Out This Week / on 20 March 2020

Heaven 17 release Another Big Idea (1996-2015), a 9CD or 4LP vinyl box set that follow the band’s work from when they regrouped and returned from a six-year hiatus in 1996 with the album Bigger Than America. Signed copies still available.

Post-punk/new wave band The Distractions‘ 1980 album Nobody’s Perfect has enjoyed ‘lost classic’ status for a long time and is finally reissued, remastered and expanded with a host of unreleased material. Both vinyl and CD come with special extras via the SDE shop.

The Early Years 79-81 is a five-CD box set that documents the beginnings of British Rock band Def Leppard. Contents include albums, B-sides and rarities, radio sessions and a previously unreleased live show.

Morrissey releases a new album, I Am Not A Dog On A Chain. It has been produced by Joe Chicarelli.

Chris Heath’s two classic Pet Shop Boys books, Literally (1989) and Pet Shop Boys versus America (1991), are being reprinted in new hardback editions.

Delayed from last week, Demon Records issue Hexagonal Phase, a new 3LP coloured vinyl deluxe set that features the last ever BBC Radio series of Douglas Adams’ classic comedy science fiction radio show The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. SIGNED editions still available.