, ex-Bodysnatcher Rhoda Dakar and lead vocalist Stan Campbell,reverting the original band name of The Special AKA and set to work on a new album. Released in 1984, 'In the Studio' was a brave mix of bold and challenging music, with a strong political, social and moral conscience. The album made it into the Top 40, and while it might not have been a huge commercial success, it was, and still is, an astonishingly unique work: a haunting, claustrophobic mix of lounge, soul, reggae, jazz and Arabic rhythms, with uncompromising subject matter. It featured two classic singles: the joyous, yet serious rallying anthem for the then imprisoned South African ANC leader, 'Free Nelson Mandela', and 'What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend'. As time has gone by, the status of 'In The Studio'has grown, and today it is rightly viewed as a genuine lost classic.

Like the previous two Specials 40th Anniversary vinyl editions, this has been newly remastered and cut at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London.

TRACK LISTING

Bright Lights (2024 Remaster)
The Lonely Crowd (2024 Remaster)
What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend (2024 Remaster)
Housebound (2024 Remaster)
Night On The Tiles (2024 Remaster)
Nelson Mandela (2024 Remaster)
War Crimes (The Crime Is The Same) (2024 Remaster)
Racist Friend (2024 Remaster)
Alcohol (2024 Remaster)
Break Down The Door (2024 Remaster)

Rough Trade Shops presents Behind the Counter with Ian Rankin, the second instalment in a compilation series inviting artists to curate mixes of the music that has most influenced them, sourced from records sold on the Rough Trade shop floor.

This compilation mix from Scottish writer and music obsessive Ian Rankin follows the first Behind The Counter mix from much-loved British composer Max Richter, released in 2017.

As a longtime vinyl enthusiast who has always dreamed of working in record shops, Rankin’s curation is inspired by some of the first singles he ever bought and songs which have inspired titles of his best-selling novels – Jackie Leven’s ‘Another Man’s Rain’ (which became ‘Another Man’s Grave’) and The Cure’s ‘The Hanging Garden’.

“I still haunt record shops and play vinyl and I still compose playlists, just in case the chance of working behind the counter arrives." Rankin says. “Here’s some of what you’d be hearing if you pushed open the door and walked into my emporium, tunes I never tire of listening to.”

TRACK LISTING

1. John Barry - Theme From The Persuaders
2. Passions -I’m In Love With A German Film Star
3. Brian Eno - Fat Lady Of Limbourg
4. Limananas - El Beach
5. Carmel - Bad Day
6. Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me
7. Joy Division - Atmosphere
8. King Creosote - Ankle Shackles (Edit)
9. Saints - No Time
10. Swansway - Soul Train
11. The Cure - The Hanging Garden
12. Julie Fowlis – Blackbird
13. Throbbing Gristle - United
14. Isobel Campbell - Willow’s Song
15. Kath Williams - Electric
16. Roy Budd - Get Carter (Main Theme)
17. Jackie Leven - Another Man’s Rain
18. Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl
19. Simple Minds - I Travel
20. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - The Copper Top
21. Anchoress, Featuring James Dean Bradfield - The Exchange
22. Python Lee Jackson Featuring Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream
23. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft

For the Llamas’ 1992 debut, Sean O’Hagan, working the sextant to navigate a post-Microdisney course in the musical world, posted them up as a guitar pop band (RIYL: NRBQ, Big Star, Steely Dan), with nine exquisitely crafted examples of the oft out-of-step sound. Had there been no more after this, Santa Barbara would still be sought-after buried treasure by the perennial waves of voyagers seeking these sweet, jangling spices to this very day.

TRACK LISTING

1. Put Yourself Down
2. Birdies Sing
3. Banking On Karma
4. Market Traders
5. Travel
6. The Taximan’s Daughter
7. Period Music
8. Holland
9. Apricots

In their first bout of new music since 2022's critically celebrated 'Mondays at Enfield Tennis Academy', Jeff Parker and his ETA IVtetfind themselves exploring the depths of improvised jazz grooves on 'The Way Out of Easy'. Featuring long time members AnnaButterss (Jason Isbell, SML) on upright bass, Josh Johnson (Meshell Ndegeocello, SML) on saxophone, and Jay Bellerose (Elton John,Punch Brothers), the selections are honed and focused to bring the atmosphere of one specific night's setlist. The delight of the space(now sadly defunct) helped Parker build a beautifully multi-textured, gently-shifting four-dimensional construction out of simple ideas.

