Pink Floyd’s 1977 album Animals will be reissued early next year to mark the 50th anniversary.
2CD, 2LP and blu-ray editions offer five rarities including an unheard Roger Waters track called ‘Young Nicholas Jon’ and previously unreleased early versions of ‘Sheep’ and ‘Dogs’. The blu-ray and deluxe box set also include the May 9, 1977 live show from California, recorded at the Oakland Coliseum Arena by a then 19 year old bootlegger, Reinhard Hohlwein.
The blu-ray (remarkably, the third blu-ray audio of this album!) also includes the original 1977 stereo mix and the 2018 remix in stereo, 5.1 and Atmos.
The deluxe box set features a 64-page hardback book with new sleeve notes from Jonathan Lethem, an interview with the aforementioned Reinhard Hohlwein, and an excerpt from Hipgnosis’ Aubrey “Po” Powell’s memoir about the making of Animals’ iconic album art. The disc content is as follows:
CD1: Animals (Original album)
CD2: Animals (2018 Remix)
CD3: Rarities
CD4: Live from the Oakland Coliseum Arena, 1977 Disc 1
CD5: Live from the Oakland Coliseum Arena, 1977 Disc 2
LP1: Animals (Original album)
LP2: Animals (2018 Remix)
LP3: Rarities
Blu-ray
Animals will be reissued on 22 January 2027, via Sony. You can order the standalone blu-ray from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
Watch, as SDEtv unboxes four formats of the Roxy Music For Your Pleasure reissue, including the 3CD+DVD super deluxe and the SDE exclusive blu-ray. All formats are released on 6 November and contingency/cancellation stock of the blu-ray is currently available on the SDE shop. You can order the blu-ray using this link or the button below.
For Your Pleasure Roxy Music/SDE exclusive blu-ray
FOR YOUR PLEASURE: 2026 Bob Clearmountain Dolby Atmos Mix, 2026 Bob Clearmountain Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix, 2026 Bob Clearmountain 5.1 Mix, 2026 Bob Clearmountain Stereo Mix, Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix, 1973 Original Stereo Mix Flat Transfer (192/24 & 48/24)
Do The Strand
Beauty Queen
Strictly Confidential
Editions Of You
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
The Bogus Man
Grey Lagoons
For Your Pleasure
PYJAMARAMA: Bob Clearmountain 2026 Dolby Atmos Mix (48/24), Bob Clearmountain 2026 Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix (48/24), Bob Clearmountain 5.1 Mix, Original Stereo Mix, Steven Wilson 5.1
Pyjamarama
THE PRIDE AND THE PAIN: Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix & Original Stereo Mix
The Pride and The Pain
Stereo bonus tracks
Pyjamarama – studio outtake
Beauty Queen – studio outtake
Strictly Confidential – studio outtake
Editions of You – studio outtake
The Bogus Man – studio outtake
Grey Lagoons – studio outtake
For Your Pleasure – Eno Tapes
Grey Lagoons – BBC Paris Theatre, London, August 1972
Everything But The Girl will release Blue Reservoir, their 11th studio album, in February next year.
We are told that the album sees the Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt “put aside the sharply-lit electronica” of 2023’s Fuse and embrace some of their “foundational influences and ideas”.
New single ‘Young And Dumb’ is presumably a reasonable taste of what the album has to offer and you can preview it above. The album is available to pre-order on CD and (half-speed mastered) vinyl, but like Fuse there’s a CD+blu-ray edition which features a Dolby Atmos Mix on the blu-ray element.
Blue Reservoir will be released on 19 February 2027.
Warner Music will release an Air 4CD box set later this month. It will contain the French Band’s first four albums, which is as follows:
Moon Safari (1998)
The Virgin SuicidesRedux (orginal album: 2000, Redux remix: 2025)
10 000 Hz Legend (2001)
Talkie Walkie (2004)
Unusually, each album will be packaged in a jewel case which together reside in a clamshell style box set. This also comes with a poster. No word on mastering, but we can assume it will simply use the lastest version available (Virgin Suicides Redux is a new mix from 2025).
The Air 4CD box will be released on 27 November 2026, via Warner Music.
Roxy Music’s 1973 album, For Your Pleasure is reissued as a 3CD+blu-ray box set, as a 2CD and 2LP vinyl set and on SDE exclusive blu-ray with Dolby Atmos Mixes and more. You can order the blu-ray on the SDE shop.
NOW Music continues to tread a path through 1960s pop with Volume Four of it Yearbook presents 60s series. This covers the years 1967 to 1969 and is in fact ‘Part One’ so there’s more to come.
The usual packaging is on offer: 4CD editions (84 tracks) in premium hardcover book packaging and cheaper card sleeve versions. This time the 3LP edition (54 tracks) is pressed on black vinyl.
