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Songs of Surrender features 16 new acoustic and reimagined recordings from the U2 catalog, produced and compiled by The Edge, including “One,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” and “Pride (In The Name Of Love).” U2 have sold over 175 million albums, won 22 Grammy awards, and released 14 studio albums. Limited Edition Indie Exclusive Opaque White 2 LP. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl with 4-page insert featuring liner notes from The Edge.

Canadian artist Claire Boucher aka Grimes follows-up 2015's Art Angels with her highly-anticipated fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene. An amalgamation of three albums Grimes recorded over the past three years, Miss Anthropocene is based on a neologism commonly used in scientific circles. Misanthropocene refers to both the misanthrope's loathing of humanity and the Anthropocene era in which our planet is dominated by human activity. The 10-track collection is introduced by the breathy and beat driven "Violence" and atmospheric "So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth" and features guest appearances by 潘PAN and i_o.

1. So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth (Algorithm Mix)
2. Darkseid (with 潘PAN)
3. Delete Forever
4. Violence (with i_o)
5. 4ÆM
6. New Gods
7. My Name is Dark (Algorithm Mix)
8. You'll miss me when I'm not around
9. Before the fever
10. IDORU (Algorithm Mix)

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

Skid Row are out to reclaim their turf as kings of hard rock and proclaim, The Gang's All Here! It's an oath to joy triumphant, bursting with euphoric energy that makes us hunger for more. It is the logical next-generation leap of the band's trademark sound which stomps out new ground with singer Erik Grönwall (formerly of H.E.A.T, one of the best frontmen of this or any hard rock era) joining the family. Produced by Nick Raskulinecz, long-time fan and much in-demand producer (Foo Fighters, Rush, Alice In Chains, Halestorm, Evanescence), Skid Row are ablaze once again! They are re-energized, picking up exactly where they left us wanting more, kicking their sound way up to modern hard rock royalty.

1. Hell Or High Water
2. The Gang's All Here
3. Not Dead Yet
4. Time Bomb
5. Nowhere Fast
6. Resurrected
7. When The Lights Come On
8. Tear It Down
9. October's Song
10. World's On Fire

RSD Essential - SMOKE VINYL - De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest may have been more commercially successful, but the afrocentric, jazz political rap movement and unfadeable Native Tounge Massive started with the Jungle Brothers. Their debut full length Straight Out the Jungle opened up many doors that are walked through by artists like Mos Def, Common and even Kanye West. Their taste for jazzy horn samples helped kick-start the entire jazz-rap movement, and their James Brown fixation was one of the first. Plus, the groups groundbreaking collaboration with legendary house producer Todd Terry, Ill House You, paved the way for numerous hip-house hybrids that shot up the dance and pop charts over the next few years and appeared to be a staple on every East Coast Rap Album from 88 until 92.

A1. Straight Out The Jungle A2. What's Going On A3. Black Is Black A4. Jimbrowski A5. I'm Gonna Do You A6. I'll House You B1. On The Run B2. Behind The Bush B3. Because I Got It Like That B4. Braggin And Boastin B5. Sounds Of The Safari B6. The Promo B7. Ultimatum Ultramix

The Melvins new album Tarantula Heart is like nothing the band has ever done before. Probably the best record they've ever recorded. Certainly one of their weirdest. Tarantula Heart was recorded with founding member King Buzzo on guitar, vocals and electronic noise, Dale Crover on drums and vocals, Steven McDonald on bass and vocals, special guest musicians Roy Mayorga on drums, synthesizers and Gary Chester on extra guitar. Roy Mayorga hails from the bands Ministry, Stone Sour, Soulfly and Nausea. Gary Chester comes from the bands Ed Hall and We are the Astroid.

