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Import edition features one additional track, Pictures of You. As Greatest Hits-and particularly the busking pavement jazz of "Lovecats"-reminds us, the best Cure singles were very often tangential exercises; halcyon playtime divergences offering a Goth-free contrast to some of the weightier studiousness of some of those early albums. Or, as smudged frontman Robert Smith says of this 18-track collection, "Songs that are sung with a smile." This wasn't always true-witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic "A Forest", the Blair Witch Project of it's day. What this compilation does is focus attention on The Cure's perennial unpredictability-the nursery school bonkers-ness of "The Caterpillar", the breathless claustrophobia of "Close to Me", the New Order-lite of "The Walk", the brass-section embellished thrust of "Why Can't I Be You". Oddly, chart-wise, The Cure's Lost Weekend began immediately after "Friday I'm in Love", their most ebullient melodic moment and the ultimate clocking-off to kick-those-heels! Anthem. But at least the inclusion of two new songs "Cut Here" and "Just Say Yes" (with Saffron from Republica) indicate that The Cure remain a healthy ongoing concern.

• 1 Boys Don't Cry
• 2 A Forest
• 3 Let's Go to Bed
• 4 The Walk
• 5 The Lovecats
• 6 Inbetween Days
• 7 Close to Me
• 8 Why Can't I Be You?
• 9 Just Like Heaven
• 10 Lullaby
• 11 Love Song
• 12 Never Enough
• 13 High
• 14 Friday I'm in Love
• 15 Mint Car
• 16 Wrong Number
• 17 Cut Here
• 18 Just Say Yes

Rock superstars The Red Hot Chili Peppers, return with the most anticipated album of the spring, STADIUM ARCADIUM. This album exudes all the passion, energy and funked-up rock that have made them one of the most popular bands in history. This 2 CD record features the hit single "Dani California."

• 1 Dani California
• 2 Snow (Hey Oh)
• 3 Charlie
• 4 Stadium Arcadium
• 5 Hump de Bump
• 6 She's Only 18
• 7 Slow Cheeta
• 8 Torture Me
• 9 Strip My Mind
• 10 Especially in Michigan
• 11 Warlocks
• 12 C'mon Girl
• 13 We Sand
• 14 Hey
• 15 Desecration Smile
• 16 Tell Me Baby
• 17 Hardtoconcentrate
• 18 21st Century
• 19 She Looks to Me
• 20 Readymade
• 21 If
• 22 Make You Feel Better
• 23 Animal Bar
• 24 So Much I
• 25 Storm in a Teacup
• 26 We Believe
• 27 Turn It Again
• 28 Death of a Martian

Vinyl LP pressing. The debut album was originally released in 1981 and includes the hits 'Planet Earth' and 'Girls On Film'. It's considered a significant album in the new-wave and synth-pop movements of the early 80s.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Girls on Film (2010 Remaster)
• 2 Planet Earth (2010 Remaster)
• 3 Anyone Out There (2010 Remaster)
• 4 To the Shore (2010 Remaster)
• 5 Careless Memories (2010 Remaster)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Night Boat (2010 Remaster)
• 2 Sound of Thunder (2010 Remaster)
• 3 Friends of Mine (2010 Remaster)
• 4 Tel Aviv (2010 Remaster)

In February 2024, just shy of the tenth anniversary of Alvvays' self-titled debut, it's second song and single, "Archie, Marry Me," reached a rarified threshold for our streaming age-one-hundred million listens through a single platform. For the world's biggest pop stars that's an average achievement, but for an upstart indie rock band then writing in a backroad farmhouse on a Canadian island, it represented a staggering proof of connection and widespread resonance. Makes sense, after all: "Archie, Marry Me" is a softly stinging, pointedly funny portrait of a common end-of-youth predicament-to wed or not to wed, to involve the state and the possibility of financial ruin when you're already saddled with student loans and just trying to survive. Instantly relatable, it is an anthem about prescribed social expectations and delighting, however noncommittally, in outcast status.

