NEW RELEASES 21.08.20

Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was - 2LP €26.99 (Blue/Red Vinyl) / Ltd. 2LP €26.99 (Red/Orange Vinyl / CD €12.99 (DEAD OCEANS) - New Album - Sometimes it feels like you hear a Bright Eyes song with your whole body. From Conor Oberst’s early recordings in an Omaha basement in 1995 all the way up to 2020, Bright Eyes’ music tries to unravel the impossible tangles of dissent: personal and political, external and internal. It’s a study of the beauty in unsteadiness in all its forms – in a voice, beliefs, love, identity, and what fills up the spaces in-between. And in so many ways, it’s just about searching for a way through.

The Waterboys - Good Luck, Seeker - LP €26.99 / Deluxe 2CD €19.99 - The Waterboys, one of the most creative, loved and literate bands of the last four decades, return this summer with their 14th studio album Good Luck, Seeker – coming just over one year after the release of the critically acclaimed album Where The Action Is. Standout track is the seven-minute mash-up manifesto My Wanderings In The Weary Land. Is it psychedelic soul? Is it trance? Is it punk?

Blues Pills - Holy Moly! LP Red - LP €28.99 / Boxset €49.99 / (Nuclear Blast) - LP is Red Gold Splatter / Box contains Black And Gold Splatter Vinyl. LP with Green 10", CD, Art Print, Patch and Sticker. - During their break, Blues Pills has been through some kind of reincarnation. A reincarnation that lead to the new self-produced and recorded album Holy Moly! mixed by Grammy Award winning Andrew Scheps.If you were blazed by heaviness of their first self-titled album, and tripped to the psychedelic soul of Lady In Gold (#1 Germany) you won't be immune to the effects of this third dose of the pills. Empowered by the definition of a cool bass player Kristoffer Schander, their banana-loving drummer André Kvarnström, Elin Larssons haunting voice and Zack Anderson now on lead guitar the band has gone back to their roots. Back to the raw power of rock’n’roll and blues with a pinch of soul.

PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me - LP €22.99 (UMC) - Originally released in 1993 and produced by Steve Albini Rid of Me adds only a touch of polish to the raw debut Dry keeping everything pretty much stripped down and burning. The album contains sone of harvey's must enduring songs - 50ft Queenie, Me-Jane and her storming take on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited.

PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos - LP €22.99 (UMC) - Vinyl reissue of 1993 collection of demos written and recorded at Polly Harvey’s home in 1991-1992. It includes eight demos of songs from the album, Rid of Me, released earlier in that year along with six demos of additional songs. Reissue is faithful to the original package, with vinyl cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering.

Erasure - Neon - LP €23.99 / CD €12.99 (Mute) - Limited Neon Orange - The Neon is Erasure’s 18th studio album, following the UK Top 10 album World Be Gone, the band’s highest charting UK album in 24 years. Written and produced by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, the new album sees the band deliver a 10 track collection of uplifting and optimistic synth-pop, connecting their past and future and glistening with hope. Includes the first single Hey Now (Think I Got A Feeling).

The Lemon Twigs - Songs For The General Public - LP €23.99 / CD €12.99 (4AD) - Limited Opaque Red - The D’Addario brothers return with their third Lemon Twigs album, Songs For The General Public - written, recorded and produced by the D’Addarios at their home studio in Long Island, Sonora Studios in Los Angeles and Electric Lady in New York City.

L.A. Witch - Play With Fire - LP €24.99 (Suicide Squeeze) - Play With Fire is a bold new journey that retains L.A. Witch’s siren-song mystique, nostalgic spirit, and contemporary cool. Despite the stylistic breadth of the record, there is a unifying timbre across the album’s nine tracks, as if the trio of young musicians is bound together as a collective of old souls tapping into the sounds of their previous youth.

070 Skake - Modus Vivendi - 2LP €33.99 (EMI) - Orange Vinyl - 070 Shake – the innovative, genre-defying artist who garnered huge buzz from Kanye West’s 2018 Wyoming sessions releases her highly-anticipated debut album, Modus Vivendi via G.O.O.D. Music / Def Jam Recordings. Modus Vivendi opens the next phase of 070 Shake’s journey. The album brings her reflective style to the spotlight with boundary-pushing creativity and pure emotional honesty as her compass. An emo-rap Dark Side Of The Moon …Modus Vivendi suggests Enya and Pink Floyd as much as Frank Ocean…the sound of a realist and fantasist sparring, it reflects an artist still coming into focus on her own thrilling terms.

Bully - Sugaregg - LP €24.99 / CD €12.99 (Sub Pop) - Loser Edition Red Vinyl - Bully return with their third album and it's their most expressive and powerful yet. Sugaregg roars from the speakers and jumpstarts both heart and mind. Like My Bloody Valentine after three double espressos, opener Add It On zooms heavenward within seconds, epitomizing Bognanno’s newfound clarity of purpose, while the bass-driven melodies and propulsive beats of Where to Start and Let You are the musical equivalents of the sun piercing through a perpetually cloudy sky.