TRACK LISTING

1. Freakadelic
2. Late Autumn
3. Easy Way Out
4. Chrome Dome

Ahead of the curve as ever, in 1972 The Residents turned their back on the mainstream music industry and established their own Ralph Records imprint, taking control of every aspect of the recording, design and manufacturing process of their records. Over the next decade, Ralph would release numerous seminal singles and albums by a diverse range of artists from both the US and Europe, capturing the zeitgeist perfectly in the era of punk and new wave, when the DIY aesthetic went overground.

Featuring key singles, vital album tracks and a number of recordings appearing on CD for the first time, as well as previously unheard material from Schwump, Snakefinger, MX-80 Sound and Gary Panter, ‘Buy Or Die!’ is not only an insight into The Residents’ world but also into the workings of their DIY mindset, with most of the tracks here being recorded in the group’s own studio, and released in artwork produced by their own graphics department. From established names such as Yello and The Residents themselves, to lesser-known gems by Fred Frith, Tuxedomoon et al, this is a distinctive snapshot of that experimental and open-minded time and place, as seen through the lense of one of America’s most adventurous artists.

Complete with a 7,500 word first hand account essay from The Residents’ Mysterious Archivist, plenty of unusual and rare imagery and many tracks sourced directly from the Ralph tape archive, all overseen by The Residents (enabled by RA), ‘Buy Or Die!’ will entertain, enthral and infuriate in equal measure.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 Ivory And The Brain Eaters - Fire
2 The Residents - Smelly Tongues
3 The Residents - Satisfaction
4 Schwump - Aphids In The Hall
5 Schwump - You're A Martian / Home
6 Schwump – ‘maginary Dreams (Demo)*
7 The Residents - Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life
8 The Residents - Tourniquet Of Roses
9 The Residents - Constantinople
10 Snakefinger - The Spot
11 Snakefinger - Smelly Tongues
12 The Residents - Hello Skinny
13 The Residents - Not Available (A Brief Introduction)
14 The Residents - Santa Dog '78
15 Art Bears - Rats & Monkeys
16 Art Bears - Collapse
17 Art Bears - The Winter Wheel
18 Snakefinger - What Wilbur?
19 Snakefinger - Kill The Great Raven
20 Chrome - Meet You In The Subway
*previously Unreleased

DISC TWO 
1 Chrome - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
2 MX-80 Sound - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
3 The Residents - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
4 Tuxedomoon - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
5 Snakefinger - Picnic In The Jungle
6 MX-80 Sound - Someday You'll Be King
7 MX-80 Sound - White Night
8 Tuxedomoon - What Use?
9 Tuxedomoon - 7 Years
10 MX-80 Sound - It's Not My Fault
11 Snakefinger - The Model
12 The Residents - Diskomo
13 Snakefinger - The Man In The Dark Sedan
14 The Residents - Amber
15 The Residents - Shut Up, Shut Up RDX
16 Gary Panter - Tornader To The Tater
17 Gary Panter - Italian Sunglasses Movie
18 Gary Panter - Rozz Tox*
19 Snakefinger - Golden Goat
20 MX-80 Sound - O Type
21 MX-80 Sound - Old Too Fast*
*previously Unreleased

DISC THREE
1 Fred Frith - Dancing In The Street
2 Fred Frith - What A Dilemma
3 Yello - Bimbo
4 Yello - I.T. Splash
5 Yello - Night Flanger
6 Yello - Bostich
7 Yello - Rock Stop
8 MX-80 Sound - Why Are We Here?
9 Tuxedomoon - Jinx
10 Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue Suit)
11 Fred Frith - A Spit In The Ocean
12 Fred Frith - Saving Grace
13 Renaldo And The Loaf - A Medical Man
14 Renaldo And The Loaf - Honest Joe's Indian Gets The Goat On The Way To The Cowboys' Conga
15 Renaldo And The Loaf - Ted's Reverie
16 Renaldo And The Loaf - Melvyn's Repose
17 Snakefinger - Breakfast In Baltimore (1981 EP Demo)*
18 Snakefinger - Life Isn't Easy (1981 EP Demo)*
19 Yello - Pinball Cha Cha
20 Yello - Homer Hossa
21 Snakefinger - Eva's Warning
22 The Residents - Would We Be Alive?
*previously Unreleased

