{"id":3782,"date":"2025-12-05T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:19:31","slug":"new-releases-12-19dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-12-19dec\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 12 and 19 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of classic albums are being reissued in the run-up to Christmas. We\u2019ve selected an essential few along with some brand-new albums.<\/p>\n

The first comes from Babyshambles<\/strong>: Produced by The Clash\u2019s Mick Jones and boasting a vocal cameo from Kate Moss, 2005\u2019s Down in Albion<\/em><\/strong> evokes the sights and smells of its era while possessing a forward-looking perspective to create a perpetually relevant body of work that both charts and soothes the human condition. Alongside the album\u2019s original 16 tracks, this edition includes five carefully chosen songs from the band\u2019s archives, with several \u2013 despite bootleg fame amongst the band\u2019s fanbase \u2013 getting their first official release.<\/p>\n

1995\u2019s The Great Escape<\/em><\/strong> features the hit singles \u2018Country House\u2019, \u2018The Universal\u2019, \u2018Stereotypes\u2019 and \u2018Charmless Man\u2019. The album was Blur<\/strong>\u2019s follow-up to their global breakthrough album, Parklife<\/em>, which charted at no. 1, selling over 120,000 copies in its first week and going on to achieve triple platinum status in the UK (nearly a million sales to date).<\/p>\n

Geese<\/strong> recorded their third album, Getting Killed<\/em><\/strong>, in ten fast-paced days. With scant time for overdubbing, what emerged is a chaotic comedy, shambolic in structure but passionately performed, informed by an exacting vision. Big riffs are layered on choir samples; hissing drum machines pulse softly behind screeching guitars. Geese balance a disarming tenderness with an intensified anger, trading their love of classic rock for a disdain for music itself.<\/p>\n

IDLES<\/strong> and acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan) quickly formed a creative kinship, united by a deep mutual respect for each other\u2019s work. When Aronofsky began developing his latest film, Caught Stealing<\/em><\/strong>, he turned to his favourite band to shape the film\u2019s sonic identity. IDLES recorded the full film score, drawing inspiration from the gritty energy of the 1990s New York punk scene that permeates the film, including four original tracks.<\/p>\n

Arca<\/strong>\u2019s iconic @@@@@<\/em><\/strong> mixtape \u2013 the scorching of earth that preceded the launch of her critically lauded Kick<\/em> series \u2013 finally gets a limited-edition first-ever physical release. Delivering 62 minutes of quantum states, this is some of her most delicate and astonishing work to date: hard, soft, emotional, brutal, sincere and playful.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week is undoubtedly one of the most important albums in the history of popular music: Pink Floyd<\/strong>\u2019s iconic 1975 album Wish You Were Here<\/em><\/strong>, which includes \u2018Shine on You Crazy Diamond\u2019, the hypnotic \u2018Welcome to the Machine\u2019, the scathing \u2018Have a Cigar\u2019 and the essential title track. This special edition allows fans, for the first time, to delve deeper into a pivotal moment in Pink Floyd\u2019s history with a wealth of studio rarities including previously unreleased alternate versions and demos.<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a>\"Babyshambles<\/a>\"Blur<\/a>\"Geese<\/a>\"IDLES<\/a>\"Arca<\/a><\/div>\n

Click on an image to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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A number of classic albums are being reissued in the run-up to Christmas. We\u2019ve selected an essential few along with some brand-new albums. The first comes from Babyshambles: Produced by The Clash\u2019s Mick Jones and boasting a vocal cameo from Kate Moss, 2005\u2019s Down in Albion evokes the sights and smells of its era while…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2091,2089,147,2090,925,36,631],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-arca","tag-babyshambles","tag-blur","tag-geese","tag-idles","tag-new-release","tag-pink-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}