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Mötorhead – 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, Daniel Lopatin’s anxiety-driven joyride paired to the Safdie Brothers’ noir thriller Uncut Gems. Unknowingly, Lopatin had 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.

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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Dizzee Rascal – E3 AF

Release date: 30 October

• East London-born music legend and all-round boundary-breaking innovator Dizzee Rascal brings us his 7th studio album, entitled E3 AF, which includes the hot new single ‘L.L.L.L (Love Life Live Large)’.
• This new release marks the genesis of a new era for Dizzee and is the first album of his in more than a decade to be wholly written, recorded and produced in the UK. E3 AF is a 10-track layered, purposeful statement of intent, rooted in Dizzee’s indelible ties to both east London and Black British music’s legacy. His sound is sharper, stronger and more self-assured than ever, and it is obvious that he has poured the creative energy of the past few years into E3 AF as a body of work.
• Note: the LP is available on yellow vinyl, exclusive to indie shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £20.99

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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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British Sea Power – Open Season (15th Anniversary)

Release date: 6 November

• British Sea Power’s majestic second album, Open Season, get a reissue on the 15th anniversary of its original release. The expanded reissue includes additional live sessions, B-sides and rarities from the period and extensive new sleeve notes. The double LP format is a one-off pressing, housed in a gatefold sleeve, the first disc on blue vinyl, with the second being a zoetrope picture disc.
• The majority of the original album was recorded by Mads Bjerke (Spiritualized, Primal Scream, Girls Aloud) and mixed by Bill Price (Sex Pistols, The Clash, Sparks). Two tracks were recorded and mixed by Graham Sutton (The Delays, Bark Psychosis) and Phill Brown (Sly Stone, Led Zeppelin, Talk Talk).
• Disc 1: It Ended on an Oily Stage / Be Gone / How Will I Ever Find My Way Home? / Like a Honeycomb / Please Stand Up / North Hanging Rock / To Get to Sleep / Victorian Ice / Oh Larsen B / The Land Beyond / True Adventures
• Disc 2: It Ended on an Oily Stage (recorded for the Mark Radcliffe Show on BBC Radio 2 – First broadcast on 31st March 2005) / How Will I Ever Find My Way Home? (recorded for the Mark Radcliffe Show on BBC Radio 2 – First broadcast on 31st March 2005) / Don’t You Want to Be a Bird? (recorded for the Gideon Coe on BBC Radio 6 – First broadcast on 28th March 2005) / When I Go Out (recorded for the Gideon Coe on BBC Radio 6 – First broadcast on 28th March 2005) / Crystal Horse (originally appeared on ‘It Ended On An Oily Stage’ CD Single 2) / Over in the Corner (originally appeared on ‘Please Stand Up’ CD Single 1) / How Will I Find My Way Home? (Organ Version) (originally appeared as a hidden track on Open Season CD) / How Animals Work (Mike Hedges Version – previously unreleased) / Runaway (originally appeared as ‘Gale Warnings in Viking North’ on ‘Please Stand Up’ 7") / Green Grass of Tunnel (originally appeared on ‘It Ended On An Oily Stage’ CD Single 1) / Grey Goose (originally appeared on ‘Please Stand Up’ CD Single 2) / Chicken Pig (True Adventures Instrumental Demo) (originally appeared on ‘Please Stand Up’ CD Single 2) / I Am a Cider Drinker (originally appeared on the split 7" single by British Sea Power and The Wurzels)

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

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Craig Charles – The Craig Charles Trunk Of Funk Vol. 1