Now remastered and reissued with deep cut "Underneath Us" to mark a glorious decade of deadpan jangle, Alvvays feels that way from end to end-literally, from the opening stalking-you-with-love anthem "Adult Diversion" to the ennui escapism of sci-fi closer "Red Planet." In a little more than 30 minutes, Alvvays give us a song about loving someone to actual death ("Next of Kin"), how keeping secrets will destroy what you think you want ("The Agency Group"), and another incisive song about the societal demands of love and marriage ("Atop a Cake"). When Molly Rankin, Alec O'Hanley, Kerri MacLellan, and Brian Murphy cut these songs with Chad VanGaalen in 2013, long before they had a record deal, they were, in fact, young adults trying to figure out these encroaching exigencies for themselves. Again, these problems don't age; some of us just happen to be lucky enough to age out of them. Little of this would matter if the songs themselves didn't stick, if the melodies weren't as timeless as the topics. But the tension between Alvvays' shimmer and snap and Rankin's knowingly droll delivery connects these numbers to a brilliant and deep rock continuum, from the glories of C86 and the triumphs of Athens in the '80s to Celtic folk's own magnetic candour. Each of these songs lands several hooks apiece: the sparkling drum-machine drift of "Dives," the noise-caked sway of "The Agency Group," and, of course, the half-diffident and half-confident matrimonial plea of "Archie, Marry Me" and that pearly guitar lick. Ten years ago or ten years from now, here are ten songs to slip in your pocket and pull out when the decisions of the world seem to swirl like the very guitars that shape them.

• 1 Adult Diversion
• 2 Archie, Marry Me
• 3 Ones Who Love You
• 4 Next of Kin
• 5 Party Police
• 6 The Agency Group
• 7 Dives
• 8 Atop a Cake
• 9 Red Planet
• 10 Underneath Us

Most critically-acclaimed and pioneering bands to come out of the UK. Talk Talk's The Party's Over was a start of a journey for Mark Hollis (vocals), Simon Brenner (keyboards), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass) who constantly evolved throughout their career from synth-pop beginnings into pioneering avant-garde post-rock in the latter stages of the band, being a large influence on artists such as Radiohead, St. Vincent and many more. To celebrate the 40th anniversary, The Party's Over is being released on white vinyl across all music retailers.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Talk Talk
• 2 It's So Serious
• 3 Today
• 4 The Party's Over
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Hate
• 2 Have You Heard the News
• 3 Mirror Man
• 4 Another Word
• 5 Candy

• 1 Fine, Great
• 2 Broken Cash Machine
• 3 Rock Bottom
• 4 Apartment
• 5 The Old Gospel Choir
• 6 Notes
• 7 Charlie Black
• 8 Timmy Bowers
• 9 Going to Bed Now
• 10 Your Graduation
• 11 Two Good Things
• 12 Pothole
• 13 Rock Bottom (Demo)
• 14 Pothole (Demo)

A bruising and shadowy return to form from original Smashing Pumpkins members Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, and Billy Corgan. Recorded in the immediate aftermath of their 33-song concept album, 'Atum', 'Aghori Mhori Mei' harkens back to the band's early 90's canon; where guitars, bass, drums, and spiking vocals ruled.

The Flaming Lips followed-up their interactive 1997 extravaganza Zaireeka in typical unforeseen fashion by releasing their 1999 magnum opus The Soft Bulletin, the most emotionally accessible and musically grandiose statement of the band's career. Wayne Coyne's plaintive and spiritual explorations on the human experience are brought to life as never before here by a symphonic multidimensional sound that is as beautiful as it is transcendent. Featuring ethereal and poignant classics like "Race For The Prize," "Waitin' For A Superman," "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" among others, The Soft Bulletin proved to be that elusive artistic breakthrough from a band that looked destined to be eternally restless. Not only is The Soft Bulletin a high water mark for The Flaming Lips on multiple levels, it's arguably one of the best recordings of the decade plus.

