Dire Straits, Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Ezra Furman, Underworld reissues, Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie returns, Billie Nomates and more!

Dire Straits Brothers In Arms

'One of the world’s best-selling albums, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, celebrates its 40th anniversary. Brothers In Arms spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK Albums Chart and is the 8th best-selling album in UK chart history.

5LP - An exquisite 5LP deluxe edition release. The 5LP deluxe box features the full studio album and a previously unreleased full-length live concert from the band’s Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio tour stop in 1985. ' We also have the CD set and LP.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

'This is the limited 4 LP box set, the re-mastered edition of the quartet's 1995 career-defining double album. Originally released October 24, 1995, the album would debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified 9x platinum by the RIAA. It yielded major hits like "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" the band's unlikely first Top 40 hit the exquisite "1979" and epic "Tonight, Tonight" as well as a thoroughly inspired series of videos. Produced by Billy Corgan, Flood and Alan Moulder, the album earnt a Grammy Award, 1996 Best Hard Rock Performance for "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", as well as seven Grammy nominations. Beyond the more obvious hits, though, Mellon Collie is a song cycle of unusual depth and considerable range. It is a collection of stunningly beautiful moments when everything lined up in a moment in time that's still here to be treasured.'

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke Tall Tales are set to release their debut album as a duo via Warp Records. Following Pritchard’s remixes for Radiohead, the pair struck upon an otherworldly synergy with the track ‘Beautiful People’, a centrepiece of Mark’s 2016 solo album Under The Sun. 

Now presenting a whole album, Tall Tales showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines that he had previously unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, evoking Radiohead’s OK Computer-era digital FX while delving into dark, introspective storytelling.'

Double LP or CD to choose from!

20th Anniversary release of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings' Naturally

'2005’s Naturally was a pivotal moment in the history of soul music. It was the first Daptone album tracked at the renowned "House of Soul,” a recording studio handbuilt by Sharon and the rest of the Daptone family in a two story rental in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The album has gone on to sell over 200,000 records, with hit singles “How Long Do I Have to Wait” and “This Land is Your Land” streaming in the hundreds of millions—staggering figures for a wholly independent release.

This 20th Anniversary edition is completely remastered and includes second LP with never before heard instrumental mixes of all tracks.'

In the words of Ezra Furman

'Goodbye Small Head is the name of this record. Twelve songs, twelve variations on the experience of completely losing control, whether by weakness, illness, mysticism, BDSM, drugs, heartbreak or just living in a sick society with one’s eyes open...GSH also reflects a band reaching a new peak of our powers. If I were a music journalist, I would call this an orchestral emo prog-rock record sprinkled with samples. Thank goodness I’m not a music journalist! I think of this music as cinematic and intense. A friend of mine said it sounded like “the coolest movie soundtrack of 1997,” and I’m quite pleased with that description. '

Underworld's fantastic back catalogue has been reissued as deluxe half speed master double vinyls.

'The iconic installment of the MTV Unplugged series and the greatest-selling live album of all time, 18x Grammy Award-winner Eric Clapton originally recorded his unforgettable performance of ERIC CLAPTON UNPLUGGED in 1992 at Bray Studios in Windsor, England. Hear this ALL-NEW extended, remixed, and remastered edition of ‘ERIC CLAPTON UNPLUGGED...OVER 30 YEARS LATER’ with never-before-heard interviews of Clapton discussing the inspiration behind the songs just before he took the stage, seamlessly integrated with the performance audio. This physical release also includes tracks not included in the original MTV'

We have a New LP of a live LP from The Beatles Live From Adelaide in 1964.

A band who not only defined the Nu-Metal scene of the 00s but are now leading the charge in the 2020s' Nu-Metal resurgence, Papa Roach's ninth studio album from 2017 Crooked Teeth has been reissued. It was a flag in the soil of this immortality, marking an exploration between their Nu-Metal roots and the new era of Modern Rock. 

Michael Hurley is one of the great American songwriters with his own unique way of seeing the world. This week we see 2 new LPs of rare and unreleased recordings from throughout his career. 

Metalhorse is Billy Nomates’ third studio release, following 2023’s critically acclaimed CACTI and her self-titled 2020 debut. A concept album revolving around the image of a dilapidated funfair, representing the tumultuousness of life—risk and pleasure, danger and exhilaration.

Building on Snow Patrol’s 8th studio album The Forest Is The Path, the band headed back into the studio with producer Fraser T Smith in final weeks of 2024. The result was a number of brand new songs that the band didn’t want to sit on any longer than necessary. Led by the anthemic new single But I’ll Keep Trying, the new songs is released on 12” Coke Bottle Clear vinyl as The Forest Is The Path: Onwards To The Endless.

In 2012 Gruff Rhys embarked on a solo 'investigative concert tour' through the heart of America following the route taken by his distant relative John Evans. The resulting album American Interior has been reissued. 

Renowned folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby's new studio album, her first (excluding seasonal titles) in six years is now out on vinyl.

This release, previously featured in the TG Berlin box set and available on vinyl for the first time, captures Throbbing Gristle's unforgettable New Year’s Eve performance, part of a specially curated series of live events held at the Volksbühne, Berlin in 2005 and 2006. 

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Author Mike Murphy has written Witham 'n' Blues which explores the 'music, history and other worldly quirks' of Lincolnshire. Off The Beaten Tracks gets a little mention in the chapter entitled, 'Louth, The Laurel Canyon of Lincs'!

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