• 1 Pain Equals Funny
• 2 Working the Ditch
• 3 She's Got Weird Arms
• 4 Allergic to Food
• 5 Smiler

The quartet of unlikely lads have gathered from their newfound homes in France, Denmark, Margate and London to solder a strongest-ever internal bond and scale new creative heights. 'All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade' began it's formation in September 2022 when Pete and Carl traveled to Port Antonio, Jamaica. Away from any distraction, the chemistry between the infamous songwriting duo began to bubble in earnest. The album was produced by Grammy-nominated producer Dimitri Tikovoï (The Horrors, Charlie XCX, Becky Hill) and recorded at the Albion Rooms in Margate over four weeks during February and March 2023. Mastered by industry legend Dan Grech (Lana Del Rey, Liam Gallagher, Paul McCartney).

• 1 Run Run Run
• 2 Mustang
• 3 I Have a Friend
• 4 Merry Old England
• 5 Man with the Melody
• 6 Oh SHT
• 7 Night of the Hunter
• 8 Baron's Claw
• 9 Shiver
• 10 Be Young
• 11 Songs They Never Play on the Radio

• Vinyl LP
• Cobalt Blue Colored Vinyl
• Start Your Ear Off Right Series 2024 (SYEOR)

DESCRIPTION:
Yes - Yes is the band's acclaimed 1969 debut. Includes "Sweetness" and a cover of The Beatles' song "Every Little Thing"

TRACKLIST:
1 Beyond and Before (2003 Remaster)
2 I See You (2003 Remaster)
3 Yesterday and Today (2003 Remaster)
4 Looking Around (2003 Remaster)
5 Harold Land (2003 Remaster)
6 Every Little Thing (2003 Remaster)
7 Sweetness (2003 Remaster)
8 Survival (2003 Remaster)

What an enormous room is not only the title of the album by Torres, it is an incantation, a phrase she has had in her head now for several years. In the video for What an enormous room's debut single "Collect," Scott finds herself alone in rooms that stretch beyond the frame of the camera. You can observe details of the rooms-the rubble and support beams in one, the lighting in the other-but they neither define their purpose nor explain her presence in them; these are large spaces whose lack of definition invites anxiety and even fear. What does Scott do when cast against that kind of uncertainty? She dances. She throws herself against it. When she sings "look at all the dancing I can do," it's an invitation to awe, and there is much here to be awed by. What an enormous room contains wry, Laurie Anderson-esque art rock, Nirvana's rage, and ABBA's strut. Rather than fear the unknown, Scott has chosen to fill it with as much of herself as possible, an artist unwilling to be stifled.

• 1 Happy Man's Shoes
• 2 Life As We Don't Know It
• 3 I Got the Fear
• 4 Wake to Flowers
• 5 Ugly Mystery
• 6 Collect
• 7 Artificial Limits
• 8 Jerk Into Joy
• 9 Forever Home
• 10 Songbird Forever

Just what you needed! The Classic Greatest Hits Compilation by The Cars. Includes: “Just What I Needed”, “Shake It Up” “Magic” and more. On Translucent Ruby Red Vinyl.

Strawberry Shortcake Splash LP (Indie Exclusive). The Menzingers are an absolute institution. The Philadelphia punk legends' multi-decade reputation as road warriors with an unbeatable catalog is cemented as hard truth-and their seventh album, Some Of It Was True, stands as their most immediate-sounding and energetic record to date. The follow-up to 2019's sensational Hello Exile accomplishes the daunting task of capturing the Menzingers' distinctive live energy in the confines of the studio, resulting in a sound that's both rich, raw, and complementary to the group's increasingly prismatic songwriting approach. More than 15 years in, the Menzingers are still holding their listeners square in the immediate present, and Some Of It Was True documents that power in thrilling fashion.

"We wanted to make a fun record and write songs that we wanted to play live, and that's exactly what we did," co-vocalist/guitarist Greg Barnett says "We've always said that we want every album to sound live, but we never recorded an album live before. This was the first time we committed to that idea. We wanted to sound like how our band sounds onstage." Making the process easier: Grammy-nominated producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver, the War on Drugs, Waxahatchee), who joined the Menzingers in El Paso's legendary Sonic Ranch studios and lent his incredible ear for raw, immediate sound to help the band achieve Some Of It Was True's in-the-room live feel. "The Menzingers are as real as it gets," Cook says on his time in the studio with the band. "I had an absolute blast working with these guys and was moved to tears many times. They are truly dedicated to artistic growth, and to each other, in ways I found both refreshing and beautiful. I am now a lifer."