The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin Track Listing:

LP1
1.  Race For The Prize
2.  A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
3.  The Spark That Bled
4.  The Spiderbite Song
5.  Buggin' (Remix)
6.  What Is The Light?
7.  The Observer

LP2
1.  Waitin' For A Superman
2.  Suddenly Everything Has Changed
3.  The Gash
4.  Slow Motion
5.  Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
6.  Sleeping On The Roof

With the release of Cigarettes After Sex's third album, X's, the band finally takes center stage as not just one of today's preeminent indie bands, but as one of the most globally accomplished acts across any genre. Filled with raw, imagistic, sometimes smutty vignettes set to entrancing, slow burn pop songs, bandleader Greg Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release. Audiences from Manchester to Melbourne, London to Los Angeles, Newcastle to New York, and everywhere in between have been engulfed by the swell of eager sentiment propelled from a vociferous fanbase. Catfish and the Bottlemen possess a magnetic and dynamic focal point in Van McCann, renowned for posing every day, easily identifiable observations through his lyrics.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Longshot 3:54
• 2 Fluctuate 3:12
• 3 2All 3:08
• 4 Conversation 3:31
• 5 Sidetrack 3:20
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Encore 2:45
• 2 Basically 3:21
• 3 Intermission 1:47
• 4 Mission 3:43
• 5 Coincide 3:06
• 6 Overlap 3:22

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes bonus track. 1995's Happy Days found the group travelling further into a hybrid of heavy metal and improvisation – certainly with the addition of Mark Feltham (from Nine Below Zero) on harmonica, who had added his distinctive sound to the later Talk Talk albums, the group create a mesmerizing sound on the more ambient tracks, offering a clear pathway to later groups such as Mogwai. There is still room for some anthemic shoegaze, however, on tracks such as Shocking and Judy Staring Up At The Sun, which features guest vocals from Tanya Donelly.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 God Inside My Head
• 2 Waydown
• 3 Little Muscle
• 4 Heal
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Empty Head
• 2 Receive
• 3 My Exhibition
• 4 Eat My Dust You Insensitive F***
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Shocking
• 2 Love Tips Up
• 3 Judy Staring at the Sun
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Hole
• 2 Fizzy Love
• 3 Glitter
• 4 Kill My Soul

Chaos in Bloom, arriving August 12th, 2022 via Warner Records. Marking the first album of their career to be produced by frontman John Rzeznik, the record finds the band at the top of their game and continuing to constantly evolve just as they have for nearly four decades together. Consisting of 10 tracks, Chaos in Bloom is an album of biting sarcasm, stadium-ready choruses, and the type of spear-sharp songwriting that’s led them to becoming one of the most influential alternative rock groups of all time.

While Chaos in Bloom isn’t necessarily an album borne out by the pandemic, many of the tracks reflect on all of the things in daily life that became amplified while everyone was isolated from one another and sequestered at home. “Chaos in Bloom reminded us how special this whole thing is and to cherish the relationships that we have together,” says Rzeznik about the album. “Where we’ve been, and where we’re going.” Oscillating from personal reflections on the state of the world to societal commentaries, the songs on the album grapple with observations about our dystopian modernity while searching for optimism and pushing for a more empathetic world. “I’ve been trying to have a relationship with the bigger picture,” adds bassist and songwriter Robby Takac, “and refining happiness and what it means from that perspective.”