Release date: 6 November

• Craig Charles has been a soul and funk fan since his teenage years in Liverpool, going to see local heroes The Real Thing live, and wearing out his shoe leather dancing in the city’s many underground clubs. Craig has been sharing that passion for the music via his 6Music and BBC Radio 2 shows and DJ nights for nearly 20 years.
• His brand new Trunk Of Funk compilation series blends up-tempo club classics with fresh music from the cream of the crop from the contemporary soul and funk scene, and will be Craig’s very first vinyl release – a beautiful, double vinyl gatefold LP and he’s certainly excited about it, stating; “I can’t wait to bring you big beats, bass lines and booga-bloomin-loo! Presenting The Craig Charles Trunk Of Funk Volume 1 as my first ever vinyl release has put a proper wiggle in my walk!”
• This collection of 21st-century disco, soul, funk and Afro grooves includes tracks from contemporary heroes of the scene such as Monophonics, Amp Fiddler and The James Taylor Quartet, and is also peppered with some old school classics and rare grooves from legends such as Roy Ayers, PP Arnold, Miriam Makeba and Patrice Rushen. Craig has personally selected and sequenced this collection to take the listener of a musical journey, the closest thing to having Craig visit and personally DJ for you in the comfort of your own home!
• Track listing: 1. Soul A Go Go – Soul Messin Allstars ft Josh Teskey / 2. Superfly (Sam Redmores’ Exclusive ‘Trunk Of Funk’ Edit) – Amp Fiddler feat Dames Brown / 3. Boogie Down – Roy Ayers / 4. Hold My Hand – Laneous / 5. Pata Pata – Miriam Makeba / 6. African Rhythms – Oneness Of Juju (Exclusive ‘Trunk Of Funk’ Edit) / 7. Medicated Goo – PP Arnold / 8. Take A Shot – The Fantastics! Ft Sulene Fleming / 9. Give Me The Night ft Xantone Blacq – Juan Laya and Jorge Montiel / 10. Out Of The Ordinary ft Mike Keat and The Bevvy Sisters – The Republic Of Persevere / 11. Forget Me Nots – Patrice Rushen – / 12. People Get Ready ft Natalie Williams and Noel McKoy – The James Taylor Quartet / 13. Hangin’ On – Monophonics / 14. The Old Place – Nick Waterhouse / 15. Victory! – Michelle David and the Gospel Sessions / 16. Beggin’ – Magnus Carlson / 17. Telling You Lies ft Jam Jam – Alex Opal / 18. Help Me ft Ian Whitelaw – Badge And Talkalot / 19. The Only Difference – Beatchild and The Slakedeliqs / 20. Clap Hands – Honeyfeet.

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

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David Bowie – Metrobolist (aka The Man Who Sold The World)

Release date: 6 November

• November 2020 sees the 50th Anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World in North America. The album marks the beginning of a collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would last through classic works including Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane – as well as the first in a 10-year series of indispensable albums stretching through 1980’s Scary Monsters …
• Originally titled Metrobolist, the album’s name was changed at the last minute. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track ‘After All’ which Tony considered perfect as is, and is featured in its 2015 remaster incarnation.
• The Metrobolist 50th anniversary artwork has been created by Mike Weller who was behind the historically controversial “dress” cover which Mercury Records refused to release.
• As with the Space Oddity 50th anniversary vinyl, as well as a 180g black vinyl edition, it will come in a limited edition of 2020 handwritten numbered copies on white vinyl (#1–1970) and on gold vinyl (#1971–2020), randomly distributed.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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Durutti Column, The – First Time On Vinyl!

Release date: 6 November

• Formed in Manchester in 1978, The Durutti Column were one of the first acts signed to the iconic Factory Records by Tony Wilson. Primarily the project of guitarist and vocalist Vini Reilly, the group have a cult following with notable fans including Brian Eno and John Frusciante. Now four of the act’s recent albums are released on vinyl for the very first time!

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  • Rebellion  Pre-sale offer Limited Edition LP £21.99
• The first ever vinyl pressing of The Durutti Column’s 2001 studio album Rebellion. Highlights include a take on the Irish folk standard ‘the Fields of at Henry’ (featuring a mesmerising vocal performance by Vick A. Wood) and ‘Overlord Part 1’, which adds a contemporary edge to the unmistakable Durutti Column sound with break-beats and rapping from Bic.
• Pressed on a 140g blue vinyl LP, housed in a printed inner sleeve.
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  • Someone Else’s Party  Pre-sale offer Limited Edition 2-LP £26.99
• The first ever vinyl pressing of The Durutti Column’s 2003 studio album Someone Else’s Party. Recorded after the passing of Reilly’s mother, this melancholic album explores themes of loss and reflection. Highlights include the Trip-Hop influenced ‘Vigil’, and ‘Spanish Lament’, which weaves together Reilly’s signature shimmering guitar sounds with a sample from David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
• Pressed on two 140g clear vinyl LPs, housed in printed inner sleeves.
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  • Keep Breathing  Pre-sale offer Limited Edition 2-LP £26.99
• The first ever vinyl pressing of The Durutti Column’s 2006 studio album Keep Breathing. First released in 2006, the album was seen by many as a return to form. It draws on a diverse range of genres from jazz, classical, post-punk and folk music, all tied together with serene melodies and the unmistakable guitar sounds of Vini Reilly.
• Pressed on two 140g red vinyl LPs, housed in printed inner sleeves.
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  • Love In The Time Of Recession  Pre-sale offer Limited Edition 2-LP £26.99
• The first ever vinyl pressing of The Durutti Column’s 2009 studio album Love In The Time Of Recession, which finds Reilly and co continuing to explore genre-blending sounds. Highlights include the fuzzy guitar-filled ‘In Memory Of Anthony’ (a tribute to the late Factory Records founder), and ‘More Rainbows’, an instrumental conversation between Vini Reilly’s soaring guitar and Poppy Morgan’s dreamy electric piano.
• Pressed on two 140g translucent amber vinyl LPs, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Kylie Minogue – Disco

