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Marvin Gaye

What's Going On - 2025 Reissue

    ‘What’s Going On’ is the eleventh studio album by American motown singer Marvin Gaye, released in May 1971. The concept album is told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran who has returned home to observe a country full of hatred, misery and injustice. This album has been credited with bringing awareness to issues such as poverty, drug abuse and war ahead of public outcry over these controversial issues. Now in limited edition evergreen vinyl.

    Catfish And The Bottlemen

    The Balcony - 10 Year Anniversary Edition

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

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

      TRACK LISTING

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

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

      Catfish And The Bottlemen

      The Balcony - 10 Year Anniversary Singles Boxset

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

        In celebration of the 10 Year Anniversary and after their biggest headline shows to date this Summer, The Balcony will be released as a limited edition 7” boxset which mirrors the highly sought after and sold out series of 7” singles that were released around the album’s original release. This boxset features the full album (singles audio in album version), plus ‘Hourglass’ (Ewan McGregor version) and rare bonus track ‘ASA’, available on a 7” again for the first time after the original pressing 10 years ago. This boxset will be numbered and limited to 2,000 copies worldwide.

        TRACK LISTING

        Disc 1
        Side A: Homesick

        Disc 2
        Side A: Rango
        Side B: ASA

        Disc 3
        Side A: Kathleen
        Side B: Business

        Disc 4
        Side A: Fallout
        Side B: Sidewinder

        Disc 5
        Side A: Cocoon
        Side B: 26

        Disc 6
        Side A: Pacifier
        Side B: Tyrants

        Disc 7
        Side A: Hourglass
        Side B: Hourglass (Ewan McGregor Version)

        Portishead

        Roseland NYC Live - 25th Anniversary Edition

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

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

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

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

          TRACK LISTING

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

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

          Amy Winehouse

          Frank - 2024 Reissue

            In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s debut album, Frank, UMR/Island are releasing the album as a picture disc for the first time.

            This 2LP set features singles: Take The Box, Stronger Than Me, F**k Me Pumps and In My Bed, and is housed in a gatefold sleeve. The disc artwork uses the original sleeve imagery, plus images by Valerie Phillips from the original artwork shoot on LP2.

            TRACK LISTING

            LP1, Side A
            Intro / Stronger Than Me
            You Sent Me Flying / Cherry
            Know You Now

            LP1, Side B
            Fuck Me Pumps
            I Heard Love Is Blind
            Moody's Mood For Love / Teo Licks
            (There Is) No Greater Love
            In My Bed

            LP2, Side A
            Take The Box
            October Song
            What Is It About Men
            Help Yourself

            LP2, Side B
            Amy Amy Amy / Outro

            U2

            Under A Blood Red Sky (Black Friday 23 Edition)

              THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

              IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH).


              In celebration of the 40th anniversary of U2’s Under A Blood Red Sky (1983), the 2023 Black Friday vinyl campaign sees a newly remastered release of the iconic live album on limited edition red vinyl. Consisting of live recordings from three shows on the band’s ‘War’ tour, the album helped to cement U2’s reputation globally as one of the greatest live acts of all time. Featuring legendary live versions of ‘Gloria’, ‘I Will Follow’ and ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, the album remains faithful to the original track list, but is newly remastered at the renowned studio Bernie Grundman Mastering. Includes double sided insert with credits and lyrics, plus a large 2-sided poster.

              Bob Marley & The Wailers

              Catch A Fire - 50th Anniversary Edition

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

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

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

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

                U2

                Zooropa - 2023 Reissue

                  Celebrating the 30th anniversary of U2’s Zooropa, September 2023 sees the release of a limited edition coloured vinyl pressing of the Grammy-award winning album to coincide with the band’s performances at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

                  Initially intended to be just an EP, Zooropa became a fully-fledged album with 10 tracks recorded in six weeks in 1993, making it the fastest U2 album ever produced. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno and The Edge, the album went to Number 1 in the UK, USA, Ireland, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland and featured the singles ‘Numb’, ‘Lemon’ and ‘Stay (Faraway, So Close!)’.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Side 1
                  Zooropa
                  Baby Face
                  Numb
                  Side 2
                  Lemon
                  Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
                  Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
                  Side 3
                  Some Days Are Better Than Others
                  The First Time
                  Dirty Day
                  The Wanderer
                  Side 4
                  Lemon (The Perfecto Mix)
                  Numb (Gimme Some More Dignity Mix)

                  The Cranberries

                  To The Faithful Departed - 2023 Reissue

                    Deluxe reissue of the third album by the Cranberries that sold over 6 million units worldwide, reached number one in six countries and became the band’s highest-charting album on the US Billboard 200.