Byrd Out Limited is proud to announce the release of previously unheard music from The Woodleigh Research Facility. The four-track EP ‘Vous Du Music’ pulses with a chugging, acid-tinged electronica recorded between 2016 and 2017.

The EP opens with the title track ‘Vous Du’, a nod to the Gallic black magick musical creations of Erick Legrand, whose track Woodleigh Research Facility reworked here (indeed, Erick is given a credit). ‘Vous Du’ is packed full of blips, beeps and propulsive energy, as well as spoken word interlaced with the unmistakable sound of the 303.

Clocking in at 8 minutes, ‘Between Two Waves’ is arguably the standout track, with a swirling, hypnotic groove that captures the listener. With its insistent beat and interweaving melodies, the track conjures to mind the tide coming in and sweeping you away to a different place.

The third track, ‘Tempesta’ aptly moves to a more stormy place, with industrial noises and haunting sonic layers. But looking to Caliban, we need not fear, the sounds and sweet airs give delight, and hurt not. ‘Tempesta’ is almost reminiscent of a Hardfloor sound, moving along at pace.

Closing out the EP is a remix of ‘Vous Du’ by producer Timothy J. Fairplay, who sharpens the original into a dancefloor weapon of the highest calibre with more acid, more synths, more kick drum. This is harder, dense, acid-flecked techno. Fairplay is a firm fixture of the electronic music scene releasing on Dungeon Module, Pinkman Records and more, as well as formerly being in The Asphodells, and being co-founder of club night and label Crimes of the Future alongside Scott Fraser.

TRACK LISTING

1. Vous Du Music
2. Between Two Waves
3. Tempesta
4. Vous Du (Timothy J. Fairplay Remix)

This brave foray into conceptual art music produced a jaw-dropping reset on the 20th century pop perspective. The High Llamas engaged songwriting and production with an eye toward filmmaking. Digging through ephemera of choice vintages with post-modern zest, they struck a rich vein they could call their own – a kind of gothic Americana, formal aspects pushed to extremes. The spirit of discovery here can be vibrantly felt over 30 years later.

TRACK LISTING

1. Giddy Strings
2. The Dutchman
3. Giddy And Gay
4. Easy Rod
5. Checking In, Checking Out
6. The Goat Strings
7. Up In The Hills
8. The Goat Looks On
9. Taog Skool No
10. Little Collie
11. Track Goes By
12. Let’s Have Another Look

The High Llamas discover America – yes, it had been done before, but not via their envisaged pilgrims’ passage. Energized by the breakthroughs of 'Gideon Gaye', they went all-in, producing a wide-screen epic further exploring their unique agenda. The reference points multiplied, stretching through realms of classic pop and jazz, soundtrack music, exotica and neo-Americana, while charting a journey through musical landscapes of abiding lightness.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cuckoo Casino
2. Sparkle Up
3. Literature Is Fluff
4. Nomads
5. Snapshot Pioneer
6. Ill-fitting Suits
7. Recent Orienteering
8. The Hot Revivalist
9. Phoney Racehorse
10. Dressing Up The Old Dakota
11. D.C. 8
12. Doo-Wop Property
13. Theatreland
14. A Friendly Pioneer
15. Cuckoo’s Out
16. Peppy
17. There’s Nobody Home
18. The Hokey Curator
19. Campers In Control
20. Double Drift
21. Island People
22. Incidentally N.E.O.
23. Tides
24. Nomad Strings
25. Pilgrims
26. Rustic Vespa
27. Folly Time
28. Hawaiian Smile
29. Instrumental Suits

The remix album, with marvellously creative EDM remakes from some of the best powerbook players of the day: Mouse On Mars, Jim O’Rourke, Kid Loco, Schneider TM, Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Cornelius and The High Llamas themselves. In addition to showcasing this emerging new generation of digital masters, the treatments here also highlight an oft-undersung aspect of The High Llamas’ sound – the influence of Krautrock.

