Special pre-sale offers

Chrissie Hynde With The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – Valve Bone Woe

Release date: 6 September

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £23.99

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Black Star Riders – Another State Of Grace

Release date: 6 September

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £22.99

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Samantha Fish – Kill Or Be Kind

Release date: 20 September

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99

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Bat For Lashes – Lost Girls

Release date: 6 September

• Bat For Lashes – aka Natasha Khan – releases her fifth studio album.
• Lost Girls is the latest brilliant full-length in Khan’s incredible, acclaimed discography, mixing sounds she’s always loved – heavy bass lines, synth arpeggios, Iranian pop beats, cascading choruses – with some of her finest songwriting to date. It’s an album full of romance, an homage to Los Angeles, to being a kid in the ’80s, to films that touched and changed her life.
• Spanning 10 tracks, Lost Girls sees Khan dreaming up her own fully formed parallel universe, creating an off-kilter coming-of-age film in which gangs of marauding female bikers roam our streets, teenagers make out on car bonnets and a powerful female energy casts spells and leaves clues for us to follow.
• Note: the LP version is available on indies-only clear vinyl with red/pink splatter.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £19.99 / Cassette £10.99

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Liam Gallagher – Why Me? Why Not

Release date: 20 September

• Good things come to those who wait: and so, this summer, Liam Gallagher returns with a new single, a documentary film, a Glastonbury performance, and, most importantly, a second solo album: Why Me? Why Not. The rest of 2019 will be a bonanza for fans of the one-time Oasis singer. One man is very happy about that. “I’m buzzing,” says Liam. “Buzzing to be alive, buzzing to be making tunes, raring to go. It’s nice to be back with some new music because it means I can get out there, play some gigs and give some people some stick because that is what I do. Let’s face it, it’s boring without me.”
• Note: the LP version is available on indies-only coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £13.99 / LP £22.99

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Pixies – Beneath The Eyrie

Release date: 13 September

• Note: the LP is available as an exclusive indies-only version.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / Deluxe CD £12.99 / LP £22.99

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The Lumineers – III

Release date: 13 September

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / 2-LP £26.99

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Echo & The Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979–1983

Release date: 6 September

• Echo & The Bunnymen present an archival dig through all of the tracks they recorded for the legendary John Peel Sessions during their formative years between 1979 and 1983. Many of the 21 songs in this collection did not appear on their albums, as the band actually used the sessions to experiment with new material.
• Track listing: 1. Read It In Books / 2. Stars Are Stars / 3. I Bagsy Yours / 4. Villiers Terrace / 5. The Pictures On My Wall / 6. All That Jazz / 7. Over The Wall / 8. All My Colours / 9. That Golden Smile / 10. Heaven Up Here / 11. Turquoise Days / 12. Taking Advantage / 13. An Equation / 14. No Hands / 15. Silver / 16. Seven Seas / 17. The Killing Moon / 18. Nocturnal Me / 19. Watch Out Below / 20. Ocean Rain / 21. My Kingdom

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £23.99

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The Highwomen – The Highwomen

Release date: 6 September

• Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby – four of the most exciting singer songwriters working in modern American country music today – are The Highwomen. With a pedigree like that, this one is not to be missed!

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

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Iggy Pop – Free

Release date: 6 September

• Note: the LP is available on limited sky-blue vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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Status Quo – Backbone

Release date: 6 September

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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Stereolab – Classic Album Reissues

Release date: 13 September

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  • Emperor Tomato Ketchup  Pre-sale offer 2-CD £14.99 / 3-LP box set £29.99
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  • Dots & Loops  Pre-sale offer 2-CD £14.99 / 3-LP box set £29.99
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  • Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Light  Pre-sale offer 2-CD £14.99 / 3-LP box set £29.99

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Korn – The Nothing

Release date: 13 September

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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Brittany Howard – Jaime

Release date: 20 September

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £19.99

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Prefab Sprout – Classic Vinyl Reissues

Release date: 27 September

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  • Jordan: The Comeback  Pre-sale offer LP £23.99
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  • A Life Of Surprises  Pre-sale offer LP £23.99
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  • From Langley Park To Memphis  Pre-sale offer LP £23.99

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Whiskey Myers – Whiskey Myers

Release date: 27 September

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

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Beth Hart – War In My Mind

Release date: 27 September

• Note: the LP is available on coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £19.99 / LP £21.99

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Sam Fender – Hypersonic Missile

Release date: 13 September

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £19.99

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The Beatles – Abbey Road (50th Anniversary Edition)

Release date: 27 September

• Released on 26 September 1969, Abbey Road was not the final album by The Beatles, as Let It Be followed in 1970, but it was the last one John, Paul, George, and Ringo recorded together as a band. Abbey Road’s 50th anniversary will be celebrated with a suite of beautifully presented packages. The album’s 17 tracks have been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell in stereo, accompanied by 23 session recordings and demos, most of which are previously unreleased.
• “The Beatles’ recording journey had gone through many twists and turns, learning curves and thrilling rides. Here we were – still wondering at the magic of it all,” recalls Paul McCartney in his written foreword for Abbey Road’s anniversary edition packages.
• This is the first time Abbey Road has been remixed and presented with additional session recordings and demos. This sweeping new edition of the album follows the universally acclaimed remixed and expanded 50th anniversary editions of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The BEATLES (‘White Album’), released in 2017 and 2018, respectively. To create Abbey Road’s new stereo mix, Martin and Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio restoration specialists at Abbey Road Studios. All the new versions of Abbey Road feature the new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original eight-track session tapes. To produce the mix, Giles was guided by the album’s original stereo mix supervised by his father, George Martin.

