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Fairport Convention – Come All Ye: The First Ten Years (2017)
Come All Ye: The First Ten Years is a curious selection for a mammoth box set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Fairport Convention, the British folk-rock act who changed everything. It’s huge,...
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David Bowie – A New Career in a New Town [1977-1982] (2017)
Following 2015’s Five Years and last year’s Who Can I Be Now?, Parlophone release A New Career in a New Town [1977-1982] an 11CD David Bowie box set that includes remastered versions of arguably his...
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D.A.F. – Das Ist D.A.F. (2017)
As the legendary duo of Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl approach their 40th anniversary of formation, Grönland present the exhaustive, definitive Das ist DAF retrospective, including brand spanking new...
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Pere Ubu – Drive, He Said 1994-2002 (2017)
For the last few years, Fire Records have taken on the task of revisiting Pere Ubu’s impressive back catalogue in a way that avoids simply presenting handfuls of career highlights, outside of their...
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VA – Manchester North of England: A Story of Independent Music, Greater...
…Such an important city in musical terms has been compiled many times before, but never as comprehensively as this. This compilation runs from the spark of punk fury ignited by the legendary Sex...
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Tim Buckley – The Complete Album Collection (2017)
Rhino brings together the music Tim Buckley recorded during that period with a new boxed set which includes all six of his studio albums, as well as a posthumous compilation of his music recorded...
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The Residents – 80 Aching Orphans: 45 Years of the Residents Hardback Book...
Extended, 4CD anthology set chronicling the career of the legendary San Francisco experimentalistsand curated with the band themselves, from the debut 1972 single to the band’s most recent album, The...
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Malcolm Neon – 1980-1985 (2017)
V-O-D knocks us sideways with their first Welsh-language collection courtesy of Cardiganshire’s Malcolm Neon, who set-up and ran the very first DIY underground tape label in Wales, Casetiau Neon,...
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Hüsker Dü – Savage Young Dü (2017)
It’s tough to think of a rock band as storied and ferocious as Hüsker Dü that has been as poorly served by its recording history. The majority of the ’80s punk-noise-hardcore trio’s work — featuring...
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Frank Zappa – Halloween 77: Live at Palladium, New York City, NY (2017)
If you ever wanted to look in the mirror and see the famously mustachioed visage of Frank Zappa staring right back at you, has Zappa Records got a box set for you! Halloween 77 celebrates the 40th...
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The Jam – 1977 [40th Anniversary] (2017)
In May 1977, a young three-piece rock group from Woking in Surrey appeared on Top Of The Pops with an explosive single called In The City. The song fizzed with the energy and sense of purpose and is...
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Grand Funk Railroad – Trunk of Funk: Vol.1 & Vol.2 (2017)
One of the 1970s’ most successful hard rock bands in spite of critical pans and somewhat reluctant radio airplay (at first), Grand Funk Railroad built a devoted fan base with constant touring, a loud,...
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Rex Smith – Rock and Roll Dream 1976-1983 (2017)
Rex Smith, younger brother of Starz vocalist Michael Lee Smith, may be better known to his Stateside fans for his roles on stage and screen; playing motorcycle police officer Jesse Mach in the 1985 TV...
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The Who – Maximum As & Bs: The Complete Singles (2017)
Over the past two years, The Who have compiled their complete singles discography into a four-volume series of vinyl box sets, with each volume dedicated to one particular label and period: Brunswick,...
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Merzbow – Pornoise 1 Kg (1987, Remastered 2017)
Pornoise/1 kg is a box set album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. Additional material from the sessions was released as Pornoise/Extra. It was partially included in the Merzbox in 2000. The...
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Thomas Brinkmann – Retrospektiv (2017)
Alongside Mike Ink, the Basic Channel collective and Pole, Thomas Brinkmann is one of the leaders in the ongoing German-born study of isolationist dub-inspired techno. Though he’s been famed for...
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Deep Purple – A Fire in the Sky [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
There has been no shortage of Deep Purple compilations over the years, but unlike some of the British hard rock legends’ contemporaries (Sabbath, Zeppelin, etc.), they’ve managed a fairly consistent...
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VA – Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration of Stax (2017)
…the Stax Records 60th anniversary celebration continue with a new set jointly produced by Concord Bicycle Music and Rhino. Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration of Stax is a 60-song, 3-CD journey through...
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Bruford – Seems Like a Lifetime Ago 1977-1980 (2017)
With the plethora of box sets being issued these days with new masters and, perhaps even more importantly, new mixes of classic recordings, it was inevitable that the small but significant discography...
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VA – Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica 1974-1984 (2017)
A little over a year after Cherry Red released Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975- 1984, the label cast their net farther for another engrossing four-disc set of challenging,...
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