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Sinéad O'Connor is widely regarded as one of the most influential female performers of the '90s, not only for her sensational performances and raw vocal emotion but also for her outspoken confidence to express herself publicly. Sinéad was born in Dublin in 1966, and was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer of U2 protégés In Tua Nua, while singing wedding covers in the city. After co-writing the first In Tua Nua single, she left school to focus on music, studying voice and piano at the Dublin College of Music before relocating to London in 1985. Released in November 1987, Sinéad's striking debut album The Lion and the Cobra was met with critical and commercial success. The album synthesises several of Sinead's influences into a diverse array of sounds and styles, from the hushed, atmospheric 'Troy' and 'Jackie' to the pop-rock hit single 'Mandinka', and the hip-hop inspired 'I Want Your (Hands on Me)'.

Track List

1. Jackie
2. Mandinka
3. Jerusalem
4. Just Like U Said It Would B
5. Never Get Old
6. Troy
7. I Want Your (Hands on Me)
8. Drink Before the War
9. Just Call Me Joe

On her new album Sun Without the Heat, McCalla brings more playfulness and joy than she has on previous records when she speaks to the concerns that have shaped her career, mainly including an ethos in which you must look back at lost and erased histories before you can embrace a forward vision of Afrofuturism and the importance of music making to heal and forge relationships across differences. Across Sun Without the Heat's ten tracks, she achieves this with music that combines jazz, Haitian Twoubadou, American blues, folk and Brazilian Tropicalismo. Born in New York City to Haitian emigrants and activists, McCalla possesses a stunning mastery of the cello, tenor banjo and guitar. A founding member of Our Native Daughters alongside Rhiannon Giddens, Amysthyst Kiah and Allison Russell and an alumna of Grammy award-winning band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, McCalla has also received considerable praise and attention for her solo works, including 2014's Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, which prompted the New York Times to rave that "her voice is disarmingly natural, and her settings are elegantly succinct" and 2022's Breaking The Thermometer (4/5 review from The Guardian). Lyrically on Sun Without the Heat, McCalla draws from the writings of Black feminist Afrofuturist thinkers Octavia Butler, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Adrienne Maree Brown, among others, with frequent themes being grief, connection and motherhood. Like these authors, McCalla is thinking hard about collaboration as a means of creative expression, community thinking, personal salvation, and rectifying social injustice. "The stories we've been told about ourselves and the stories that we have to learn to undo the stories we've been told," she explains."Sometimes these are painful stories to tell. This is especially vivid in the title song, "Sun Without the Heat."

Track List

1. Open the Road
2. Scaled to Survive
3. Take Me Away
4. So I'll Go
5. Tree
6. Sun Without the Heat
7. Tower
8. Love We Had
9. Give Yourself a Break
10. I Want to Believe

Limited tangerine colored vinyl LP pressing. 10th Anniversary. On the Impossible Past is the third studio album by The Menzingers, originally released in 2012. The album was met with widespread acclaim by music critics, with the aggregating website Metacritic calculating an average score of 93 out of 100.

Following her incredible 'Trilogy' tour comes a repress of the 5 year old 'K-12' album - released on Half Baby Pink & Half Milky Clear Vinyl and in a Gatefold sleeve with 32 page 12x12 booklet. K-12 is a Gold selling album in the UK having originally charted in the UK Top 10 albums chart and includes the tracks 'Teacher's Pet' and 'High School Sweethearts' which have over half a billion combined streams on Spotify alone.

Track List

1. Wheels on the Bus
2. Class Fight
3. The Principal
4. Show ; Tell
5. Nurse's Office
6. Drama Club
7. Strawberry Shortcake
8. Lunchbox Friends
9. Orange Juice
10. Detention
11. Teacher's Pet
12. High School Sweethearts
13. Recess

Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. Released in 1978 this was the debut album by madcap American punks The Dickies and it reached No. 18 in the UK national charts during a five month run in the Top 40. Available now on coloured vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. With a. booklet including lyrics to all the songs plus repros of sleeves and memorabilia from the time.

