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Pre-sale of the week is Let All that We Imagine Be the Light by Garbage, out on 2 May.
Releases for 14 March 2025
The first of 14 March’s hottest albums is Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, the tenth solo album from Edwyn Collins, recorded at his Clashnarrow Studio in Helmsdale, north-east Scotland, and co-produced by Edwyn with Sean Read and Jake Hutton, who all play on the album. Symphony of Lungs came to life at the BBC Proms as an orchestral and choral masterpiece with an outstanding performance from Florence + The Machine and Jules Buckley, reimagining fan favourites such as ‘Dog Days Are Over’ and ‘You’ve Got the Love’ in addition to rarities Florence hadn’t performed for many years. When Karl Wallinger left The Waterboys to form World Party, it took just one song, ‘Ship of Fools’, to convince fans that this was no mere side project; Best in Show is a 16-song greatest hits package drawn from the the band’s work between 1986 and 2000. The Father of Make Believe carves out new sonic territory for Coheed and Cambria amidst the wailing guitars, firework-crack drums, and Claudio Sanchez’s aching, powerful voice; and this time, he’s writing more directly about his life and, especially, his unusual career. Finally, Stygian Waves builds on the impeccable musicianship and stellar songwriting of Envy of None’s acclaimed debut, boldly venturing into a spectrum of new guises – from alt-pop and industrial rock to synthwave and hard rock.
Our release of the week, The Overview, sees Steven Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine: the two wildly ambitious side-long tracks are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Headphones and a wide-open mind are recommended.
- Steven Wilson The Overview CD £12.99 / LP £25.99 / Coloured LP £27.99 / Blu-ray £18.99
- Steven Wilson’s eighth studio album, The Overview, is his most audacious to date, inspired by the ‘overview effect’ experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space. The two-track, forty-two-minute album sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases. The two wildly ambitious tracks, one featuring a set of lyrics by XTC’s Andy Partridge, are each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the other, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Wilson’s 21st-century progressive music updates the classic ‘prog’ musical palette to incorporate everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, which brings the genre right into the beating heart of the current musical landscape. The Overview is instantly recognisable as Steven Wilson and will stand alone as an utterly unique release for 2025. Headphones and a wide-open mind are recommended.
- Note: The LP is initially available on mint-green vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.
- Edwyn Collins Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation CD £10.99 / LP £23.99
- Edwyn Collins is back with his tenth solo album, Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation. The 11-track album was recorded at his Clashnarrow Studio in Helmsdale, north-east Scotland, and was co-produced by Edwyn with Sean Read and Jake Hutton, who all play on the album. The album also features James Walbourne on guitar, William Collins on bass, Carwyn Ellis on guitar, Lena Wright and Bianca White on backing vocals and includes two co-writes – ‘The Mountains Are My Home’ with Carwyn and ‘Strange Old World’ with William.
- Florence + The Machine & Jules Buckley And His Orchestra Symphony of Lungs (BBC Proms at The Royal Albert Hall) CD £14.99 / LP £34.99
- On 11 September 2024, Symphony of Lungs came to life at the BBC Proms with an outstanding performance from Florence + The Machine and Jules Buckley, reimagining the album Lungs in its entirety. This included best-selling fan-favourite singles such as ‘Dog Days Are Over’, ‘You’ve Got the Love’ and ‘Cosmic Love’ in addition to rarities Florence admitted she hadn’t performed in at least 15 years, including ‘Bird Song’ and ‘Falling’. Jules Buckley with his team of arrangers transformed the already beautifully produced album into an orchestral and choral masterpiece.
- World Party Best in Show CD £12.99 / 2-LP £33.99
- When Karl Wallinger left The Waterboys in the mid-’80s to form World Party, it took just one song to convince fans that this was no mere side project. That song, ‘Ship of Fools’, along with ‘Is It Like Today?’, ‘Way Down Now’, ‘Put the Message in the Box’ and ‘She’s the One’ populate this first-ever worldwide release of the 16-song greatest hits package Best in Show, which draws from the albums Private Revolution, Goodbye Jumbo, Bang!, Egyptology, Dumbing Up and Arkeology.
- Note: The LP is initially available on yellow and red vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.
- Coheed and Cambria The Father of Make Believe CD £11.99 / 2-LP £31.99
- The Father of Make Believe carves out new sonic territory for Coheed and Cambria amidst all of the wailing guitars, drums that crack like fireworks, and Claudio Sanchez’s aching, powerful voice that centres us through moments both placid and pinwheeling. But where the set really forges new ground is in how Sanchez embraces the role of main character. He’s often used epic songcraft to mask the stories he wanted to tell: reflections on an addicted father; memories of his beloved grandfather; concern about raising a child in a cruel world; hopes and fears around the love of his life. This time, he’s writing more directly about his life and, especially, his unusual career. Sanchez is the Father of Make Believe, gazing down upon this world he’s wrought.
- Note: The LP is initially available in two coloured-vinyl versions: magenta and Coke-bottle green, exclusive to independent shops.
- Envy of None Stygian Waves CD £13.99 / LP £26.99
- Stygian Waves builds on the impeccable musicianship and stellar songwriting of Envy of None’s acclaimed 2022 self-titled debut. With this new album, the Canadian-American supergroup boldly ventures into a spectrum of new guises – from alt-pop and industrial rock to synthwave and hard rock. Recorded primarily in Toronto in 2024 and entirely self-produced, Stygian Waves is the culmination of each member’s distinct musical vision, blending haunting melodies, moreish riffs and richly layered electronic textures into a compelling and unique sound.
