Side A 1. Dont Stand So Close to Me / 2. Driven to Tears / 3. When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of Whats Still Around / 4. Canary in a Coalmine / 5. Voices Inside My Head / 6. Bombs Away Side B 1. De Do Do Do, De Da […]
CD – 50th Anniversary Edition with bonus tracks featuring an unreleased demo made by Oldfield five years ago and intended at the time to herald a new 50th anniversary version of the work. Mike Oldfield’s seminal 1973 debut Tubular Bells gets a reissue on May 26, to mark its 50th anniversary. The new editions feature […]
180 Gram Vinyl with Download. Bristols trip-hop pioneers crystallise their melancholic splendour on Protection. Its a simmering shadow of a soundtrack to urban life, where dub, hip-hop, electronica and soul mesh into something quite singular. Imagine the chilling threnody of scene-mates Portishead allied with rough dancehall, club and South Bronx bass-beats, set ablaze by Mushroom, […]
In February 1964, Eric Dolphy assembled a formidable quintet of modern jazz visionaries with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Richard Davis on bass, and Tony Williams on drums, and headed into Rudy Van Gelders studio to record what would stand as his masterwork: Out to Lunch!. A genius artist of startling originality, […]
The classic 1962 album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane introduces the rising jazz saxophone innovator performing with the long-established piano institution Duke Ellington. “Perhaps looking to renew his inspiration or maybe simply wanting to broaden his horizons, Duke Ellington began a string of collaborations in the second half of his career — whereas before that, his own band was […]
“Definitive” best-of compilation from new wave superstars responsible for one of the most enduring legacies of the punk era. Features all of their US and UK hits including Denis, Call Me, Hanging On The Telephone, the number ones Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl and Atomic and their version of the reggae standard The Tide Is […]
Songwriter and performer Sam Cooke (1931-1964) was one of the most popular and influential black singers to emerge in the late 50s. Much like his contemporary Ray Charles, Cooke successfully synthesized a blend of gospel music and secular themes that provided the early foundation of soul music. Cookes pure, clear vocals were widely imitated, and […]
16 PAGE BOOKLET Following the recent announcement of Kraftwerk’s 3-D The Catalogue (Dolby Atmos Surround Mix) and 5 German language studio albums (Trans Europa Express, Die Mensch-Maschine, Computerwelt, Techno Pop and The Mix) being made available to stream for the very first time, Parlophone Records have confirmed that the 2009 UK & German vinyl 12345678 […]
Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn share a common collaborative ethos, a genuine sense of musical curiosity, and a cosmopolitan eagerness to escape the conventions of genre. That shared vision first brought them together on 2022’s Pigments—icy and warm, stripped-down and grand, familiar and otherworldly and now it has reunited them for Quiet in a World […]
Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as […]