Track List

1. Give It Back
2. Poodle Party
3. Paranoid
4. She
5. Shadow Man
6. Mental Ward
7. Eve Of Destruction
8. I’m OK You’re OK
9. Silent Night
10. The Sound Of Silence
11. You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
12. Waterslide
13. Walk Like An Egg
14. Curb Job
15. Shake And Bake
16. Rondo (The Midgets Revenge)
17. Banana Splits (The Tra La La Song)
18. Hideous
19. Got It At The Store

Southern California alternative rock band Dirty Heads deliver their seventh studio album, Super Moon. The 10-track collection was helmed by four-time Grammy-winning Nashville, TN-based super producer Dave Cobb (A Star is Born soundtrack, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson) and is introduced by the title track single "Super Moon," which vocalist Jared "Dirty J" Watson describes as "a 70's sci-fi kung fu Western car chase soundtrack. It gives you a look into the sonics, tone, and creative narrative of this album. It was all recorded live in the same room to tape in Studio A in the old RCA building in Nashville where legends like Johnny Cash and Elvis recorded a lot of their work." Follow-up summer anthem, "'Lift Me Up' is a classic Dirty Heads, a weed song," adds Watson. "We tapped into our own lives - we used to be drug dealers, so this is our version of Curtis Mayfield's 'Pusherman,' the theme song for some Shaft-style weed-seller." The vocals and instrumentals lay you back, setting your mind to wander, while the alternative rock riff gets a slight reggae infusion.

Track List

1. Super Moon (3:25) [Explicit]
2. Lift Me Up (2:35)
3. Tender Boy (3:30) [Explicit]
4. Horsefly (4:23) [Explicit]
5. Fear ; Love (2:57)
6. Cloudlifter (2:47) [Explicit]
7. Come Back Around (3:13)
8. Lighthouse (2:38)
9. Crow Bar Hotel (3:46)
10. Slow Down (3:43)

Larkin Poe, the dynamic sister duo known for their electrifying blend of Southern rock, blues, and Americana, emerges once again onto the musical landscape with their eagerly anticipated album, 'Bloom'. Following their Grammy-winning success with 'Blood Harmony' in 2024, the duo has ventured deeper into their musical journey, crafting a collection of songs that resonate with introspection, authenticity, and a profound connection to their roots in American music. The album "Bloom" marks a significant evolution in Larkin Poe's creative journey. All the songs were born from collaborations between Megan, Rebecca, and co-producer Tyler Bryant, reflecting a synergy that extends beyond mere musical partnership. As Rebecca observes, "'Bloom' is about finding oneself amidst the noise of the world, about wholeheartedly embracing the flaws and idiosyncrasies that make us real." This theme of self-acceptance is central to the album's narrative: celebrating individuality against a backdrop of contemporary blues and rock influences.

Track List

1. Mockingbird
2. Easy Love Pt. 1
3. Little Bit
4. Bluephoria
5. Easy Love Pt. 2
6. Nowhere Fast
7. If God Is A Woman
8. Pearls
9. Fool Outta Me
10. You Are The River
11. Bloom Again

Joyce Manor was conceived in the back of a car in the Disneyland parking lot the kind of beginning California dreams are made of. Their first self-titled album in 2011 exploded out of nowhere; across two albums, they discovered what Joyce Manor really sounded like the speed and sense of melody of fellow South Bay band the Descendents, the artfully bittersweet lyricism of Jawbreaker and the undeniable heart-on-sleeve honesty of the first two Weezer albums. "Never Hungover Again" is an album of pop-punk in paradox, right down to the title and photo on the cover. From the first song, it's ten precisely put-together songs about how things fall apart, with some of the saddest lyrics you'd ever shout along to from the front row.

Track List

1. Christmas Card
2. Falling in Love Again
3. End of the Summer
4. Victoria
5. Schley
6. Heart Tattoo
7. The Jerk
8. In the Army Now
9. Catalina Fight Song
10. Heated Swimming Pool

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on 'black clouds' coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. The Sheila Divine is an American, Boston-based rock group. Critics compare their sound to the band's own heroes, mainly the early 1980s post-punk. The band is most often noted for it's loud/soft musical dynamic and Aaron Perrino's soaring vocals, screaming in key one moment and howling a falsetto the next. The band has a large die-hard fan base in what is often called "the three Bs": Boston, Buffalo, and Belgium. Their first full-length album New Parade was released in 1999. It received critical praise from local press and spawned the college radio hit "Hum. "

Track List

1. Automatic Buffalo
2. Like a Criminal
3. Awful Age
4. Hum
5. Spacemilk
6. I'm a Believer
7. The Modern Log
8. Opportune Moment
9. The Amendment
10. New Parade
11. Kitchen Song
12. Sweep the Leg

Limited double picture disc vinyl pressing. Jack is back! This collectible set features vibrant art from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, plus music from the original soundtrack. The Nightmare Before Christmas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the 1993 soundtrack to the film of the same name. Composed by Danny Elfman, the soundtrack was nominated for the 1993 Golden Globe for Best Original Score. The Nightmare Before Christmas tells the story of Jack Skellington, a character from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to "Christmas Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday, with some dastardly and comical consequences. Elfman wrote the film score and voiced the singing role of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens and Glenn Shadix.