• 1 Hope Is a Dangerous Little Thing
• 2 There's No Place in This World for Me
• 3 Nobody Stays
• 4 Some of It Was True
• 5 Try
• 6 Come on Heartache
• 7 Ultraviolet
• 8 Take It to Heart
• 9 Love at the End
• 10 Alone in Dublin
• 11 High Low
• 12 I Didn't Miss You (Until You Were Gone)
• 13 Running in the Roar of the Wind

RAY CHARLES / Now Playing (SYEOR24) [Blue Vinyl] A music legend beyond compare, who almost single-handedly laid the groundwork for soul music, American artist Ray Charles proved his mastery with countless jazz, country, R&B, and pop masterpieces during a career that spanned seven decades. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ray number 10 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" and was voted number 2 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time" in November 2008.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Mess Around
• 2 I've Got a Woman (2005 Remaster)
• 3 Drown in My Own Tears (2005 Remaster)
• 4 Hallelujah I Love Her So (2005 Remaster)
• 5 Lonely Avenue (2005 Remaster)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 The Right Time (2005 Remaster)
• 2 What'd I Say, Pt. 1 & 2 (2005 Mono Remaster)
• 3 I Believe to My Soul (2005 Remaster)
• 4 Let the Good Times Roll (2005 Remaster)
• 5 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)

Baroness return with their highly-anticipated sixth album, STONE, on Sept. 15 via Abraxan Hymns. While they wrote STONE, frontman John Baizley recorded and pre-mixed it in real time, giving each song on STONE it's own sonic treatment. The album features original cover art by John Baizley and is available on a variety of formats.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Embers
• 2 Last Word
• 3 Beneath the Rose
• 4 Choir
• 5 The Dirge
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Anodyne
• 2 Shine
• 3 Magnolia
• 4 Under the Wheel
• 5 Bloom

Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr (Exclusive Gold Vinyl) Johnny Marr will release a compilation of solo songs, Spirit Power: The former Smiths guitarist curated the collection from the last 10 years of his output and recorded a pair of new tracks, "Somewhere" and "The Answer."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Armatopia
• 2 New Town Velocity
• 3 Easy Money
• 4 Spirit Power and Soul
• 5 Hi Hello
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Somewhere
• 2 European Me
• 3 The Messenger
• 4 I Feel You
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 The Answer
• 2 Dynamo
• 3 Spiral Cities
• 4 The Priest - By Johnny Marr & Maxine Peake
• 5 Night and Day
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Sensory Street
• 2 Walk Into the Sea
• 3 Upstarts
• 4 Candidate
• 5 Tenement Time

BLACK SABBATH / REUNION This 3LP set on purple smoke vinyl captures the original band lineup of Black Sabbath live from their 1997 reunion tour, and features 16 live performances of their greatest hits remastered from the original source tapes, along with 2 remixed bonus tracks. Indie Retail/D2C exclusive on purple smoke vinyl.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 War Pigs
• 2 Behind the Wall of Sleep
• 3 N.I.B
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Fairies Wear Boots
• 2 Electric Funeral
• 3 Sweet Leaf
• 4 Spiral Architect
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Into the Void
• 2 Snowblind
• 3 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Orchid/Lord of This World
• 2 Dirty Women
• 3 Black Sabbath
• - Disc 5 -
• 1 Iron Man
• 2 Children of the Grave
• 3 Paranoid
• - Disc 6 -
• 1 Psycho Man
• 2 Selling My Soul
• 3 Psycho Man (Danny Saber Remix)
• 4 Selling My Soul (Danny Saber Remix)