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Pre-sale of the week is Becoming by Kamasi Washington, out on 11 December.

Foals – Collected Reworks

Release date: 9 October

From their early days hosting parties in Oxford through to the huge success of their two-part Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost album, Foals have consistently explored their interest in dance and electronica. Now the band chart the most essential remixes from their career so far as they share the new remix package Collected Reworks Vol 1.
The tracks on this set feature an eclectic range of artists who have uncovered new angles to Foals’ discography. It includes one of the earliest remixes of their music, in which Ewan Pearson blends Balearic bliss into ‘Olympic Airways’, as well as Solomun’s huge version of ‘Late Night’, which has been viewed over 50 million times at YouTube. Another standout moment is Hot Chip’s inventive interpretation of ‘My Number’.
Note: the three discs in this set are pressed on mint green, yellow and pink vinyl.

Pre-sale offer 3-LP £28.99

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Travis – 10 Songs

Release date: 9 October

10 Songs, the brand-new album from Travis, holds you in its own emotional microclimate at the outset and keeps you there. It’s also a grown-up record about the way life comes at love and what love does to weather those challenges. Every track on this album carries an even load. No passengers here. Nowhere to hide.
The deluxe versions include an extra disc containing demo versions of the 10 songs. The deluxe CD comes in a clamshell box, and the deluxe LPs are pressed on coloured vinyl: 1 red and 1 blue.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £14.99 / LP £21.99 / Deluxe 2-LP £25.99

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Jonsi – Shiver

Release date: 2 October

Shiver is the exciting and beautiful second solo record from LA-based Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi. Not too long ago Jónsi was travelling through London where he met up with iconoclastic producer A.G. Cook, whom he admired for his boundary-breaking work with the PC music collective. He had no expectation for the meeting, but the more they talked, the more he realized they might be perfect collaborators. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years,” Jónsi says. “I get tired of everything really easily. I always want things to be fun and exciting and fresh, and doing another album … I just wanted to have a different approach.”
Note: the LP is pressed on 180g vinyl and is only available from indie shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / 2-LP £29.99

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Roger Waters – Us + Them

Release date: 2 October

Us + Them presents the powerful music of Roger Waters, founder member and creative force behind Pink Floyd, in stunning form. The album chronicles Waters’ acclaimed 2017–2018 tour and highlights a message of human rights, liberty and love.

Pre-sale offer CD £14.99 / 3-LP £39.99

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Nothing But Thieves – Moral Panic

Release date: 23 October

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £22.99

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This Is The Kit – Off Off On

Release date: 23 October

Since their 2008 debut album Krülle Bol, This Is The Kit (lead by Kate Stables) have unpicked emotional knots and woven remarkable stories. Even by her high standards, however, Off Off On is a beautifully clear distillation of Stables’ song-writing gifts.
By the end of 2018, the band had finished touring their last album, the talismanic Moonshine Freeze – leading to Kate’s Ivor Novello nomination, but when it came to Stables’ natural impulse to start the next record, her efforts were diverted by an invitation to join The National on the road for multiple tours and TV appearances – a continuation of the role she took on their album I Am Easy To Find. “It was so brilliant when I was writing to be away from my songs and the responsibility of being in charge of a band or a project – I think it really helped my writing and my getting through whatever I needed to get through.”
Richly illuminating and acutely sensitive to the pulses and currents of life, Off Off On shows This Is The Kit overflowing with ideas. In difficult times, it’s a record that feels like a lifeline, moving against the tide, standing against the storm. Keep going.
Note: the LP is available on red vinyl, exclusive to indie shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £17.99

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Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You

Release date: 23 October

Letter To You is the brand new studio album from Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band, a rock album fuelled by the band’s heart-stopping, house-rocking signature sound. Springsteen’s 20th studio album was recorded at his home studio in New Jersey, and is his first album including the E Street Band since 2012’s High Hopes and their first performances together since 2016’s The River Tour.
“I love the emotional nature of Letter To You,” says Springsteen. “And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs. We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had.”
Letter To You includes nine recently written Springsteen songs, as well as new recordings of three of his legendary, but previously unreleased, compositions from the 1970s, ‘Janey Needs a Shooter’, ‘If I Was the Priest’, and ‘Song for Orphans’. Springsteen is joined on Letter To You by Roy Bittan, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, Garry Tallent, Stevie Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Charlie Giordano and Jake Clemons. The album was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen, mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Bob Ludwig.
Note: the LP is available on grey vinyl, exclusive to record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / 2-LP £34.99

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Eels – Earth To Dora

Release date: 30 October

Los Angeles indie rock outfit Eels have announced details of the release of their highly anticipated new album Earth To Dora. “These songs came about just before the pandemic hit and changed everything,” said Mark Oliver Everett, also known as E. “I’m hoping they can be, maybe kind of soothing or something. To hear songs dealing with things we are dreaming about getting back to. Or maybe people are dealing with some of the topics right now as well. Just one song was done in the thick of the early pandemic days, ‘Are We Alright Again’, which is kind of a quarantine daydream I desperately needed to have.” The album was recorded at the band’s studio in Los Feliz, Los Angeles.
Note: the deluxe limited edition 2-LP box set comes pressed on translucent red vinyl with zoetrope labels, and contains a litho print, CD Digipak, A5 sticker sheet, fridge magnets and 12"x12" zoetrope slip-mat.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / Standard LP £21.99 / Deluxe 2-LP Box set £54.99