No Beatles and no Stones of course, but even without those titans this is still a great collection of songs. CD 1 of the 4CD set includes Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Mrs Robinson’; The Monkees’ ‘I’m A Believer’; The Beach Boys’ ‘Do It Again’; a West Coast double with The Flowerpot Men’s ‘Let’s Go To San Francisco’ and Scott McKenzie’s ‘San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)’; Dionne Warwick’s ‘Do You Know The Way To San Jose’, Dusty Springfield’s ‘I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten’ and The Hollies’ ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’. The disc also includes The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown’s ‘Fire’, Zager & Evans‘ ‘In The Year 2525’, and Desmond Dekker & The Aces’ ‘Israelites’.
The second disc includes Glen Campbell’s ‘Wichita Lineman’, Bobbie Gentry’s ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again’, Mary Hopkins’ Macca-penned ‘Goodbye’ (listen to the demo), Cat Stevens’ Matthew & Son, Tom Jones’ Delilah, Andy Williams’ ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’, Georgie Fame’s The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde’ and Elvis Presley’s In The Ghetto.
CD3 opens with a run of soul classics including Marvin Gaye’s ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’, Stevie Wonder’s ‘My Cherie Amour’, Otis Redding’s ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ ‘The Tracks Of My Tears’, The Temptations’ ‘Get Ready’ and more. Later, there’s classic singles from The Velvet Underground, Status Quo, Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker and Fleetwood Mac.
The final disc includes Procol Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’, Small Faces’ ‘Itchycoo Park’, Manfred Mann’s ‘The Mighty Quinn’, Peter Sarstedt’s ‘Where Do You Go To (My Lovely), Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin’s ‘Je T’aime Moi Non Plus’ and Sandie Shaw’s ‘Puppet On A String’.
NOW Yearbook presents 60sVol. 4: 1967-1969 – Part One will be released on 27 November 2026.
Prince’s 2006 album, 3121, will be reissued as a deluxe edition, in December.
Despite not delivering any hit singles (‘Te Amo Corazón’ was an odd choice of first 45) the album was a significant success for Prince, featuring a very commercial mix of funk, soul, rock and pop.
After years of testing the patience of all but the most dedicated of fans (bloated triple albums, online exclusives that may or may not turn up, hiding away gems like The Truth…) Prince was, at this time, deciding to keep things relatively simple. For example, this was a digestible 12-track album and it was easily available in ‘the shops’, thanks to a one album distribution deal with Universal.The rewards duly came and 3121 reached No 1 in the US charts (1989’s Batman had been his last chart-topper in North America) and it was a top 10 success in the UK (a few years later Prince was back to his old tricks with the 2 hour 20 minute Lotusflow3r / MPLSound).
Highlights of 3121 include the stripped-down funk of ‘Black Sweat’ and ‘Love’, the hooky pop of ‘The Word’ and the none-more-James-Brown ‘Get On The Boat’.
The new 2CD+blu-ray deluxe edition features the album on CD 1, a selection of bonus tracks on CD 2 (some previously unreleased) and on the blu-ray, promo videos and the complete concert filmed during Prince’s Per4ming Live @ 3121 Las Vegas from January 2007 (the audio of which is being released for Black Friday RSD). Sadly, there’s no Atmos Mix included. There will also be a 3LP+blu-ray edition with the same audio/video content is the CD set.
3121 deluxe edition will be released on 11 December 2026. You can pre-order 3121 from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
Watch, as SDEtv unboxes the deluxe edition (and 2LP vinyl) of Steven Wilson’s forthcoming album, Requiem For A Village. The album is released on 6 November, although at the time of writing this deluxe edition appears to be sold out. Vinyl options, CD and the blu-ray with SDE exclusive slipcase are still available.
Pre-order the SDE exclusive blu-ray with the slipcase or the 2LP green vinyl via the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
When Sony announced the Bob DylanRolling Thunder Revue 1976 Live Recordings 39CD box set back in September, the only other format available was a 3LP vinyl edition that featured the 16 May, 1976 Forth Worth show, in Texas.
That has now changed as the same concert is being released as a standalone 2CD set. These two discs are CDs 32 and 33 from the box set and feature the complete Fort Worth, TX performance on the second leg of the legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour, with newly remixed audio. 18 of the 22 tracks are previously unreleased.
Whether this was always the plan, or Sony responding to fan feedback is unclear, but at less than £12 this is now the cheapest format available from the reissue campaign.
The Rolling Thunder Revue – Fort Worth, TX, 1976 will be released as a 2CD set on 18 December 2026, more than five weeks after the 39CD box set and the 3LP vinyl edition of the Forth Worth show.
The Who’s 1975 album is reissued as a 5CD+blu-ray box set and as a standalone SDE exclusive blu-ray. As well as Atmos, 5.1 and Stereo, the blu-ray features nearly 2 hours of video footage of the band playing live in Michigan on 6 Dec, 1975. Cancellation/contingency stock now available on the SDE shop.
Texas’1997 album White On Blonde will be reissued next year for its 30th anniversary.
The band’s fourth album rescued them from the dumper, spawning four top 10 hits in the UK including ‘Say What You Want’, ‘Halo’ and ‘Black Eyed Boy’.
