2020 album with Hidden Orchestra and features 10 UK poets.

2021 album. The album will include new renditions of some of Bee Gees biggest hits, that Barry Gibb has re-recorded with of the worlds biggest country artists including Dolly Parton, Keith Urban, Olivia Newton-John and Sheryl Crow.

2020 album

2020 album. Also available on black vinyl and white vinyl. 

50 years following the release of his self-titled first solo album McCartney, featuring Paul playing every instrument and writing and recording every song, Paul McCartney will release McCartney III on December 11th. Paul hadn’t planned to release an album in 2020, but in the isolation of “Rockdown,” he soon found himself fleshing out some existing musical sketches and creating even more new ones. Before long an eclectic collection of spontaneous songs would become McCartney III: a stripped back, self-produced and, quite literally, solo work marking the opening of a new decade, in the tradition of 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II. Recorded earlier this year in Sussex, McCartney III is mostly built from live takes of Paul on vocals and guitar or piano, overdubbing his bass playing, drumming, etc. atop that foundation.

McCartney III spans a vast and intimate range of modes and moods, from soul searching to wistful, from playful to raucous and all points between — captured with some of the same gear from Paul’s Rude Studio used as far back as 1971 Wings sessions. And Paul's array of vintage instruments he played on the new album have an even more storied history, including Bill Black of Elvis Presley's original trio's double bass alongside Paul's own iconic Hofner violin bass, and a mellotron from Abbey Road Studios used on Beatles recordings, to name but a few. Just as McCartney’s 1970 release marked Paul’s return to basics in the wake of the biggest band break-up in musical history, and the 1980 avant-garde masterpiece McCartney II rose from the ashes of Wings, McCartney III finds Paul back on his own, turning unexpected circumstances into a personal snapshot of a timeless artist at a unique point in history.

All fifteen of Tom Jones' Decca studio albums, along with a special expanded 2CD physical package of single-only tracks, rare B-sides, and first time on CD recordings from the archives 'Hide & Seek (The Lost Collection)'.

1970 album remastered with 20 bonus tracks. Hardback book package.

Music From The Roxette Vaults. 46 previously unreleased or long since deleted Roxette recordings - demos, alternative mixes, Spanish versions, bonus tracks and other fun stuff from the Swedish band's long, illustrious and extraordinary successful career 1986-2016.

2020 album

Compiled by Bob Stanley and Jason Wood. Named after one of David Bowie's favourite Berlin haunts it imagines the soundtrack that would have informed Low, Heroes and Lodger. It's an awesome mix of electronica, Krautrock and experimental treats. Ace.

Catch A Fire, Burnin', Natty Dread, Live!, Rastaman Vibration, Exodus, Kaya, Babylon By Bus, Survival, Uprising, Confrontation. Packaged in mini LP sleeves.

1971 album. Tin can and fingers cover and Sister Morphine replaced with Let It Rock (Live). Japanese SHM-CD.

1994 debut solo album with 9 bonus tracks. With 32pp booklet.

2020 live album. Recorded 7th June 2018.

Featuring the albums Frank (2003), Back To Black (2006), Lioness: Hidden Treasures (2011), Live In London at the Shepherd's Bush Empire 2007, Remixes.

The Definitive Singles Collection. 54 tracks including early singles starting from 1977.

1988 live album. Remixed with 8 tracks not on the original CD.

32 tracks. Petula Clark, Sandra Barry, Val Mckenna, Baker Twins, Ferris Wheel, Mally Page, Tawny Reed, Billie Davis, Nita Rossi, Helen Shapiro, Caravelles, Sharon Tandy, Jackie Trent, Jan Panter, Peanut, Breakaways, Sandra Barry, Paper Dolls, Antoinette, Barbara Ruskin, Glenda Collins, Two Of Each, Simone Jackson, Judy Cannon, Glo Macari, Shirley Abicair, Tammy St John.

Experience Hendrix collection that couples the new feature length documentary Music, Money, Madness . . . Jimi Hendrix In Maui with the accompanying live performances on both audio and video. The film chronicles the Jimi Hendrix's storied visit to Maui, and how the band became ensnared with the ill-fated Rainbow Bridge movie and incorporates never before released original footage and new interviews. The Blu-ray will include the full documentary film plus the two afternoon performances captured on July 30, 1970 mixed in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound. Also included in the package will be Live In Maui - A two CD set featuring Hendrix, Billy Cox, Mitch Mitchell at the height of their playing powers, newly restored and mixed by long time Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer.

The definitive chronicle of Elvis' June/September 1970 sessions. 74 classic songs presented without their original overdubs, to bring the listener into RCA Studio B as it happened alongside rare and unreleased alternate takes, all newly re-mixed.

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2020 debut album from Mike Campbell (Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers). Also available on CD. 

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While 2020’s ‘Wreckless Abandon’ is their first official release and occasion to tour, The Dirty Knobs first came together 15 years ago after Mike Campbell met guitarist Jason Sinay at a session and liked the way their guitars sounded together. After adding the acclaimed rhythm section of bassist Lance Morrison and drummer Matt Laug, The Dirty Knobs became an outlet for Campbell to work on some of the other songs he was writing between Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers records and touring.

They got together when schedules permitted, playing music without an agenda, expectations or deadlines, without worrying about outcome or hits, pushing boundaries of taste, imagination, and genres and creating some of the most brutally confident yet psychically dangerous rock and roll since sonic-renegade juggernauts the Yardbirds first sauntered onto a London stage and ripped into “For Your Love.”

They recorded the album at Campbell’s home studio, Hocus Pocus Recorders, in just three weeks’ time, before the guitarist went out on the road in 2018 as a member of Fleetwood Mac. The Knobs tapped legendary producer George Drakoulias, who had also produced Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ 2002 album ‘The Last DJ’, to co-produce,with all songs written by Campbell.

The album features further contributions from Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Stapleton as well as fellow Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers founding-member, Benmont Tench. Additionally, Klaus Voormann, who is best known for doing the art for The Beatles’ Revolver, created the album artwork.

Tracklisting: Wreckless Abandon / Pistol Packin’ Mama (feat. Chris Stapleton) / Sugar / Southern Boy / I Still Love You / Irish Girl / Fuck That Guy / Don’t Knock The Boogie / Don’t Wait / Anna Lee / Aw Honey / Loaded Gun / Don’t Knock The Boogie (Coda)

1970 album remastered with 13 bonus tracks.

17 tracks from Eno's most recognisable film and television work spanning 5 decades.

2020 album

20 track compilation by Marco Pirroni of tracks used in Malcolm McLaren and Vivenne Westwood's 'Sex' shop. Track listing : 1 Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five, 2 Through My Eyes - The Creation, 3 Ain't Got No Home - Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, 4 Shake Some Action - Flamin' Groovies, 5 You're Gonna Miss Me - The Spades, 6 Liar Liar - The Castaways, 7 In The Nighttime - The Strangeloves, 8 Brand New Caddilac - Vince Taylor, 9 You Better Move On - Arthur Alexander, 10 Eighteen - Alice Cooper, 11 Night Of The Vampire - The Moontrekkers, 12 Monster In Black Tights - Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages, 13 I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs, 14 I Put A Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 15 Have Love Will Travel - The Sonics, 16 Joue Pas Le Rock 'N Roll Pour Moi - Johnny Halliday, 17 The Pill - Loretta Lynn, 18 We Sell Soul - The Spades, 19 Valerie - The Starlites, 20 Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers.