Declan McKenna - Zeros - LP €21.99 / Picture Disc LP - €24.99 /CD €13.99 (Columbia) - Columbia Records release eagerly anticipated second record from 21 year old singer / songwriter. This 10 song follow up to 2017's What Do You Think About The Car? includes the hit singles Beautiful Faces, The Key To Life On Earth, Daniel, You're Still A Child and latest single Be An Astronaut.

Future - High Off Life - 2LP €24.99 / CD €13.99 (Epic) - the 8th studio album from US hip/hop/singer/songwriter/producer/former Dungeon Family member. Collaborators include Drake, Travis Scott, Young Thug, Da Baby, Lil Baby and more.

The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames - LP €21.99 (Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic) - Grey Vinyl - Celebrating life and purging angst, In Sickness and In Flames finds The Front Bottoms pushing forward with positive and creative energy, and features celebrated singles Camouflage and Everyone Blooms.

Liar, Flower - Geiger Counter - LP €23.99 (One Little Indian) - Liar, Flower is the reincarnation of Ruby Throat, consisting of artists KatieJane Garside (Daisy Chainsaw, QueenAdreena, Lalleshwari) and Chris Whittingham. As Ruby Throat, the duo released four albums and an EP between 2007 and 2017, as well as their 2018 compilations Stone Dress, and Liar, Flower.

Dermot Kennedy - Giants - 7" €9.99 (Island) - Limited Blue Vinyl - This new single Giants is featured on a new expanded version of Without Fear and comes backed with Day’s Like These on the flip.

Le Ren - Morning & Melancholia - 12" €17.99 (Secretly Canadian) - White Vinyl - Le Ren’s close-to-the-bone, heartbreak folk songs seem, at first, to tap into a shared musical memory. A melody swirls forward and you’re just sure it’s known to the back of your mind; was it in from a movie you saw, some classic mid-60s setpiece? Maybe it’s something you heard as a kid, in the backseat of your mom’s Cutlass, or the shotgun seat of your own. But before you can zero in through the fog, your heart is torn apart by her voice — rich, direct and mellifluous — steering you through these slowburn tunes about real-life loss.

Various - The Buddy Holly Story -OST - LP €22.99 (Decca) - The expanded soundtrack to the film The Buddy Holly Story features 22 tracks, including 11 tracks which were not included on the original release, such as “That’ll Will Be The Day,” “Mockingbird Hill” and “Tennessee Waltz” performed by Gary Busey, “Chantilly Lace” performed by Gailard Sartain (as The Big Bopper) and “You Send Me” performed by Paul Mooney (as Sam Cooke).

Lewis Del Mar - August - 2LP €20.99 (Fader) - New York duo Lewis Del Mar return with their sophomore album August,via the Fader Label. This album marks the duo’s first new music since their 2016 self-titled debut. The Ceiling.

Jamie Webster - We Get By - LP €20.99 (Modern Sky) - Limited Red Vinyl - By singing the lives of the angels, villains and overlooked of Liverpool, Jamie Webste sings the hope-filled daydreams of a generation on We Get By, the singer-songwriter’s debut album, released on Modern Sky.

Bebel Gilberto - Agora - LP €22.99 / CD €12.99 (PIAS) - Iconic ground-breaking Brazilian artist Bebel Gilberto releases Agora (“Now”). This is Gilberto’s first new studio album in six years and was produced by Thomas Bartlett (Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent).

Eno/Cale - Wrong Way Up - LP €23.99 / Deluxe CD €18.99 (All Saints Records) - 30th anniversary reissue of the historic coming together of two icons of leftfield music. The resulting album is a triumph for both artists, containing the singles Spinning Away and Been There Done That. Includes two bonus tracks (B-sides to the Spinning Away single) and booklet containing a 1990 interview with Eno about the making of the album.

Eno/Wobble - Spinner - LP €23.99 / Deluxe CD €18.99 (All Saints Records) - 25th anniversary reissue of this unique coming together of Brian Eno and ex-Public Image Limited bass player Jah Wobble, also featuring Jaki Liebezeit from Can on drums. Starting life as the soundtrack to Derek Jarman's Glitterbug, Eno passed stereo mixes of the film cues to Wobble who embellished and built upon them to construct the Spinner tracks. The resulting fusion combines icy ambience with a kind of psychogeographical funk. Contains two bonus tracks plus booklet with sleeve notes from both artists. Extra tracks - Track 11 is an original Brian Eno track from the Derek Jarman Glitterbug soundtrack. Track 12 is a new and exclusive track by Jah Wobble.

Freeez & John Rocca - Southern Freeez/Variations On A Theeem - 2LP €28.99 (Beggars Banquet) - Limited Blue Marbled Vinyl - Beggars Arkive reissue the classic Freeez debut album Southern Freeez. The second LP contains seven brand new tracks from the band’s leader John Rocca. Freeez were a legendary group from London, known as one of the UK’s main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s…aka Brit funk.

