CD – Standard Edition Single CD. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) return with their 14th studio album Bauhaus Staircase, over six years after the triumph of their Top 4-charting record The Punishment of Luxury.The album was born from the impetus to kickstart new explorations during lockdown when as Andy McCluskey admits: “I rediscovered the […]
LP – Black Vinyl.Released in 1969, Clouds debut The Clouds Scrapbook showcases the band’s distinctive organ-driven sound, which was a precursor to the styles of later prog-rock icons like Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes.Billy Ritchie, the band’s organist, was particularly influential, being one of the first to take a prominent, standing role as a […]
LP – Limited Edition Highlighter Yellow Vinyl (2025 Repress). For Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, color theory is a distillation of hard-won catharsis.The album confronts the ongoing mental health and familial trials that have plagued the 22-year-old artist since pre-pubescence, presenting listeners with an uncompromisingly honest self-portrait, and reminding us exactly why her critically-acclaimed debut, […]
In 1974, Cluster entered the sugar era. This doesn’t mean that they had finally arrived in their promised land, but they had simply moved from Berlin to the country, to a small place called Forst on the river Weser. Many a thing had changed for band members Moebius and Roedelius since Cluster II: They had […]
Every episode from both seasons of the US sci-fi anthology series that ran from 1963-1965 featuring monsters and aliens while also exploring the nature of humanity. Actors including Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Robert Duvall, David McCallum, Martin Landau and Cliff Robertson star in various episodes. Season 1 episodes are: The Galaxy Being, The Hundred Days […]
A self-described chronically-sincere farm girl, Emily Hines grew up on a farm in rural Ohio before moving to Nashville where she played in other songwriters’ projects before recording her own songs on a 4-track cassette recorder. Hines worked with producer Henry Park.Together they drew inspiration from acts like Duster, Laura Marling, and Karen Dalton to […]
LP – This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. Lee Morgan’s prodigious creative output in the years following the smash success of his comeback album The Sidewinder was staggering by any measure, whether quality or quantity.In fact, […]
As part of Ace 50 BGP has hooked up with our old friends at Concord Music to reissue one of the most important albums in our story. In 1987 as the dance jazz scene morphed into acid jazz Billy Hawks ‘Oh Baby (I Believe I’m Losing You)’ was filling the dance floors where either Gilles […]
What would you do if you knew the world was ending in five months? This profound question lies at the heart of Arjen Lucassen’s latest creation, ‘Songs No One Will Hear’. A sonic trip that follows humanity’s final days as a catastrophic asteroid barrel toward Earth, the album blends dark humour, raw emotion, and the […]
On 12 May 2024, Jean-Michel Jarre and special guest Sir Brian May electrified the Bratislava skies with ‘Bridge from the Future, ’the opening concert of the seventh edition of the Startmus Festival. The live performance of 22 tracks took place against the breathtaking backdrop of the SNP Bridge (UFO Bridge). During the afternoon, as the audience were congregating around […]