Release date: 6 November

• Disco is the first new album since Kylie’s 2018 album Golden, which hit number 1 in both the UK and Australia. Collectively, Kylie’s singles have spent over 300 weeks in the Official UK Singles Chart Top 40 and she has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide. Kylie has multiple awards and accolades to her name, including 3 BRIT Awards, 2 MTV Music Awards and a Grammy. Her 2019 Glastonbury performance was the most-watched TV moment in the festival’s history.
• Note: the LP is available on transparent blue vinyl, exclusive to record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £16.99 / LP £21.99

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Neil Young – Return To Greendale

Release date: 6 November

• Return To Greendale is the next instalment in Neil Young’s Performance Series and features a concert (audio and on film) from the historic and unique 2003 tour supporting the release of the Neil Young with Crazy Horse album Greendale.
• On the 2003 tour, Neil Young and Crazy Horse were joined on stage by a large cast of singers and actors to perform the story Neil Young wrote about the small town of Greendale and how a dramatic event affects the people living there. The ten songs from the powerful original album are performed in sequence, with the cast speaking the sung words – adding to the intensity of the performance.
• The live album Return To Greendale is released in several formats: double LP, double CD, and a limited-edition deluxe box set that includes a Blu-ray of the full concert, a DVD of Inside Greendale (the making of the album documentary), 2 LPs and 2 CDs.
• The film of the ambitious live show captures the vibrancy of Neil Young and Crazy Horse on stage in a unique multi-media experience. It seamlessly blends together the live performance, the actors portraying each song, with the story occasionally enhanced by scenes from the Greendale – The Movie.

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £12.99 / 2-LP £25.99 / Blu-ray + 2-CD + 2-LP Box set £94.99

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Tunng – Presents....Dead Club

Release date: 6 November

• Indie folk band Tunng have created an experience built around the subjects of death, grief and loss. The Dead Club project includes an album, a podcast series, poetry and short stories. It was inspired by the novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter. The book got passed around the band and fired many discussions from how to deal with such things and how big the subject is. Founding member Mike Lindsay says they wanted to make an uplifting album, despite the weighty and dark subject.
• Note: the LP is available on indie shops exclusive clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £22.99

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Wilco – Summerteeth (Deluxe)

Release date: 6 November

• Wilco’s third album, Summerteeth, arrived in March 1999 to glowing reviews for its daring arrangements, lush harmonies and revealing lyrics. More than 20 years later, the Chicago-based band is expanding one of its best with multiple collections packed with hours of unreleased studio and live recordings.
• The 4-CD set starts with a Bob Ludwig 2020 remastered version of the original album (making its CD debut) along with an entire disc of unreleased studio out-takes, alternate versions and demos that chart the making of the album from songwriting demos to alternate studio arrangements to finished masters. The two remaining discs in the CD version of Summerteeth (Deluxe Edition) feature a previously unissued live show.
• The 5-LP set features the remastered studio album as well as the unreleased demos, alternates and outtake recordings pressed on 180g vinyl, along with an exclusive performance from early 1999 titled ‘An Unmitigated Disaster’, a previously unreleased live in-store performance at Tower Records on 11 March 1999.

Pre-sale offer 4-CD Box set £29.99 / 5-LP Box set £79.99

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Brian Eno – Film Music 1976–2020

Release date: 13 November

• This long-awaited collection brings together 17 tracks from Brian Eno’s most recognisable film and television work spanning 5 decades.
• Eno’s music has been used in hundreds of films and he has composed more than 20 soundtracks for some of the best known directors in the world including David Lynch, Danny Boyle, Peter Jackson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Derek Jarman and Michael Mann. Compositions such as ‘Ship in a Bottle’ in The Lovely Bones, ‘Prophecy Theme’ from Dune, ‘Deep Blue Day’ in Trainspotting, ‘Late Evening In Jersey’ in Heat, ‘Beach Sequence’ in Antonioni’s last film Beyond The Clouds and ‘An Ending (Ascent)’ from Al Reinert’s ground-breaking For All Mankind have contributed significantly to memorably iconic scenes. Eno has also scored extensively for television, including all 3 series of the gritty UK crime drama Top Boy, for which he received a Bafta, and Danny Boyle’s Mr Wroe’s Virgins, which earned him and his brother Roger a Bafta nomination.
• This release features over an hour of classic Eno compositions and includes several previously unreleased tracks.