• The deluxe 2-CD set pairs the new stereo mix, sourced directly from the original eight-track session tapes with versions taken from the session takes and demo recordings of its 17 songs, sequenced to match the album’s running order. The two discs are presented in a digipak with a 40-page booklet.

• The super-deluxe 3-CD + Blu-ray box set presents 40 tracks – including ‘The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix)’ for the album’s epic Side 2 medley – on three CDs and one Blu-ray disc. The four discs are housed in a slip-sleeved 12"x12" 100-page hardbound book containing: a foreword by Paul McCartney; an introduction by Giles Martin; insightful, in-depth chapters written by Beatles historian, author, and radio producer Kevin Howlett covering the months preceding The Beatles’ Abbey Road sessions, track-by-track details and session notes, the cover art and photo shoot, and the album’s reception upon its release; plus an essay by music journalist and author David Hepworth looking at the album’s influence through 50 years. The book is illustrated with previously unpublished photographs, including many taken by Linda McCartney; never-before-published images of handwritten lyrics, sketches, and a George Martin score; Beatles correspondence, recording sheets, and tape boxes; and reproduced original print ads.

• The limited edition deluxe 3-LP box set features all 40 tracks from the super-deluxe collection on three 180-gram vinyl LPs, packaged in a faithfully replicated sleeve, with the two sessions LPs paired in their own jacket, presented with a four-page insert in a lift-top box.

Pre-sale offer CD £9.99 / 2-CD £19.99 / LP £23.99 / Limited LP Picture Disc £29.99 / Super Deluxe 3-CD + Blu-Ray £85.99 / Deluxe 3-LP £65.99

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Kacy & Clayton – Carrying On

Release date: 4 October

• Note: the LP is available as an exclusive indies-only version.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £17.99

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Underworld – Drift Songs

Release date: 25 October

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £24.99

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Wildwood Kin – Wildwood Kin

Release date: 4 October

• Wildwood Kin is the self-titled second studio album from the West-Country trio: sisters Emillie and Beth and their cousin Meghann. The album is self-titled because it captures the band’s artistic vision so completely. The most striking thing about the album is just how natural it sounds: it is a beautifully reflective body of work, characterised by the band’s distinctive harmonies, evergreen folk-rock melodies, and moments of riotous energy. The voices of three young women harmonise effortlessly – there are shades of Simon & Garfunkel, Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, and the churchy cadences of the first Fleet Foxes album in the beautifully gentle folk-rock melodies.
• The album’s lyrics address profound themes like love, loss and spirituality in an unforced fashion. Above all, there is a spirit to the record that is as wild and free as the moors that Wildwood Kin grew up on. The album features a number of co-writers from sessions in Los Angeles, Nashville and Oxfordshire, including Gabrielle Aplin, Angelo Petraglia (Taylor Swift, Lissie, Kings of Leon), and Alex Davies (Sigrid, Birdy, Kodaline), and was produced by Ian Grimble (Bear’s Den, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Viola Beach, Daughter), with lead single ‘Never Alone’ written with and produced by Ed Harcourt.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £19.99

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Alter Bridge – Walk The Sky

Release date: 18 October

• For over 15 years, Alter Bridge has been known for blurring the line between hard rock and heavy metal. The band produced this album in a way the’ve never used before: Kennedy and Tremonti created complete song ideas that were then worked on by the entire band to form the fourteen songs that make Walk The Sky the blistering listening experience it is.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £24.99

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Wilco – Ode To Joy

Release date: 4 October

• Note: the LP is available on indies-only pink vinyl, limited to just 750 copies in the UK.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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The Sherlocks – Under Your Sky

Release date: 4 October

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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The Dead South – Sugar & Joy

Release date: 11 October

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £23.99

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Mark Lanegan Band – Somebody’s Knocking

Release date: 18 October

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / 2-LP £24.99

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Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka

Release date: 25 October

• Michael Kiwanuka’s third studio album, entitled simply Kiwanuka, is Michael serving from the heart, from the mind, and from the soul. The album was recorded in New York, LA and London with Danger Mouse and Inflo at the controls, the same production team that combined so magnificently on Love & Hate. They take the basic sonic blueprint of that last record to a dizzying new realm on Kiwanuka, which also finds a new assuredness in Michael’s writing.
• Michael will tell you of his love for records that entwine their songs with incidental skits and shape-shifting spiralling outros, making the listener experience almost that of listening to one long, dramatic song. Kiwanuka fulfils that winding, dream-like haze, unhurried.
• On the album title, Michael explains “This album, it’s kind of a defiant thing; I’m engaging with who I am and I’m not going to have an alter ego, or become Sasha Fierce or Ziggy Stardust, even through everyone’s telling me I need to be this, that or the other. I can just be Michael Kiwanuka.”
• Note: the limited-edition deluxe CD is housed in a 16-page hardback book; the LP version comes on yellow vinyl, available only from record shops.

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

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