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Blackfield – For The Music

Release date: 2 October

Blackfield – the collaborative art-rock/alt.pop project between Israeli superstar Aviv Geffen and English songwriter/musician Steven Wilson, returns after a three-year hiatus with a new album for 2020: For The Music.
This is Blackfield’s most ambitious and expansive album to date, melding their psychedelic sonics to a perfect pop sensibility whilst, simultaneously, carrying a serious, and at times, dark, undertone.
As with previous album Blackfield V, Aviv has once again taken a central role as producer, lyricist, composer and instrumentalist, but Steven is still very much involved, playing guitar on several tracks and singing lead vocals on 3 songs. For The Music’s ten tracks move from psyche tinged melodies to exquisite balladry; a compact and fully realised expression of modern pop.
Note: the LP version comes on transparent pink vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £25.99

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Dawes – Good Luck With Whatever

Release date: 2 October

From the first downbeat, Good Luck With Whatever, the seventh studio album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Dawes, sets a tone all its own. The album unfurls with the crunchy chordal cadence of what could only be Goldsmith’s guitar. As the band quickly hop their way aboard this rhythmic rail car, we find ourselves thinking “Hey, these guys are pretty good. I’m so glad you dragged me to see some live music!” – ‘Still Feel Like A Kid’ serves as a reminder that we all love a good fillet steak, but there’s no shame in still ordering off the kids’ menu from time to time. You can hear the eye contact in the room, you can see the lyrics as they fly from Goldsmith’s mouth straight into your ears, you’ll find yourself singing along to a song you’re hearing for the first time. It’s fresh, it’s raw, it’s a four tiered seafood tower of all American ear candy. Think ‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, I’m A Toys R Us Kid’ meets ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / LP £20.99

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Groove Armada – Edge Of The Horizon

Release date: 2 October

After a ten-year spell back in the house underground, Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay and Andy Cato are back with the eleven-track Edge Of The Horizon. As with all Groove Armada albums, it’s a melting pot of styles, but in contrast to the guitar-laden sound of the Grammy-nominated album Black Light, the uniting stylistic thread here lies somewhere between Hall and Oates, Prince and Roxy Music. Groove Armada’s flair for blending electro elements with the energy of a live band remains at the heart of the record.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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Juanita Stein – Snapshot

Release date: 2 October

Howling Bells singer and guitarist Juanita Stein returns with her new album, Snapshot, her third solo release. Working with the producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Doves, Nadine Shah), Snapshot was written and recorded over a period of eight months following the sudden death of Stein’s father, Peter, in 2019. Juanita was exceptionally close to her dad – he was her earliest introduction to music and gifted her a childhood “exploding with sounds of 60s folk, rock’n’roll, delta blues, country and soul”.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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Queen + Adam Lambert – Live Around The World

Release date: 2 October

As hinted at in interviews recently, Queen + Adam Lambert have now confirmed they will release their first-ever live album, Live Around The World. The set presents a compilation of concert highlights captured the world over personally selected by Taylor, May and Lambert from over 200 shows they have performed with several featured here becoming available for the very first time.
Note: the LP version is available on red vinyl, exclusive to record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £14.99 / LP £29.99 / CD + DVD £29.99 / CD + BluRay £29.99

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Rodrigo y Gabriela – Mettavolution Live

Release date: 2 October

Rodrigo y Gabriela bring their Grammy winning latest album Mettavolution to the live arena with thrilling results. Recorded on their 2019 world tour, Mettavolution Live captures the Mexican acoustic guitar masters in all their blazing glory. Featuring, as it does, all the songs from the latest record, including their epic, no-safety-net, version of Pink Floyd’s ‘Echoes’. Add in some of Rod and Gab’s biggest hits, with the dazzling duo playing right at the top of their game, plus a passionate audience and it all comes together as the ultimate live album from one of the world’s most beloved live acts.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / LP £22.99

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Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension

Release date: 2 October

The Ascension is the eighth solo studio album from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevens, and the long-awaited follow-up to Carrie & Lowell.
Note: the limited-edition LP is pressed on clear vinyl.