TRACK LISTING

1. ShowShowstop Hic Hup (Mouse On Mars Remix)
2. Homespin Rerun (Cornelius Remix)
3. Homerun Übershow (Schneider TM Remix)
4. Milting Tindmills (The High Llamas Remix)
5. Mini-Management (Jim O’Rourke Remix)
6. The Space Raid (Kid Loco Remix)
7. Reflections In A Plastic Glass (3 Point Remix)

After the high times and critical-mass arrangements of the previous two records, 'Snowbug' exuded a breezy, spare, morning-after vibe. Edified by all manner of world-folk, classic Brazilian pop and the first volumes of the Ethiopiques comp, the Llamas recorded in London with Fulton Dingley and in Chicago with Bundy K. Brown and Jim O’Rourke engineering at Electrical Audio and John McEntire mixing at Soma. Snowbug is an understated, underrated gem.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bach Ze
2. Harpers Romo
3. Hoops Hooley
4. Cookie Bay
5. Triads
6. The American Scene
7. Go To Montecito
8. Janet Jangle
9. Amin
10. Daltons Star
11. Cotton To The Bell
12. Green Coaster
13. Cut The Dummy Loose

Having passed – at least figuratively – through hundreds of years over the course of their previous two albums, the good ship High Llamas docked, fully loaded, into a congenial present moment for once in its life. O’Hagan’s continued work with Tim Gane and Stereolab caused a healthy dose of electronica to spike the Llamas’ already heady brew, creating an apex of late 90s-style neo-exotica. RIYL: Mouse On Mars, Oval, Grand Royal, Dots and Loops.

TRACK LISTING

1. Twisto Teck
2. The Sun Beats Down
3. HiBall Nova Scotia
4. Tilting Windmills
5. Glide Time
6. Bouncy Glimmer
7. Three Point Scrabble
8. Homespin Rerun
9. Painters Paint
10. Evergreen Vampo
11. Showstop Hip Hop
12. Over The River
13. End On Tick Tock
14. Didball
15. Jazzed Carpenter
16. Lobby Bears

On December 31st, 2020, the world was shocked to learn about the death of hip-hop legend MF DOOM. Born in London and raised in the suburban enclave of Long Beach, New York, Daniel Dumile Jr.'s love of cartoons and comic books would soon turn him into one of hip-hop's most enigmatic, prolific and influential figures. Sweeping and definitive, The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast recounts the rise, fall, redemption and untimely demise of MF DOOM. Broken down into five sections: The Man, The Myth, The Mask, The Music and The Legend, journalist SH Fernando, or SKIZ, chronicles the life of Daniel Dumile Jr., beginning in the house he grew up in in Long Beach, into the hip-hop group KMD, onto the stage of his first masked show, through the countless collabs and across the many different cities Daniel called home.

Centring the music, SKIZ deftly lays out the history of east-coast rap against DOOM's life story and dissects the personas, projects, tracks, and lyrics that led to his immortality. Including exclusive interviews with those who worked closely with DOOM and providing an unknown, intimate, behind the scenes look into DOOM’s life, The Chronicles of DOOM is the definitive biography of MF DOOM, a supervillain on stage and hero to those who paid attention.

This is Northumberland songwriter, poet, raconteur and old friend of Piccadilly Records, Peter Alexander Jobson's debut solo album and it's an absolute treat.

Recorded at his home studio and produced by Ben Christophers, the album is an extraordinary collection that blends genres as diverse as country-flavoured psychedelia and cocktail jazz with the spirit of the Northern variety circuit. His vocals answer the question: what if Serge Gainsbourg had been born in the North East of England? Inspirations include Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Scott Walker, blues and country legends like Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, and Northern entertainers of days past like Les Dawson and the great Jake Thackray.

