Bob Marley & The Wailers – The Complete Island Recordings (2020)
UMC/Island issue The Complete Island Recordings, a new 11CD Bob Marley box set that features all nine Bob Marley & The Wailers studio albums recorded for Island Records. This CD box includes all...
View ArticleCarla Thomas – Let Me Be Good to You: The Atlantic & Stax Recordings...
SoulMusic Records is proud to present a first-of-its-kind complete collection of all of the Atlantic and Stax recordings by Carla Thomas, released between 1960-1968. With a total of 94 tracks, “Let Me...
View ArticleRobbie Basho – Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes (2020)
When director Liam Barker released his obsessively wonderful film Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho in 2015, he artfully revealed the musician’s mysterious, heartbreaking legend. He was...
View ArticleVA – Crawling Up a Hill: A Journey Through the British Blues Boom 1966-71 (2020)
Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint is a reissue label that tends to devote itself to issuing high-quality single-artist career anthologies, rare albums, and various overviews of segments in British...
View ArticleVA – Home Is Where the Art Is: 15 Years of Reveal Records 2006-2021 (2020)
…Home Is Where the Art Is is a mouth-watering journey through the first fifteen years of a label that has really struck artistic gold with many of its acts. The amazing thing when soaking up this...
View ArticleGene – The Albums (2020)
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album Olympian, Edsel Records presents a deluxe 9CD box set of the much loved and respected Gene. The box set features all four studio albums;...
View ArticleMansun – Closed for Business (2020)
The 24CD collection features remastered versions of all 4 studio albums (‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’, ‘Six’, ‘Little Kix’, and ‘Kleptomania’); 5 discs of single edits, EP tracks and B-sides; 10 CDs of...
View ArticleVA – Right Back Where We Started From: Female Pop & Soul in 70s Britain (2020)
Maxine Nightingale had an unexpected international smash with 1975’s “Right Back Where We Started From,” a joyous hybrid of Northern soul and Elton John pop razzle-dazzle. It wasn’t the only single of...
View ArticleGraham Bonnet – Solo Albums 1974-1992 (2020)
Cherry Red’s Hear No Evil (HNE) imprint has long been a home for archival releases from singer Graham Bonnet of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Alcatrazz, and The Michael Schenker Group. Now, HNE has...
View ArticleThe Divine Comedy – Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time (2020)
…Nothing if not comprehensive, this celebration of Neil Hannon’s 30 year career as The Divine Comedy spans 24 discs and over 22 hours, and almost half of its 375 tracks have never previously been...
View ArticleEnnio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai – Dimensioni Sonore: musiche per l’immagine e...
There’s no question 2020 has been a horrible year, and an unfortunate cherry on top was the passing of Ennio Morricone. After decades in music and hundreds upon hundreds of releases, the Italian...
View ArticleAshtray Navigations – Greatest Imaginary Hits (2020)
The Dustbin Psychedelia Hall of Fame is positively littered with compromised corpses. Some maybe went a little too rock/pop; others began to consider themselves Serious Composers. Others just got...
View ArticleJulia Fordham – Lock & Key (2020)
Julia Fordham issue Lock & Key, a special six-CD box set that collects some of her more recent studio albums (with extra tracks) and offers her new record Cutting Room Floor. This collection...
View ArticleShoes – Elektrafied: The Elektra Albums 1979-1982 (2020)
The Illinois power pop combo Shoes made a big splash with the Black Vinyl album in 1977. The homemade and self-released collection of snappy pop tunes powered by crunchy chords and huge hooks delighted...
View ArticleDr. Hook – Gold (2020)
Formed in New Jersey in 1968, Dr. Hook were an American rock band who found international success and became a household name throughout the 70’s and 80’s. Led by Dennis Locorriere and Ray Sawyer, the...
View ArticleBack Street Crawler – Atlantic Years 1975-1976 (2020)
4CD set comprising two studio albums and two live sets by the ill-fated Paul Kossoff’s post-Free hard rock band Back Street Crawler, including his very last on stage performance on 3rd March 1976 at...
View ArticleVA – Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound of British and Irish Folk 1966-75...
Like Elfland’s shimmering tide-like border in Lord Dunsany’s fantasy classic, a mystic world of sacrificial grain gods, green men, fertility rites, and sanctuary stones exists just beneath the surface...
View ArticleBuzzcocks – Late for the Train: Live and in Session 1989-2016 (2021)
When Buzzcocks got back together in 1989, it came at the very beginning of “reformation culture”, to coin a phrase. They initially reconvened in the classic, hit-making line-up of Shelley, Diggle,...
View ArticleEdgar Jones – The Way It Is: 25 Years of Solo Adventures (2021)
There are many luckless bands, artists and albums that have the label ‘should have been bigger’ wrapped around their product. The Action, Candy Opera, Forever Amber, Bradford, the endless list could on...
View ArticleFraternity – Seasons of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974 (2021)
Founded in Australia, rock band Fraternity will forever be associated with their lead singer, Bon Scott, who would later join AC/DC and enjoy worldwide fame. However, Scott’s tenure with Fraternity has...
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