National Album Day, Fontaines D.C., McAlmont & Butler, Hawkwind, Genesis

National Album Day - Icons - Saturday 17th October

This Saturday we will be celebrating National Album Day in Store with a whole heap of newly issued classic albums on vinyl. 

The theme this year is icons and releases include PinkPantheress’ debut mixtape, To Hell With It, which will be reissued on collectible clear vinyl and includes statement track Pain,...George Michael’s timeless classic, Listen Without Prejudice, the 40th Anniversary edition of The Pretenders’ Get Close, Elbow’s acclaimed Asleep In The Back 25th anniversary release (on marble vinyl), Goldie’s 1995 debut Timeless, and Sade’s monumental Lovers Rock album. The Who are marking the 60th anniversary of My Generation (on red vinyl), and Phil Collins is celebrating 30 years of his iconic Dance Into The Light and Suede’s much-loved Coming Up from 1996 will be specially presented in a Zoetrope format. Iconic albums celebrating their 50th anniversaries include Bob Dylan’s renowned album Desire (on Cypress Green marbled vinyl), and Billy Joel’s acclaimed Turnstiles (on Subway Token Gold vinyl).'

All items can be pre-ordered on our website now HERE and are available from 10.00a.m in store on Sat 17th October

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This week sees the release of the new album from Fontaines D.C. their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber which includes their fantastic singles Marianne and Tongue and even a collaboration with Rosalia

'Dopamine Chamber arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. Across the album, Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – move between gratification and dread until the two meld together, reflecting the overwhelm of artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence all riding the same algorithms as memes, jokes and celebrity culture. “The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”'

Indies exclusive Marbled blue vinyl, blue vinyl, standard black vinyl and CD versions to choose from with a free poster with each purchase while stocks last.

New in store is a newly mastered version of the 1995 classic album by David McAlmont and Bernard Butler (Suede)

Limited edition coloured double vinyl with signed print and special 2CD set with a bonus disc of demos and rarities.

Contains the singles 'Yes' and 'You Do'

Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation 

The debut album by Genesis newly remixed with an additional 12" EP featuring new mixes.

A deluxe edition of Hawkwind X-in Search of Space - a new edition of this classic album cut at Abbey Studios. Includes a double sided fold-out poster.

Australian electronic band formed in the 90s, Avalanches release new album No Bad Memories this Friday.

'The new album is inspired by the simultaneously magical and insidious ways that advertising and name-brand technology wraps itself around our memories. It’s an ambivalent ode to the nostalgic pull of commercial jingles and proprietary start-up sounds. The best things in life may be free, but childhood and corporate entertainment products are completely intertwined.  The obsession with advertising and consumer technology informs the sonic make-up of the music as a source of raw material out of which the foundations of the tracks were built. Speaking on this impetus for the album Robbie Chater says ““It seems to be bound up with the nature of sampling itself. Once we start digging through forgotten sounds and uncovering their meaning, almost inevitably you get sent down a path of discovery.  Every forgotten sound opens another door. And that’s what I love - feeling like a kid again. Diving into this whole world of advertising, looking at how jingles get made, it’s the kind of thing that keeps me interested in sampling as a process, an art form.” 

Indie exclusive blue vinyl and CD versions in store.

VIEW MORE INFO ON ALL THESE NEW ARRIVALS HERE

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New release from local artists...

We love having an independent cinema right here in Louth where you can see the latest new releases in comfort with an interval - love it!

https://louth.parkwaycinemas.co.uk/

You can also see classic, foreign and art house films at Louth Playhouse thanks to Louth Film Club and Louth CineCircle

The next Louth Film Club showing is Jean Luc Goddard's 1959 film Breathless on Monday 19th October at 7.30pm

'From the great French ‘new wave’ the film tells the story of a criminal being hunted by the police as falls in love with an American woman living in Paris. It is, of course, a celebrated classic, full of oxygen and bounce and yet still feels more than a tad fresh and subversive.'

More info here: https://www.louthfilmclub.com/movie/breathless/

Louth Cine Circle are showing the following films at the Playhouse...

More info here:  https://www.louthcinecircle.com/