Classic reissues from January–June 2023

Fresh editions of timeless albums – packed with extras!

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Released 26 May 2023

- Lucy Dacus Historian (5th Anniversary) Limited Edition LP £23.99
As part of the Revisionist History series, Matador are releasing a five-year anniversary edition of Lucy Dacus’ album Historian, featuring alternative artwork. Lucy Dacus is done thinking small. Two years after her 2016 debut, No Burden, won her unanimous acclaim as one of rock’s most promising new voices, Dacus released Historian, a remarkably assured 10-track statement of intent. “This is the album I needed to make,” says Dacus, who views Historian as her definitive statement as a songwriter and musician.
Note: The LP is initially available on limited-edition red vinyl.

- Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy LP £28.99
At long last the classic Steely Dan catalogue is back on vinyl! Led by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan released seven albums between 1972 and 1980. The vinyl reissue series continues with Countdown to Ecstasy, the band’s sprawling 1973 sophomore LP with such standouts as ‘Bodhisattva’, ‘Show Biz Kids’ and ‘My Old School’.

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Released 12 May 2023

- Animal Collective Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished 2-CD £14.99 / 2-LP £26.99 / Green 2-LP £28.99
Animal Collective are reissuing their very first record, Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished. Originally released in a very small CD-only pressing on their own Animal label in August 2000 and credited to Avey Tare & Panda Bear prior to the full collective band name being used on releases, the album has been praised by Vulture for its “starry-eyed sense of songcraft” and described by Pitchfork as “a masterful piece of electro-acoustic fairy-tale music; yet its squealing electronics, and vitrified rhythms suggest something darker. Like a Snickers bar with a razor blade in it.”
Note: The LP is initially available on grass green vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.

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Released 17 March 2023

- Beth Hart Classic Vinyl Reissues
Three of Beth Hart’s signature albums are being released on vinyl.
- 37 Days 2-LP £28.99
The entire 37 Days album was produced like a live album and was recorded and mixed in that short time-frame, with a set of musicians who respected, trusted and loved each other. On red vinyl.
- War In My Mind 2-LP £28.99
With War In My Mind, she serves herself up so raw, on a record that embraces her merits and flaws, channels her bittersweet head-space and spins gold from her demons. On purple vinyl.
- My California LP £24.99
On My California, she reflects on the sweetness of success and clinging to a bottle in the gutter: being betrayed by her own mind and the bliss of mental balance. On red vinyl.

- Eels Classic Vinyl Reissues
The trilogy of Eels albums released in 2009 and 2010 get a lovely reissue on vinyl.
- End Times LP £24.99
End Times is the sound of an artist growing older in uncertain times, an artist who has lost his great love while struggling with his faith in an increasingly hostile world teetering on self-destruction.
- Tomorrow Morning LP £24.99
Tomorrow Morning is the brightest and most overtly uplifting work of Eels’ career, the final instalment of a trilogy.
- Hombre Loco LP £24.99
Hombre Lobo was written about desire – more blood and thorns rather than hearts and flowers – and keeps faith with the band’s established sonic template of downbeat pop shrouded in distortion.

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Released 3 March 2023

- The Stranglers Feline 2CD £13.99 / 2-LP £32.99
Feline, the 7th album from The Stranglers, is being released in a deluxe and epic expanded 40th anniversary edition, complete with ten extra tracks and rarities. The Stranglers were unstoppable throughout the seventies and eighties, becoming one of Europe’s biggest bands, with Feline peaking at No. 4 in the UK album chart. The lead single, ‘European Female’, reached No. 9 in the singles chart and paved the way for the band’s transition in sound, helping to cement their place in an ever-changing soundscape.

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Released 27 January 2023

- Delays Faded Seaside Glamour LP £23.99 / Limited Edition Deluxe LP £30.99
A space of wonderment and exhilaration, the home of true heart and a timeless soul, Faded Seaside Glamour, the atmospheric and evocative 2004 debut album from Southampton’s very own Delays, gets its first outing on vinyl. The fragile strength of frontman Greg Gilbert’s vocals intertwine in an intoxicating way with the forward-looking synths of his brother Aaron, Colin Fox’s bass and Rowly’s drumming to create a series of affecting songs that deliver an immediate pop hit and that also leave a deep and wistful impact worthy of the album’s enticing title. Its iconic singles ‘Nearer Than Heaven’ and ‘Long Time Coming’ became immediate yet lasting focal points, while tracks including the melancholic ‘No Ending’, the smooth beats of ‘Stay Where You Are’ and chiming opener ‘Wanderlust’ demonstrated the remarkable depth of this unique debut.

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