Jobson made his name as bass guitarist and keyboard player in I Am Kloot. After six albums and 16 successful years together the cult trio of Jobson, drummer Andy Hargreaves and singer/guitarist John Bramwell broke up after a final triumphant performance at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the 2016 Meltdown Festival on London's South Bank. I Am Kloot were noted for their distinctive sound, the jazzy swing of Jobson and built a fervent following both in the UK and across Europe, culminating in a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their lavish fifth album, 'Sky At Night' - produced by Elbow's Guy Garvey and Craig Potter in 2010.

Heavily autobiographical in inspiration, the songs on 'Burn The Ration Books Of Love' are deeply rooted in Jobson's lived experience, and in his geographical roots in Northumberland, with its wild, windswept coastline, rugged hills and moors, and extensive agricultural farmland where his family have worked the land for generations.

TRACK LISTING

Holiday (Live)
Mountain
The Night Of The Fire
Taxi Supplies
Go Go
Foolish Boy
Please Please Please
Home
Kesta
Just 'Cause I'm Dead
Burn The Ration Books Of Love

Over three studio albums and nearly a decade, Wirral-born Louisa Roach has built She Drew The Gun into a project that fully lives up to its incendiary name. Her 2016 debut ‘Memories of Another Future’ was swiftly followed by a crowning as Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent Competition winner; follow-up ‘Revolution of Mind’ was named one of BBC 6 Music’s Albums of the Year, while 2021’s ‘Behave Myself’ saw Clash praising the record as “some of her most finessed and contoured songwriting to date”. Having firmly carved out her niche of rousing, laser-sharp social commentary, it’s a side to Roach’s songwriting that will never leave her (not in this political climate at least). But sometimes, life sends you to a place where you have to finally turn your eye on yourself, and it’s with this in mind that She Drew The Gun presents fourth album ‘Howl’, out via Submarine Cat Records.

Recorded alongside producer Ash Workman (Christine & The Queens, Metronomy) who helped bring the tracks’ pop side to life during sessions at his Margate studio, Louisa Roach also worked with her son Cole on ‘Howl’’s demos: the beginning of a familial working relationship that they’ve already shaken hands on to continue. It’s a heartwarming note in an album story that’s been far from plain sailing. Roach doesn’t claim to be ‘healed’ (if such a thing exists), but as she prepares to release She Drew The Gun’s impressively vulnerable fourth, she’s somewhere along the journey with a document that shows just how far she’s come.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Howl
A2 Mirrors
A3 Became
A4 Shine On
A5 Rise
B1 Washed In Blue
B2 Nothing Lasts
B3 What’s The Matter
B4 Conjuring
B5 Ritual
B6 Out

In 1999, Modest Mouse struck out for Chicago to record their major-label debut for Epic Records. Amid indie circle cries of “sellouts,” a largely untested producer, and a half-built studio, the trio recorded the instrumental basics of The Moon & Antarctica … and then singer/songwriter Isaac Brock got his face smashed by a hooligan in a park.

With barely any vocals recorded, Brock emerged from the hospital with his jaw completely wired shut, and returned to a mostly empty studio. And there, on a diet of painkillers, in a neighborhood that wanted to purge the band from its borders, a creative alchemy took place that would redefine Modest Mouse and indie rock at large.

The fact that the band finished the album at all is surprising. The fact that it is now considered by critics as “hands-down one of the greatest records ever made” (NME) is perhaps an utter miracle.

The Moon & Antarctica is an album so strange and enigmatic, from those sweet opening notes, to the plunging depths of the middle, to the shocking, furious end, that you almost hesitate to listen to it again for fear of it losing its chaotic magic. But then you do, and you discover all-new sounds-a lost harmonic here, a stray percussion element there, a fresh interpretation of a lyric that leaves you thunderstruck.

And that ever-looming question, years on: How the hell did Modest Mouse pull this off?!

One of the most revered, reviled and talked about records in all Australian music history (I’m) Stranded, by The Saints, finally gets the vinyl box set treatment.