The acclaimed box set, which was previously released on vinyl format, celebrates one of music's greatest gospel and soul groups. This presents all of the group's studio albums released on the Memphis label, spanning 1968-1974, and features the Staples biggest hits, including I'll Take You There, Respect Yourself, and If You’re Ready (Come Go with Me). Each album was remastered from the original analog masters while the seventh disc offers rarities, non-album singles and live recordings from the legendary 1972 Wattstax music festival. Housed in a slipcase, the seven-disc collection also includes a booklet with archival photos and liner notes from American music specialist and curator Levon Williams (formerly of the Stax Museum and the National Museum of African American Music), and folklorist, ethnomusicologist and writer Dr. Langston Wilkins.

This brand new collection, featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks, explores what is possibly Morricone's richest creative period, between the end of the 1960s to the early 80s, demonstrating Morricone's long lasting influence for generations of musicians and film directors to this day. MORRICONE SEGRETO is an acid-tinged sonic journey through mysterious voices, fuzz guitars, airy strings, eerie synths and modern grooves from the Academy award-winning composer who was always ahead trends, dictating style in his own way.

2020 album

2020 album. African rock n roll.

2020 album

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2020 album. Folk.

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‘Making Sand’ is the new release from the unique talent of Mr. Padraig Jack. Hailing from the Aran Islands - 10 miles off the west coast of Ireland - singer-songwriter Padraig writes and sings in Gaelic and English, songs that are authentic, soulful, honest, celtic music inspired by his environment and its people. He was born and raised 10 miles off the west coast of Ireland on the Aran islands. Music and words are in his blood as his dad is bilingual songwriter Barry Ronan and he is the nephew on his mothers side of the Irish poet and Aosdána member Mary O’Malley.

His music is influenced by his surroundings as much as it is by James Taylor, Van Morrison, Shane McGowan and The Eagles. Padraig has won second prize at the Pan Celtic National Song contest and his song ‘Minnie’ was shortlisted for the final of the Christie Hennessy song contest. He has also received numerous Gradaim N S Award nominations. Making Sand was producer John Reynolds (Sinead O’Connor, Brian Eno, Damien Dempsey). 24 Jul WOMAD Festival, UK 26 Jul Deer Shed Festival, UK Orchestrate PR will be plugging the album in Ireland. Manilla PR will be plugging in the UK.

Padraig supported Sharon Shannon on her 2 UK tours in the UK in 2019 and did many BBC Regional interviews. He has been heralded in Ireland’s Hot Press magazine and Joe.ie.

Tracklisting: Let It Shine / Gospel Of Matthew / Streetbed Ridden / Making Sand /Minnie / Black Drapes / Hello Mum / Long Goodbye / Smaointe Cailte

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2020 album. Also available on Vinyl and Deluxe Box. 

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Manchester indie band Doves return with their first album in 11 years - ‘The Universal Want’. Turning the page onto the next chapter of a three-decade career, it follows the Mercury-nominated albums, ‘Lost Souls’ (2000) and ‘The Last Broadcast’ (2002), their second, successive UK Number One album, ‘Some Cities’ (2005) and ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ (2009).

Dropping breadcrumbs in rare interviews since they announced their return in late 2018, Jimi Goodwin, Andy and Jez Williams have remained reluctant custodians of their barely-kept secret of a new album throughout 2019’s busy period of memorable festival and outdoor headline shows. Coming together to confirm themselves, once again, as an artistic unit for the first time since sessions ended on 2009’s ‘Kingdom Of Rust’, the Manchester trio hint that ‘The Universal Want’ has become an equally poignant and celebratory document of both time passed and time recouped. “It’s definitely got the stamp of ‘the time’ all over it,” says Williams, when asked as to what lies ahead for fans who have waited patiently for over a decade for another record. “Everything on the album is an echo. It’s an echo of what we were going through at the time. Getting back together, the Royal Albert Hall and everything else.”

Only the second track and first single proper to be revealed, “Prisoners” forces attention upon itself, not least with the poignancy of Goodwin’s repeated greeting to ‘old friends’, but as an unstoppable, driving tale of caution in a world of unending desire. Produced by Doves with Dan Austin and recorded at the band’s own Frank Bough Sound III studios in North West England, the high heat of its Northern Soul beat is fanned by wiry guitar breaks and cuts of ethereal noise contorting beneath layers of stacked vocals. “Prisoners” guides Doves’ second chapter to a peak now within touching distance, the lyrics contrasting to express unease with modern ills. Andy Williams says of the single: “It’s about continually chasing something and not being satisfied when you eventually get it. You’ve got ‘that thing’ and you find you’re not any happier. Be careful what you wish for.”

Tracklisting: Carousels / I Will Not Hide / Broken Eyes / For Tomorrow / Cathedrals Of The Mind / Prisoners / Cycle Of Hurt / Mother Silver Lake / Universal Want / Forest House

2020 album. Electronic.

2020 album

1977 album remastered with 3 bonus tracks. Plus BBC Radio One In Concert at Golders Green Hippodrome, London, 12th March 1977. Esoteric.

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2020 album. Also available on CD. 

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Asian Dub Foundation are a genre unto themselves. Their unique combination of tough jungle rhythms, dub bass lines and wild guitar overlaid by references to their South Asian roots and militant high-speed rap has established them as one of the best live bands in the world. During their long and productive career Asian Dub Foundation have shared the stage with the likes of Rage Against The Machine, the Beastie Boys and Primal Scream also collaborating on record with the likes of Radiohead, Sinead O’ Connor, Iggy Pop and Chuck D.

Their 9th album ‘Access Denied’ finds them as uncompromising as ever. The album showcases ADF in full spectrum mode from the tough Jungle Punk sound of “Stealing The Future” and “Mindlock” through to the orchestral meditation of “Realignment” and the reggae lament of the title track. With guestspots from Greta Thunberg, incendiary Palestinian shamstep warriors 47 Soul, Chilean revolt’s rap main figure Ana Tijoux and radical UK comedian Stewart Lee, Asian Dub Foundation continue their sonic opposition to the powers that be and ‘Access Denied’ kicks harder and higher than ever.

ADF formed from a music workshop in East London in the late 1990s at the institution which is their spiritual home, Community Music. Their unique beginnings marked out both their sound and their wider educational aspirations, as showed by their early involvements with Roma Youth in Budapest, hooking up with the legendary Afro Reggae in the favelas of Rio, and setting up their own education organisation ADF Education (ADFED), not to mention their campaigns on behalf of those suffering miscarriages of justice.

Tracklisting: Can’t Pay Won’t Pay / Stealing the Future / Frontline / Access Denied / Realignment / Comin’ Over Here (feat. Stewart Lee) / Human 47 (feat. 47 Soul) / Mindlock / Swarm / Lost in the Shadows / Youthquake Part 1, Greta Speaks / New Alignment / Frontline Santiago (feat. Ana Tijoux) / Smash and Grab the Future (feat. Dub FX).

Early recordings, King Crimson, ELP album track & singles, solo & collaborations. 60pp book.

