…featuring a new mix of the album by engineers and longtime archival overseers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J. McRae and Kris Frederiksen plus two discs of mostly unreleased studio material (including session takes, B-sides and backing tracks) along with two discs of live cuts sourced from previous archival releases.
…Queen II, again made by the band and returning producer Roy Thomas Baker (with a new co-producer, Robin Geoffrey Cable, in the mix for several tracks), expanded on the progressive metal style of its predecessor, adding sharper focus to guitarist Brian May’s dense, distinctive tone; the rhythm section of bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor and the vocal harmonies of lead singer Freddie Mercury…
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Opening the album emphatically, ‘Flowers in the Water’ is a refreshing return from The Boxer Rebellion. Brimming with optimism and positivity, lyrics such as: ‘Don’t obsess, be an optimist/ The glass half full is bottomless’ feel like an ode to overcoming adversity and living in hope rather than submitting to despair. Their first album in six years, The Second I’m Asleep is “10 songs mapping the emotional landscapes of life – moments of clarity in chaos, letting go of old ghosts and the art of understanding ourselves in a rapidly changing world”, as the band put it themselves in the album’s press release.
…include two live bonus tracks.
Forty years on and the seismic shift that was 
While this is technically a Jon Anderson solo album, it’s actually a collaborative effort, with Anderson working alongside several other musicians who’ve collectively put together the songs on 
Coming from the small-town roots of Leavenworth, Kansas, Melissa Etheridge has become a modern American music icon. Leaving the comforts of home in 1982 to pursue music studies at Berklee College of Music in California in 1982, Etheridge spent several years building her sound before eventually signing on with Island Records in 1986, and making a national breakthrough in 1988 with her self-titled debut and the Grammy-nominated single “Bring Me Some Water.” Bringing an authentic heartland approach to mainstream Rock-n-Roll, Etheridge would continue to find success into the 1990s and truly arrived in the spotlight in 1993 with her pivotal album Yes I Am. With a record that peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200 and featured hits like “I’m the Only One,” “If I Wanted To”…
The twelfth album from Los Angeles metal veterans 
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…includes solo material as well as co-written songs with the Rolling Stones, Faces and Jeff Beck Group with 38 tracks on the CD set including four all-new recordings exclusive to this collection.
Magma’s Cosmic Masterpiece: The Absolute Classic Live Album That Redefined Progressive Music Magma’s mythic 1975 live set, captured in full fire at Paris’ Taverne de l’Olympia, returns to mark its 50th anniversary with a stunning new edition. Presented as an exclusive 2LP pressing on translucent blue vinyl and housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, this release honors one of the most powerful live documents in progressive music history. Widely hailed as one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, 
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As this fourth release from electronic ambient-rock collaborators 
When Iggy Pop sang “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell” on The Stooges’ 1973 swan song Raw Power, he anticipated the anti-romantic punk era nihilism that was to see future Brexit fan John Lydon describe love as “two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squelching noises.”