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Suede – Beautiful Ones: The Best Of Suede 1992–2018

Release date: 2 October

From their early singles and their 1993 Mercury Prize-winning debut album to their break-up in 2003, Suede were a fixture in the single and album charts, and in the music press too. They scored twenty hit singles and five hit albums (three of which debuted at #1), and a double album of B-sides even charted at #9. The band reformed for a one-off charity concert in 2010 and decided to make it permanent – they have released three new studio albums since 2013.
Compiled by the band, Beautiful Ones: The Best Of Suede 1992–2018 features their huge ’90s hits like ‘The Drowners’, ‘Metal Mickey’, ‘Animal Nitrate’, ‘Stay Together’, ‘The Wild Ones’, ‘Trash’, ‘Filmstar’, ‘Beautiful Ones’, ‘Saturday Night’, ‘She’s In Fashion’, ‘Everything Will Flow’ and ‘Can’t Get Enough’. The collection brings the story up to date with five singles from the three recent albums, including ‘Life Is Golden’, ‘It Starts And Ends With You’ and ‘Outsiders’. The two LPs are pressed on 180g clear vinyl and are housed in inner sleeves featuring all the lyrics as well as photos of dozens of items of Suede memorabilia and promotional items, all lent by fans.

Pre-sale offer 2-LP £28.99

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New Order – Classic 12s

Release date: 2 October

Blue Monday / The Beach. The biggest selling 12" single of all time in the UK, reissued and remastered from the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios. Originally released on Factory Records in March 1983, the single has become the band’s most recognisable track.
Confusion / Confused Beats / Confusion instrumental / Confusion (Rough Mix). The band’s sixth single and their first collaboration with DJ Arthur Baker. Originally released in August 1983, this new reissue remastered from the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios.
Thieves Like Us / Lonesome Tonight. Originally released on Factory in April 1984, the title is taken from the Robert Altman movie ‘Thieves Like Us’. The cover design by Peter Saville is based on a painting by Giorgio de Chirico.
Murder / Thieves Like Us Instrumental. Released in May 1984, ‘Murder’ was originally recorded in Winter 1982 during the sessions for the Power, Corruption & Lies album. Peter Saville’s cover art is a “night-time” version of the ‘Thieves Like Us’ sleeve.

Pre-sale offer 12" £12.99 / All 4 12"s Bundle £44.99

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Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (25th Anniversary Limited Edition Silver Vinyl)

Release date: 2 October

With October 2nd, 2020 marking 25 years since Oasis released their iconic second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, Big Brother Recordings release a limited edition silver coloured LP with remastered audio to celebrate this milestone. An undeniably superlative rock record, it includes several of Oasis’ biggest selling UK singles – the legendary, universally loved anthem ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, ‘Roll With It’, ‘Some Might Say’ together with tracks like ‘She’s Electric’, ‘Morning Glory’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’, which are timeless anthems and radio staples known to every generation of music fan.

Pre-sale offer 2-LP £29.99

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Brothers Osborne – Skeletons

Release date: 9 October

Teaming up once again with longtime producer Jay Joyce, Brothers Osborne introduce their third studio album, Skeletons. Featuring the new single, ‘All Night’, which Rolling Stone described as “a party-friendly tune that’s equal parts outlaw attitude, disco groove and ZZ Top-style boogie”, the Grammy-nominated duo co-wrote every track on the record, along with frequent collaborators such as Lee Miller, Craig Wiseman, Natalie Hemby and Casey Beathard.
“If Pawn Shop was our introduction, and Port Saint Joe was like the first conversation we had with someone over a beer, then Skeletons is the moment where you start getting down to the real stuff and showing who you really are,” says John Osborne. “If you really want to get to know us, this is the record to do it.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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Cut Worms – Nobody Lives Here Anymore

Release date: 9 October

The shopping malls have closed down, the dressing rooms are filled with ghosts, and the carousel is covered in cobwebs. Nobody Lives Here Anymore, the latest and greatest from Max Clarke as Cut Worms, is the haunted reverie of an American landscape in-and-out of Clarke’s mind. Recorded between May and November 2019 in Memphis, Tennessee, the album is a snow globe of the mid-twentieth-century’s popular music filled with chiming guitars, honkey tonk pianos, and Telstar organs. A constant creator – be it his Cut Worms alter-ego or his day-job illustration work (designing brand logos and beer labels with madhouse technicolor pictures) – writing and making records has always been Max’s driving force. So after an extensive eighteen-months of touring in support of 2017’s Alien Sunset and 2018’s Hollow Ground, he set about sifting through the fragment pieces and sketches of tunes he’d accumulated, along with a jet-stream of new compositions, mining his life-long devotion to the lost American songbook for inspiration. By the time he flew to Memphis to work with producer Matt Ross-Spang at Sam Phillips Studio, he’d stockpiled more than thirty new songs.
Note: the LP is available on indies only Coke-bottle clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £20.99

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Emmy The Great – April

Release date: 9 October

My story begins with the moon. In September 2017, I travelled to Hong Kong from New York, where I’d lived for three years, for the mid-autumn festival. I was planning to visit my parents and take some time off to write my fourth album. I arrived in time for the full moon – Chang-E’s moon – at a time of year when the heat breaks and the city seems alive with possibility.
That Spring, I’d visited China and accidentally become somewhat fluent in Cantonese again, though the goal had been to speak Mandarin. I was there for a music residency, and had expected to feel an instant click. Instead, I realised that Hong Kong had an identity quite separate from the Mainland, and with my mother tongue reinstated, I was beginning to come to terms with that identity being a part of mine. This was tough – I was born in Hong Kong but I’ve always felt complicated about it.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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Ozric Tentacles – Space For Earth

Release date: 9 October

Written, programmed, recorded and produced throughout 2019–20 by Ed Wynne in Blue Bubble Studios by the sea, this exploratory and diverse musical adventure comprises seven new tracks spanning 45 minutes. Inspired by the Scottish hills, valleys and beaches surrounding his studio, Wynne feels that lockdown in a strange kind of way has provided ‘Space For The Earth’ to breathe for a while and for people to rediscover its resonant healing frequency. ‘This is space music for people from the Earth to enjoy.’