                    In this deluxe reissue the original album has been remastered by John Dent @ Metropolis, and, on the 2LP versions, split over 3 vinyl sides with a 4th side featuring bonus tracks including three unreleased album demos recorded with producer Tim Palmer in Paris.

                    The digital and 3CD set includes unreleased outtakes and early mixes of the studio album and twelve rare live tracks recorded on the band’s 1996 “Free to Decide” tour and the 2LP and 3CD versions include a 4000 sleevenote about the making of the album based on interviews with the remaining members conducted by band archivist Eoin Devereux.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1LP
                    LP1 - Side A
                    Hollywood
                    Salvation
                    When You're Gone
                    Free To Decide
                    War Child
                    Forever Yellow Skies
                    The Rebels
                    LP1 - Side B
                    Just Shot John Lennon
                    Electric Blue
                    I'm Still Remembering
                    Will You Remember?
                    Joe
                    Bosnia

                    2LP Deluxe
                    LP1 - Side A
                    Hollywood
                    Salvation
                    When You're Gone
                    Free To Decide
                    War Child
                    LP1 - Side B
                    Forever Yellow Skies
                    The Rebels
                    Intermission
                    Just Shot John Lennon
                    Electric Blue
                    LP2 - Side C
                    I'm Still Remembering
                    Will You Remember?
                    Joe
                    Bosnia
                    Cordell
                    LP2 - Side D
                    The Picture I View
                    Go Your Own Way
                    When You're Gone (Paris Demo)
                    I Just Shot John Lennon (Paris Demo
                    Free To Decide (Paris Demo)

                    3CD Deluxe:
                    Disc One – To The Faithful Departed – Deluxe Remaster
                    Hollywood
                    Salvation
                    When You're Gone
                    Free To Decide
                    War Child
                    Forever Yellow Skies
                    The Rebels
                    Intermission
                    I Just Shot John Lennon
                    Electric Blue
                    I'm Still Remembering
                    Will You Remember?
                    Joe
                    Cordell
                    Bosnia
                    The Picture I View
                    Go Your Own Way
                    Disc Two – Unreleased Demos And Outtakes
                    When You're Gone (Paris Demo)
                    I Just Shot John Lennon (Paris Demo)
                    Free To Decide (Paris Demo)
                    The Rebels (Outtake)
                    Hollywood (Outtake)
                    Cordell (Early Mix)
                    Bosnia (Early Mix)
                    Salvation (Early Mix)
                    When You're Gone (Early Mix)
                    Electric Blue (Early Mix)
                    Intermission (Early Mix)
                    Joe (Early Mix)
                    Free To Decide (Alternate Mix)
                    Disc Three – 1996 Free To Decide Tour
                    Intermission + Forever Yellow Skies (Live In Toronto)
                    Sunday (Live In Toronto)
                    Linger (Live In Toronto)
                    The Rebels (Live In Toronto)
                    Waltzing Back (Live In Toronto)
                    I Can't Be With You (Live In Toronto)
                    Free To Decide (Live In Detroit)
                    Dreams (Live In Detroit)
                    Hollywood (Live In Detroit)
                    Zombie (Live In Detroit)
                    Dreaming My Dreams (Live In Detroit)
                    The Icicle Melts (Live In Detroit)
                    Salvation (Live At Milton Keynes Bowl)

                    Tom Waits

                    The Black Rider - 2023 Reissue

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

                      All remastered to HD audio.

                      TRACK LISTING

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

                      Tom Waits

                      Bone Machine - 2023 Reissue

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

                        All remastered to HD audio.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. The Earth Died Screaming
                        2. Dirt In The Ground
                        3. Such A Scream
                        4. All Stripped Down
                        5. Who Are You
                        6. The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
                        7. Jesus Gonna Be Here
                        8. A Little Rain
                        9. In The Colosseum
                        10. Goin' Out West
                        11. Murder In The Red Barn
                        12. Black Wings
                        13. Whistle Down The Wind
                        14. I Don't Wanna Grow Up
                        15. Let Me Get Up On It
                        16. That Feel