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

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Chris Stapleton – Starting Over

Release date: 13 November

• Starting Over, the highly anticipated new studio album from Chris Stapleton, is an album of startling prescience – completed in late February only days before the shutdown began. Across its fourteen tracks are songs that examine life’s simplest joys and most serious struggles. Alongside eleven written by Stapleton with both longtime friends and new collaborators are three carefully chosen covers: John Fogerty’s ‘Joy Of My Life’ and Guy Clark’s ‘Worry B Gone’ and ‘Old Friends’. The resulting album – both timely and timeless – speaks to and transcends the current moment in ways unimaginable even while it was being created.
• The album finds Stapleton back in his second home, Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A (with additional work done at Muscle Shoals Sound and Compass Sound Studio), surrounded by his trusted collaborators as well as some new faces. Produced by Dave Cobb (who also plays acoustic guitar), the record features his beloved wife, Morgane Stapleton (vocals, tambourine), with longtime bandmates J.T. Cure (bass) and Derek Mixon (drums). Special guests include legendary musicians Mike Campbell (electric guitar), Benmont Tench (Hammond B3 organ) and Paul Franklin (pedal steel) as well as the Nashville Urban Choir who are featured on ‘Watch You Burn’, written by Stapleton and Campbell.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £26.99

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Elton John – Jewel Box

Release date: 13 November

• Jewel Box is an in-depth exploration of Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s extensive catalogue, including early rarities and deep cuts personally curated by Elton.
• This is the release his fans have been waiting for. With an eye-watering amount of previously unheard and unreleased tracks this is a treasure trove for Elton John fans. The 8-CD box set is packaged in a beautiful hardcover book with discs housed in the back, wrapped in an outer slipcase. The collection spans the period 1965 to 2019.
• Over 60 tracks previously unreleased.
• Many tracks available for the first time on digital format.
• 2 discs exclusively curated by Elton.
• New interviews.

• Discs 1 & 2: Deep Cuts. A selection of personal favourites, curated by Elton, and includes a track-by-track written commentary by Elton John with Alexis Petridis.
• Discs 3, 4 & 5: Rarities 1965–1971. Elton’s much sought-after 1960s and early 1970s demos and music that cemented the foundations of the iconic John–Taupin writing partnership. The compelling, previously unreleased, missing piece in his illustrious story. Daryl Easlea narrates this fascinating story with contributions from those who were there at the time.
• Discs 6 & 7: B Sides 1976–2005. Flipsides, never before compiled together. Those B-Side gems that are now given another chance to sparkle – many never previously available digitally.
• Disc 8: And This Is Me … To coincide with the release of the updated paperback edition of Me, the final collection celebrates the songs mentioned by name by Elton in his acclaimed book, closing Jewel Box with the 2020 Academy Award-winning ‘(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again’.
• In addition to the 8-CD box set there are also 3 vinyl collections: the 4-LP Deep Cuts, 3-LP Rarities And B-Sides and the 2-LP And This Is Me.

Pre-sale offer 8-CD Box set £94.99 / "Deep Cuts" 4-LP £64.99 / "Rarities & B Sides" 3-LP £39.99 / "And This Is Me" 2-LP £29.99

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New Order – Be A Rebel

Release date: 13 November

• Be A Rebel is the first brand new music from New Order since the release of the critically acclaimed album Music Complete in 2015. Music Complete was the band’s highest-charting album since Republic in 1993, and was included in both NME’s and the Guardian’s Albums of the Year.
• Note: the 12" is available on dove-grey vinyl, packaged with a blue metallic ink outer sleeve and full colour inner sleeve. The LP also features additional remixes from the band’s own Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, and includes a high-definition download code.