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / LP £20.99

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Black Pumas – Self-titled Deluxe

Release date: 9 October

This deluxe edition of Black Pumas’ self-titled album includes 11 bonus tracks including unreleased originals, live recordings and four cover songs. The vinyl version comes in a deluxe gatefold edition pressed on coloured vinyl: gold (disc 1) & black/red (disc 2), with a bonus 7" on black vinyl, a new album design including unreleased live and in-studio photos and a download card.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / 2-LP + 7" £28.99

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John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth

Release date: 9 October

In celebration of John Lennon’s life and the incredible pleasure his music has brought to millions in his lifetime, the multi-format collection Gimme Some Truth has been personally curated by the Lennon estate and mixes the biggest hits like the classic and timeless ‘Imagine’ with campaigning songs such as ‘Give Peace A Chance’ and evergreen classics like ‘Happy Christmas (War Is Over)’ and is culled from all of his solo albums including the posthumous Milk And Honey.
John Lennon is simply one of the most recognised and respected musicians of the modern era. As one half of perhaps the most successful songwriting partnerships of all time he deserves his place in history. That this partnership was with Paul McCartney in The Beatles means that he is also one of the most successful recording artists in history. With every succeeding generation falling for their genius, their legend continues to grow and they dominate the pop landscape.
Their split in 1970 allowed each of the band members, by now literally some of the most famous people on the planet, to find their own voice as solo artists and to grow beyond the confines of the band. For John Lennon, this meant throwing himself headlong into life with his new wife, Yoko Ono and eventually a new life in New York City.
Being a solo artist meant that he could delve deep within himself and realise music that was both deeply personal and challenging and which sometimes required a commitment from the audience too. His songs during his solo career mixed accessible pop melodies with sometimes stark and heart-rending simplicity and all points in between. His lyrics ranged from deep introspection and self-analysis to subjects that were more concerned with politics (of self, of relationships, of the campaign for peace, of the place of mankind as well as global politics). After a first rush of creativity, he took a step back from the limelight to care for his son, Sean, at home in New York, but when he was ready he returned to recording with one of his most successful and impactful albums. Double Fantasy, preceded by the single ‘(Just Like) Starting Over’, had been released the month before his life was tragically cut short on 8th December 1980. But this album joins the rest of his solo canon as testament to one of the truly great and truly iconoclastic musicians and personalities of the era.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-CD £17.99 / 2-CD + BluRay / £65.99 / 2-LP £39.99 / 4-LP £84.99

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Rory Gallagher – The Best Of

Release date: 9 October

The Best Of features Rory Gallagher’s most legendary songs compiled from across his recording career, from his seminal first band Taste through to his last studio album Fresh Evidence (1992). Unearthed from the archives is a special bonus track on the 2-CD version of the collection, which is a never heard before outtake featuring Rory singing and playing the Rolling Stones hit ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ with the legendary Jerry Lee Lewis from Lewis’ 1973 London Sessions.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-CD £14.99 / 2-LP £28.99

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Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love

Release date: 9 October

The Seeds Of Love is the third studio album by Tears For Fears. The album was released in September 1989, entering the UK Album Chart at No.1 and would be certified Platinum by the BPI within three weeks. In the US, the album peaked at no.8, and was also certified Platinum. The album also reached the top ten in various other countries around the world.
The album contained the singles ‘Sowing The Seeds’, ‘Woman In Chains’, ‘Advice For The Young At Heart’ and ‘Badman’s Song’, and on release it was seen (and still is) as one of the greatest albums of the ’80s.
The box set edition contains not only the original album but a new 5.1 mix by Steven Wilson which was done in conjunction with Roland Orzabal, as well as all the relevant B-sides, alternate mixes and around 60 minutes of previously unheard demos and live rehearsals. The set is housed in a shoe-box style box (similar to the other 2 releases) with an extensive booklet, with new interviews by Super Deluxe editor Paul Sinclair with the band and other players on the album. It also contains the tour programme of the era as well. Disc 1: The Seeds of Love / Disc 2: B-Sides / Mixes / Disc 3: Unreleased Versions / Disc 4: Unreleased Versions / Blu-ray: Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix / Stereo Mixes

Pre-sale offer CD £6.99 / 2-CD £14.99 / LP £20.99 / 4-CD + Blu-ray Box set £52.99

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The Divine Comedy – Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time