                        Tom Waits

                        Franks Wild Years - 2023 Reissue

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

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

                          TRACK LISTING

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

                          Tom Waits

                          Rain Dogs - 2023 Reissue

                            Noted as Tom Waits’ most critically acclaimed album, Rain Dogs follows the new musical path Waits had taken with Swordfishtrombones. Considered the middle of a de facto trilogy with Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years, Rain Dogs is the first of Waits’ albums to be written in New York, in a Lower Manhattan basement. A 53-minute, 19-track monster, Rain Dogs is a kind of mutant, late 20th century musical “Canterbury Tales” with a shape-shifting band. There are banjos and marimbas and bowed saw and parade drum and howling horns (and Keith Richards and Marc Ribot) on this rollicking, rough-hewn opus—and Waits, using his voice in increasingly weird-and-wild ways. The songs are stories, sagas, laments, breakdowns, character studies, comedies and cabaret numbers. There’s the aching “Hang Down Your Head,” and the moving anthem, “Downtown Train,” which was covered by Patti Smith and Rod Stewart.Waits coined the term, “rain dog,” a reference to dogs who lose their way when touchstone scents are washed away in storms. Among the lost dogs on the album: gruff, wandering merchant marines (“Singapore”), an accordion player in a slaughterhouse (“Cemetery Polka”), a “jockey full of bourbon” (also the song title), an abandoned, withdrawn woman (“Time”), a “gun street girl,” the old drunks and hustlers of Union Square, and even Waits, himself: Aboard a shipwreck train / Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs / For I am a Rain Dog, too...

                            Originally released in 1985 on Island Records, the album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original ½” flat master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler. The album packaging has also been restored. Rain Dogs includes tracks such as “Downtown Train,” “Clap Hands” and “Jockey Full Of Bourbon.”

                            TRACK LISTING

                            Side A
                            Singapore
                            Clap Hands
                            Cemetery Polka
                            Jockey Full Of Bourbon
                            Tango Till They're Sore
                            Big Black Mariah
                            Diamonds And Gold
                            Hang Down Your Head
                            Time
                            Side B
                            Rain Dogs
                            Midtown
                            9th & Hennepin
                            Gun Street Girl
                            Union Square
                            Blind Love
                            Walking Spanish
                            Downtown Train
                            Bride Of Rain Dog
                            Anywhere I Lay My Head

                            Tom Waits

                            Swordfishtrombones - 2023 Reissue

                              2023 Marks forty years since Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, ushering in a new and critically acclaimed musical era for Waits and his longtime songwriting and production partner, Brennan. Waits went from ‘70’s-era “bluesy, boozy” wordsmith and melodist with seven albums behind him to sound sculptor, miner of the subconscious, abstract orchestrator, sonic cubist—while retaining his innate lyricism, melodic invention, humanity. As he put it in a 1983 interview: “I tried to listen to the noise in my head and invent some junkyard orchestral deviation—a mutant apparatus to drive this noise into a wreck collection.” It’s a Waits-arranged pastiche, a variety of atmospheres from different sound planets. There is the warped, marching-army-ants music of “Underground,” an impressionist chant about people living below cities, but there was also the poignancy of the spare piano ballad, “Soldier’s Things,” the good bar yarn, “Frank’s Wild Years”, the tender, minimalist paean to Waits’ wife and muse, Kathleen, “Johnsburg, Illinois,” and the raggedy anthem to neighborhood chaos, “In the Neighborhood.”“On Swordfishtrombones, Waits has made a breakthrough – he’s found music as evocative as his words. Waits’s grumble of a voice now bounces off a peculiar assortment of horns and percussion and organ and keyboards, as if he’d led a Salvation Army band into a broken-down Hong Kong disco. It’s as if he’s shifted from monologues to screenplays…” – Jon Parales January 1984 – GQ Magazine.

                              The album is newly remastered for the first time ever from the original EQ’ed ½” production master tape and personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering under the guidance of Waits’ longtime audio engineer, Karl Derfler.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              Side A
                              Underground
                              Shore Leave
                              Dave The Butcher
                              Johnsburg, Illinois
                              16 Shells From A 30.6
                              Town With No Cheer
                              In The Neighbourhood
                              Side B
                              Just Another Sucker On The Vine
                              Frank's Wild Years
                              Swordfishtrombone
                              Down, Down, Down
                              Soldier's Things
                              Gin Soaked Boy
                              Trouble's Braids
                              Rainbirds


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