2020 album. With Beck, Elton John, Fatoumata Diawara, Georgia, Kano, Leee John, Octavian, Peter Hook, Robert Smith, Roxani Arias, ScHoolboy Q, Slaves, Slowthai, St Vincent and 6LACK, as well as CHAI, EARTHGANG, Goldlink, Joan As Police Woman, JPEGMAFIA, Moonchild Sanelly, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Skepta and Tony Allen.

Official collection which features nearly six hours of unreleased home, live, and radio recordings. Radio Station CFQC AM, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (ca. 1963) / Live at the Half Beat: Yorkville, Toronto, Canada (October 21, 1964) (1st and 2nd sets) / Joni's Parents' House: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (February 1965) / Myrtle Anderson Birthday Tape: Detroit, MI (1965) / Jac Holzman Demo: Detroit, MI (August 24, 1965) / Let's Sing Out, CBC TV: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (October 4, 1965) / Home Demo: Detroit, MI (ca. 1966) / Let's Sing Out, CBC TV: Laurentian University, London, ON, Canada (October 24, 1966) / Live at the 2nd Fret: Philadelphia, PA (November 1966) / Folklore, WHAT FM: Philadelphia, PA, (March 12, 1967) / Live at the 2nd Fret: Philadelphia, PA (March 17, 1967) (2nd & 3rd sets) / Folklore, WHAT FM: Philadelphia, PA (March 19, 1967) / A Record Of My Changes - Michael's Birthday Tape: North Carolina (May 1967) / Folklore, WHAT FM: Philadelphia, PA (May 28, 1967) / Home Demo: New York City, NY (ca. June 1967) / Live at Canterbury House: Ann Arbor, MI (October 27, 1967) (1st, 2nd & 3rd sets).

1970 album (Man Who Sold The World) remixed by Tony Visconti in 2020. Metrobolist was the working title for the album and the cartoon cover used for the artwork.

2020 album with The E-Street Band.

2020 album with 6 bonus acoustic tracks in casebound book.

Both albums: The Garden Of Jane Delawney (1970) and On The Shore (1971) plus 2 bonus discs of alternate mixes, early demos, BBC session tracks and 2018 live recordings in London. Includes lost demos of Polly On The Shore and Streets Of Derry. Plus book. Earth Recordings.

2020 album inspired by Uncle Dave Macon. Features Ry Cooder.

2020 album. Also available on Vinyl.

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2020 album. Also available on Vinyl. 

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Roachford, whose most famous song “Cuddly Toy” has been a mainstay of radio airplay for over three decades now, is back with what is assuredly the best album of his career in ‘Twice in a Lifetime’. It’s the sound of someone at the top of their game, of one who knows his craft inside out. Produced by Grammy award winning Jimmy Hogarth, who has previously worked with Paolo Nutini, Duffy and Amy Winehouse, and featuring several members of Winehouse’s band, it’s full of grit and the most tremendous sonic energy, tracks like “Are You Satisfied?” throbbing with Stax-era musicality and soul. Lyrically, meanwhile, the album reveals an artist who has unambiguously Lived A Life.

Since "Cuddly Toy" reached number four in the charts back in early 1989 - Andrew Roachford has carved out a career for himself as one of the most compelling, and consistent, rock and soul artists the UK has produced. He has released 10 studio albums, several greatest hits collections, has been approached to write for various other artists including Chaka Khan, Michael Jackson and Joss Stone, and toured with contemporaries including Terence Trent D’Arby and The Christians. For the past nine years, he has been part of Mike + the Mechanics, recording with Mike Rutherford’s post-Genesis band, playing live with them across the world. He is someone who channels the energy of James Brown before going on stage each night, and who, on record, summons up the spirit of everyone from Al Green to Joe Cocker. When he sings, you listen.

Tracklisting: High On Love / Love Remedy / Too Much To Lose / Give It Up And Let Go / What We Had (with Beverley Knight) / Won’t Think Twice / So Long / Are you Satisfied? / The Truth Hurts Too Much / Gonna Be The One / Once In A Lifetime / Written In My Heart / You’re The One

The collection includes seven remastered studio albums: Then Play On (1969), Kiln House (1970), Future Games (1971), Bare Trees (1972), Penguin (1973), Mystery To Me (1973), and Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974) plus 18 bonus tracks across all the albums. Disc 8 is an unreleased recording of the band's 15th December 1974 concert at The Record Plant in Sausalito, California.

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2020 release. Recorded and filmed over two nights at the famed London venue 3rd/4th May 2019. Also available on Blu-ray and Vinyl. 

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In 2018, guitarist with The Blockheads (Ian Dury’s backing band) convinced Pink Floyd’s drummer Nick Mason to come out of performing retirement to form a new group dedicated to celebrating the early material from the Floyd’s illustrious catalogue. Joining them were later Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp and completing the line-up, keyboard man Dom Beken. The quintet made their debut at some low-key dates in the spring of 2018 and since then have performed a handful of tours around the world to a rapturous response.

The set-list for the dates throughout 2018 & 19 have been largely static but seeing Nick bash his kit to songs he hasn’t performed for nearly 50 years abetted by his band who exude sheer joy at breathing new life into these esteemed compositions has seen another surprising and pleasing chapter in the story of one the rock world’s biggest bands.

A total of seven songs by original leader Syd Barrett prove his bright but brief period of creativity garnered a crop of material that remains startingly original today. Meanwhile after he left, the band took several years to work out where to take their sound and although these songs are not as well known as the ones that populate albums such as ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’ they retain a vitality perhaps missing from the aforementioned classics.

This live album recorded at the Roundhouse, where Pink Floyd cut their teeth in 1966/67, is expected to only be the first recorded document from Nick’s new group. Let’s hope there will be more to come - Mason has hinted in interviews that there will be more to come from outfit - it definitely seems they are having more fun than the Floyd anyway!

Tracklisting: Beginnings / Interstellar Overdrive / Astronomy Domine / Lucifer Sam / Fearless / Obscured by Clouds / When You’re In / Remember A Day / Arnold Layne / Vegetable Man / If / Atom Heart Mother / The Nile Song / Green Is The Colour / Let There Be More Light / Childhood’s End / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun / See Emily Play / Bike / One Of These Days / A Saucerful Of Secrets / Point Me At The Sky.

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1996 album. Also available on CD. 

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Penny Penny (real name Giyani Kulani) is a South African musician known affectionately as the “Shangaan Disco King” for the musical style he helped popularise and ‘Yogo Yogo’ is his second album from 1996. The rags-to-riches chronicle of Penny Penny’s life would be remarkable if he had only released his smash debut ‘Shaka Bundu’ and packed houses for a few years. But the inimitable South African singer and dancer known for his trademark top ponytail and emphatic anthems was no one-hit wonder.

In the aftermath of ‘Shaka Bundu’s’ nationwide explosion, far beyond his country the album resonated with ever bigger audiences. He performed up and down the continent, building fanbases in more than a dozen countries. ‘Yogo Yogo’ solidified Penny Penny’s standing in pop music nationally and provided new energy to his pan-African stadium-filling adventures. The album reflected the era in which it emerged. If Shaka Bundu arrived triumphantly amid newfound political freedom in South Africa with the end of Apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s election, ‘Yogo Yogo’ was a next level expression for the maturing artist. He wanted to get a message out.