A joint collaboration between long standing L.A garage label In The Red, Universal Music Australia and spearheaded by Feel Presents and Saints founder Ed Kuepper, the deluxe edition of (I’m) Stranded will feature 4 x vinyl long players covering all the band’s studio and live recordings from 1976 thru 1977 and includes;
• The iconic debut album remastered for vinyl for the first time in over 40 years
• A five-song live performance from Paddington Town Hall Sydney 3.4.1977 appearing on vinyl for the first time.
• A full live performance from the Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival, London November 1977 appearing on vinyl for the first time
• All three tracks from the 1977 This Perfect Day 12” single and all four tracks from the 1977 1-2-3-4 double 7” single
• The previously unreleased 1976 demo mix of the full (I’m) Stranded album.

In addition to all that vinyl (I’m) Stranded deluxe edition will also features a 28 page 12” x 12” photo essay of the band covering their origins from 1973 through the end of of ’77, authorised band history, an 8” x 10” 1976 promo photo and a (I’m) Stranded sticker.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1 (Remastered Album):
1. (I'm Stranded)
2. One Way
3. Wild About You
4. Messin' With The Kids
5. Erotic Neurotic
6. No TIme
7. Kissin' Cousins
8. Story Of Love
9. Demolition Gril
10. Nights In Venice

Disc 2 ('76 Demo Mix):
1. (I'm Stranded)
2. One Way Street
3. Wild About You
4. Messin' With The Kids
5. Erotic Neurotic
6. The Story Of Love
7. No Time
8. Kissing Cousins
9. Untitled
10. Demolition Girl
11. Nights In Venice

Disc 3 (Singles & Live At Paddington Town Hall):
1. This Perfect Day
2. Do The Robot
3. L I E S
4. Lipstick On Your Collar
5. One Way Street
6. Demolition Girl
7. River Deep Mountain High
8. This Perfect Day
9. Rundown
10. Erotic Neurotic
11. Demolition Girl
12. Nights In Venice

Disc 4 (Live At Hope & Anchor, London):
1. Introduction
2. Do The Robot
3. Lost And Found
4. Lipstick On Your Collar
5. River Deep Mountain High
6. Untitled
7. Run Down
8. This Perfect Day
9. Messin' With The Kids
10. Orstralia
11. Nights In Venice
12. (I'm) Stranded
13. Demolition Girl
14. One Way Street

Two-Piers brings you their latest killer compilation in the shape of Richard Norris Presents ‘Weird Scenes from the Hangout (Psychedelic & Freakbeat Dancefloor Anthems 1967-1982). An album curated by Richard Norris (The Grid, Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve, The Time and Space Machine, and more) and centred around Richard’s Liverpool Club Night ’The Hangout’ in the 1980’s.

Richard Norris on how The Hangout came about after being inspired to go to University in Liverpool…..
For a place with a distinctly psychedelic tinge, Liverpool was missing one thing in the mid-eighties. A full-on psychedelic club night. I’d been schooled in all things psychedelic, a result of working at Bam Caruso, a label steeped in psych who lovingly reissued many lysergic greats. It was a fantastic education. I was determined to bring some technicolour sonics to Liverpool.
I found a suitable venue, called Krackers, at the bottom of Mount Pleasant. It was a big basement club, with a stage, video projector, lights, bar, and long tables. In front of the stage, there was ample space for a dance floor. There’s something about clubs in basements. They just work. I chatted to the owner, Bill, who suggested trying out Thursdays for the new night. Inspired by Bam Caruso, and the Soho club Alice in Wonderland, I agreed to take Thursdays on. 50p to get in. The night was named The Hangout.

The Hangout was born in autumn 1984. The place was perfect. Clips of op art psychedelic films copied to VHS tape were projected on to the large screen that covered the stage. There was a smoke machine, a bubble machine, many moving lights. The place opened to a packed dancefloor and stayed that way into 1985 and beyond. There were guest bands, including Zodiac Mindwarp, Mr.Suit featuring Larry from Wimple Winch, Freight Train and the Cardiacs, among others. There were giveaways of sweets, flowers, balloons, and jelly. Tons of jelly.