Pre-sale offer 12" £14.99

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Paloma Faith – Infinite Things

Release date: 13 November

• Paloma Faith wrote most of the songs for Infinite Things before the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world. When she went into lockdown, she ripped them all up and started afresh. She spent her downtime creating, learning to engineer her own music and just thinking about the world. The enforced downtime was creatively fruitful and taught her that she had been on a sort of conveyor belt of music and promo. The lockdown gave her the space to take stock of her frenetic career, and decide what is meaningful to her. She is emerging from lockdown with a new sense of her priorities which has seen her reconnect with her roots steeped in creativity.
• As well as exploring relationships and love, the album is also a rumination on sickness and loss.
• Note: the LP is available on white vinyl, exclusive to record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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Yungblud – Weird!

Release date: 13 November

• Weird! is Yungblud’s most emotionally complex body of work to date. He recorded it at studios in London and Los Angeles with Cervini, Greatti and another frequent collaborator, Matt Schwartz (Cold War Kids, Bullet For My Valentine, Massive Attack). True to Yungblud’s fierce refusal to box himself in, Weird! embodies a wildly eclectic collage of sound: Queen-inspired harmonies, Beatles-esque chord progressions, elements of dance-punk and glam-rock and hip-hop and metal.
• Note: the LP is a version exclusive to record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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Cabaret Voltaire – Shadow Of Fear

Release date: 20 November

• Shadow Of Fear is the first studio album from Cabaret Voltaire in 26 years. Richard H. Kirk is the sole remaining member; he’s released many acclaimed solo albums, having invented bleep techno via his groundbreaking work in Sweet Exorcist. Kirk has formed this new album from a series of pulverising live shows. The tone and personality of CV is ingrained in its core as it dances across techno, dub, house, 1970s Germany and general esoteric explorations coupled with mangled vocal samples.
• Note: the LP is available on limited-edition purple vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / 2-LP £24.99 / Cassette £8.99

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Coldplay – Parachutes 20th Anniversary

Release date: 20 November

• Celebrating 20 years since the original release of Coldplay’s debut album, Parachutes, Parlophone are issuing a limited-edition heavyweight translucent yellow vinyl pressing.

Pre-sale offer LP £21.99

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UFO – Strangers In The Night

Release date: 20 November

• Regarded by many as one of the finest live albums of all time, Strangers In The Night captured UFO at the peak of their powers as a band. Originally released in 1979, this double album recorded during the band’s October 1978 US tour, which can only be described a live greatest hits of the band’s repertoire.
• This newly remastered version of the album has been done from the original masters by Andy Pearce and presented in a gatefold sleeve.
• The new 8-CD box set includes all 6 complete original concerts – 5 previously unreleased – for the first time as well as the newly remastered version of the original album. Four of the shows have been newly mixed from the original tapes. The packaging is a 2-part rigid slipcase, 8 mini-LP style sleeves along with a 24-page booklet containing new sleeve notes by Michael Hann who has interviewed Phil Mogg, Andy Parker and Michael Schenker.
• Note: the LP is available on clear vinyl, exclusive to indie shops.

Pre-sale offer 2-LP £26.99 / 8-CD Box set £48.99

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Taylor Swift – Folklore

Release date: 27 November

• Folklore is the eighth studio album by the American phenomenon that is Taylor Swift. The album was created in isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, with production from Aaron Dessner (The National), Jack Antonoff (Bleachers) and Swift herself. Departing from the mainstream pop sound of Swift’s previous releases, Folklore is an indie-folk, alternative-rock, electro-folk and chamber-pop album driven by pianos and guitars.
• Note: the LP is available on clay-coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer 2-LP £34.99

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The Smashing Pumpkins – CYR

Release date: 27 November

• CYR is the new album from Grammy Award-winning alternative-rock luminaries The Smashing Pumpkins. The 20-track album was produced by front-man Billy Corgan and recorded in Chicago, and features founding members Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin and guitarist Jeff Schroeder.
• The album was produced by frontman Billy Corgan and recorded in Chicago. Corgan said that the song ‘Cyr’ is “dystopic folly, one soul against the world sort of stuff, set against a backdrop of shifting loyalties and sped up time. To me it stands as both hopeful and dismissive of what is and isn’t possible with faith.”
• Global praise continues to pour in since the release of their current single and album namesake ‘Cyr’ – which was #1 most added at Alternative Radio first week of release – and ‘The Colour Of Love,’ both from the album. Variety applauded the songs for remaining “rooted in the now,” and for “effortlessly taking their place alongside a catalog of cherished Smashing Pumpkins classics,” while Billboard exclaimed “The Smashing Pumpkins are getting ready to smash it up once more.”
• Note: the LP is available on record shops exclusive baby-pink vinyl.

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

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