Anton Drewery, Julia Jacklin, Pulp, Loudon Wainwright III, Nucleus, Mercury Awards, Pre-Order Arctic Monkeys' new album Car

Spotlight on this year's Mercury Awards Nominees...there' s some gooduns!

Fergus McCreadie - Forest Floor, Gwenno - Tresor, Harry Styles - Harry's House, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear The Heart, Joy Crookes - Skin, Kojey Radical - Reasons To Smile, Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, Nova Twins - Supernova, Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under, Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure, Wet Leg - Wet Leg and Yard Act - The Overload.

 Last year's winner was Arlo Parks with her fantastic album Collapsed In Sunbeams. This year's winner will be announced on Thursday 8th September.

https://www.mercuryprize.com/2022-shortlist

'Pre Pleasure is the breath-taking third album from Australian singer-songwriter, Julia Jacklin. Co-produced with Marcus Paquin (The Weather Station, The National), Pre Pleasure sees Jacklin as her most authentic self, delivering the most intimate, raw and devastating ten songs of her career to date. An uncompromising and masterful lyricist, always willing to mine the depths of her own life experience, and singular in translating it into deeply personal, timeless songs.' In stock now on limited red vinyl and CD

'Loudon Wainwright III releases his new album Lifetime Achievement. His first album of new original songs since 2014's Haven't Got The Blues Yet, Lifetime Achievement finds LWIII in a state of deep reflection at age 75, over a set of 15 recently written, insightful and incisive gems that he wasn't even planning to pen.

Alleycat is 'A thrilling, funky-prog jazzy-rock fusion beauty from Ian Carr’s Nucleus. Originally released on Vertigo in 1975, Alleycat was never re-pressed so those original copies are now very tricky to score. Like all the Nucleus records, it’s aged ridiculously well and this Be With re-issue, re-mastered from the original analogue tapes, shows off just why this deserves to be back in press.'

Indie kid fave Pulp has reissued Freaks, first released in May 1987, as a double LP. 'The first disc is the original album, unaltered and in its entirety. The second is a bonus disc comprising of tracks from the two big non-album singles from the same era, ‘Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)’ and ‘Dogs are Everywhere’. Two further b-sides ‘Tunnel’ and ‘Manon’ complete the second disc for the definitive ‘Freaks’ period release.'

'Ahead of its time, And Don’t The Kids Just Love It was Television Personalities’ influential debut album released in 1981 and features I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives. The legendary lo-fi release sees them produce British inspired 60s pop and post-punk that captured the period and ‘sounds remarkably prescient’ (Pitchfork’s Best 100 albums of the 1980s). With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave’s longest serving andseminal artists with a career spanning over three decades. The indie visionaries directly influenced virtually every major pop uprising of the period including artists as diverse as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pavement and Creation’s Alan McGee.'

Pre-order Car the new album from Arctic Monkeys - out 21st October. Bag youre copy of the limited vinyl now!

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Louth musician Anton Drewery sadly died earlier this year but his music lives on. 'With A Little Help' is his brilliant album, which was launched last week at The Kings Head Louth and is now available to buy on CD at the shop.

https://facebook.com/Antonnowthen

We've also had lots of new items in the shop including new Ltd Yungblub,Megadeth, The Adverts, Stereolab, Muddy Waters, The Chieftains, David Sylvian's Manafon, Musical Youth Ltd 10", more Pulp reissues and Roxy Music Best of.. Half Speed Master LP,

MORE on these in next week's newsletter!

Thanks to Linz of Tell'd zine the new issue has just landed at the shop! Tell'd is an independent LGBTQ+ focused quarterly zine that curates queer stories, art, poetry & more As recently featured on Katy B's LCR Lincoln radio show Sunday Underbelly. Get your copy in store.

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**We are taking a short break from buying second hand collections of vinyl, CDs and DVDs until further notice**