Track List

1. Overture
2. Opening
3. This Is Halloween
4. Jack's Lament
5. Doctor Finklestein/In the Forest
6. What's This?
7. Town Meeting Song
8. Jack and Sally Montage
9. Jack's Obsession
10. Kidnap the Sandy Claws
11. Making Christmas
12. Nabbed
13. Oogie Boogie's Song
14. Sally's Song
15. Christmas Eve Montage
16. Poor Jack
17. To the Rescue
18. Finale/Reprise
19. Closing
20. End Title

Lee Hazlewood's second album for MGM had something of a split personality, though both sides were an accurate depiction of various sides of his musical mind. Released in 1967, Lee Hazlewoodism: It's Cause and Cure opens with five story-songs, most of which are dramatic narratives in which Hazlewood speaks rather than sings, approaching his recitations with all the seriousness he can muster, while Billy Strange's arrangements provide elaborate but understated accompaniment. Elsewhere, the album's second half finds Hazlewood in broader and more playful form. The album received a * rating on AllMusic, with reviewer Mark Deming stating that "The unifying theme of this album is simply Hazlewood being Hazlewood, with a crew of first-call studio pros helping him realize his vision (or sometimes his whims) as the Playboy Philosopher of the L.A. Cowboy Set. This LP reflects his wit and talents better than most."

Track List

1. The Girls in Paris... 2:28
2. Jose... 4:37
3. The Old Man and His Guitar... 3:13
4. The Nights... 3:23
5. I Am a Part... 3:00
6. Home (I'm Home)... 2:24
7. After Six... 2:28
8. Suzi Jane Is Back in Town... 2:32
9. In Our Time... 2:52
10. Dark in My Heart... 2:07

Transluscent Tigers Eye LP. From the opening strains of the politico title-track to the countrified pedal steel guitar on "Man With A Mission," from the anti-establishment anthem "American Jesus," to the heart rending ballad "Struck A Nerve," Bad Religion's "Recipe For Hate" is by far their most eclectic album, and one that never ceases to stir up controversy among fans. Graffin, a seething combination of perfect pitch and skeptical emotion, reaffirms his place as one of the best punk rock vocalists on this record. Guest appearances abound, from Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam fame) harmonizing on "American Jesus" and "Watch it Die," to Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano's stunning vocals on "Struck A Nerve," to Claw Hammer's John Wahl and Chris Bagarozzi's searing guitar leads on "Kerosene. " As the songwriting team of Graffin/Gurewitz pull back from their more introspective writing that appeared on some of the previous albums, they focus ever more keenly on the events of the day. "Recipe For Hate" is a scathing commentary on the state of the nation, a social criticism addressing alcoholism, abortion and homelessness. Reissued on limited edition Tigers Eye Translucent vinyl to celebrate the album's 30th anniversary!

Track List

1. Side A
2. Recipe for Hate
3. Kerosene
4. American Jesus
5. Portrait of Authority
6. Man with a Mission
7. All Good Soldiers
8. Watch It Die
9. Side B
10. Struck a Nerve
11. My Poor Friend Me
12. Lookin' in
13. Don't Pray on Me
14. Modern Day Catastrophists
15. Skyscraper
16. Stealth

Orange Vinyl. Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the music connoisseur's choice; frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2, Johnny Marr and MGMT. NME. Com went so far as to included Magazine in a poll as one of the most influential bands of all time. Created by frontman, Howard Devoto - who co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley - Magazine's sound focused on the double barrels of Dave Formula's swirling keyboards and John McGeoch's ahead-of-it's-time innovative guitar work, underpinned by Barry Adamson's pulsing yet deviously irregular basslines. Atop of this sat Howard Devoto's lyrics. Leading the vanguard of post-punk, their released four groundbreaking albums before disbanding. 2011's No Thyself, released following a 2009 reformation, is repressed for the first time on colored vinyl and features unseen images and new notes from band members compiled and curated by Rory Sullivan-Burke.

