Pre-sale of the week is The 1966 Live Recordings by Bob Dylan, out on 11 November. This extraordinary 36-CD (yes, 36 CDs!) monster box set features every available live performance by Bob Dylan from 1966 – a pivotal moment in rock’n’roll history – and works as a great companion piece to last year’s 1965–1966 studio…
Pre-sale of the week is Lodestar by Shirley Collins, out on 4 November. Lodestar is legendary singer Shirley Collins’s first album in over 35 years, and is a collection of English, American and Cajun songs dating from the 16th Century to the 1950s, all recorded at Shirley’s home in Lewes. We’re offering Lodestar at special…
Pre-sale of the week is the essential compilation Soul Togetherness 2016, out on 30 September. Expansion’s most successful and longest running compilation series returns with a 2016 edition. Soul Togetherness has been an annual event since 2000. The concept remains the same: fifteen must-have modern soul-room gems taken from the year’s biggest dancefloor spins and…
Pre-sale of the week is Game Show by Two Door Cinema Club, out on 14 October. Two Door Cinema Club have announced details of their third album. Gameshow follows 2012’s Beacon and their 2010 debut Tourist History, along with their Changing Of The Seasons EP in 2013. The new LP was recorded in Los Angeles…
Pre-sale of the week is Requiem by Goat, out on 7 October. Sweden’s enigmatic Goat may qualify as the greatest modern pop-culture mystery. Who are these masked musicians? Are they truly members of the Arctic community of Korpilombolo? Are their songs part of their isolated communal heritage? Their third studio album, Requiem, offers more questions…
Pre-sale of the week is Heads Up by Warpaint, out on 23 September. Warpaint’s third studio album, Heads Up, was recorded after the band spent 2015 apart working on solo projects. The band reunited in January this year and started to work with producer Jacob Bercovici, with whom they had worked on their debut EP,…
Pre-sale of the week is 22, A Million by Bon Iver, out on 30 September. Bon Iver’s new album 22, A Million, is the band’s first album in five years. “22, A Million is part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding like a religion. And the inner-resolution of…
Pre-sales of the week are Schmilco by Wilco, out on 9 September and My Universe by The Shires, out on 7 October. Schmilco, the 10th studio album by the Grammy-award winning Chicago rock band Wilco, features 12 new original songs via the band’s own dBpm Records. Recorded at The Loft in Chicago. Produced by…
Pre-sale of the week is The Early Years 1967–1972 by Pink Floyd, out on 11 November. Features: • Many hours of rare and unreleased music and video from the Pink Floyd archive • 6 ‘year’ volumes plus a bonus exclusive ‘extras’ package across 27 discs • Over 20 unreleased songs including 1967’s ‘Vegetable Man’ and…
Pre-sale of the week is Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976) by David Bowie, out on 23 September. The follow-up to the awarding-winning and critically acclaimed Five Years (1969–1973), this box set (spread over 12 CDs / 13 LPs) features all of the material officially released by Bowie during the so-called ‘American’ phase of his…