To record the album, Rzeznik and Takac retreated to Dreamland Studios just outside Woodstock, New York during the pandemic. An environment as remote as it is rich with historic rock music roots, the location proved to be the perfect setting for clearing the noise and creating such a record, which carries a true live quality that the band captured by blending vintage instruments and gear with new-age recording processes and techniques.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Yeah, I Like You
• 2 War
• 3 Save Me from Myself
• 4 Let the Sun
• 5 Loving Life
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Going Crazy
• 2 Day After Day
• 3 Past Mistakes
• 4 You Are the Answer
• 5 Superstar

Rough Trade Records announce the reissue of Elastica's debut album 'Elastica', which came out in March 1995 and went straight to Number One. Limited pressing on vinyl with free flex-disc 7 inch single.

Track Listings

In the wake of his time leading The Healers, Marr’s solo career has given rise to three UK Top Ten albums - The Messenger (2013), Playland (2014) and 2018’s Call The Comet. He now returns with his most expansive work to date, Fever Dreams Pts 1-4. It was created during the long, uncertain period that followed the arrival of the UK’s first lockdown, when his focus was pushed into both his interior life, and evoking the emotional states of others. “It’s an inspired record, and I couldn’t wait to get in and record every day,” he says. “But I had to go inwards.”

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The new album reflects his multi-faceted past, but takes his music somewhere startlingly new. “There’s a set of influences and a very broad sound that I’ve been developing - really since getting out of The Smiths,” he says. “And I hear it in this record. There are so many strands of music in it. I think it’s the most ambitious solo record I’ve done.”

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Spirit Power and Soul
• 2 Receiver
• 3 All These Days
• 4 Ariel
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Lightning People
• 2 Hideaway Girl
• 3 Sensory Street
• 4 Tenement Time
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 The Speed of Love
• 2 Night and Day
• 3 Counter Clock World
• 4 Rubicon
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 God's Gift
• 2 Ghoster
• 3 The Whirl
• 4 Human

Indie Exclusive Yellow Vinyl. All Day Gentle Hold ! is the fifth album from Aaron Maine and a celebratory collection of songs. Harder, faster, shorter and louder than any other Porches record, it’s direct and pointed, charged up and chaotic, described by Maine as “the most energetic, off-the-cuff moments, collaged together into the most captivating songs [he] could make.”

Tracks

1. Lately
2. I Miss That
3. Okay
4. Swimming Big
5. Back3School
6. Swarovski
7. Watergetsinside
8. In A Fashion
9. Inasint
10. Grab The Phone
11. Comedown Song (Gunk)

J Mascis Several Shades Of Why on LP + MP3 from Sub Pop

Dinosaur Jr. Leader's First Solo Acoustic Album

Gorgeous Arrangements, Delicate Emotions, and Brilliant Melodies Pepper Guitar Hero's Batch of Original Tunes

In the quarter century since he founded Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis has created some of the era’s signature songs, albums and styles. The laconically-based roar of his guitar, drums and vocals have driven a long string of bands such as Deep Wound, Dinosaur Jr., Gobblehoof, Velvet Monkeys, the Fog, Witch, and Sweet Apple. He has also guested on innumerable sessions. But Several Shades of Why, recorded at Amherst, Massachusetts’ Bisquiteen Studios, is J’s first solo studio record, and it is an album of incredible beauty, performed with a delicacy not always associated with his work.

Nearly all acoustic, Several Shades of Why was created with the help of a few friends. Notable amongst them are Kurt Vile, Sophie Trudeau (A Silver Mount Zion), Kurt Fedora (long-time collusionist), Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession), Matt Valentine (The Golden Road), and Suzanne Thorpe (Wounded Knees).

Together in small mutable groupings, they conjure up classic sounds ranging from English-tinged folk to drifty, West Coast-style singer/songwriters. But every track, every note even, bears that distinct Mascis watermark, both in the shape of the tunes and the glorious rasp of the vocals. Ten brilliant tunes that quietly grow and expand until they fill your brain with the purest pleasure.