Track List

1. Do the Meaning
2. Other Thematic Material
3. The Worst of Progress
4. Hello Mister Curtis (With Apologies)
5. Physics
6. Happening in English
7. Holy Dotage
8. Of Course Howard (1979)
9. Final Analysis Waltz
10. The Burden of a Song
11. Blisterpack Blues

Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies on translucent pink coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. "Keep Your Soul Together" (1973) is Freddie Hubbard's fifth studio album released on Creed Taylor's CTI label. The album features Hubbard alongside an ensemble that includes Junior Cook on tenor sax, George Cables on keyboards, Aurell Ray on guitar, Kent Brinkley or Ron Carter on bass, Ralph Penland on drums, and Juno Lewis on percussion. The album's sound, though occasionally funky, is rooted in creative jazz, showcasing Hubbard in peak form across four of his original compositions. Though some writers have often underrated Hubbard's CTI recordings, mistaking them for his later, more commercial output on Columbia, this particular album stands out as a testament to his ingenuity. Hubbard's blend of bravado and subtlety shines through, as does his ability to fuse technical mastery with emotional depth. His ability to maintain a consistent, rich tone across both slow and fast passages placed him among the greatest trumpeters in jazz history. Influenced by legends such as Miles Davis and Clifford Brown, Hubbard nonetheless crafted a sound entirely his own, becoming one of the boldest and most inventive trumpeters of the bop, hard-bop, and post-bop eras. His impact on jazz extended far beyond his solo recordings, as he collaborated with many of the genre's greats, leaving behind a powerful legacy. Down Beat magazine described Hubbard as "the most powerful and prolific trumpeter in jazz" shortly after his passing in 2008. His influence continues to shape the world of jazz, inspiring generations of trumpeters and musicians alike.

Track List

1. Brigitte [9:07]
2. Keep Your Soul Together [9:52]
3. Spirits Of Trane [9:07]
4. Destiny's Children [10:19]

The first album from The Innocence Mission in five years, Midwinter Swimmers sounds immediately like an old friend. At the same time it feels like a new kind of adventure for the beloved Pennsylvania band of high school friends Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts, having both an expansive, cinematic quality and a lo fi, strange beauty of a newly discovered vintage folk pop album. Early reviews have called Midwinter Swimmers a truly special album, linking it especially with Befriended, the band's classic LP from 2003. Songwriter Karen Peris looks closely at every day moments as miraculous worlds of their own, with a particular sense of place and detail, as a way of joining in a conversation with other people about universal experiences of change and loss, and of love, hope and gratitude.

Track List

1. This Thread Is a Green Street
2. Midwinter Swimmers
3. The Camera Divides the Coast of Maine
4. John Williams
5. We Would Meet in Center City
6. Your Saturday Picture
7. Cloud to Cloud
8. A Hundred Flowers
9. Sisters and Brothers
10. Orange of the Westering Sun
11. A Different Day

Vinyl LP pressing. Walking Wounded - first released in April 1996 by the UK alt-pop duo Everything But the Girl (featuring Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt) - debuted at No. 4 on the UK Album Chart and contains four UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits "Walking Wounded" and "Wrong," and set new a benchmark for the intersection of contemporary electronic music and smart pop songwriting. The album was programmed and produced by Watt in 1995 largely in the basement of the duo's north London home demo studio. "Just an Akai sampler, a computer, a synth and guitar, an inexpensive vocal mic, and an 8-track tape machine," he says of the process. "We were writing in reverse - mood first, then songs, learning and we went along. It just felt like a new frontier," adds Thorn.

'Where The Light Gets In' is the debut album from Ben Barnes. The title of the album reflects the hopefulness of the songs, and the perspective earned through lived experience. Ben's personal hope for these songs is that they encourage finding clarity when life feels sombre, feeling powerful when pain tells you you're vulnerable and lovable when the world tries to tell you that you're not enough as you are. The album is about the different stages of a relationship; beginnings, tension, sorrow, sex, love, endings... nostalgia. It's about how our history and our scars configure to make us who we are in this moment. If a part of us has ever felt broken, we can mend... transforming ourselves into something more precious than we were before. The album was recorded at Apogee Studios in Santa Monica with the band all together, including James Valentine and Sam Farrar (Maroon 5) who also produced the record along with drummer/manager, Paul Hamilton.

