David Bowie, Twenty One Pilots, Led Zeppelin, Ed Sheeran, Jade, Pre-order Pulp Different Class + Nick Hudson live in Store

New In Store This Week!

Even more great new releases landed in store this week including....

David Bowie 

David Bowie 6. I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002 - 2016) is the sixth in a series of box sets spanning Bowie’s career from 1969. The thirteen-piece CD box set is named after the closing track on ★ (BLACKSTAR), Bowie’s final studio album. The box sets include newly remastered versions (except ★ and No Plan), with input from David’s co-producer Tony Visconti.

Exclusive to each of the box sets are Montreux Jazz Festival and Re:Call 6. The former was recorded on the 18^th of July 2002 at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival and among the 31 tracks features a full performance bar one song of one of Bowie’s most revered albums, Low.

Re:Call 6 features 41 non-album / alternative versions / b-sides and soundtrack songs, including tracks never previously available on CD.

An accompanying 128-page book features previously unseen notes, drawings and handwritten lyrics from Bowie and photos by Sukita (who took the set’s cover shot), Jimmy King, Frank W. Ockenfels 3, Markus Klinko, Mark ‘Blammo’ Adams and more as well as memorabilia, technical notes about the albums from co-producer Tony Visconti and design notes from Jonathan Barnbrook.

PLEASE NOTE: IN SHOP PRICE IS £115.99 - Online Price of £120.99 covers excess postage is it's a heavy item!

GRAMMY-winning rock sensation Twenty One Pilots have announced their seventh full-length album, Breach

Breach arrives at a career peak for the band, who just wrapped up The Clancy World Tour earlier this month which saw them play to over 1.1 million fans across 72 dates. Of the lauded live show, which wrapped at the O2 Arena with 2 sold-out shows. Dork raved, "..their motto of, ‘We are Twenty One Pilots, and so are you’ has never felt more brilliantly accurate," As if it was ever going to be a challenge, they find a way to neatly tie together multiple eras, lore and imagery under the same two-hour umbrella."

Led Zeppelin celebrate the 50^th anniversary of their iconic sixth album, Physical Graffiti, with the release of their new Live EP on 180-gram 12" vinyl, CD and digital formats on September 12.

The new Live EP features live recordings of “In My Time Of Dying” and “Trampled Under Foot” from Earl’s Court 1975, alongside “Sick Again” and “Kashmir” from Knebworth 1979.

These live performances were originally released on the 2003 Led Zeppelin DVD and appear on CD / Vinyl / Digital formats for the very first time.

Vinyl and CD formats available

Global superstar Ed Sheeran has announced that his new album ‘Play’ will be released on 12th September 2025.

After closing the chapter on his Mathematics series, Ed Sheeran is finally back and stepping boldly into a fresh new phase for 2025.   An artist known for constantly evolving, Sheeran’s latest album, 'Play' finds him exploring new musical ground through collaboration with producers and musicians from around the world, as well as diving deeper into the timeless sounds and themes that have made him one of the world’s best-loved pop artists. Inspired by his exposure to Indian and Persian musical cultures—and their surprising connections to the Irish folk tradition he grew up with, through shared scales, rhythms, and melodies—he explored this borderless musical language, giving the album its distinctive, fresh edge. 

vinyl and Cd formats available

English singer songwriter Jade releases her hugely anticipated debut solo album! The record sees Jade work with a variety of A-list collaborators on the project including Mike Sabath, Lostboy, Cirkut, RAYE, and Pablo Bowman.

The album includes previously released singles ‘Angel Of My Dreams’, ‘Fantasy’, ‘FUFN (Fuck You For Now)’, ‘IT girl’, and ‘Midnight Cowboy’. Jade has described this project as being about discovery, finding herself again, and a love letter to little Jade.

Vinyl and CD formats

Grateful Dead's Blues For Allah (50th Anniversary) is the 8th album and 3rd released on Dead’s own label, Grateful Dead Records. In their 10th year, the Grateful Dead recorded one of their most ambitious albums since the late 1960s, with songwriting and songs that were as out-there, jam-filled, and as psychedelic as the music they were making in 1968-1969. Both Side 1 an Side 2 featured instrumental passages that show a band digging deep into the depths of their creativity, with "Silpknot!," "King Solomon's Marbles," "Stronger Than Dirt Or Milkin' The Turkey," "Sage & Spirit," and parts of the Blues For Allah suite being some of the wildest instrumentals the Dead ever recorded in the studio. Add to this such masterpieces as "Help On The Way," "Franklin's Tower," "The Music Never Stopped," and "Crazy Fingers," and you have one of the Dead's most consistently great albums that stands the test of time, and sounds more from the future than the past. Re-mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser from the original analog tapes, with speed-correction and tape restoration by Plangent Processes.