Musically, the Hangout’s take on psychedelia and freakbeat had one aim - to make you dance. We weren’t trainspotters – it didn’t matter if a record was rare, so long as it grooved and worked on the dancefloor. We’d give equal time to the more bandwagon end of sixties exploitation as to hipper acts. I’d pick up tracks on shopping trips in London with Phil Smee from Bam Caruso, or at Probe in Liverpool, where there was a class selection of psychedelia. Bob and Mick from Probe, and their mate Bernie Connor, became Hangout DJ’s, and brought even further mind-bending madness to the Hangout dancefloor. Standout tunes got played again and again, every week, until tracks like The Left Banke’s ‘I’ve Got Something on My Mind’, the Turtles ‘Buzzsaw’, Can’s ‘Outside Your Door’ and all the other tunes you now hold in your hands, became bona fide Hangout club anthems. The Hangout came and went in a flash, but its legacy of bringing psychedelic foot stompers to the dancefloor carries on. The Hangout left me with a personal love of all things beat and freak. I’ve been pursuing various musical shapes that all have their roots on the Hangout’s psychedelic dancefloor ever since.
I hope you enjoy this compilation. Every track is a tried and tested Hangout anthem. - Richard Norris, Lewes, August 2024.

TRACK LISTING

VINYL TRACKLIST:
A1) The Nazz - Open My Eyes
A2) The Easybeats - Good Times
A3) Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About A Mover
A4) Can - Outside Your Door
A5) The Music Machine - People In Me
A6) Wynder K.Frog - I’m A Man
A7) Sharon Tandy - Hold On

B1) The Hombres - Let It All Hang Out
B2) The Left Banke - I’ve Got Something On My Mind
B3) The Seeds - The Wind Blows Your Hair
B4) The Apple - Buffalo Billycan
B5) Dantalion’s Chariot - ‘Madman Rising Through The Fields’
B6) The End - Shades Of Orange
B7) Warm Sounds - Night Is A Comin’

C1) The Velvet Underground - Foggy Notion
C2) The Modern Lovers - She Cracked
C3) Kim Fowley - Bubblegum
C4) The Balloon Farm - A Question Of Temperature
C5) Fleur De Lys - Circles **
C6) The Starlets - You Don’t Love Me

D1) The Turtles - Buzz Saw
D2) Lothar And The Hand - People Machines
D3) The Open Mind - Magic Potion
D4) The Swinging Medallions - Double Shot Of My Baby’s Love
D5) Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - I See The Light
D6) The Action - I’ll Keep On Holding On **
D7) The Creation - How Does It Feel To Feel
D8) The Third Eye - Pass Myself
** Exclusive Tracks To Vinyl Format

CD TRACKLIST:
1) The Nazz - Open My Eyes
2) The Easybeats - Good Times
3) Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About A Mover
4) Can - Outside Your Door
5) The Music Machine - People In Me
6) Wynder K.Frog - I’m A Man
7) Sharon Tandy - Hold On
8) The Hombres - Let It All Hang Out
9) The Left Banke - I’ve Got Something On My Mind
10) The Seeds - The Wind Blows Your Hair
11) The Apple - Buffalo Billycan
12) Dantalion’s Chariot - ‘Madman Rising Through The Fields’
13) The End - Shades Of Orange
14) Warm Sounds - Night Is A Comin’
15) The Velvet Underground - Foggy Notion
16) The Modern Lovers - She Cracked
17) Kim Fowley - Bubblegum
18) The Balloon Farm - A Question Of Temperature
19) The Starlets - You Don’t Love Me
20) The Turtles - Buzz Saw
21) Lothar And The Hand - People Machines
22) The Open Mind - Magic Potion
23) The Swinging Medallions - Double Shot Of My Baby’s Love
24) Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - I See The Light
25) The Creation - How Does It Feel To Feel
26) The Third Eye - Pass Myself

Newly revised and updated with cooperation and insight from Brian May and Roger Taylor – and drawing on exclusive interviews with the bandmembers – this book completes the story of the Mercury era and the immediate years after his death.

With numerous extra photographs and a new Foreword from Brian May, Queen – As It Began: Revised and Authorised is an informative and authoritative portrait of Queen’s most fundamental period.