PRIMAL FEAR - Limited Colored Vinyl Reissues (Nuclear Blast)

16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead) - 2LP 34.99 / CD12.99- Red with Black Marble Vinyl
Live in the USA - 2LP €34.99 / CD €12.99 - White with Blue and Red Marble Vinyl
New Religion - 2LP €34.99 / CD €12.99 - Orange with Red Marble Vinyl
Unbreakable - 2LP €34.99 / CD €12.99 - White and Black Marble Vinyl

Anthrax - Persistence Of Time (30th Anniversary Edition) - 4LP €53.99 (Megaforce) - Orange Vinyl - Anthrax releases their 30th-anniversary edition of the band's 1990 album "Persistence Of Time" featuring remastered versions of the original release plus more material.

Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes - LP €28.99 (Matador) - Limited Blue, Green And Red Vinyl - Matador Records release a 25th Anniversary vinyl edition of Guided By Voices’ 1995 album Alien Lanes. Inspired by the multicoloured drumhead featured on the album’s artwork, this new edition is pressed on blue, green and red multicolored vinyl making it the first non-exclusive colour vinyl edition of this release. Limited to a one time press of 2,500 copies.

Swarvy - Sunny Days Blue - LP €16.99 (Black Focus) - Green Vinyl - Philadelphian multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer Swarvy makes his solo debut on Kamaal Williams's imprint Black Focus with a stunning new EP entitled Sunny Days Blue, his first release as the primary vocalist.

Nubya Garcia - Source - 2LP €28.99 (Concord) - Limited Splatter Vinyl - Multi award-winning saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia is back with her much anticipated debut album, Source. Her first release on Concord Records, under the iconic Concord Jazz imprint. The album follows her 2018 self-released EP, When We Are, the title track of which was described as “effervescent” by The New York Times and named one of NPR’s Best Songs of 2018

Chuck Prophet - The Land That Time Forgot - LP €25.99 (Yep Roc) - Chuck Prophet, San Francisco's savior-songwriter, returns with his new album The Land That Time Forgot. Varying from the rich heartland rock of songs like Best Shirt On, to the building drum machine of Marathon and all the way back to stripped back words and guitar of Nixonland and Get Off the Stage, Prophet's work defies classification.

Mott The Hoople - Live On Broadway 1974 - 2LP €29.99 (Madfish) - Live on Broadway 1974 is the original recorded in-concert finale from Mott the Hoople. Touring the USA to promote their new hit records The Golden Age of Rock N Roll and The Hoople and parading the classics All the Young Dudes, All the Way from Memphis and Roll Away the Stone the group was soaring.

Tenderlonious - Quarantena - LP €26.99 (22A) - Multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ Tenderlonious presents this collection of lo-fi beats and soundscapes courtesy of the lockdown studio sessions from his home in South London.

Al Campbell & Trinity - Respect - 12" €8.99 (Greensleeves) - First time on 12 inch re-issue, reggae nugget by Al Campbell produced by Trinity (Three Piece Suit). B Side features exclusive dub mix of the scorcher Vampire.

Laverne Washington -The Promise / Thats What I've been Searching for - 7" €13.99 (Melodies International) - Melodies International are glad to be back with their latest reissue, a couple undercover soul gems from the Midwest originally self-released in 1984: La’Verne Washington’s The Promise and I Found What I’ve Been Searching For.

GLOK - Dissident Remixed - 2LP €29.99 (Bytes) - Limited Spatter Vinyl - Dissident, the debut album from Ride’s Andy Bell, recording as his electronic alter ego Glok, was released last year to widespread acclaim. On Dissident Remixed, album no 7 on Bytes, lil’ sister of Ransom Note Records, members of the extended Ransom Note family and fans of Glok and Ride have come together to reimagine the source material in a rich smorgasbord of styles. Andrew Weatherall (RIP), Richard Sen, Maps, Jay Glass Dubs, C.A.R., Timothy Clerkin, Franz Kirmann, Minotaur Shock and the man himself all step up to lend their talents to the project and the results are stunning.

Bushwacka! Listen Up! Vol. 2 (1995 - 2005) - 2LP €28.99 (Above Board Projects) - A stunning collection from the vaults of one of London's true maverick electronic producers - Matthew 'Bushwacka!' B.

Various Artists - Dance To The Drummer's Beat Vol. 1 - 2LP €26.99 (TK Disco) - Presenting a collection of stone-cold classic breakbeats and b-boy jams from the sunkissed vaults of Miami's legendary TK Disco label!

Shlomi Aber - Orion -12" €11.99 (Second State Audio)

Chet Baker - Chet Baker Plays Vladinir Cosma - LP €20.99 (Wagram)

James Brown - Vinylart - Picture disc LP €21.99 (Wagram)

Marilyn Monroe - Vinylart - Picture disc LP €21.99 (Wagram)

Various Artists - Reggae Dub - LP €16.99 (Wagram)

Various Artists - Rap Francais - LP €16.99 (Wagram)

Various Artists - Spirit Of 90's - LP €16.99 (Wagram)

Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin - LP €16.99 (Wagram)

Various Artists - Wanted : Afro Groove - LP €20.99 (Wagram)

Various Artists - Wanted : Funky Soul - LP €20.99 (Wagram)