Release date: 9 October

In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer-songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are reissuing remastered versions of nine of the band’s classic albums.
The limited edition twelve volume CD boxset Venus, Cupid, Folly And Time: Thirty Years Of The Divine Comedy brings together all the remastered CD albums and bonus material, as well as new editions of 2016’s Foreverland and 2019’s Office Politics updated with bonus material and liner notes. It also features Juveneilia – an exclusive 2-CD compilation of early material put together by Neil from his personal archive, including recordings stretching back to as early as 1984. It contains the ‘lost’ 1990 album Fanfare For The Comic Muse and long out-of-print EPs Timewatch and Europop.
Included in the boxset is the book Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time – The Lyrics, which collects together the lyrics from the 11 main albums alongside pages from Neil’s original lyric notebooks.
Each album consists of 2 discs: the remastered original album plus a second CD of B-sides, demos and alternate versions lovingly curated by Neil Hannon, much of which has never been heard before. The CD release of A Short Album About Love
comes with a DVD of A Short Film About A Short Album About Love – a previously unreleased 50-minute film of the Shepherd’s Bush Empire concert at which Short Album… was recorded.
Each CD comes with a booklet of photos and extensive liner notes written by Neil, covering the context and inspiration behind the album and its songs, and comes packed in a slipcase featuring an illustration inspired by each album drawn by Mathieu Persan. The nine reissued albums have been remastered from the original tapes at the legendary Abbey Road Studios by mastering engineer Frank Arkwright (Blur, The Smiths). Overseeing the audio throughout the campaign is engineer/mixer/producer Guy Massey, whose work on the Beatles Stereo Remasters won him a Grammy Award. The iconic covers and photos for five albums have been lovingly restored by original photographer Kevin Westenberg.

Pre-sale offer 23-CD + DVD Box set £129.99

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Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball

Release date: 16 October

Wrecking Ball is a leftfield masterpiece, the most wide-ranging, innovative, and daring record from Emmylou Harris in a career built on such notions. Rich in atmosphere and haunting in its dark complexity, much of the due credit belongs to producer Daniel Lanois; best known for his work with pop superstars like U2 and Peter Gabriel, on Wrecking Ball Lanois taps into the very essence of what makes Harris tick – the gossamer vocals, the flawless phrasing – while also opening up innumerable new avenues for her talents to explore. The songs shimmer and swirl, given life through Lanois’ trademark ringing guitar textures and the almost primal drumming of U2’s Larry Mullen, Jr. The fixed point remains Harris’s voice, which leaps into each and every one of these diverse compositions – culled from the pens of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Earle, and others – with utter fearlessness, as if this were the album she’d been waiting her entire life to make. Maybe it is.

Pre-sale offer LP £21.99

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Ian Dury – Hit Me! The Best Of

Release date: 16 October

In August 1977, a 35-year-old Ian Dury released his first solo record, a 7" vinyl single, whose title, ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’, became a term of common usage and is still very much part of our vocabulary today. Within the next two years, Dury’s debut album, New Boots and Panties!!, would spend 89 weeks on the British Album charts. His third single, ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’, became a UK number one in January 1979, selling a staggering 970,000 copies. Hit Me! The Best Of Ian Dury is a a knockout selection of tracks sourced from Kilburn & The High Roads, The Blockheads and Ian’s solo career.
Note: the LP is available on white vinyl.

Pre-sale offer 3-CD £14.99 / 2-LP £26.99

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Katie Melua – Album No.8

Release date: 16 October

Katie Melua’s brand new studio album, Album No. 8, is a record that represents the culmination of a prolonged period of musical rediscovery by one of Britain’s most successful musical artists, who has received over 56 platinum awards.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £14.99 / LP £21.99

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Kevin Morby – Sundowner

Release date: 16 October

Sundowner came quickly and effortlessly to Kevin Morby as he did his best not to resist or refine the songs but instead let them take shape all on their own. As the songs kept coming he converted his garden shed into a makeshift studio.
Note: the LP is available on indie shops exclusive pink vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison

Release date: 16 October

Serpentine Prison, the debut solo record from Matt Berninger – front man of internationally acclaimed group The National – is produced by Booker T. Jones, and features contributions from a wide array of notable artists, including Matt Barrick (The Walkmen, Jonathan Fire*Eater), Andrew Bird, Mike Brewer, Hayden Desser, Scott Devendorf (The National), Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz), Booker T. Jones, Teddy Jones, Brent Knopf (EL VY, Menomena), Ben Lanz (The National, Beirut), Walter Martin (The Walkmen, Jonathan Fire*Eater), Sean O’Brien, Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan), Kyle Resnick (The National, Beirut), Matt Sheehy (EL VY, Lost Lander) and Harrison Whitford (Phoebe Bridgers). Additional production on the album was provided by Sean O’Brien.
Note: the LP is available on indie shops exclusive opaque blue vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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The Damned – The Rockfield Files

