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VA – Optimism / Reject: Punk and Post-Punk Meets D-I-Y Aesthetic (2019)
The punk explosion of 1977 in the U.K. resulted in boatloads of bands playing hard-and-fast music with spiky attitudes and anthemic choruses. While to many people it felt like a blast of freedom, it...
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VA – Cadillac Baby’s Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection (2019)
Cadillac Baby ran a record label but a better way to think of him is as a hustler — somebody who figured out how to make a buck by running nightclubs, store fronts and, eventually, a record label. That...
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Frank Zappa – Halloween ’73 (2019)
Just in time for Halloween, The Zappa Family Trust and UMe will release Halloween ’73, a 4-CD box set featuring over four and a half hours of live material, recorded in Chicago on October 31, 1973....
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Motörhead – 1979 (2019)
Lemmy Kilmister’s initial plan for his first post-Hawkwind project – he was unceremoniously shown the door in 1975 – was to immediately begin operating under the moniker “Bastard”. Potential marketing...
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The Fall – 1982 (2019)
Continuing Cherry Red’s extensive series of reissues and repackages of the Fall‘s back catalog, the label rounded up the group’s 1982 output with this six-disc box set, including two studio albums...
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VA – I’m a Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey Through the British Heavy Psych...
Much like the first volume of what deserves to be a long-running series, I’m a Freak 2 Baby: A Further Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973 is a treasure...
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Grover Washington Jr. – Sacred Kind of Love: The Columbia Recordings (2019)
During the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, there were few jazz musicians as popular and influential as Grover Washington, Jr. The talented reed-man’s skilled saxophone work (he could bring the funk on soprano,...
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Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes – Be for Real: The P.I.R. Recordings...
If you don’t know Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes by now, Cherry Red and SoulMusic Records have just the right collection for you. Be for Real: The PIR Recordings (1972-1975) brings together the four...
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VA – Birth of a Nation: Inevitable Records: An Independent Liverpool...
The Cherry Red label has a long and fascinating history, and it would take entirely too long to trace all of its triumphs, vicissitudes and other twists and turns here. They have been a going concern...
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Underworld – DRIFT Series 1 (2019)
Dogs. The protectors of heaven and hell. Symbols of stature. The links between us on Earth and the netherworld. Weaponised by sloths using them as a symbol for their toxic form of masculinity. Helping...
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Space – The Anthology… (2019)
Space are the British band of the 1990s, who had several UK chart hits and two double platinum albums, all contained in this 94 tracks, 6CD box set. The previously unreleased album ‘Love You More Than...
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David Bowie – Conversation Piece (2019)
This year, Parlophone will not move into the 1990s and issue a fifth ‘eras’ box set in their continuing David Bowie reissue programme, but instead release a five-CD box set called Conversation Piece...
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VA – WXAXRXP Sessions (2019)
The collection includes sessions from Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kelly Moran, LFO, Mount Kimbie, Plaid, Seefeel, Flying Lotus, Bibio and Boards of Canada – who have shared a previously...
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Chet Baker – The Legendary Riverside Albums (2019)
Although admired throughout his career, Chet Baker was never revered in the same manner as mid-century peers like Miles, Ornette and Coltrane. This may be because, unlike the aforementioned musicians,...
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Jim O’Rourke – To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye (2019)
Sonic shapeshifter Jim O’Rourke yields 4 hours of engrossing, kaleidoscopic recordings from the Steamroom circa 2017-2018 in one of his most significant outings for years. Bringing everyone up to date...
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Mother Gong – Robot Woman Trilogy (2019)
Gilli Smyth, co-founder of Gong alongside Daevid Allen, formed Mother Gong with Harry Williamson in 1978 and the Robot Woman trilogy is widely accepted as one of the pinnacles of the band’s career....
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Jimi Hendrix – Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts (2019)
Sony’s Legacy Recordings issue a new live Jimi Hendrix box set. Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts assembles all four historic debut concerts by the legendary guitarist as originally...
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New England – The New England Archives Box: Vol 1 (2019)
The short lived New England originally formed around the Boston area in the late 1970s, featuring John Fannon on guitar/ lead vocals, Jimmy Waldo on keyboards, Hirsh Gardner on drums and Gary Shea on...
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The Police – Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings (2019)
…Over the course of just five albums released between 1978 and 1983, The Police synthesized pop, rock, New Wave, and world music sounds including, most notably, reggae into a style all their own....
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Mick Ronson – Only After Dark: The Complete Mainman Recordings (2019)
A 4-CD set, Only After Dark chronicles his peripatetic solo work during the rest of the seventies after his split with Bowie, with those two official albums joined by B-sides, alternative versions,...
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