Composed with Joe Shirimani, who also produced the album, the sound and compositional style echoes the earlier recording but the topical nature of the lyrics became more deliberate, more didactic. In the song “Ingani” Penny proclaims, we are all one people even though we may speak different languages while “Kulani Kulani,” which means grow up, urges young people to say no to drugs and yes to education. “Ama Owners”, referring to the public transport drivers involved in violent rumbles, asks the nation’s drivers to relax because we need them for our safe arrival.

Penny explains. “Our music was traditional before. But I brought a mix of rock and disco and it became the bomb. Every star won’t be popular without your own style. The songs just happened. Joe is very good at listening and producing, he has lots of patience. When he played the keyboard I would sing, standing behind him once he finished the rhythm, I would sing it all in one take, non-stop. We were not using computers to record, we were singing live.” Fast-forward to 2020, Penny Penny is deep in the political game and appears on television 6 times a week as the star of his own reality TV show, “Papa Penny Ahee!”. He is setting up an avocado farm and provides fifty families in his region with food every month via his charitable foundation.

Tracklisting: Ibola Aids / Ingani / Amarumasi / Kulani Kulani / Hai Kamina / Dodomedzi (CD Bonus) / Yogo Yogo / Ti Samaboko / Ama Owners / Kulani Kulani (Remix) CD Bonus

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Bespoke boxset containing 8 original 2 Tone albums, with original artwork on mini LP-style sleeves and a 24 page booklet with sleeve notes by Jason Weir and Peter Walsh. THE SPECIALS Specials [1979] / THE SELECTER Too Much Pressure [1980] / THE SPECIALS More Specials [1980] / VARIOUS Dance Craze [1981]* / RICO That Man Is Forward [1981]* / RICO Jama Rico [1982]* / VARIOUS This Are Two Tone [1983]* / THE SPECIAL AKA In The Studio [1984]. *First time on CD for a long time or ever.

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Hailing from Coventry in the UK, the ska-revival group The Specials tore up the charts for a couple of years between 1979-81 with a string of singles and a couple of well received albums. But what made them stand out even more was that they had full artistic control with their own label: 2 Tone Records, despite the fact it was administered by Chrysalis Records. After the success of their first single "Gangsters", they quickly started signing other acts, providing a launching pad for Madness, The Beat and The Selecter.

When it came to albums however, only The Selecter and Cuban trombonist Rico Rodriguez had the opportunity record long-players. Alongside The Specials albums, a live collection and the first label 'best of' they are all collected here for the first time on CD. The live album 'Dance Craze' has never officially been on CD before and this vibrant set offers a taste of the scene.

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In addition to stellar '60s psych and garage, Salem Oregon's Garland Records churned out some high quality, foot stompin', 'Country & Northwestern' music. Sundazed.

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Unearthed reels from Salem Oregan’s Garland Records and packed with stellar artists ‘Garland Records Pacific Northwest Snuff Box’ comprises rare and unissued Pacific Northwest rootsy Americana! In addition to stellar ‘60s psych and garage, Salem Oregon’s Garland Records churned out some high quality, foot stompin’, ‘Country & Northwestern’ music.

The drive’s cranked all the way up and the needle’s fully in the red for this set of uptempo garage-punk stompers from Salem’s enigmatic Garland Records. Packed with killer, crunchy bass, pummeling drums, in-your-face vocals, and (of course) mountains of fuzz-guitar! Loaded primarily with originals, plus distorted deviations of select known numbers, all ranging from impossibly rare to previously unreleased!.

With Sundazed Music’s acquisition of the Garland Records catalog, you’re in for a coastal flood of great garage rock, pysch, soul, and even some country. But it all starts here with Pacific Northwest Fuzz Box, named after the commonly used distortion pedals that (at least according to our ears) can be heard reverberating through your speaker cones on every track.

One thing that makes this collection extra unique is the abundance of original material. Stellar cuts like “It’ll Come Easy,” “Hip Girl,” and “Transparent Soul” carry the same level of songsmanship you’ll get from the blistering covers of “Black Is Black” (Los Bravos), “Suzie Q” (CCR), “Hit The Road Jack” (Ray Charles) and more! Something fuzzy was happening in the Pacific Northwest and BeatRocket is stoked to be the ones to tell you all about it.

Archived here are a barn load of true Americana from unheard originals like the Cascade Sweethearts’ ‘Hard Workin’ Woman,’ The Heard’s unissued ‘Sweet Thang’ to stunning takes on Bob Dylan & Kris Kristofferson cuts. This is a PNW platter that you’d swear came from south of the Mason Dixon.

Tracklisting: Tippy Toeing by Cascade Sweethearts / Since Daddy’s Not Around by Jim Thompson And The Colts / China Doll by Geronia Coyle And The G-Tones / Hard Workin’ Woman by Cascade Sweethearts / Don’t Be Angry by Chuck Wray / Friends Of Mine by The Heard / You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Dylan) by TYME / Me And Bobby McGee (Kristofferson) by Clint Briggs / Sweet Thang by The Heard / Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got) by Laura / (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got) by Chuck Wray / There’s A Time And A Place For Everything by Hubert Averette And The G-Tones / Fools Hall Of Fame by Clint Briggs

1994 album with 10 bonus tracks. Plus CD3: Home Recordings and CD4: Wildflowers Live.

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2020 album. Rock. Also available on CD. 

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Norweigan rock band Motorpsycho release their latest epic ‘The All Is One’ which finishes the so-called “Gullvåg trilogy”. However, ‘The All Is One’ is so much more than a sequel, and very much a standalone album in its own right. While the second part ‘The Crucible’ took the band a step further out than ‘The Tower’, the new one explores new frontiers, especially with the dark, brooding landscape of the 42-minute epic centerpiece that is “N.O.X.”, possibly the most ambitious piece of music they have recorded.

Eight shorter tracks, clocking in between two and ten minutes, make up the rest of the album and bring some balance to the proceedings. Lyrically, ‘The All Is One’ takes up the threads from the previous albums. While there is no thematic red line as such - and not being overtly political - it is difficult for a socially conscious writer like Bent Sæther not to observe and reflect on what goes on in an increasingly unstable world. They have also found strong inspiration and common ground in the paintings of Håkon Gullvåg, the artist responsible for the cover art.

Artistically searching as ever, and in their own way joyously stretching the rock format as out of whack as they can, Motorpsycho neither can nor will align themselves fully to any scene or genre. Travelling their own path in their own tempo, it might take longer to get anywhere, but that is just fine when the journey itself is the whole point. And what a journey it has been; this band is still peaking after more than 30 years in the business.

Tracklisting: The All Is One / The Same Old Rock (One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy) / The Magpie / Delution (The Reign Of Humbug) / N.O.X. I - Circles Around The Sun, pt 1 / N.O.X. II - Ouroboros (Strange Loop) / N.O.X. III – Ascension / N.O.X. IV - Night Of Pan / N.O.X. V - Circles Around The Sun, pt 2 / A Little Light / Dreams Of Fancy / The Dowser / Like Chrome

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2020 album. Also available on CD. 

