Out This Week / on 13 January 2017

St Etienne / Foxbase Alpha (vinyl box)

St Etienne‘s 1991 debut is reissued across two 45RPM vinyl records and comes packaged with a bonus LP of associated recordings from the era. Includes a bonus seven-inch, a book and photos and comes in a lift-off lid box. 

Pat Benatar / 5 Classic Albums

Budget five-CD package features the albums In The Heat Of The Night, Crimes Of Passion, Get Nervous, Tropico, and Wide Awake In Dreamland

• • UK Order: 5 Classic Albums
• • USA Order: 5 Classic Albums

Rick Wakdman / Piano Portraits

Rick Wakeman re-interprets 15 tracks on piano including Life On Mars, Eleanor Rigby, I’m Not In Love, Stairway to Heaven and Space Oddity.

• • UK Order: Piano Portraits (CD)
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The Flaming Lips / Oczy Mlody (new album)

The Flaming Lips return with a new album, their first since 2013’s The Terror. Oczy Mlody is produced by their long-time producer Dave Fridmann.

• • UK Order: Oczy Mlody (CD)
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Hans Zimmer / The Classics

Hans Zimmer‘s classic soundtrack work (Interstellar, Inception, Gladiator, The Dark Knight Rises etc.) is reimagined and arranged for “the world’s greatest classical musicians”.

• • UK Order: Hans Zimmer – The Classics (CD)
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Various Artists: / Twelve Inch Eighties: Hold Me Now

Crimson Productions release a pair of triple-CD 12-inch compilations this week – Hold Me Now and When The Going Gets Tough. The former includes long and remixed versions of tracks by Spandau Ballet, Paul Young, Nick Heyward, Thompson Twins and more.

• • UK Order: Twelve Inch Eighties: Hold Me Now
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