Out This Week / on 9 December 2016

Erasure / From Moscow to Mars (30th anniversary box set)

After various delays, Erasure‘s 13-disc career-spanning box set is released this week. The band’s website has sold out, but these are still available via PledgeMusic.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers / vinyl box sets

Two massive vinyl box sets required to document Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers‘ impressive 40 year career. 

Frank Zappa / In It For The Money (vinyl reissue)

Frank Zappa‘s satirical 1968 long-player is one of five of his albums reissued on vinyl this week. For this particular release, the restored original 1968 mix is pressed on 180-gram vinyl from an “approved digital master”.

• • UK Order: In It For The Money (vinyl)
• • USA Order: In It For The Money (vinyl)
• • GERMANY Order: In It For The Money (vinyl)

The Decemberists / The Crane Wife (5LP vinyl box set)

Enormous 10th anniversary reissue for The Decemberists 2006 major-label debut. This includes the original album across two LPs, with three more LPs of B-sides, bonus tracks, unreleased outtakes, alternative versions and Colin Meloy’s solo acoustic demos. Also comes with a blu-ray of the band’s 2006 concert at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club. If you’re in Europe, JPC.de have a good price for this box.

• • UK Order: The Crane Wife (box set)
• • USA Order: The Crane Wife (box set)
• • GERMANY Order: The Crane Wife (box set)

Neil Young / Peace Trail (new album) 

Neil Young‘s 38th studio album is a largely acoustic affair. Vinyl isn’t out until next year. Let’s hope he’s put more effort into the music than the front cover. 

Leonard Cohen / You Want It Darker

Due to a finite amount of pressing plants, it’s not unfamiliar these days for the vinyl version of an album to follow a few weeks or even months after the CD version. Unfortunately for Sony, Leonard Cohen died in between these two events with regards to You Want It Darker. 

Various Artists / Action Time Vision (4CD box set)

Forty years on, Cherry Red documents the independent punk scene in the UK with this impressive looking four-CD box set. 

PiL / Metal Box and Album 

After various delays the two Public Image Limited deluxe and super deluxe editions are released this week. 

Rick Wakeman / No Earthly Connection (reissue)

Rick Wakeman‘s 1976 album is remastered and expanded to include a bonus disc of ‘Live at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1976’. The vinyl version replicates the original. 

The Band / The Last Waltz (40th Anniversary)

The 6LP vinyl edition of The Last Waltz reissue came out a month ago, but this week sees the release of the 4CD+blu-ray format in most territories. 

Wilson Phillips (2CD deluxe reissue)

Wilson Phillips massive selling 1990 debut album is expanded and remastered in this two-CD deluxe edition. 

Black / Any Colour You Like (2CD deluxe)

This Deluxe Edition of Black‘s 2011 fan-chosen compilation adds a disc of ten of Colin’s Vearncombe’s favourite recordings at the time. The package includes a 64-page booklet with lyrics for each song and many previously unpublished photographs. 

• • UK Order: Any Colour You Like (2CD)
• • GERMANY Order: Any Colour You Like (2CD)

The Alan Parsons Project / Tales of Mystery and Imagination (blu-ray audio)

The blu-ray audio of the 40th anniversary edition of the 1976 Alan Parsons Project album is now widely available as a standalone product.