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American alt-rock band PVRIS release their third studio album ‘Use Me’, and on the new record, frontwoman, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Lynn Gunn steps into a new chapter, as she owns her role as PVRIS’ leader and sole architect. The result is 11 pop conjurations of glitchy beat-craft, airy guitars, and spell-binding vocals.

A newfound sense of freedom lies at the core of ‘Use Me’. For years, Lynn remained in the background too shy to take all of the credit for the vision of PVRIS and her role in the songwriting, presentation, much of the production, merch, and visual video concepts. At last, she is ready to shine a light on who she is and what she does. “I allowed myself to support a narrative I thought I had to support of PVRIS being a band,” says Lynn. “I didn’t really have a role model for this. Coming from a ‘band culture,’ it’s about how the group is always greater than the sum of its parts, and you’re not supposed to take credit, even if you do everything. There’s no template or role model for really owning it as a woman. I wanted to make everyone else happy and uphold an image I thought we had to.”

“Growing up, I learned I don’t have to do that anymore. I’m finally allowing myself to take credit. I’ve got the full support and encouragement of my bandmates. PVRIS is a unit and very much a team, but the heart and soul of the vision and music always has sourced from me. I’m just saying it now. I fulfilled my own vision of what a role model should be.”

Tracklisting: Gimme A Minute / Dead Weight / Stay Gold / Good To Be Alive / Death of Me / Hallucinations / Old Wounds / Loveless / January Rain / Use Me / Wish You Well

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Huge hit singles, highly-regarded psych-pop B-sides, criminally overlooked album tracks, alternative versions, outtakes, foreign language recordings, a live cabaret album and even the first-ever full release of the complete sessions for the 1970 cult movie ‘May Morning’.

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There have been Tremeloes compilations before. However, The Complete CBS Recordings 1966-72 is unquestionably THE definitive anthology of one of the most successful British pop groups of the late Sixties. This 6-CD release features every note of the band’s recordings during their halcyon days with CBS.

Originally fronted by Brian Poole, they were auditioned by Decca Records on the same day as the Beatles and it was The Tremeloes that got the prized record contract. They had their share of success including a No.1 single (“Do You Love Me?”). After Poole left in 1966, The Tremeloes carried on as a four piece and the following year had a second wave of popularity with hit singles “Here Comes My Baby”, “Even The Bad Times Are Good”, “Silence Is Golden”, “(Call Me) Number One”, all featured here along with highly-regarded psych-pop B-sides, criminally overlooked album tracks, alternative versions, outtakes, foreign language recordings, a live cabaret album and even the first-ever full release of the complete sessions for the 1970 cult movie ‘May Morning’. ‘The Complete CBS Recordings’ gathers everything under one roof for the first – and, almost certainly, the last time.

Featuring no less than 165 tracks in mono, full fat stereo and even electronically-processed stereo (the way the band’s mono-only early recordings were heard at the time in more stereo-oriented countries such as the USA), ‘The Complete CBS Recordings’ is an essential purchase for both the band’s numerous fans and admirers of late Sixties/early Seventies British pop in general. Containing over seven hours of music across six CDs, this stunning package includes a lavish 32-page booklet with a new 5000 word essay on the band’s career, numerous band quotes and a huge number of extremely rare photos of the band in their youthful prime.

Tracklisting:

Disc One: Here Comes My Baby / Run Baby Run (Back Into My Arms) / My Town / Round And Round / What A State I’m In / Loving You (Is Sweeter Than Ever) / Good Day Sunshine / You / Let Your Hair Hang Down / Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying) / When I’m With Her / Even The Band Times Are Good / Here Comes My Baby (UK Single Version) / Gentleman Of Pleasure / Jenny’s Alright / Be Mine (Mi Seguirai) / Here Comes My Baby / Run Baby Run (Back Into My Arms) / My Town / Round And Round / What A State I’m In / Loving You (Is Sweeter Than Ever) / Good Day Sunshine / You / Let Your Hair Hang Down / Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying) / When I’m With Her / Even The Bad Times Are Good / Even The Bad Times Are Good (Alternative Stereo Version)

Disc Two: Happy Song / Running Out / Negotiations In Soho Square / Suddenly Winter / Sunshine Games / Silence Is Golden / Norman Stanley Jones St. Clair / Cool Jerk / I’m With You All The Way / Sing Sorta Swingle / Too Many Fish In The Sea / Come On Home / Sing Sorta Swingle (Alternative Mono Version) / On Love / Every Little Bit Hurts / No, No, No (Fast Version) / Happy Song / Running Out / Negotiations In Soho Square / Suddenly Winter / Sunshine Games / Silence Is Golden / Norman Stanley Jones St. Clair / Cool Jerk / I’m With You All The Way / Sing Sorta Swingle / Too Many Fish In The Sea / Come On Home / Sing Sorta Swingle (Alternative Stereo Version)

Disc Three: Suddenly You Love Me / As You Are / Helule Helule / Girl From Nowhere / My Little Lady / All The World To Me / You Don’t Know Like I Know / Show Me / I Take What I Want / Reach Out I’ll Be There / Peggy Sue / Everyday / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Rag Doll / I’ll See You There / Willie And The Hand Jive / Helule Helule / Girl From Nowhere / Alley Oop / Travelling Circus / Ain’t Nothin’ But A House Party / Suddenly You Love Me / You Don’t Know Like I Know / Show Me / Be Mine / I Take What I Want / Reach Out I’ll Be There / E In Silenzio (Silence Is Golden, Italian Language Version)

Disc Four: I Shall Be Released / I Miss My Baby / I’m Gonna Try / I Will See You There (Single Version) / En Tu Mundo / Hello World / Up, Down, All Around / Once On A Sunday Morning (Cuandro Sali De Cuba) / Fa La La, La La, La Le / Sadness Of Tomorrow / (Call Me) Number One / Instant Whip / Run Baby Run (Back Into My Arms) / Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying) / Hello World / My Little Lady / Angel Of The Morning / Games People Play / Proud Mary / Blessed / Here Comes My Baby / En Tu Mundo / Mountain Dew / Fbi / I Shall Be Released / Silence Is Golden / Even The Bad Times Are Good / Suddenly You Love Me / Good Times

Disc Five: Wait On Me / Long Road / Now’s The Time / Try Me / But Then I… / Before I Sleep / Boola Boola / I Swear / Baby / By The Way / Willow Tree / Me And My Life / Wait On Me (Alternative Version) / What Can I Do / Yellow River (Version 1) / Breakheart Motel / Right Wheel, Left Hammer, Sham / Take It Easy / Hello Buddy / My Woman / Right Wheel, Left Hammer, Sham (2000 Stereo Mix) / Yellow River (Version 2) / No Comprendes (Yellow River, Spanish Language Version) / Jacqueline (Hello World, Italian Language Version) / (Call Me) Number One (2000 Stereo Mix)

Disc Six: May Morning / All Pull Together / Till The Sun Goes Down / Turn On With Thee / I Can’t Even Breathe Down Here / May Morning (Reprise 1) / Anything / Think Of What You Said / Beer Duel / Hard Time / I’ll Take You Home / Bunch Of Rapes / May Morning (Reprise 2) / I You Know (Version 1) / Anything (Reprise 1) / I You Know (Version 2) / Remember Looking Back / No, No, No / Please No More Sad Songs / Too Late (To Be Saved) / If You Ever / How Can You Say Goodbye / Heaven Knows Why / I Like It That Way / Wakamaker

Label Review. 

