…newly remastered and include five bonus tracks: rare single edits, alternate versions, and legendary electronic remixes from the archives.
It was pretty hard to guess what Primal Scream would do with a follow-up to their bombastic 2000 release, XTRMNTR. That record broke all kinds of ground for a group that had consistently shifted with popular culture since their Madchester/acid house success of Screamadelica. XTRMNTR offered up a maddening scope of aggressive beats and screaming politics that the group had not previously tackled. Jarring and off-putting at times (albeit a stroke of brilliance), the record is a tad difficult to sit all the way through. Evil Heat seems to attempt to bridge together the two worlds of their past club psychedelia and…
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Between the release of their first album 1965’s Begin Here and the second, and last, 1968’s Odessey and Oracle, the Zombies issued a staggering number of excellent songs. Unlike many of their compatriots in the U.K. like the Beatles and Kinks, the group’s output was regulated to singles and a few songs recorded for the soundtrack of the film Bunny Lake is Missing. It seems the record company lacked the vision to steer the band’s career in the only direction that made sense – the LP market – and kept trying to replicate the success of early hits like “She’s Not There.’ The band themselves did their part by making songs that were easily the equal of anything topping the charts, but their fortunes kept waning until they finally threw in the towel.
At nearly 40 years old Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) remains one of Coil’s trippiest and most ludic sets, beloved for its febrile fusion of field recordings (a drunken brass band in Mexico; a Muay Thai boxing arena) with a malfunctioning Fairlight synth and the pair’s homoerotic, eccentric energies. In the grand scheme of their catalogue ‘Gold…’ marks a line in the sand between their earliest work and the new decade advance of ‘Love’s Secret Domain’, a groundbreaking LP and huge influence on everyone from Æ to NIN, Surgeon and the electronic music at large. In key with a slew of posthumous Coil releases over the past decade, the remastered versions now better backlight the vastness of their sound, revealing ‘Gold…’ among their sexiest and most seductive.
…Remastered from the original master tapes by longtime Sparks engineer Bill Inglot, expanded edition includes the 9 original tracks alongside 17 bonus tracks featuring rare remixes, alternate versions, and previously unreleased demos.
The third and mercifully last of Sparks’ mid-’80s dance pop albums, the frankly disappointing Music That You Can Dance To delivered just two standouts: a remake of Russell Mael’s European “Modesty Blaise” 45 and the epic 1985 single “Change” (replaced on British pressings by “Armies of the Night”). Indeed, “Change” isn’t merely the album’s most provocative number; it ranks among the duo’s finest performances of all time, a shifting soundscape of sonics and moods through which Russell Mael’s ruminations on…
…deluxe edition feature 25 tracks spanning 1 hour and 34 minutes. It appends the original 13-track record with a bonus disc of B-sides, acoustic takes, and early home demos from 1997.
Two years following the tragic demise of Lush, guitarist Emma Anderson formed the dream pop outfit Sing-Sing with vocalist Lisa O’Neill (Locust, Kid Loco) in 1998. The pairing couldn’t have been more magical, for Sing-Sing presented a glowing dynamic. By fall 2002, American indie fans finally got their hands on the duo’s debut album, The Joy of Sing-Sing; it had been previously released in Europe a year earlier, but the stateside release was worth the wait.
The Joy of Sing-Sing showcases Anderson’s signature vocal shimmer. O’Neill is a matchless…
Television’s Marquee Moon reimagines guitar rock in such original, pioneering ways that critics and fans still struggle to describe its essence five decades after its original release. Made after the band cut its teeth for four years amid New York’s thriving arts scene, the 1977 album blends the inimitable interplay of guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd; spontaneous and precise approaches; and winding arrangements that draw as much from classical, jazz, and psychedelia as the punk ethos to which the album is often linked.
Marquee Moon reaches new sonic heights on Mobile Fidelity’s hybrid SACD. Mastered by engineer Rob LoVerde, this numbered-edition reissue of the effort Pitchfork named the third greatest of the entire 1970s plays with excellent…
La-La Land Records, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Universal Music Enterprises present the 55th anniversary remastered and expanded 2-CD re-issue of renowned composer John Barry’s original motion picture score to the seventh James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever.
…For the sixth and last outing with Sean Connery as 007 (who sat out the previous film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), Bond sets out to Las Vegas on the trail of a diamond smuggling ring tied to his longtime enemy, the fiendish SPECTRE mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld (this time played by Charles Grey). Composer John Barry’s as-yet unbroken streak of scores in the series was punctuated by a title song with lyrics by Don Black, featuring vocals from…
…This release serves as a direct alternative to the controversial 2022 reissue, which was completely remixed by producer Chris Lord-Alge. According to the band, while the 2022 edition was a modern re-interpretation, it suffered from incorrect tape speeds. In contrast, the 2026 version is a true remaster sourced directly from the original studio tapes. It is designed to preserve the raw, urgent punk aesthetic and the “barely-contained chaos” of the original mix, while providing cleaner sound clarity across its 14 standard tracks.
A hyper-speed blast of ultra-polemical, left-wing hardcore punk, and bitingly funny sarcasm, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables stands as the Dead Kennedys’ signature statement. As one of the first hardcore albums, it was a galvanizing…
Dave Alvin, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, author, has touched so many forms of American music that it can be daunting to peg one’s favorite part of his career. Even today, with his psychedelic jam band The Third Mind, he is exploring jazz and early ’60s folk music. Yet the pure Americana audience likely gravitates to his mid-’90s period, when he released two straightforward acoustic folk albums and a third that was close to the same. The first, King of California (1994), a mix of covers and originals, shocked many who had long since labeled Alvin a ferocious rocker.
