Ultravox’s 1984 best-of compilation The Collection sold over 2 million copies worldwide after its release and went triple platinum in the UK. It includes the band’s first 14 singles released between 1980 and 1984. The best-known tracks include the cult song “Vienna”, the anti-nuclear war anthem “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes”, the new wave classic “All Stood Still” as well as “Hymn”, “The Voice” and “Reap The Wild Wind”.
Now “The Collection” is being re-released remastered in various formats with different bonus material. This newly remastered compilation has been expanded into a 4CD/2Blu-ray Deluxe Edition. The set includes a second volume of “The Collection” with a further 14 singles from 1986 to 2024, alternative and unreleased versions.
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IPY25 unites three trailblazers of experimental music – Ikue Mori (DNA, Downtown NYC scene), Phew (Aunt Sally), and YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, Saicobab) – for their first trio project.
Ikue Mori has been a key member of the downtown music scene since moving to New York from Tokyo in 1977. She began her career playing drums for the seminal “no wave” group DNA, which she formed with guitarist Arto Lindsay and keyboardist Tim Wright.
Phew has explored rock, electronic, and avant-garde sounds on her own terms since the 1970s. After leaving the pioneering Japanese punk band Aunt Sally, she worked with a who’s-who of other innovative artists from around the globe to express the different sides of her artistry.
Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s White Souls in Black Suits – originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records – now returns in a newly remastered edition, reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era.
Led by the visionary Adi Newton, Clock DVA remains one of the most enigmatic and shape-shifting acts to emerge from Sheffield. Their catalog spans mutant funk, noir jazz, and coldwave electronics, with White Souls in Black Suits, paired with the additionals tracks, offering an insight into the early morphology of their sound. The album features a lineup including Newton (voice, synth, clarinet, bowed electric guitar,…
HTRK have been making their gloomy, sensual brand of music, at the intersection of electronic pop and noise rock, for 22 years.
To mark the milestone comes String of Hearts, a collection of covers and remixes featuring an all-star cast of friends and collaborators, from next-gen underground favourites like Coby Sey to fellow old-school experimentalists Liars. This brilliant, genre-agnostic record allows you to trace the breadth of the Melbourne band’s shapeshifting sound, echoes of which can now be found all over underground and commercial music, without leaning too hard on nostalgia.
The record spans HTRK’s early hits right up to their most recent album Rhinestones, a period in which they’ve shifted from a darker,…
Celebrating 40 Years of one of Britain’s most iconic and era-defining bands, The Factory Singles is the definitive tribute to a group that reshaped the sound of UK music.
“This fully remastered collection brings together their landmark singles from 1985–1992, capturing the raw energy, innovation, and fearless creativity that made them a cornerstone of the Factory Records and Madchester legacy.
From underground club anthems to crossover hits, every track showcases their unique fusion of attitude, electronic experimentation, and dancefloor-ready grooves. These singles not only defined an era but also laid the foundations for the alternative dance and indie scenes that followed.
Adding even more depth, this edition also…
On her fourth album, Unclouded, Melody’s Echo Chamber embarks on a life-affirming new chapter with an album that celebrates the present moment, whatever state we find ourselves in. There’s a continuity that runs through Melody’s Echo Chamber’s brand of psychedelic pop going back to 2012’s self-titled debut but now comes a perfectly executed shaking up of personnel.
Unclouded’s impressive cast includes Swedish maestro Sven Wunder, who co-produced the record and contributed to the writing, bringing his unique sonic palette to the richly-textured canvas; Josefin Runsteen on strings, who brings her avant-garde smarts to the tableau; Dina Ögon’s Daniel Ögen on guitar and Love Orsan on bass who Melody describes as “masters of…
ira glass know that novelty is a dead end. “The half-life of a musical trend is getting shorter and shorter,” said drummer Landon Kerouac in a recent interview. “There aren’t real scenes, just friend groups,” added Lise Ivanova, ira glass’ frontwoman. The Chicago post-hardcore band holds fast to these truths, uninterested in snobbishness or modish songwriting; they’re technically a four-piece, but they have a rotating cast of collaborators that they bring on stage and in the studio to assist in their expansive noise rock.
joy is no knocking nation, their blistering second EP, clarifies that their goal isn’t subversion or invention, but collective study as they blaze through post-hardcore’s past half century in a dense 19 minutes.
Salt Collective is a power pop band with a deep rolodex. This second full-length from the Paris-based trio features contributions from many of melodic rock’s best-known artists, including 1980s college rock icons Chris Stamey (who also produced), Mitch Easter (whose North Carolina studio birthed this album) and Let’s Active’s Lynn Blakely who sings lead or back-up on nearly half the tracks. Other bold-faced contributors include Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws, Lemonjelly’s Jason Falkner, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Pat Sansone, Aimee Mann, and Andy Partridge.
The main songwriter, Stéphane Schück seems to be living the dream, building out his own songs with musicians he’s admired for decades. One previous Salt Collective album, Life, was…
…a fully remastered digital version. The digital release include the bonus track “St. Charlene,” a tune from the ‘Rabbit Songs’ era that previously was found only on a hard-to-find EP.
Quoted as wanting to make a record “we could love the rest of our lives,” Hem spent a year on this collection. The idea was to combine their love of traditional American music with the lushness of the occasional 18-piece orchestra, a good choice considering the sweet, crystalline quality of the vocal work by lead singer Sally Ellyson. Ellyson had never sung professionally before, but answered an ad in The Village Voice with a cassette of lullabies she’d recorded for a friend’s child, and the set begins with a snippet of what was on that tape — a few lines unaccompanied…
Belarus is not a place necessarily known for its transparency, which is why Krope feels like such an unexpected and extraordinary psychogeographic ramble around a country largely estranged from the rest of Europe.