Release date: 16 October

In 1980–81, The Damned went to Rockfield for a series of sessions that eventually became The Black Album, the Friday 13th EP & Strawberries. Their time there produced some of the Damned’s greatest musical moments and memorable stories of horses, cows, vampires, rifles and Lemmy.
In 2019 The Damned returned to Rockfield studios to record the first new music since 2018’s Top Ten “Evil Spirits” album. The line-up included three out of the four Damned members that were at the original sessions – David Vanian, Captain Sensible & Paul Gray. There was also Monty Oxymoron on keyboards and Pinch on drums. Unbeknown to the band, this was to be the last recordings with the long-time drummer Pinch, who departed The Damned after their legendary show at The London Palladium, last Halloween.
Note: the LP is available on coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £8.99 / LP £15.99

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Tom Petty – Wildflowers & All The Rest

Release date: 16 October

16 October sees the release of an expanded version of Tom Petty’s seminal album Wildflowers. Entitled Wildflowers & All The Rest, this release finally gathers together all 25 songs from the original recording sessions – the 15 songs from Wildflowers, plus All The Rest – the 10 songs that were left off the original release.
The deluxe editions of the CD and vinyl also adds the Home Recordings disc which includes 15 intimate demos of the songs recorded solo by Tom, plus Wildflowers Live – 14 songs played live by Tom and the Heartbreakers from 1995 to 2017.
Tracklist: CD1: Original Album. CD2: All The Rest. CD3: Home Recordings. CD4: Wildflowers Live

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £12.99 / 4-CD £39.99 / 3-LP £35.99 / 7-LP £229.99

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Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea

Release date: 23 October

The wait is over! Joe Bonamassa’s new solo studio album, Royal Tea, is here. Bonamassa is known for taking risks and venturing into uncharted territory throughout his wide-ranging career but now he has found a new way to surprise his fans and music lovers. Royal Tea brings Bonamassa full-circle.
This album reconnects the 43-year-old with the guitar-slinging kid from upstate New York, who stumbled across the Jeff Beck Group, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton and Cream in his dad’s vinyl collection – whose British blues influences have shaped him to be the player he is today. Naturally, the backdrop of the legendary Abbey Road Studios, where the album was recorded, demanded an album of British-flavoured blues. But even before the sessions, Bonamassa immersed himself in the culture, living in London over summer 2019 to let the capital’s pulse and daily rhythms flow down his antennae, wash over his songcraft and spice his new material.
Note: the deluxe CD comes housed in a tin box. The LP is available on transparent vinyl. The deluxe LP version comes pressed on gold vinyl, and is accompanied by a 28-page art book and a CD.

Pre-sale offer Deluxe CD £14.99 Transparent LP £23.99 / Deluxe LP £48.99

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John Prine – Crooked Piece Of Time: The Atlantic & Asylum Albums (1971–1980)

Release date: 23 October

The seven-CD set Crooked Piece Of Time includes the following seminal albums from John Prine, newly remastered and presented in mini-LP replica sleeves: John Prine (1971), Diamonds In The Rough (1972), Sweet Revenge (1973), Common Sense (1975), Bruised Orange (1978), Pink Cadillac (1979) and Storm Windows (1980). The clamshell box also contains poster inserts and a 20-page booklet with new liner notes written by acclaimed music journalist David Fricke. The cover art, commissioned especially for the set, is a painting by artist Joshua Petker that’s based on a photo of Prine taken by Jim Shea.

Pre-sale offer 7-CD Box set £37.99

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Laura Veirs – My Echo

Release date: 23 October

Laura Veirs says of her new album, My Echo: “It’s my ‘my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did’ album. My conscious mind was trying as hard as I could to keep my family together but my subconscious mind was working on the difficult struggles in my marital life. I was part of a ‘Secret Poetry Group’ that met and wrote poems monthly for a year during the writing of this record. Many of my poems turned into songs for this album. By the time the album was being mixed last fall, my ex-husband/producer Tucker Martine and I had decided to go our separate ways. We were a great musical team for many years but we struggled to be compatible in our marriage and family life and that struggle is reflected in this album.”
Note: the LP is available on transparent pink vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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Melody Gardot – Sunset In Blue

Release date: 23 October

The forthcoming album Sunset In The Blue is an orchestral celebration of Melody Gardot’s jazz roots. She is reunited with the multi-Grammy award-winning production team of her platinum-selling album My One And Only Thrill: producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), arranger and composer Vince Mendoza (Björk, Robbie Williams, Elvis Costello) and the legendary engineer Al Schmitt (Frank Sinatra, Joao Gilberto, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney). An underlying theme of determination to create and evolve her craft has always been present in Melody Gardot’s work but never more so than during the production of Sunset In The Blue. In spite of all obstacles, she has assembled a stunning new body of collaborations in this most challenging of times.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £28.99