2020 album. Also available on CD and Deluxe CD. 

Our Overview. 

Undeniably one of the best voices of our generation, Grammy award-winning singing sensation Gregory Porter has made his eagerly-awaited return to the studio with his sixth studio album ‘All Rise’.

Following on from 2017’s ‘Nat King Cole & Me’ album, Porter’s forthcoming record marks a return to his beloved original songwriting – heart-on-sleeve lyrics imbued with everyday philosophy and real-life detail, set to a stirring mix of jazz, soul, blues, and gospel. First single, “Revival”, sets the tone, kicking off with Gregory’s signature hand-clapping. “Yes, you could say that I went big,” says Gregory about the track, which features a handpicked horn section and 10-member choir. He explains, “For me, it’s the message of walking into this life and having some fear and self-doubt, and the point where you grab onto something that you know is real, the silent and real things, the truth… Once you can wrap onto the truth then this fearlessness comes.”

Since his 2013 debut, ‘Liquid Spirit’, which won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Gregory hasn’t let down his legion of fans, whether collaborating with Disclosure on ‘Holding On’, releasing his dance hit ‘Liquid Spirit – Claptone Remix’ which became one of the most popular tracks in Ibiza, scoring another Grammy for ‘Take Me to the Alley’ (2016), or telling his life story through Cole’s songbook. Porter is still surprised by his runaway success, but he has a theory: “I was soothed by my voice as a child and I think that’s the same thing others get from it. I’m trying to heal myself with these songs.”

Tracklisting: Concorde / Dad Gone Thing / Revival / If Love Is Overrated / Faith In Love / Merchants of Paradise / Long List of Troubles / Mr. Holland / Modern Day Apprentice / Everything You Touch Is Gold / Phoenix / Merry Go Round / Real Truth (bonus track 1) / You Can Join My Band (bonus track 2) / Thank You

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1974 album remastered with 5 bonus tracks. Esoteric. 

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After earning success as a performer and songwriter with The Move and The Electric Light Orchestra, Roy Wood formed Wizzard in 1972. The band stacked up a series of classic hit singles and released the album ‘Wizzard Brew’ for EMI’s Harvest label before departing for Warner Bros in 1974. Wood and his band embarked on the recording of their second album, a loose concept base around a fictitious British Rock band of the early 1960s, Eddy and the Falcons. The resulting album was a triumphant pastiche and was a top twenty hit upon its release.

He wrote eight different stylistic and artistic tributes, summarizing with the closing “We’re Gonna Rock n Roll Tonight,” a song that recalls such latter-day Move rockers as “California Man”. The rest of the album is deliberately self-conscious, as Wood reconstructed specific sounds -- Phil Spector on “This Is the Story of My Love (Baby),” Del Shannon’s “Runaway” on “Everyday I Wonder,” Elvis on “I Dun Lotsa Cryin’ Over You,” teen idol pop on “You Got Me Runnin’.” whilst retaining his own specific style.

Unavailable on CD for many years, this welcome Esoteric Recordings reissue has been newly re-mastered and includes five bonus tracks drawn from singles all issued in 1974, including the top ten hit “Are You Ready to Rock”. The release also restores the original artwork and features a new essay and a replica poster included with the original 1974 LP release.

Tracklisting: Intro / Eddy’s Rock / Brand New 88 / You Got Me Runnin’ / I Dun Lotsa Cryin’ Over You / This Is The Story Of My Love (Baby) / Everyday I Wonder / Crazy Jeans / Come Back Karen / We’re Gonna Rock N’ Roll Tonight // Bonus Tracks - Rock N’ Roll Winter (Loony’s Tune) / Dream Of Unwin / Nixture / Are You Ready To Rock / Marathon Man

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Paul Kossoff’s last band. The Band Plays On, 2nd Street, Live At Fairfield Hall Croydon and Final Performance.

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The story of Back Street Crawler is sadly a short one, but also a tale of what might have been. After forming in 1968, the British blues rock legends Free finally called it a day after 1972’s ‘Heartbreaker’, just as the band was on the verge of cracking America. Free guitarist Paul Kossoff’s first move was to record his solo album ‘Back Street Crawler’ for Island Records in 1973. Joining forces with Terry Wilson (bass), Mike Montgomery (keyboards) and Tony Braunagel (drums), who had played together in Bloontzfrom, plus singer Terry Wilson-Slesser, Kossoff’s ‘Back Street Crawler’ solo record gave the new band their name, who were then signed by Ahmet Ertegun to Atlantic Records.

Prior to the release of their debut album ‘The Band Plays On’, they performed a handful of UK shows, including a gig at Croydon’s Fairfield Hall on 15th June 1975, captured in this box featuring the songs ‘The Band Played On’, ‘It’s A Long Way Down To The Top’, ‘New York, New York’, ‘Train Song’ and ‘Survivor’ from the band’s debut, as well as Kossoff’s ‘Molten Gold’ and the blues rock classic, ‘The Hunter’.

Further touring was curtailed by Kossoff’s ill-health, but he regained enough strength to record on second album, ‘2nd Street’. Now featuring the keyboards of former Free and future The Who member, John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick, the album includes “Blue Soul”, “Stop Doing What You’re Doing”, “Raging River” and “Leaves In The Wind”. Kossoff tragically passed away before the album’s release, which was “Dedicated To Koss” on the posthumously issued LP.

The band played a series of shows at the famed Starwood club in Los Angeles, a regular venue for up and coming rock acts. Sadly, this 3rd March 1976 show would be Paul Kossoff’s final ever performance, but fortunately a fan was present to illicitly record the show, seven tracks of which are reproduced on the fourth CD. Featuring plenty of rare, contemporary memorabilia, this collection comes with the full involvement of Back Street Crawler front man and singer, Terry Wilson-Slesser.

Tracklisting:

Disc One: The Band Plays On (1975): Who Do Women / New York, New York / Stealing My Way / Survivor / It’s A Long Way Down To The Top / All The Girls Are Crazy / Jason Blue / Train Song / Rock & Roll Junkie / The Band Plays On

Disc Two: 2nd Street (1976): Selfish Lover / Blue Soul / Stop Doing What You’re Doing / Raging River / Some Kind Of Happy / Sweet, Sweet Beauty / Just For You / On Your Life / Leaves In The Wind

Disc Three: Live At Fairfield Hall, Croydon (1975): The Band Played On / Sidekick To The Stars / It’s A Long Way Down To The Top / New York, New York / Train Song / Survivor / Stealing My Way / All The Girls Are Crazy / Jason Blue / Rock & Roll Junkie / Molten Gold / The Hunter / We Won / Bird Song Blues

Disc Four: Final Performance - Live At The Starwood Club, Los Angeles: 3rd March 1976: Who Do Women / Stealing My Way / Cheat On Me / Common Mortal Man / Train Song / Just For The Box / It’s A Long Way Down To The Top // Bonus Tracks : Jason Blue (Outtake) / Evening Time (Unreleased) / It’s A Long Way Down To The Top (Outtake) / She’s Gone (Unreleased)

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2020 debut album. Rock. Also available on CD. 