Anton Anishchanka, field recordist and composer, was pleasantly surprised when he went along to the Institute of Art History, Ethnography and Folklore in Minsk around the time of the pandemic and found he was able to access an archive of field recordings from roughly 1960 to 2005. Thanks to the ethnographer and researcher Iryna Vasilyeva, who works at the institute, Anishchanka managed to retrieve Belarusian folklore songs from various regions, forming the basis of this strangely betwitching album.
…What can, after all, be said about Masami Akita’s ultra-strident tessellations of sound — where total control masquerades as abject chaos, where extreme volume is a dare to lean in a little closer — that hasn’t already been uttered? Across the last half-century, he has become the metonym of harsh noise while also existing far beyond it, with frequent forays into grindcore bedlam and doom marches, ambient hum and free jazz eruptions. Box sets of 35 and 50 CDs, multiple series of albums that run for years, a collaborative zeal that seems boundless: Merzbow is so prolific that browsing his discography is like autoscrolling an abyss, revealing a catalogue so daunting that many people understandably stand only near its edges. Depending on how you tally them,…
Foetuses can hear sounds in the womb at the 16-week mark, around the time their hearing starts to develop, studies show. Music is believed to help stimulate their developing brains. Research also suggests that pregnant people are more sensitive to music, which figures since hormonal changes are known to trigger heightened senses.
Parenthood has long been fertile ground for artistry, inspiring names like Björk (Medúlla), Madonna (Ray of Light), Logic1000 (Mother) and Oklou (Choke Enough). Fever AM cofounder Mor Elian wrote her debut album during the ninth month of her pregnancy to see what carrying a being inside her would sound like. Solid Space largely came together in one stretch at her Berlin home so it’s no surprise that much…
…features the remastered original stereo mix, along with an extended introduction version of ‘Rubycon’ mixed by Steven Wilson. The set also features the complete concert recorded at The Rainbow in London in October 1974 over 2 CDs and the complete concert at The Royal Albert Hall in April 1975 (which featured Michael Hoening replacing Peter Baumann) also over 2CDs.
The members of Tangerine Dream continued to hone their craft as pioneers of the early days of electronica, and the mid-’70s proved to be a time of prosperity and musical growth for the trio of Chris Franke, early member Peter Baumann, and permanent frontman Edgar Froese. The three of them had been delivering mysterious space records on a regular basis, and their…
Nine years have passed since Paul Jebanasam‘s last album, and mātr is only his third. But as the new album demonstrates, Jebanasam has a different view of time. mātr (Sanskrit for mother and a permutation of matter) places humanity in the context of geologic time and asks questions of scale and responsibility. The cover photograph of hands extended to the sky suggests prayer, although the recipient of said prayer is not revealed: Mother Earth, an unnamed divine source, or a grand void that nonetheless captures the spiritual imagination. The word “custodianship,” appearing in the liner notes, points toward a Judeo-Christian understanding, referencing the first chapter of Genesis, but custodianship implies preservation, a concept far…
…remastered from the original analog tapes by Pete Lyman at Nashville’s Infrasonic Sound, the first time those tapes have been touched in 40 years, and restored and digitized by Dan Johnson at Audio Archiving Services.
In 1983, Golden Shower of Hits caught the Circle Jerks right on the cusp of growing out of — or at least struggling with the limits of — hardcore, but with nowhere special to go. It’s a malaise common to pretty much every hardcore band that lasted for more than a couple of albums, and in its way Golden Shower is just as typical of a particular kind of album as the Jerks’ classic debut Group Sex was. A combination of classic melodic hardcore, more considered rock/metal crossover material and obnoxious comedy covers,…
The album features the film’s original songs by the post-punk band Idles, as well as the movie’s original score composed by Rob Simonsen (Deadpool & Wolverine, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Way Back, It Ends with Us, The Age of Adaline, (500) Days of Summer, Nerve, Foxcatcher) and performed by Idles. The soundtrack will released digitally by Pertoza/Partisan Records. As previously reported, a first song (Rabbit Run) has already been released as a digital single last month.
Aronofsky enlisted Idles to capture the energy of the 1990s New York punk scene that colors Caught Stealing. “I built Caught Stealing to be a roller coaster of fun and wanted to supercharge the film by main lining a punk sensibility,” the director said in a press statement.
After two decades fronting Editors and releasing two albums with Smith & Burrows, Tom Smith is finally stepping into solo territory with There Is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light. Motivated by a desire to reconnect with the raw, acoustic beginnings of his songwriting, Smith set out to create something more intimate and personal, away from the collaborative nature of his band projects.
Enlisting producer Iain Archer, together, they crafted a record built around emotional honesty, acoustic textures, and themes of connection, memory, and resilience. The opening track, ‘Deep Dive’, became the album’s emotional anchor, setting a tone of gentle hope in the face of loneliness.
Live God is the new live album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. It’s a stunning testament to the transcendent Wild God Tour, which wowed audiences across the UK, Europe and North America, and which travels to Australia and New Zealand in 2026.
The tracklist includes performances of songs from the acclaimed 2024 studio album Wild God, as well as mind-blowing versions of catalogue favourites, such as ‘From Her to Eternity’, ‘Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry’ and ‘Into My Arms’.
…Cave described the shows as “an antidote to despair”, with longtime drummer and percussionist Jim Sclavunos agreeing that “this tour seemed distinctly more embracing of a love of life”.
“‘Transcendental’ is too pretentious a word,…