Track List

1. Beloved
2. Where the Light Gets in
3. Ritual
4. Nevermind
5. Take Me to the Moon
6. Slow It Down
7. One Minute More
8. Three New Hearts
9. The in Between
10. Stolen Time
11. Someday
12. Far Too Soon

Vinyl LP pressing. Remastered vinyl release of the classic 1976 album by Soft Machine. The album was the band's second for EMI's Harvest label and featured a line-up of Karl Jenkins (Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesisers), John Marshall (Drums), Roy Babbington (Bass) and new members John Etheridge (Guitar) and Alan Wakeman (Tenor & Soprano saxophones). An accessible collection that followed the band's first album for Harvest, 'Bundles'.

Track List

1. Aubade
2. The Tale of Taliesin
3. Ban-Ban Caliban
4. Song of Aeolus
5. Out of Season
6. Second Bundle
7. Kayoo
8. The Camden Tandem
9. Nexus
10. One Over the Eight
11. Etika

"I decided to just let myself go," zzzahara says of their new record, 'Spiral Your Way Out'. "I think I finally came to this acceptance that I don't have to be perfect. I want to be a good role model to my fans and stuff like that, but I also don't want to hide who I am." zzzahara's music wades into the deep waters of love, lust, and self-discovery in a part of the world where artifice and authenticity co-exist. Emerging from the heart of LA's alternative music scene, their sound is raw in feeling and rebellious by nature. Their 2022 debut album, Liminal Spaces, chronicles a coming-of-age in Highland Park, following painful childhood memories through to late-night, live-fast coping mechanisms, and the changes the neighbourhood has endured over the same period of time. Their 2023 follow-up, Tender, marked a period of slowing down, looking inward, and embracing a softer side of being. 'Spiral Your Way Out' sees zzzahara evolve again. Emotionally, it's foundations are built on scorched earth. The album finds zzzahara in the aftermath of a relationship spent trying to fit someone else's mould, being jerked around by indecision, and then hitting "emotional rock bottom." Made in a three-month burst that let all their pent-up frustrations loose, 'Spiral Your Way Out' is in part a work of self-reclamation, swapping there 2nd album Tender's meditative state for something fiery and more assertive. The new album marks another sonic evolution as much as an emotional one. zzzahara's songs have always come wrapped in a warm glow that reflects how they were written - namely at home in their bedroom. That glow remains on 'Spiral Your Way Out', but it also packs an ambitious streak and a gutsy punch. Taking a more collaborative approach than usual, zzzahara worked with a range of producers including Jorge Elbrecht (Japanese Breakfast, No Joy, Sky Ferreira), Sarah Tudzin (boygenius / Cloud Nothings / The Armed), former Ducktails guitarist Alex Craig (Jelani Aryeh / re6ce) and Halsey tour drummer Franco Reid, who helped harness their intimate style of writing and blow it up into something more panoptic. After a year of upheaval, zzzahara finally feels "calm." The musical equivalent to going several rounds on a punching bag, 'Spiral Your Way Out' finds solace between extremes. It licks it's wounds in a place where pain and love, healing and abandon, sit side-by-side. If it has a message, it's one of standing tall in your own shoes - scuffs and all.

Track List

1. It Didn't Mean Nothing
2. In Your Head
3. Bruised
4. If I Had to Go I Would Leave the Door Closed Half Way
5. Wish You Would Notice (Know This)
6. Ghosts
7. Pressure Makes a Diamond
8. Head in a Wheel
9. Bluebird
10. NY NY

Vinyl LP pressing. This new edition has been expertly mastered by Barry Grint at AIR Mastering from the original stereo tapes using precision half-speed mastering. Half-speed mastering is a vinyl cutting technique that improves groove accuracy and transient information creating an incredibly detailed stereo image with a natural high frequency response. Released in October 1983, "North Of A Miracle" was Nick Heyward's first solo album after leaving Haircut 100. Produced by Geoff Emerick (The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Badfinger, Art Garfunkel, America, Supertramp and many more), the album features the hits "Take That Situation", "Whistle Down The Wind", "Blue Hat For A Blue Day" and "On A Sunday". The album went on to sell over 100,000 copies in the UK, earning a Gold Disc Award. The album features the top sessions players of the time, including Pino Palladino, Steve Nieve, Dave Mattacks and Tim Renwick.

Track List

1. When It Started to Begin
2. Blue Hat for a Blue Day
3. Two Make It True
4. On a Sunday
5. Club Boy at Sea
6. Whistle Down the Wind
7. Take That Situation
8. The Kick of Love
9. The Day It Rained Forever
10. Atlantic Monday