Arcade Fire, George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Alison Krauss, PinkPantheress, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre OST, Pre-order Bruce Springsteen, The Cure, Pulp and Haim

Posted by Lee Conybeare on May 8, 2025

Welcome to this week's shop news. We have had lots of great new releases arrive in store since Record Store Day to tell you about, so here's a little taster.

Pop along Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am to 5.30pm and find out more...

Arcade Fire's new album Pink Elephant is composed of 10 new tracks and clocking in at 42 minutes, Pink Elephant is produced by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne and Daniel Lanois.

'When experienced in its entirety, Pink Elephant invites the listener on a sonic odyssey – a quest for life – that exists within the perception of the individual, a meditation on both darkness and light, the beauty within. The layers of this condensed epic unfold to reveal new dimensions with each successive listen.'

Various formats available including limited vinyl

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary, George Harrison’s, All Things Must Pass, there's a suite of new Harrison releases highlighted by a stunning new mix of the classic album by Grammy Award-winning mixer/engineer Paul Hicks, overseen by executive producer Dhani Harrison. Check them all out in store.

Pink Floyd have just released Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII

The groundbreaking 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben. Digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm footage, with enhanced audio newly mixed by Steven Wilson. Set in the hauntingly beautiful ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, this unique film captures Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert with additional rare behind-the-scenes footage of the band beginning work on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios. The accompanying album release sees the performance presented on vinyl for the first time.

The 2025 remix by Steven Wilson is newly available on 2xCD, 2xLP, Bluray and DVD in store and online.

Alison Krauss and Union Station amake their long-awaited return with Arcadia – their first LP since the 2011 masterpiece Paper Airplane—a critically lauded, multiple Grammy Award winning LP that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass, and Folk Album charts.

The band Unknown Mortal Orchestra, a psych rock band hailing from Auckland, NZ and now based in Oregon, sometimes enjoys making purely instrumental music. In addition to the vocal-based records they’re more well-known for, they’ve also begun to make an instrumental series called the IC where they spend time in a chosen city and improvise and collaborate on non-vocal music. Recently the band spent time in Colombia to make music and initiate their new keyboard player Christian Li. The resulting sessions have become IC-02 Bogota

Written and produced by PinkPantheress, Fancy That marks a new chapter for PinkPantheress as she embraces a new level of intimacy that seamlessly blends the music she grew up on with the musician’s earworm production.

As PinkPantheress steps into her fun and kitsch-y era, one that is rooted in Britsh culture, the 9-track project showcases her signature vocals and genre-blurring production, featuring previously teased ‘Illegal’ alongside the recently released single ‘Tonight’, which offers a glimpse into the unapologetic soundscape she has crafted.

Vinyl version and CD version with zine

'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American Independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. Over the 50 years since its release, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has become widely regarded as one of the best and most influential horror films ever made. The film's original score by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell is an experimental exercise in music composing and performance that utilizes non-traditional instruments such as suspended cymbals, aluminium saucepans, a children's toy percussion set, various wildlife calls, whistles, shakers, and more. The result is one of the earliest examples of industrial music and has since become known as the holy grail of film scores due to its status of being either lost or destroyed.'

Blood red/black Double Vinyl available now

Oceanside Countryside is the latest of Neil Young's great “lost” albums to be released as part of his Analog Original Series. The album was recorded from May to December 1977, preceding the release of Comes A Time in 1978. The two albums share the same country/folk sound, and three songs (“Goin’ Back”, “Human Highway” and “Field of Opportunity”) appear on both albums.

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Pre-Order Now!

There's lots of forthcoming releases to get excited about from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, The Cure, Pulp and Haim. Pre-order your copies online now.

Bruce Springsteen's forthcoming release Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums is a curated collection of 20 previously unreleased songs from Springsteen's Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set. These recordings illuminate key chapters in Springsteen's storied career, offering fans unprecedented insight into his creative process.

Out 27th June, pre-order vinyl and CD now

Also out 27th June and available to pre-order from Springsteen is Tracks II: The Lost Albums. This is the The long rumoured 7-CD and 9-LP box set Bruce Springsteen has alluded to over the last several years. Seven unheard Bruce Springsteen records made between 1983–2018. Featuring 82 previously unreleased songs.

Haim's new 15-track album, I quit, was written primarily by Haim and Rostam Batmanglij, with production by Batmanglij and Danielle Haim. The album radiates the raw energy of seasoned performers whose deep reverence for classic rock shapes songs that are built for live performance.

Pre order double blue LP, standard 2LP or CD versions now - released on 20th June

The Cure are releasing Mixes of a Lost World on 13th June

Conceived and compiled by Robert Smith, new remix collection from 2024 album Songs Of A Lost World, featuring remixes from Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, and more.

3LP, 3CD and 2CD versions available to pre-order now.

ALL CURE RECORD ROYALTIES FROM ‘MIXES OF A LOST WORLD’ WILL BENEFIT WAR CHILD. At least £1 per physical product sold and £1 per download will be donated.

Pulp are releasing new album More 6th June

WORDS FROM JARVIS ON MORE

“This is the first Pulp album since We Love Life in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for almost 24 years.

How did that happen?

Well: when we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called “Hymn of the North” during soundchecks and eventually played it at the end of our second night at Sheffield Arena. This seemed to open the floodgates: we came up with the rest of the songs on this album during the first half of 2024. A couple are revivals of ideas from last century. The music for one song was written by Richard Hawley. The music for another was written by Jason Buckle. The Eno family sing backing vocals on a song. There are string arrangements written by Richard Jones and played by the Elysian Collective.

The album was recorded over 3 weeks by James Ford in Walthamstow, London, starting on November 18th, 2024. This is the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record. It was obviously ready to happen.

These are the facts.

We hope you enjoy the music. It was written and performed by four human beings from the North of England, aided and abetted by five other human beings from various locations in the British Isles. No A.I. was involved during the process.

This album is dedicated to Steve Mackey.

This is the best that we can do.

Thanks for listening.”

Pre order now, choose from green vinyl, standard vinyl, CD and cassette versions.

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