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Thin Lizzy – Rock Legends

Release date: 23 October

Rock Legends covers Thin Lizzy’s entire career over six discs encompassing a raft of unreleased material including demos, radio sessions, live recordings and rare single edits. The track listing has been compiled by Thin Lizzy project consultant Nick Sharp in conjunction with the band’s guitarist Scott Gorham from a collection of newly discovered tapes most of which are previously unheard. The audio has been newly mastered by Andy Pearce. Housed in a 10"x6" slipcase, the box contains not only the six CDs but also a DVD with the Bad Reputation BBC documentary and the now legendary performance on the Rod Stewart ‘A Night on the Town’ TV Special from 1976.
The set also contains replicas of the bands tour programmes bound into a hard-backed book, the very sought-after Phil Lynott Poetry books, 4 prints by legendary Lizzy cover artist and a book containing quotes by all the members of the band about their experiences playing with Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy. It also has a selection of well know musicians giving their views on the band.
Tracklist: CD 1: The Singles / CD 2: Decca Rarities / CDs 3 to 5: Mercury Rarities / CD 6: Bad Reputation documentary and Chinatown Tour 1980

Pre-sale offer 6-CD + DVD Box set £94.99

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Elvis Costello – Hey Clockface

Release date: 30 October

Grammy- and Brit Award-winning artist Elvis Costello announces his new album, Hey Clockface, recorded during a weekend session at Les Studios Saint Germain in Paris.
“I sang live on the studio floor, directing from the vocal booth. We cut nine songs in two days We spoke very little. Almost everything the musicians played was a spontaneous response to the song I was singing. I’d had a dream of recording in Paris like this, one day.”
Note: the LP is available on indie shops exclusive red vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £28.99

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Joni Mitchell – Archives Volume 1

Release date: 30 October

Since her debut album arrived in 1968, Joni Mitchell’s songs have been embraced across generations, inspired multitudes of artists around the world, and earned every conceivable accolade. She is now opening her vault for the first time to create the Joni Mitchell Archives, a new series of boxed set releases that will span the next several years, featuring deep dives in to unreleased content from different eras of her storied career. Mitchell has been intimately involved in producing the archive series, lending her vision and personal touch to every element of the project.
The series debuts on October 30 with Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967), which features nearly six hours of unreleased home, live, and radio recordings that flow chronologically to paint a rich portrait of Mitchell’s rapid growth as a performer and songwriter during the period leading up to her debut album. This treasure trove of unheard audio includes 29 original Mitchell compositions that have never been released before with her vocals. The collection will be available as a deluxe 5-CD set.
The collection begins in 1963 with her earliest-known recording as a 19-year-old Mitchell performs at CFQC AM, a radio station in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The box culminates with a stirring, three-set 1967 nightclub performance recorded at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Through a wealth of unreleased live performances, home recordings, and radio broadcasts, Archives Vol. 1 brings into focus the period when Mitchell was finding her voice artistically. It shows her moving away from the folk standards of her early days (‘John Hardy’ and ‘House Of The Rising Sun’) and starting to write and sing her own songs (‘Day After Day’ and ‘Urge For Going’.)
The 5-CD collection includes a 40-page booklet that features many unseen photos from Mitchell’s personal collection as well as new liner notes featuring conversations between writer/filmmaker Cameron Crowe and Mitchell, who recently spent a couple of Sunday afternoons together discussing her archives. Crowe will continue to provide liners for future releases in the series.
Looking back, Mitchell reflects on her early label of “folk singer”: “The early stuff, I shouldn’t be such a snob against it. A lot of these songs, I just lost them. They fell away. They only exist in these recordings. For so long I rebelled against the term, ‘I was never a folk-singer.’ I would get pissed off if they put that label on me. I didn’t think it was a good description of what I was. And then I listened and…it was beautiful. It made me forgive my beginnings. And I had this realization … I was a folk singer!”

Pre-sale offer 5-CD Box set £66.99

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Joni Mitchell – Live At Canterbury House

Release date: 30 October

Live At Canterbury House 1967 is a 3-LP set and includes Joni Mitchell’s previously unreleased, entire three-set performance from 27 October 1967, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and limited to 10,000 copies. Bob Franke, who was covering Mitchell’s show at Canterbury House for the Michigan Daily while also moonlighting as a doorman at the club, pens the liners for Live At Canterbury House. His original review for the Michigan Daily is also included.

Pre-sale offer 3-LP £46.99

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Motorhead – Ace Of Spades (40th Anniversary)

Release date: 30 October

Upon its release in 1980, the Ace Of Spades album was nothing short of a game-changer, not only for Motörhead but for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to eleven, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a million miles an hour. Pushing at every musical boundary, nothing was harder, nothing was faster, and certainly nothing was louder. This 40th anniversary edition contains the original album as well a bonus live disc featuring newly unearthed, 17-song, previously unreleased concert from the ‘Ace Up Your Sleeve’ tour.
The 7-LP + 10" + DVD box set features the following:
The Ace Of Spades album on vinyl, half-speed mastered and created from the original master tapes.
Two double-live albums of previously unheard concerts from the Ace Up Your Sleeve tour.
A Fistful Of Instrumentals: a 10" EP of previously unreleased instrumental tracks from 1980.
The Good, The Broke & The Ugly: a double album of B-sides, outtakes and rare tracks.
Ace On Your Screens: a DVD compilation of rare TV appearances from 1980–81, a live concert from 1981 and a 5.1 audio mix of the original album.

