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WRECKLESS ERIC

on Later with Jools Holland
BBC Two & BBC iPlayer

Cult singer and punk legend Wreckless Eric, best known for his much-covered single Whole Wide World, performs a track from his 19th album, Leisureland on Later with Jools Holland

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Electric Sun (Uli Jon Roth)

Earthquake

Release date : 24 November 2023 (Alpha Experium)

CD [AE2023001] LP [AE2023002]

After his exit from German hard rock icons the Scorpions, guitar wizard Uli Jon Roth launched the next phase of his career via 1979's Earthquake album, which was released through his ostensible solo project, Electric Sun -- a psychedelic power trio fashioned in the image of his idol Jimi Hendrix's Experience. Rediscover the epic sound of "Earthquake", the ground breaking album by Electric Sun, reissued and better than ever.

180g Vinyl, Gatefold, includes two inserts.

The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project

The Task Has Overwhelmed Us

Release date : 29 Sept 2023 (Glitterhouse)

CD [GRCD1087] LPX2 [GRLP1087] LPX2 (Silver - Indies Only) [GRLP1087LTD]

Nearly ten years in the making, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us is the long-awaited fourth volume in The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series. Coming Sep 29 via Glitterhouse Records and starting with the first Single on June 30th “On The Other Side” by Nick Cave & Debbie Harry. Just two of many great contributors in this project, to honour the life and work of Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Wreckless Eric

Leisureland

Release date : 25 August 2023 (Tapete)

CD [TR544], LP [TR544LP], LP (Blue - Indies Only) [TR544LTD]

Brand new studio album from Wreckless Eric ...'The achievement for Wreckless Eric is to have made new music that connects to old music without

maudlin nostalgia or huffy defensiveness, refusing to let age dim the passion for the music that means the most to him. In other words, he rocks' – Ken Tucker – FRESH AIR / NPR

Various Artists

One Mile From Heaven

Release date : Out Now (Mapache)

CD [MAPA0023CD] LPx2 [MAPA0023LP]

Superb compilation of 70s Outsider Singer/Songwriter Private Press Gems‘Every single track is a masterpiece of outsider art’ - The Times 5*****
"... heroically bonkers idea….populated by acts you wish you knew better" Mojo review 4****

The Delines

The Night Always Comes

Release date : 22 April 2023 (Decor)

LP [DECOR60LP]

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE

Solid Silver colour vinyl of sound track to Willy Vlautin's book The Night Always Comes.

Only ever available as CD with the book. First time pressing on vinyl strictly limited to 1250 worldwide.

Sylvie Vartan

Salut Les Copains! Beginnings of...Ye Ye!

Release date : 22 April 2023 (Poppydisc/ Rev-Ola)

LPx2 [POPPYLP035]

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE

Double vinyl in gatefold sleeve. 29 tracks. Limited to 500 copies worldwide. Sylvie Vartan's most wonderful songs beautifully remastered by Mr. Nick Robbins at Sound Mastering... Super cute, lovely, yet Rock n Roll artwork by Mr. Allan NoMan Detailed liner notes by M.Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe, author of the acclaimed, beautiful, and definitive book "Ye-Ye Girls of '60s French Pop

Una Luz Y El Zigui

Buenos Días Juventud

Release date : 22 April 2023 (Munster Records)

LP [MR436]

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE

First time reissue of mega rare 1972 psych-folk album from Venezuela. 180g LP. One of the most obscure records ever released in Venezuela that was originally distributed in tiny quantities as a promo-only album.

A magic blend of protest songwriting, with a strong environmentalist statement, and folky pop with psych ingredients

Datblygu

Terfysgiaith 1982-2022

Release date : 24 February 2023 (Ankstmusik)

CD X 3 [ANKST160]

This is a 3CD definitive Datblygu compilation release celebrating the band's 40 year history which also works as a personal tribute to the life and work of the late David R.Edwards.

Hardback book style with 48 page booklet with essay, interviews and lyrics and photos.

2 of the disks are best of 40yrs of music - third disk is all exclusives - exclusives disk is physical only - not being streamed.

Limited to 500 copies

Robert Forster

The Candle And The Flame (Tapete Records)

Release date : 3rd February 2023

CD [TR525], LP [TR525LP] , LP [TR525LTD]

Acclaimed Australian singer - songwriter Robert Forster announces his 8th solo album 'The Candle And The Flame'. It's an album for Forster that has taken a very different path in creating than his previous works. The first single is titled 'She's A Fighter'. It reveals only part of what became a journey of creating music with family and friends with a need to find joy and solace in the face of adversity.lick to add an engaging title. High quality images go a long way in looking professional online.