- Note: A limited-edition box set is available that includes the album on CD and Blu-ray (with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 surround and hi-res stereo mixes plus 4 promo videos) as well as a green-and-black marbled LP in a gatefold sleeve with individual band-member prints. The set also includes a 12-page booklet featuring track-by-track notes from the band and photography exclusive to this set.
Releases for 7 March 2025
The first of 7 March’s top picks is Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts, a belated follow-up to the band’s classic debut, Earth vs The Wildhearts: songs of defiance and hope, of ragged glory, of true heart-on-sleeve emotion, that sound like no-one else on this planet (or the explored parts of space). Curious Ruminant, which follows new Jethro Tull albums in 2022 and 2023, is an album of mostly full-band music, consisting of nine tracks varying in length from two and a half minutes to almost seventeen minutes. Tsunami Sea builds on Spiritbox’s chart-topping 2021 debut, Eternal Blue, and elevates the band’s signature visceral sound to new heights of intensity and musicality. The Melancholy Season marks Benmont Tench’s true arrival, after four decades as keyboard player in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as a singer-songwriter, without compromise or doubt. Oceanside Countryside, the latest of the great ‘lost’ albums to be released as part of Neil Young’s Analog Original Series (AOS), includes, for the first time ever, the track list originally planned for this album, in the original analogue mixes done at the time of recording. There are also 50th anniversary editions of David Bowie’s Young Americans, Autobahn by Kraftwerk and Close to the Edge by Yes (52½ years young!).
Our release of the week comes from Bob Mould, the legendary former frontman of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, who returns with his new album. Here We Go Crazy finds Bob on top form, delivering 11 slices of anthemic, emotional driving alt-rock, featuring the singles ‘Here We Go Crazy’, ‘When Your Heart Is Broken’ and ‘Breathing Room’.
- Bob Mould Here We Go Crazy CD £14.99 / LP £27.99 / Coloured LP £29.99
- Bob Mould, the legendary former frontman of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, returns with his new album. Here We Go Crazy finds Bob on top form, delivering 11 slices of anthemic, emotional driving alt-rock, featuring the singles ‘Here We Go Crazy’, ‘When Your Heart Is Broken’ and ‘Breathing Room’.
- Note: The LP is initially available on 3-colour smush vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.
- The Wildhearts Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts CD £13.99 / LP £28.99
- Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts is conceived as a belated follow-up to the band’s classic debut, Earth vs The Wildhearts. These are songs of defiance and hope, of ragged glory, of true heart-on-sleeve emotion; songs that sound like no-one else on this planet (or the explored parts of space). Lead single ‘Failure Is the Mother of Success’ sums up the album via a spectacular eight-minute lap taking in all manner of twists and turns, and the message here is plain, forged through sharp-end experience.
- Note: The LP is initially available on white vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.
- Jethro Tull Curious Ruminant CD £14.99 / LP £27.99 / 2-CD + Blu-ray £49.99 / Limited edition deluxe box set £99.99
- Curious Ruminant, which follows new Jethro Tull albums in 2022 and 2023, is an album of mostly full-band music, consisting of nine tracks varying in length from two and a half minutes to almost seventeen minutes. Amongst the musicians featured are former keyboardist Andrew Giddings and drummer James Duncan, along with current band members David Goodier, John O’Hara, Scott Hammond and, making his recording debut with the band, guitarist Jack Clark.
- The deluxe limited-edition sets feature the main album, alternative stereo mixes and a Blu-ray containing Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround-sound mixes (once again undertaken by Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief) in artbook packaging, as well as exclusive interview material. The vinyl box set also includes the album pressed on ultra-clear 180g vinyl and two exclusive art prints.
- Spiritbox Tsunami Sea CD £14.99 / LP £27.99 / Coloured LP £29.99
- Spiritbox’s second album, Tsunami Sea, builds on the band’s massively successful 2021 debut, Eternal Blue, which topped charts and dominated critics’ year-end lists, and 2023’s Fear of Fear EP, which earned the band two consecutive Grammy nominations. The album, co-produced by the band’s Mike Stringer and Dan Braunstein, features the band’s signature visceral sound, elevated to new heights of intensity and musicality highlighted in singles ‘Soft Spine’ and ‘Perfect Soul’.
- Note: The LP is initially available on tri-coloured vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.
- Benmont Tench The Melancholy Season CD £13.99 / LP £27.99
- The Melancholy Season marks Benmont Tench’s true arrival, after four decades as keyboard player in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as a singer-songwriter, without compromise or doubt. It was produced by Jonathan Wilson, an acclaimed singer-songwriter himself and touring guitarist for Roger Waters, who has worked on career-defining albums for Dawes, Father John Misty and Margo Price. The album’s core studio band includes Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith on guitar, Sebastian Steinberg of Soul Coughing on bass and Wilson on drums, among other instruments, with contributions from Jenny O. and Sara Watkins.
- Neil Young Oceanside Countryside LP £32.99 / Clear LP £35.99
- Oceanside Countryside is the latest of the great ‘lost’ albums to be released as part of Neil Young’s Analog Original Series (AOS). The album was recorded from May to December 1977, preceding the release of Comes a Time in 1978, and shares the same country/folk sound. This long-awaited vinyl release of Oceanside Countryside includes, for the first time ever, the track list originally planned for this album, in the original analogue mixes done at the time of recording, along with some extra tracks since released on Archives Vol. III
- Note: The LP is initially available on clear vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.
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