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London based Girls In Synthesis highly-anticipated debut album, by those that know, arrives with the first bitter taste of new single “Pressure”; one-minute-and-fifty-four seconds of screeching feedback, tribal drums and unbridled rage that is exactly the shot in the arm and the boot up the arse this nation, if not the world, needs right now. “In both music and lyrical content this song sets out to capture the unrelenting pressures of living in the modern world,” explains vocalist and guitarist Jim. “The pressures and expectations of which ‘they’ force upon you - with the apparent realisation that you will never be what they want you to be. “Pressure, the twist of the gut, as one door opens another fucking shuts”

Since forming in late 2016, Girls In Synthesis have quickly forged a fearsome reputation as one of the most exciting and volatile live acts in London. In equal parts frantic, considered, ear-splitting and melodic, the group take their cues from the early DIY punk and post-punk pioneers to keep everything in-house; artwork, videos, performances and recordings are created entirely by the group and their handful of trusted collaborators, under a bedrock of heavy, bludgeoning, dark, post-punk. ‘Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future’ is their first release for fabled experimental punk label Harbinger Sound and finds the band advancing their sound, making subtle but experimental shifts in texture and tone, helping to break free from the shackled straight-jacket of punk rock that, to be fair, never really held them down in the first place.

In their few years of existence, fans and critics alike have been stunned by the bands pure visceral and punishing wall of sound, as well as applauding the groups way of making a GIS show an all-inclusive experience; playing from within the crowd to create a unique and awe-inspiring spectacle. Being hand-picked to support acts as diverse as Damo Suzuki, Slaves, Bad Breeding, Warmduscher and Wolf Alice has seen a widening of the groups fan base. Sold out headline shows across the UK have led to frantic and chaotic performances, and packed, sweaty venues, the word is getting out and spreading rapidly. Catch GIS while you can and witness the rise of one of the UK’s most original and unique underground bands.

Tracklisting: Arterial Movements / Pressure / The Images Agree / Scrapped / Human Frailty / They’re Not Listening / Cause For Concern / Coming Up For Air / Set Up To Fail / Tirades Of Hate and Fear.

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25 tracks. The first ever compilation of tracks by Helen from this period drawn from five different labels. Ace.

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Before she had reached her 16th birthday Helen Shapiro became one of the UK’s brightest stars of the early 1960s, with two of her first four singles topping the charts. In the years before the Beatles (who once supported her on tour!) Helen was a permanently visible presence on our charts, and continues to be a fan favourite seven decades on and almost 20 years after she announced her retirement.

Most of Helen’s early hits can be found on at least one CD. But in ‘Face The Music’ Ace Records brings you the first-ever compilation to pull together the complete A and B sides of every seven inch single Helen released under her own name between 1967 and 1984, with repertoire drawn from five different labels. ‘Face The Music’ comes to you with the full approval and endorsement of Helen and John, her husband of more than 30 years. A sleeve note featuring a specially conducted 2020 ‘lockdown’ interview with the artist provides Helen’s own thoughts on both these recordings and this period in her 40+ year career.

All tracks appear here in their original mono and stereo single mixes, just as they were released on 45. Around a third of the titles have never been reissued before, in any format. With a booklet stuffed with the usual plethora of ephemera, labels and rare foreign picture sleeves, it’s something no Shapiro fan will want to miss.

Tracklisting: Stop And You Will Become Aware / She Needs Company / Make Me Belong To You / The Way Of The World / You’ll Get Me Loving You / Silly Boy (I Love You) / Today Has Been Cancelled / Face The Music / You’ve Guessed / Take Me For A While / Take Down A Note Miss Smith / Couldn’t You See / Waiting On The Shores Of Nowhere / A Glass Of Wine / You’re A Love Child / That’s The Reason I Love You / (I) Can’t Break The Habit / For All The Wrong Reasons / Every Little Bit Hurts / Touchin’ Wood / Let Yourself Go / Funny / (Play Something Sweet) Brickyard Blues / Just Another Weekend / Das Ist Nicht Die Fiene Englische Art

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Blue Pine Trees, Too Many Crooks, One More Tomorrow plus 39 bonus tracks. Esoteric.

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Lead by singer songwriter Ken Baker, Unicorn were one of the UK’s prime exponents of ‘Country Rock’ but although their four albums released over the course of the 1970s sold poorly, despite the patronage of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour who was a big fan of the group, today the band remain a cult favourite with fans of the genre.

Esoteric Recordings is pleased to announce the release of a new 4 CD boxed set that gathers together their second, third and fourth albums plus an additional disc of previously unreleased archive material. Unicorn recorded their first album in 1971 for the Transatlantic label, but by 1973 they began an association with Gilmour who was taken with the band’s musical approach and American West Coast musical influences, vocal harmonies and very English lyrics. Gilmour played slide guitar and produced their next album, ‘Blue Pine Trees’ for Charisma Records. Featuring a line-up of Kenny Baker (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Pete Perryer (Drums, lead vocals) Pat Martin (bass, vocals) and Kevin Smith (lead guitar, mandolin). In 1976 the band signed with EMI’s Harvest label and recorded their next album ‘Too Many Crooks’ again with David Gilmour. The album included the song “No Way Out Of Here” which Gilmour would cover on his first solo album in 1978. ‘One More Tomorrow’ was the band’s final album and was released in 1977.

Although Unicorn would continue until 1979, the band didn’t record another new album. However this box set features an additional CD with 19 previously unreleased studio and live archive recordings, selected by Unicorn’s Pat Martin. The set also features an illustrated booklet and essay and is a fine tribute to one of Britain’s most unique bands.

Tracklisting:

Disc One: Blue Pine Trees - Electric Night / Sleep Song / Autumn Wine / Rat Race / Just Wanna Hold You / Holland / Nightingale Crescent / The Farmer / In The Gym / Blue Pine Trees // Bonus Tracks - Ooh Mother / Volcano / The Ballad Of John And Julie (BBC Session 1974) / Bog Trotter / Ooh Mother (Single Version) / I’ll Believe In You (The Hymn) / Take It Easy

Disc Two: Too Many Crooks - Weekend / Ferry Boat / He’s Got Pride / Keep On Going / Too Many Crooks / Bullseye Bill / Disco Dancer / Easy / No Way Out Of Here / In The Mood // Bonus Tracks - So Far Away / Weekend (Live Radio Studio Session 1975) / Ferry Boat (Live Radio Studio Session 1975) / He’s Got Pride (Live Radio Studio Session 1975) / No Way Out Of Here (Live Radio Studio Session 1975) / Disco Dancer (Single Version)

Disc Three: One More Tomorrow - Have You Ever Seen The Rain / New Shoes / Slow Dancing / Get Along Fine / British Rail Romance / Eric / One More Tomorrow / So Hard To Get Through / I’m Alright (When I’m With You) / The Night / The Way It Goes / Magnolia Avenue // Bonus Tracks - Give And Take / Nothing I Wouldn’t Do / In The Mood / Keep On Going (Live Radio Studio Session 1975) / Rio De Janeiro / Don’t Tell Me I Know / All Crazy People

Disc Four: Archive Recordings Previously Unreleased - Come A Long Way / Billy The Kid / The Man In Me / Hold On / Loving You / Don’t Turn Away / This Old World / The Sweeter Life / Look Into Your Mirror / Boney Fingers (Live In The USA 1974) / Corrina Corrina (Live In The USA 1974) / Nashville West (Live In The USA 1974) / Lenny Dee / In The Gym (Live BBC Radio) / Get Along Fine (Alternate Version) / Man In The Fog / You Angel You / One More Tomorrow (Demo) / Tell Me Straight

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1990 album. Also available on CD and Deluxe CD. 