"Mascis’ first solo acoustic album and Sub Pop debut, the ten-song set further exposes the beautiful tunefulness and pained emotionalism at the root of his craft. Many of Mascis’ best songs over the past 20 years capture the lifetime-lasting wounds related to longing, wondering, and searching. Such emotional themes recur on Several Shades of Why, which finds the singer/guitarist striving for degrees of destination, closure, companionship, and certainty without ever arriving at any agreed-upon understandings or firm conclusions."
--Bob Gendron, TONE Audio, Issue 35, February 2011

J Mascis Several Shades Of Why Track Listing:

1.  Listen To Me
2.  Several Shades Of Why
3.  Not Enough
4.  Very Nervous and Love
5.  Is It Done
6.  Make It Right
7.  Where Are You
8.  Too Deep
9.  Can I
10. What Happened

Compact Disc

DEMON DAYS is the highly anticipated follow up to their multi-platinum debut. Album has been co-produced by Damon Albarn and DJ Dangermouse. With guest appearances from artists such as Ike Turner, de la Soul and Mf Doom. Features the first single "Feel Good, Inc.".

Bon Iver's three-song collection SABLE, was a prologue mired

in darkness, a controlled burn clearing the way for new possibilities. fABLE is the book that follows. Where SABLE, was a work of solitude, fABLE is an outstretched hand. Radiant, ornate pop music gleams around Vernon's voice as he focuses on a new and beautiful era. On every song, his eyes are locked with one specific person. It's love, which means there's an intense clarity, focus, and honesty within fABLE. It's a portrait of a man flooded and overwhelmed by that first meeting ("Everything Is Peaceful Love"). There's a tableau defined by sex and irrepressible desire ("Walk Home"). This is someone filled with light and purpose seeing an entire future right in front of him: a partner, new memories, maybe a family. There's something undeniably healing about infatuation. Cleaving to someone else can feel like light pouring in from a door that's suddenly swung wide. But there's a reason SABLE, is of a piece with fABLE; the shadow still rears it's head in lighter times. Even when you've reached a new chapter, you'll still find yourself back in your own foundational muck. A fable isn't a fairy tale. There's good stuff: unbridled joy and trips to Spain. But fables aren't hinged on happy endings; they're here to instill a lesson. As the album winds to a close, he acknowledges the need for patience and a commitment to put in the work. There's a selfless rhythm required when you're enmeshing yourself with another person. The song-and by extension the entire album -is a pledge. He's ready to find that pace.

• 1 Disc One: Side A: Things Behind Things Behind Things
• 2 S P E y S I D E
• 3 Side B: Awards Season
• 4 Disc Two: Side A: Short Story
• 5 Everything Is Peaceful Love
• 6 Walk Home
• 7 Day One
• 8 from
• 9 Side B: I'll Be There
• 10 If Only I Could Wait
• 11 There's a Rhythmn
• 12 Au Revoir

2019 release. Wasteland, Baby! Is the follow up album to Hozier's 2014 critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. With a phenomenal reception by critics worldwide, the album was also a commercial success, reaching Top 10 chart positions in Ireland, UK, United States, Canada, Australia, Denmark, and Greece. The album included this first worldwide hit, 'Take Me To Church,' that a nomination for Song of the Year and the 2015 Grammy Awards.

• 1 Nina Cried Power (Feat. Mavis Staples)
• 2 Almost (Sweet Music)
• 3 Movement
• 4 No Plan
• 5 Nobody
• 6 To Noise Making (Sing)
• 7 As It Was
• 8 Shrike
• 9 Talk Refined
• 10 Be
• 11 Dinner & Diatribes
• 12 Would That I
• 13 Sunlight
• 14 Wasteland, Baby!

Compact Disc

• 1 Alison
• 2 Machine Gun
• 3 40 Days
• 4 Sing
• 5 Here She Comes
• 6 Souvlaki Space Station
• 7 When the Sun Hits
• 8 Altogether
• 9 Melon Yellow
• 10 Dagger
• 11 Some Velvet Morning
• 12 Good Day Sunshine
• 13 Missing You
• 14 Country Rain