Classic reissues from January–June 2024

 

Released 9 February 2024

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  • British Sea Power  Do You Like Rock Music? (15th Anniversary)  2-CD £13.99 / Limited edition 2-LP £38.99
• British Sea Power’s 2008 classic Do You Like Rock Music? receives a 15th-anniversary reissue, expanded with radio sessions and B-sides plus extensive new sleeve notes by Roy Wilkinson. This kaleidoscopic record encapsulates Sea Power’s true heart. “Easy, easy”: only Sea Power could turn a football chant into art … with ease. From this bounding refrain of ‘No Lucifer’ via the serenity of ‘Waving Flags’, the balm-like ‘No Need To Cry’ and the joyous ‘Trip Out’, Do You Like Rock Music? reflects the band’s ability to find glacial beauty in the commonplace, making soul-stirring epiphanies an everyday occurrence.
• Note: The limited-edition LP is housed in a gatefold glow-in-the-dark sleeve with orange vinyl and a picture disc.

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  • Sonic Youth  Walls Have Ears  CD £14.99 / Cassette £19.99 / 2-LP £39.99 / Independent shops exclusive 2-LP £45.99
• Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in Sonic Youth’s story, Walls Have Earsappeared as a 2-LP set in 1986 without the band’s approval and disappeared soon afterwards, and is now finally being issued for the first time officially under the band’s auspices. Walls Have Ears is not a mere live album but an artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape segues, darkness, humour and audio verité. The ’85 shows were the second time the band appeared on UK soil, Brits now getting juiced to the mythos of the emerging guitar-slinging American independent underground; an art/punk band from NYC sporting casual attitudes and Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Prince T-shirts made some good press copy on top of their bludgeoning on-stage appearances.
• Note: The LP is initially available on silver/grey vinyl, exclusive to independent shops.

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  • Franz Ferdinand  Franz Ferdinand (20th Anniversary)  Limited Edition LP £28.99
• One of the great albums of 2004, Franz Ferdinand’s incredible eponymous debut kick-started the British fight-back against the likes of The Strokes and The White Stripes, and the album became world-conquering. The band was at the vanguard of the art-wave scene and possessed a fierce determination to change the face of modern music. This is edgy, sexy, danceable art-pop for the masses. The album now gets a one-off pressing on orange vinyl with black swirl for its 20th anniversary.

 

 

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Released 2 February 2024

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  • UFO  Lights Out  2-CD £17.99 / 3-LP £36.99
• Lights Out was released in May 1977 and became UFO’s biggest album to date, confirming Michael Schenker’s status as the most exciting guitarist in heavy rock. The band was also rejuvenated with personnel changes as keyboardist Paul Raymond replaced Danny Peyronel and Leo Lyons – who had produced the band’s previous three albums – was replaced by Ron Nevison, whose work with Led Zeppelin had impressed, signalling the first in a stellar run of collaborations. An album rich in quality, title track ‘Lights Out’ offers an urgent portrayal of a dystopian London, dripping with “batons charging … the smell of anarchy”. The song was inspired by the same thing that led Joe Strummer to write ‘White Riot’ for The Clash: the Notting Hill riots of August 1976. Closing out the record is what Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris has called his favourite song of all time, ‘Love to Love’, arguably the album’s crowning achievement.

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  • The Who  Quadrophenia  2-LP £54.99
• Announced on the 50th anniversary of the album’s original release date, Quadrophenia is now available on 180-gram black double vinyl from audio masters produced by Jon Astley at Close to the Edge and half-speed vinyl masters cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, packaged in its original gatefold sleeve with a 44-page booklet, obi and certificate of authenticity. Quadrophenia was the sixth studio album by The Who, released in October 1973. The band’s third rock opera, often regarded by many as The Who’s best album, features songs ‘The Real Me’, ‘5.15’ and the epic ‘Love Reign O’er Me’. Delve into the complex story of Jimmy Cooper, a Mod coming to terms with life head on.

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  • Robert Forster  Warm Nights  CD £14.99 / LP + 7" £36.99
• Originally released in 1996, Warm Nights repositioned Robert Forster as one of the great songwriters of the post-punk era. Robert recalls that producer Edwyn Collins “got the [intended] sound of the album completely: a dry low-end groove pitched somewhere between Creedence Clearwater Revival and Willie Mitchell’s early ’70s Hi Records work.” Towards the end of the sessions some complications arose – and it’s these complications that Robert has seized the chance to remedy for this new release of the album. “It was Edwyn’s idea,” explains Robert, “to bring in a three-piece brass section – it fitted some of the songs beautifully, but it was in the mixing of the brass and the effect it had on the running order that things got complicated, [resulting in] two changes to the album that have been bugging me for 25 years.” This ‘director’s cut’ re-issue features revised tracklisting and previously unreleased material.

 

 

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