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The 30th Anniversary reissue of ‘Wrong Way Up’, the historic coming together of two icons of leftfield music: Brian Eno and John Cale. Having both started their careers as creative forces in seminal bands (Eno’s unique synthesizer treatments in Roxy Music and Cale’s viola and bass contributions to the Velvet Underground), they’ve appeared as guest musicians on each other’s records as far back as 1974, the year in which they also made a historic live album with Nico and Kevin Ayers at the Rainbow Theatre in London.

They remained friends and the year prior to ‘Wrong Way Up’, Eno produced Cale’s ‘Words For The Dying’ album. This paved the way for the pair to write and record an album together, notably the first time Eno had delivered a collection of song-based recordings since ‘Before And After Science’ in 1977. The resulting album is a triumph for both artists, containing the singles ‘Spinning Away’ and ‘Been There Done That’. The b-sides to the ‘Spinning Away’ single are included as bonus tracks.

Despite the pair’s avant-garde leaning’s the resulting album turned out to be a stunning pop record. Pitchfork said of the album: “Brian Eno and John Cale’s 1990 collaboration is an album of contention, contrasts, cycles, and pop songs so layered and euphoric it ranks among the best albums either artist has ever made.”

Tracklisting: Lay My Love / One Word / In The Backroom / Empty Frame / Cordoba / Spinning Away / Footsteps / Been There Done That / Crime In The Desert / The River

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105 tracks of which 34 are previously unreleased. Studio and live recordings 1979-1983. Esoteric.

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In mid-1979 the trio incarnation of Spirit broke up and Randy formed a new solo band and embarked on a European tour supporting Ian Gillan. After recording a series of demos further studio sessions produced the recordings which would form his solo album ‘Euro-American’, released in 1982 and included in this set. The original boxed set of ‘The Euro-American Years’ was compiled by Spirit archivist Mick Skidmore and was issued in 2006. The original concept for this box (which sold out very quickly in its first pressing, only to be consistently bootlegged in various countries via downloads and separate CDR discs for which the artists received no compensation) was to pull together the vast amount of music that Randy released during 1979-1983 period (although some tracks were recorded earlier and were shelved due to lack of a record deal).

Due to demand from fans, Mick Skidmore has recovered from the archives an additional two CDs worth of previously unreleased material, namely a live concert by Spirit recorded in Greensboro, North Carolina in April 1981 before a wildly exuberant audience, along with The Randy California Band’s entire set at Reading Festival in 1982 and a part of the band’s set at Glastonbury Festival from the same year.

Tracklisting:

Disc One: You Stole My Heart / California Man / Song For Laura / Thinking Of You / Reeling In The Night / Lani By The Sea / Shattered Dreams / Rock Of Ages / Magic Wand // “Euro American” The Original Album - Toy Guns / This Is The End / Mon Ami / Rude Reaction / Calling You / Wild Thing / Easy Love / Fearless Leader / Five In The Morning / Skull And Crossbones / Breakout // Bonus Tracks - Man At War / Write You A Letter

Disc Two: Hand Guns / Come On Woman / Trouble In Mind / Cabin De Telephone / Shane / All Along The Watchtower / Don’t Bother Me / Downer / Brittany / Second Child / Man At War / Killer Weed / Radio Man / Superchild / Run To Your Lover / Love’s Not A Game / Love Is War / Childhood’s End / Overloaded Ships Sink

Disc Three: Spirit Live 1980 And 1981: 1984 / Turn To The Right / Five In The Morning / Hungry Driver / I Want Somebody / Hey Joe / Shattered Dreams / Fish Fry Road / Magic Wand / Come On Woman / Breakout / Downer / Song For Laura / Wild Thing

Disc Four: Grosser Herrscher / His Spirit Is Travelling On / Pt 109 / Whispers From Heaven / Trying To Get Closer To You / Since She’s Gone / Past Love / Stepping Son / Otter In The Sea / California Man / Childhood’s End // Live In Ayr, Scotland, October 1979 - Downer / You Stole My Heart / Move On Up / California Man / Rebel’s Flight / Breakout / Song For Laura

Disc Five: Live At Louie’s, Greensboro, South Carolina 1981 - 1984 / Turn To The Right / Animal Zoo / Magic Wand / Nature’s Way / Five In The Morning / So Little Time To Fly / Mr. Skin / Come On Woman / All The Same / I Got A Line On You / Fish Fry Road / Wild Thing / Like A Rolling Stone / Come And Get It (Magic Spirit)

Disc Six: Live At The Reading Festival 1982 - Second Child / Downer / Man At War / Like A Rolling Stone / All Along The Watchtower / Come On Woman / Nature’s Way / Killer Weed / Run To Your Lover / I Got A Line On You / Song For Laura / Wild Thing // Live At The Glastonbury Festival 1982 - Hand Guns / Lisa / Don’t Bother Me / Rebel On Attack / Killer Weed

1970 album. CD1: 2012 remaster of original album. CD2: 1974 quad mix. CD3-4: Live in Montreux and Brussels 1970. 60pp book.

2020 live album recorded on the 2017/18 world tour.

Label Review. 

2020 covers album. Also available on Vinyl. 

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American singer, songwriter, and former band member of Indie legends Throwing Muses and Belly, Tanya Donelly covers some of her favourite songs by The Go Go’s, Leonard Cohen, Kirsty MacColl, Split Enz, Linda Ronstadt, The Pretenders, Wings, Echo & The Bunnymen, and Mary Margaret O’Hara on this outstanding new album.

Tanya says of the project: “When Joe from American Laundromat asked if I’d be interested in doing a covers album, I was hesitant, mainly because most of the songs I truly love are already perfect in their original form. But then I had the idea to ask the brilliant Parkington Sisters to be the band for this project, to bring their gorgeous sound and spirit, and make it something cohesive and centered. Happily, they said yes. So I chose a handful of songs that have been on heavy rotation in my head and heart from the first time I heard them, and the Sisters took over. These are some of the most honest, moving, beautiful, unfiltered, true and cool songs that have ever been written, in my opinion. And those same adjectives apply to the Parkington Sisters as well.”

For ten years Tanya jointly steered Boston based Throwing Muses with Kristin Hersh until she left in 1990 to for The Breeders with The Pixies Kim Deal. After just one album Tanya formed her own band Belly whos first album ‘Star’ in 1993 was a breakout success especially in the UK. However they broke up after just one more album (‘King’ in 1995) and Tanya went solo before retreating to the Boston scene and raising a family. The last few years has seen a reunion of Belly which included a new album ‘Dove’ and a series of EPs called ‘Swan Song Series’ which saw Donelly collaborate with numerous musicians, authors and friends.

Tracklisting: Automatic / Dance Me To The End Of Love / Days / Ocean Rain / Let Me Roll It / Kid / Different Drum / Devil You Know / You Will Be Loved Again