Damian O'Neill

An Crann (Dimple Discs)

Release date : 25 November 2022

CD [ DEEDEE021CD] LP [DEEDEE021LP]

The long-awaited second solo album from The Undertones guitarist Damian O'Neill is an exquisitely inventive collection of largely instrumental tracks, mixed by veteran producer

Paul Tipler (Stereolab, Placebo, Julian Cope, House Of Love).

Limited edition blue vinyl LP with printed inner sleeve

Louis Philippe

Sean O'Hagan presents : The Sunshine World of Louis Philippe (Tapete Records)

Release date : 11th November 2022

CD [TR516], LP [TR516LP]

A long overdue compilation of some of the greatest Louis Philippe songs from the years 1994- 2007. Many of these songs are from albums that have been out of print for a long time, and some of them are being released on vinyl for the first time The album was expertly compiled by Louis Philippe's friend and sometime musical partner Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas)

Nadine Khouri

Another Life (Talitres)

Release date : 18 November 2022

CD [TAL126CD], LP [TAL126LP], LP [TAL126LPX]

Another Life is the second album by singer-songwriter Nadine Khouri. Recorded in London and Bristol with producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning) the album extends a collaborative partnership that began with Khouri's acclaimed 2017 debut The Salted Air

All vinyl formats include printed inner and dl code

Apparat Organ Quartet

Apparat Organ Quartet (Crunchy Frog)

LP [FROG1921]

Release date : 11th November 2022

Blue vinyl in a gatefold sleeve20th Anniversary reissue of this unique blend of electronica and stadium rock from the late Jóhann Jóhannsson and his cohorts.
First time on vinyl

Telefís

a Dó (Dimple Discs)

Release date : CD & CASSETTE - 07 Oct 2022, LP - 20 January 2023

CD [DEEDEE014CD], CASSETTE [DEEDEE014CAS], LP [DEEDEE014LP]

Telefís is Cathal Coughlan & Jacknife Lee.

Features guest appearances from Sean O'Hagan, Will Sergeant, A Certain Ratio and Jah Wobble.

Available on CD, Ltd edition cassette and limited RTÉ Blue Vinyl LP with poster

Gemma Cullingford

Tongue Tied (Elmo Recordings)

Release date : 02 Sept 2022

CD [ELMO1CD] LP [ELMO1LP]

Tongue Tied is the sophomore album from Gemma Cullingford. Tongue Tied blends many styles of electronica from 70's experimental and new wave, early 80's electro, acid house and techno to noughties electro clash, topped with her own vocal style to produce a unique and fresh sound.

Breathless

See Those Colours Fly (Tenor Vossa)

Release date: CD - 29 July 2022 LP - 05 August 2022

CD [BREATHCD24] LP [BREATHLP24]

Dreamlike and Hallucinogenic, a hazy luminosity billows from every pore of Breathless' forthcoming album See Those Colours Fly. The music of Dream-Pop Melancholics, Breathless has never been the sort to be hurried - after all, See Those Colours Fly, mixed by Kramer, is only their third new release this century. But while progress on the group's eighth album was unavoidably delayed by a stroke of cruel misfortune - not to mention the realities of the global pandemic - the finished work is one of their finest, brimming with melody, transfigured by its long period of gestation and the changes fate imposed on their creative process.

Oksana Linde

Aquatic and Other Worlds (Buh Records)

Release date : 15 July 2022

LP [BUHR160] Very Limited Peruvian Pressing

'Aquatic and Other Worlds (1983-1989)' marks the debut release proper by Oksana Linde. The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants to Venezuela, Oksana was born in Caracas, 1948 and began making electronic music in the early '80s

"An essential discovery. Halfway between Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Spiegel, it makes for a deeply hypnotic experience" - Shindig 5*****

Silberland Vol 1 : The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik 1972-1986

Various Artists (Bureau B)

Release date: 01 July 2022

CD [BB413] LP [BB413LP]

Fellow humans, Bureau B invite you on an expedition to Silberland, a singular span of spacetime created by Germany’s sonic futurists of the seventies and eighties. Embracing the early electronics and tape experiments of the sixties’ avant-garde, these artists aimed to boldly go, eschewing small steps for giant leaps into a nebulous and novel sound

Jo Dog And Paul Black's Sonic Boom

Everybody Rains On My Parade (Black City Records)

Release date CD: 13 May 2022 LP: RSD 2022 exclusive 23 April 2022

CD [BCRCD002] Red colour LP [BCRLP002R] LP [BCRLP002]

Second album from Jo Dog and Paul Black’s Sonic Boom, Everybody Rains On My Parade’ takes the listener on an effortless and beautiful rock ‘n’ roll journey that captures the true essence of timeless song writing at its best. Jo Dog Almeida is best known as the guitarist with UK sleaze rockers The Dogs D’Amour. Paul Black is a veteran of the Hollywood rock scene, notably the founding member, original singer and songwriter with multi-platinum rockers LA Guns and his follow-up band Black Cherry.

