Out This Week / on 12 October 2018

For the fourth year in succession, Parlophone Records release a major David Bowie box set. Loving The Alien (1983-1988) will feature his three solo albums from the period in question, and offer fans something extra by including a ‘new production’ of 1987’s Never Let Me Down, the first audio release of the Serious Moonlight Tour and a some new-to-CD remixes.

Demon Record will issue Secondary Phase a new 3LP coloured vinyl deluxe set that features the second series of Douglas Adams‘ classic comedy science fiction radio show The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Signed sets still available.

More coloured vinyl from Sony as they reissue the Fugees’ 1996 album The Score on 2LP coloured vinyl. Check out this post for details of the other coloured vinyl reissues out this week.

Primal Scream release the original ‘Memphis Recordings’ that eventually became their 1994 album Give Out But Don’t Give Up. This is a 2CD or 2LP vinyl set.

Universal Music issue The Fontana Years, a four-CD box set that brings together the Cocteau Twins last two albums, recorded for the Fontana label, along with associated B-sides, EPs and radio sessions.

Pylon Records will release Nitzer Ebb 1982-2010: The Box Set, in October, a new 10LP vinyl package that includes newly remastered versions of all five of  Nitzer Ebb‘s Mute/Geffen albums and five additional vinyl records of bonus tracks and rarities.

St. Vincent releases a new album MassEducation, a stripped back piano and vocals ‘reimagining’ of her 2017 long-player Masseduction.

Sony Music issue a gold-coloured 2LP vinyl edition of the classic Elvis 30 #1 Hits compilation.

English post-punk band A Certain Ratio‘s debut, The Graveyard And The Ballroom, will be reissued on orange vinyl as part of Mute’s 40th anniversary celebrations.

German new wave band Camouflage‘s 1988 debut Voices and Images is reissued as a 30th anniversary 2CD deluxe and a very limited 3LP vinyl edition.

Elvis Costello and The Imposters return with a new album that includes collaborations with Burt Bacharach and Carole King and channels the spirit of former highs like Imperial Bedroom and Painted From Memory. Deluxe double CD and double vinyl available.