Out This Week on 27 August 2021

Capitol Records/Universal Music explore The Beach Boys‘ 1969-1971 period with a new archive release called Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971. Good luck snagging the five-CD set which is proving elusive, thanks to what appears to be a minuscule number produced and made available for distribution. Hey, it’s ONLY The Beach Boys after all…

Singer-songwriter Tim Finn – best known for founding Split Enz and being part of Crowded House during the Woodface era – and Roxy Music guitar legend Phil Manzanera have collaborated on a new album called Caught by the Heart. The SDE shop has copies exclusively signed by Phil and we’re almost sold out.

Estoteric Recordings issue an enormous 15CD+DVD box set edition of Be Bop Deluxe‘s 1977 live album Live! In The Air Age.

Supergrass reissue their 1997 album In It For The Money. The band’s second album will be available as a remastered, expanded 3CD set or on vinyl which comes with a bonus 12-inch single.

Madfish release American Dreamer, a limited edition remastered vinyl box set of albums by the influential and celebrated singer-songwriter Laura Nyro. Don’t regret not picking this up – stock still available via the SDE shop at the time of writing.

If you can forgive the lack of the band’s first album, this nine-CD Aztec Camera set is rather impressive and just about ticks all the boxes.

The 2017 Ten Years After box set consists of 10 CDs and is being made available again in new clamshell box packaging.

Fantastic four-CD remix compilation which is wallet-friendly and includes some genuine rarities including the Jellybean 12-inch of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson’s ‘Say Say Say’, the extended version of Queen‘s ‘A Kind Of Magic’, the 12-inch version of Malcolm McLaren’s ‘Double Dutch’ and the extended mix of Eurythmics‘ brilliant ‘Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)’

Cheap as chips CD version of The Sisters of Mercy‘s BBC Sessions 1982-1984 which was recently issued as a special Record Store Day 2LP set pressed on coloured vinyl.

Demon Records Belinda Carlisle vinyl reissue campaign concludes with a 3LP box set of Life Your Life Be Free.  The 3LP 180g green vinyl is exclusive to Amazon UK.

Not exactly cheap, but anyone who owns the Analogue Productions SACD of Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here is going to want The Dark Side of the Moon which is given similar treatment and packaging.

Toyah Willcox releases her first studio album in 13 years. Signed CDs have sold out but still some signed vinyl available.

New Order are issue last year’s ‘Be A Rebel’ single on 12-inch and CD single with loads of remixes, including a new one by the legend that is Arthur Baker.