Yasuaki Shimizu

Kiren (Palto Flats)

Release date : 22 April 2022

CD [PF011] LP [PF011LP]

By the early 1980s acclaimed saxophonist, producer and composer Yasuaki Shimizu had established himself on the Japanese new wave scene, producing many important experimental pop records and releasing several albums as the bandleader of Mariah. Unreleased until now, Kiren represents an important period of Shimizu's artistic expression, an artist at his peak, while successfully exploring the intersections of fusion, synthpop, new wave, and jazz.

Sofi Tukker

Wet Tennis (Sofi Tukker)

CD release date: 29 April 2022

CD [STCD002] LP [STLP002 - 19 August 2022]

Sofi Tukker, the genre-defying duo of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, is celebrated for their inclusive and global perspective on electronic music as well as their works themes of liberation, unity, and self-empowerment

Lightning In A Twilight Hour

Overwintering (Elefant Records)

Release date: 1 April 2022

CD [ER1276] LP [ER1276LP]

The new album from Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars), recording as Lightning In A Twilight Hour. A collection of eleven songs in collaboration with Ian Catt; a partnership dating back to the earliest days of the The Field Mice

The Delines

The Sea Drift (Decor Records)

Release date: 11 Feb 2022

CD [DECOR58CD] LP [DECOR58LP]

The third album proper for 'Country-got-Soul's finest, The Delines, on Decor Records sees them exploring the US Gulf Coast, not far from where Amy Boone grew up. The songs in this

cinematic opus all focus around this area and are inspired by when Amy asked Willy Vlautin to write her a song like Tony Joe White's 'Rainy Night In Georgia' after her tragic accident

being hit by a car in 2016 and her 3 year recovery. Produced by John Morgan Askew at his Bocce studios just outside of Portland, Oregon.

Wovenhand

Silver Sash (Glitterhouse)

Release Date 11 Feb 2022

CD [GRCD1003] LP [GRLP1003] LP [GRLP1003LTD]

Glitterhouse Records is extremely happy to announce the release of the new Wovenhand album. "Silver Sash is a totally unique record for Wovenhand. all done at home, lots of electronics, mixed during a pandemic, backs to the wall. It's another feather in the wild hat that is the wovenhand catalog." - Chuck French

Telefis

a hAon (Dimple Discs)

Release Date 4 March 2022

CD [DEEDEE006CD] LP [DEEDEE006]

A unique electronic pop collaboration between two Irish iconoclasts - acclaimed producer Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, REM, Two Door Cinema Club) and singer-lyricist Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, The Fatima Mansions)

Kreidler

Spells And Daubs (Bureau B)

Release Date 28 Jan 2022

CD [BB389CD] LP [BB389LP]

For all of their Krautrock attributions, Kreidler never tire of reminding us that their musical development stemmed from a love of British pop music. So you might say the co-op with Peter Walsh is a match made in heaven. His illustrious mixing and production skills have lifted works from Shalamar or Lynx to Heaven 17 to Scott Walker, Pulp or FKA Twigs into other spheres. On SPELLS AND DAUBS, Walsh's methods and magic are especially audible in the spatial production, with his hallmark blend of depth and punch.

The Undertones

Dig What You Need (Dimple Discs)

Release date : 25 Feb 2022

CD [DEEDEE003] LP [DEEDEE003LP]

A 'best-of' collection that focuses on the band's post-reformation catalogue from 2003-2007. All music digitally remastered

All music appearing on vinyl for the first time. All tracks completely remixed by acclaimed producer Paul Tipler

The Monochrome Set

Allhallowtide (Tapete)

Release date : 11 March 2022

CD [TR500] LP [TR500LP]

Having amassed a formidable catalogue of releases on a number of key labels over 5 decades, including Rough Trade, Dindisc and Cherry Red, The Monochrome Set are ready to release their new studio album on Tapete Records - the bands home for the last eight years and five albums. Bid is joined in The Monochrome Set by fellow original Andy Warren on bass, Mike Urban on drums and newest recruit Athen Ayren on keyboards.

Soft Machine

Facelift France And Holland (Cuneiform)

Release date : 25 March 2022

CDX2+DVD [RUNE495]

Elton Dean - Alto sax, saxello Lyn Dobson - Soprano and tenor sax, flute, harmonica, vocals Hugh Hopper – Bass Mike Ratledge - Hohner Pianet, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe organ Robert Wyatt - Drums, vocals. As broadcast on the French TV programme Pop 2, the film of Soft Machine's concert at Paris' Théâtre de la Musique, which constitutes the main course of this release, stands as an exceptional document of the band at, arguably, its artistic peak. Disc 3 presents a previously unreleased performance at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Jan 1970

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