Four years later came Blackjack David, arguably when Alvin really found his vocal and songwriting chops. In 2000, he won a Grammy for traditional folk songs, Public Domain…
Matador Records continue its reissue series documenting key catalog titles by the iconic Texas band, The Butthole Surfers. This latest tranche brings remastered audio for piouhgd and Humpty Dumpty LSD to streaming services with vinyl to follow December 11.
piouhgd (say it “P.O.’ed.”) is the Surfers’ fifth album and was originally released in 1991. It catches the band in a moment of transition – moving from underground freakshow to unlikely “120 Minutes” mainstays. Face-melting guitars abound, as do references to comedian Gary Shandling. A cover of Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” is demented but tuneful.
Originally released in 2002, Humpty Dumpty LSD compiles odds and ends from…
The second chapter in Gong’s legendary Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy, Angel’s Egg takes the story deeper into the surreal, otherworldly universe first introduced on Flying Teapot. Originally released in 1973, the album follows the continuing adventures of Zero the Hero and the Pot Head Pixies, expanding Daevid Allen’s visionary mythology into an even more ambitious world of flying teapots, cosmic transmissions, spiritual awakening, and playful rebellion.
Musically, Angel’s Egg pushes Gong’s unique fusion of psychedelic rock, progressive experimentation, jazz improvisation, and anarchic humour into new territory. With its hypnotic grooves, swirling synthesizers, gliding guitars, saxophone excursions, and eccentric vocal…
Remastered from the original BYG Records tapes and cut for the first time ever at half-speed at the UK’s world-famous Stardelta Studios by Grammy Award–winning mastering engineer Lewis Hopkin, this exclusive RSD 2026 edition features a deluxe gatefold sleeve, archival artwork, and a 16-page booklet exploring the storytelling and mythology of the beloved Radio Gnome Invisible saga. Released under BYG Records – the original label that recorded the album before licensing it to Virgin – this definitive deluxe reissue delivers the best sound quality Flying Teapot has ever had: a true cosmic upgrade for Gong’s mind-bending masterpiece.
Originally unleashed in 1973, Flying Teapot kicked off the eccentric Radio Gnome…
Future modal jazz dub, heard thru a Y2K lens by legendary blowers Pharaoh Sanders & Graham Haynes, and diffused in Bill Laswell’s illbient dub style & pattern. A slept-on, cross-generational ace sure to pique interest FFO Jon Hassell to Talvin Singh, Lászlo Hortobágyi to Material.
Cooked up in NYC’s jazz crucible in 2003 as a duo of Sanders & Haynes – now re-mantled as a Sanders x Laswell session for its first vinyl cut – With a Heartbeat speaks to the rich confluence of deeply rooted, forward-thinking jazz with ambient dub that tilted from the late C.20th into this century. Centred on the human heartbeat, it unfurls at a rested systolic throb in two landscaped-scale works which bookend deeper dives into Indian raga and tabla actions, the latter of which…
Martin Zeichnete is working as a sound editor in the DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) animation department in Dresden but his mind is elsewhere. Like many young East Germans of the time he listens furtively to West German radio at night and becomes infatuated with the ‘Kosmische Musik’ drifting across the divide from his neighbouring country. Martin, a keen runner, hits upon the idea of using the repetitive, motorik beat of this new music as a training aid for athletes. He believes these pulsing, hypnotic rhythms will have a positive mental as well as physical effect if used correctly.
Naively sharing his concept and his love of Western music with one too many colleagues Martin is taken from his studio and driven to East Berlin. Fearing the worst he is quizzed…
Originally released in March 1969, From Genesis To Revelation marked the beginning of an extraordinary journey, the first chapter in the story of a band that would go on to achieve immense success and lasting acclaim. These new editions offer the most comprehensive and revealing presentation of the album to date, revisiting this vital early work with fresh perspective and unprecedented depth.
At the heart of all formats is a powerful new stereo mix by Stephen W Tayler, created with a renewed focus on the band’s performances and with less emphasis on the orchestral elements that shaped the original release. The result is both revelatory and immersive, bringing new clarity and immediacy to the album while preserving…
FM is an absolutely stunning collection of tracks by Freddie McGregor, recorded between 1977 and 1982, originally released as singles on Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith’s High Times label in Jamaica. Freddie McGregor is accompanied on the album by the Soul Syndicate band, one of the most important and defining roots reggae session groups, who worked regularly with many of the major producers in Kingston in the 1970s and ’80s.
What is amazing about this album is that ‘Natural Collie’, the most well-known cut of this set, is simply the first in a line of KILLER tunes as Freddie McGregor and the Soul Syndicate drop stunning original tunes as well as playfully recuts, re-versioning classic cuts and generally have a great time. The music is a startlingly…
In Steve Reich’s music, repetition is a method of survival. A phrase returns carrying the microscopic damage of having been heard, while attention acquires an unfamiliar capacity for desire. Recordings on ECM brings that reciprocal transformation back to vinyl, gathering the three albums ECM released between 1978 and 1982. Revisiting the collection issued on CD in 2016, this three-LP edition, one day shy of the composer’s 90th birthday.
Sourced from the original analogue master tapes, the records reproduce their original sleeves; archival photographs accompany Paul Griffiths’s liner notes. Inside the music, strict procedures open improbable apertures, and counting becomes a form of surrender.
Released in March 1983, Magical Ring is the seventh studio album by Irish folk group Clannad and marks a pivotal moment in the band’s evolution from traditional Celtic folk towards the atmospheric sound that would later define much of their international success. The album blends Irish-language songs, traditional melodies, and contemporary production, creating a rich and evocative listening experience.
Its standout track, the haunting “Theme from Harry’s Game”, became Clannad’s breakthrough hit, reaching No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart and introducing their distinctive sound to a wider audience.
Other notable tracks include “Newgrange”, a fan favourite showcasing the band’s ethereal…