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Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – See the Fire: Albums, Singles and BBC Recordings...
A band that mixed the stark, stern pulse of Joy Division with a Stranglers-styled gut punch, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry’s discography has experienced an embarrassment of riches since about 2002, with one...
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Brinsley Schwarz – Original Album Series (2015)
Pub rock, the English roots rock movement of the early ’70s, would never have earned a cult following if it wasn’t for Brinsley Schwarz. Initially, Brinsley Schwarz was a rambling, neo-psychedelic...
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Miles Davis – At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (2015)
The fourth volume in the ongoing Miles Davis live Bootleg Series, 2015’s Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975 is a four-disc anthology that brings together all of the legendary trumpeter’s live recordings...
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Laraaji – All in One Peace (2015)
Experimental new age king Laraaji recently got spiritual with a show at Vancouver’s Planetarium, but those who missed out on that performance will soon be able to space out at home with a new set of...
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Sly & the Family Stone – Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th & 5th, 1968...
When Sly & the Family Stone seized Manhattan’s Fillmore East for a two-night, four-set stand in October 1968, the sonically and socially advanced band was just starting to cook. Earlier in the...
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Guana Batz – Original Albums and Peel Sessions Collection (2014)
Feltham psychobilly crew Guana Batz scored the first of many indie chart hits when they went to No. 19 with debut single, You’re So Fine, on Big Beat in 1983. Its follow-up, The Cave, hit No. 6 the...
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The Exploited – 1980-83 (2015)
From the release of their debut EP Army Life, Scottish second-wave punks The Exploited enjoyed unexpected success on the U.K. indie charts, even rising high enough on the national charts to make an...
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Seals & Crofts – Original Album Series (2015)
One of the most successful soft rock acts of the 1970s, the duo of Jim Seals and Dash Crofts met while playing with singer Dean Beard in 1958. That year, Beard was invited to join the Champs (of...
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Simply: The Hits, Tracks & Remixes (2015)
It comes to something when a compilation which is targeted at, in the words of the label, ‘the casual fan’, is a 190-minute, three-disc extravaganza, full of ‘hits, tracks & remixes’. That is what...
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The Box Tops – The Original Albums 1967-69 (2015)
During their brief lifespan, the Box Tops earned a reputation as one of the best blue-eyed soul groups of the ’60s, even if their recorded legacy wasn’t as large or consistent as, say, the Righteous...
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Fotheringay – Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay (2015)
While Fairport Convention toiled, Fotheringay idled. While the band Sandy Denny left in the wake of 1969’s folk-rock landmark Liege and Lief gigged relentlessly, the group she put together with her...
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Clock DVA – The Future & Radiophonic Dvations: Horology 2 (2015)
Horology 2, covering the years 1977-1978, can viewed as a prequel to the 2012 Horology boxset which scanned Adi Newton and Clock DVA‘s pioneering Sheffield electronics circa 1978-1980. The first LP...
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America – The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1977 (2015)
A practical, no-frills clamshell box set celebrating the soft rock/folk-pop hitmakers’ ’70s heyday, the Warner Bros. Years 1971-1977 rounds up seven complete studio albums and one live LP. Comprised of...
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Vice Versa – Electrogenesis 1978-80 (2014)
Electrogenesis 1978-1980 is a brilliant and comprehensive survey of Sheffield’s proto-ABC group, Vice Versa. They formed in late 1977 / early 1978 by Stephen Singleton, Mark White and David Sydenham as...
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Johnny Mathis – The Complete Global Albums Collection (2014)
Although he’s been associated with Columbia Records for most of his lengthy career, golden-voiced pop legend Johnny Mathis had a four-year stint partnering with Mercury in the mid-’60s. During this...
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Jean-Paul Sartre Experience – I Like Rain: The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre...
The Jean Paul Sartre Experience may not rank in the top-tier of Flying Nun bands in most people’s minds, but this set compiling everything they released may cause some re-evaluation. First emerging in...
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British Sea Power – Sea of Brass Box Set (2015)
A deluxe 4-disc box set includes the Sea of Brass studio album, The Live DVD, live audio CD, and a fourth bonus disc of exclusive related material. British Sea Power have long been the most lateral...
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William Parker – For Those Who Are, Still (2015)
On August 21, AUM Fidelity release For Those Who Are, Still — a 3CD box set of new and previously unissued works from world-renowned composer-bassist William Parker. This set is comprised of four...
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Tony Banks – A Chord Too Far (2015)
The inaugural installment of a Tony Banks reissue program, A Chord Too Far is a career-spanning four-disc box set containing 48 tracks selected by the Genesis keyboardist himself. Banks began venturing...
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Paul Young – Tomb of Memories: The CBS Years 1982-1994 (2015)
Compiled by SDE Editor Paul Sinclair (with input from Young), this new collection spans Paul’s entire tenure with CBS/Sony and is awash with rarities, taking in many new-to-CD cuts, demos, previously...
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