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £17.99 / 3-LP £47.99 / 7-LP + 10" + DVD Box set £165.99

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Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic

Release date: 30 October

The end of 2019 was soundtracked by one of the most unanimously critically acclaimed film scores of recent history, an anxiety-driven joyride paired to the Safdie Brothers’ noir thriller Uncut Gems. Unknowingly, Lopatin captured a universal feeling of dread that cuts even deeper in the current state of world affairs. And now, just as many artists are leaning into a newly discovered darkness as this year closes, Lopatin turns his dial towards a frequency of profound self-awareness on an even deeper journey inwards towards peace. With the backdrop of re-imagined programming for a soft rock-era format that symbolically spans from morning drive into late night hours, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, the name a reference to a misheard play on words of Boston’s Magic 106.7, is a nostalgic and self-referential career defining body of work, collaging maximalist baroque within atmospheric glitter. Here Lopatin has mastered his own autobiography; an ornate musical double entendre from an artist making the most enlightened music of his career.
Note: the LP is available on indie shops exclusive yellow vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £23.99

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U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind (20th Anniversary)

Release date: 30 October

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of U2’s 10th studio album All That You Can’t Leave Behind, which was released on 30th October 2000 and reached Number 1 in 32 countries. The album brought us the hit singles ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of’, ‘Elevation’ and ‘Walk On’ and has sold over 12 million copies to date.
Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, it was recorded in Dublin (HQ, Windmill Lane, Westland and Totally Wired) and the South of France. It won 7 Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album, and is the only album in history to have multiple tracks win the award for Record Of The Year (‘Beautiful Day’ in 2001 and ‘Walk On’ in 2002).
This multi-format anniversary reissue includes a brand new remaster of the album as a 12-track version globally, to include ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’, and is to be released on the actual date of the 20th anniversary – 30th October 2020.

U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind CD box set

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe 2-CD £15.99 / 5-CD Box set £95.99 / 2-LP £28.99 / 11-LP Box set £209.99

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Yes – The Royal Affair Tour (Live In Las Vegas)

Release date: 30 October

All Yes concert tours are special events for their legions of fans and The Royal Affair Tour was no exception, conceived as a wonderful celebration of the best of British progressive music. Steve Howe said, “Having the opportunity to bring together the band members in the development of a well refined set of songs that captures the bands true potential is simply an honour for me.” The show features many classic tracks across the period 1970–1980 and was recorded at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas in July 2019.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £29.99

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Nick Cave – Idiot Prayer: Live Alone At Alexandra Palace

Release date: 20 November

Idiot Prayer is a solo piano recital by Nick Cave, recorded at the iconic London venue Alexandra Palace in June. In it, he plays songs from his extensive back catalogue, including rare tracks that most fans will be hearing for the first time. The songs are taken from across the breadth of Cave’s career, including early Bad Seeds and Grinderman, right through to the most recent Bad Seeds album, Ghosteen.
“Cave’s solo live stream could be the most the beautiful and sombre performance he’s ever given.” (The Telegraph)
“Cave’s performance in an empty hall, with just piano and voice, seems to try and ward off the terrifying silence of the Covid-19 age.” (The Guardian)
“Gravitas echoes beautifully in the void of an empty Alexandra Palace.” (Evening Standard)
“The dramatic minimalism of this setting is perfect for an expressive face, and such powerfully emotional songs.” (The Arts Desk)
Tracklisting: 1. Spinning Song / 2. Jubilee Street / 3. Far From Me / 4. Idiot Prayer / 5. Sad Waters / 6. He Wants You / 7. Brompton Oratory / 8. Higgs Boson Blues / 9. Palaces Of Montezuma / 10. Stranger Than Kindness / 11. Into My Arms / 12. Girl In Amber / 13. The Ship Song / 14. Man In The Moon / 15. Nobody’s Baby Now / 16. Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry / 17. Black Hair / 18. (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For? / 19. Galleon Ship / 20. Waiting For You / 21. The Mercy Seat / 22. Euthanasia

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £12.99 / 2-LP £25.99

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Kamasi Washington – Becoming

Release date: 11 December

Kamasi Washington composed and produced the Emmy-nominated original score for Becoming, an intimate glimpse into the life of Michelle Obama. Produced by Netflix Originals, Becoming documented a moment of profound change for the former First Lady, not only for her personally but for the country she and her husband served for eight impactful years in the White House. Washington, who joined the project in its embryonic stages, provides a powerful musical backdrop.
Note: the gold vinyl LP is exclusive to indie shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £17.99 / Gold LP £21.99

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Steven Wilson – The Future Bites

Release date: 29 January

The Future Bites is an exploration of how the human brain has evolved in the internet era. Steven Wilson’s phenomenal sixth solo album is an online portal to a world of high-concept design, custom-built for the ultra-modern consumer. Where 2017’s To The Bone confronted the emerging global issues of post truth and fake news, The Future Bites places the listener in a world of 21st-century addictions. From out-of-control retail therapy, manipulative social media and the loss of individuality, The Future Bites is less a bleak vision of an approaching dystopia than a curious reading of the here and now.
Note: The LP is available on indies-only coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £25.99

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