Green vinyl version available

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s much anticipated 8th studio album Perimenopop is a playful celebration of where Sophie is at in her life, knowing exactly who she is and embracing the joy and empowerment that brings. Featuring previously released tracks ‘Freedom of the Night’, ‘Relentless Love’ and ‘Vertigo’, it is the record Sophie was meant to make 7 studio albums into her 25-year career, seeing her confidently return to her iconic dance-pop sound.

Blue vinyl and Cd available now.

There's not enough time this week to tell you in detail about all the new arrivals!

Also new in store releases from John Prine, Gruff Rhys, Lorna Shore, Michael Hurley, Beck, Lemonheads Lovey and more...

VIEW ALL THESE NEW ARRIVALS HERE

Pulp's Different Class will be reissued 24th October - 4LP boxset or 2CD Pre Order today!

Different Class (originally released October 30, 1995) is Pulp's most successful album, achieving multi-platinum sales and international acclaim, winning the 1996 Mercury Music Prize and debuting at #1 on the UK Album Chart. It also produced four Top Ten singles, including ‘Common People’.

Four months prior to the release of the album, the band headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday 24 June. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of what is widely regarded as one of the best records of the era, this legendary Glastonbury performance, the audio wholly restored and released here for the first time, has been paired with the remastered album (each cut over 2 LPs) and is released as a deluxe 4LP boxset.

The audio has been remastered/mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, and is presented in a sturdy slipcase with a comprehensive,28-page booklet featuring extensive notes from new interviews with the band members, plus previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the band’s own archives. The original ‘aperture’ sleeve design, which invited purchasers to “Choose your own front cover”, came with six double-sided inserts/art cards of alternative cover images depicting cardboard cutouts of the band members in a variety of situations. This has been fully recreated and a 12” by 12” poster featuring miniatures of the cutouts themselves is also included.

It was Leeds band English Teacher who took the 2024 Mercury Prize. This year's nominees feature the usual eclectic mix of British artists from an array of different genres. We are excited to see Martin Carthy get a nomination as he has been one of favourite folk artist for many years.

The 2025 Mercury Prize 12 ‘Albums of the Year’ are:

CMAT: ‘EURO-COUNTRY’
Emma-Jean Thackray: ‘Weirdo’
FKA twigs: ‘EUSEXUA’
Fontaines D.C.: ‘Romance’
Jacob Alon: ‘In Limerence’
Joe Webb: ‘Hamstrings & Hurricanes’
Martin Carthy: ‘Transform Me Then Into A Fish’
Pa Salieu: ‘Afrikan Alien’
PinkPantheress: ‘Fancy That’
Pulp: ‘More’
Sam Fender: ‘People Watching’
Wolf Alice: ‘The Clearing’

The Awards Show, taking place on Thursday 16th October at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle, will feature live performances from many of the twelve shortlisted artists and the evening will culminate in the announcement of the overall winner of the 2025 Mercury Prize in Newcastle. The Prize’s broadcast partner BBC Music will provide coverage of the event. 

https://www.mercuryprize.com/news/2025-mercury-prize-albums-of-the-year-revealed

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Our next Shop Window Live will be Nick Hudson of The Academy of Sun playing on Saturday 13th September at 3.00pm in store.

Nick is promoting his forthcoming album On The Eve of Hope, to be released later this month.

Nick Hudson is a composer/songwriter, performer, visual artist and author based in Tbilisi, Georgia and originally from Lincs. He has released over ten solo albums, a book of a decade's collected lyrics, and two records and numerous singles with his band The Academy Of Sun.

He has enjoyed acclaim from (amongst others) The Quietus, BBC Introducing, Terry Riley, Julian Cope, Robert Wyatt, Mogwai, These New Puritans, Faith No More and Xiu Xiu and has collaborated with members of Sunn O))), Shara Nelson from Massive Attack, Damo Suzuki of Can, Wayne Hussey of The Mission and Matthew Seligman (Bowie, Tori Amos).

Here's a sneak preview of Nick's music HERE

Shop Window Live is our own way of creating an opportunity to enjoy live music while you browse in store at Off The Beaten Tracks, to introduce you to and champion new artists and to help promote their music. These events are free and everyone is welcome, including well behaved dogs!

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