The 2CD deluxe offers a remastered version of the album on CD 1 and demos and rarities on CD 2, alongside a brand new song called ‘Another Way To Cry‘ (see above). There is also 2LP vinyl and vinyl LP + 7″ editions available. The double vinyl echoes the deluxe CD but offers 11 bonus tracks instead of 13. The vinyl + 7″ has the remastered album on LP and ‘Another Way To Cry’ on the seven-inch (an instrumental version is, exclusively, on the B-side). The band are planning a UK and EU tour in a year’s time to mark the anniversary.
White On Blonde will be reissued on 5 February 2027, via PIAS.
Manic Street Preachers/The Holy Bible LiveCD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
Manic Street Preachers’ 1994 album is reissued mostly as performed live in 2014, although the SDE blu-ray uniquely includes the original record in Atmos, 5.1, Stereo and Instrumental form as remixed by Steven Wilson. Cancellation/contingency stock now available.
‘Vanilla’ CD and vinyl reissues of the two Traveling Wilburys’ albums – the 1988 Eponymous debut and 1990’s Vol 3. The CDs aren’t out until 20 November, for some reason.
Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips is a new deluxe edition The Rolling Stones’ 2026 studio album Foreign Tongues and will be released in November.
This edition adds five new tracks: ‘Where There’s A Will’, featuring Steve Winwood on organ, ‘Who You Callin’ Crazy’ featuring saxophonist Courtney Pine, ‘Human Tide’, ‘Bad Luck Hideaway’ and ‘She Still Comes Around’.
A 2CD deluxe set adds these five tracks to the second CD (Loose Lips) although the vinyl edition offers the five new tracks as a red vinyl EP, which ships with a CD of the original 14-track album. The reason the label are ‘giving’ you the CD with the vinyl EP (which I imagine few vinyl buyers will need) is so that it counts as a album sale in the UK charts while not making it as expensive as a full-fat 2LP set (although some might point out that £28 for a 5-track vinyl EP is hardly a bargain).
Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips will be released by Polydor on 27 November 2026.
Following fan feedback, some of it via SDE, Parlophone have issued a statement about the Pet Shop BoysA man from the future blu-ray.
The issues, which affect all blu-rays, include an incorrect version of ‘Natural wonders every child should know’ on the ‘no narration’ Atmos Mix, missing drums on ‘He dreamed of machines’ (on the same ‘no narration’ Atmos), and apparent vocal sync issues on both the standard and ‘no narration’ Atmos mixes.
These will be looked into and “resolved” with band/label publishing the following statement, yesterday.
“Parlophone are investigating production issues which have unfortunately created problems with certain tracks on the “A man from the future” Blu-ray. PSB have just been made aware of these and apologise for the disappointment caused. Once these issues are resolved, Parlophone will manufacture and distribute replacement discs to those who have purchased the Blu-ray. Details on how to apply for a replacement disc will be shared as soon as we have them.”
SDE will advise when there is more details on this. For now, whether you have bought the standard blu-ray via Amazon (or similar channels) or the exclusive slipcased version via SDE or the PSB site, keep hold of your blu-ray and await further instructions, since as per the statement, replacement discs will be issued.
Watch, as SDEtv unboxes all formats of the new reissue of The Family Silver’s 2015 album, Electric Blend.
The Family Silver are a classic British power trio comprising singer and guitarist Matt Deighton (Mother Earth, Paul Weller, Oasis), drummer Steve White (Paul Weller, The Style Council) and bass player Damon Minchella (Ocean Colour Scene).
Electric Blend was their only album. It was self-released in 2015 via PledgeMusic and the only other studio recordings made were a 6-track EP (Blaze of Light). Around 500 CDs of that were privately pressed and sold at gigs.
The SDE Records reissue brings together album and EP for a 2CD deluxe set (with bonus tracks and eight unreleased cuts) and a blu-ray audio with Atmos Mixes of both album and EP and a short film showing the band rehearse and play live in 2016 (previously unreleased).
Both formats are available to order exclusively via the SDE shop and if you buy the two together in a bundle, it ships with a FREE 6-track CD single of ‘If Only For Tomorrow’ with six tracks exclusive to CD (four of them previously unreleased).
Electric Blend is released tomorrow, 16 October 2026 via SDE Records. Order from the SDE shop using this link or the buttons below.
Tracklisting
Electric BlendThe Family Silver /SDE exclusive blu-ray
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MIXES IN DOLBY ATMOS, 5.1
AND HI-RES STEREO PLUS THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIXES
NOW Musiccontinue with their ‘era’ series by going back to the early seventies for CD and vinyl sets that celebrate colourful world of glam rock along with the big chart hits that defined the early-to-mid 1970s.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, CD 1 of the 4CD set (available in deluxe hardcover book and standard card sleeve packaging) kicks off with the titular hit from Sweet and also includes tracks from Mud, Suzi Quatro, and Wizzard. It’s not all ‘glam’ though, with big hits from the likes of Leo Sayer (‘The Show Must Go On’), Pilot (‘January’) and Sparks (‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us’).
The second disc includes The New Seekers‘ ‘I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)’ the Nana-tastic ‘one-two’ of Shocking Blue’s ‘Venus’ and Steam’s ‘Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye’, Edison Lighthouse‘s ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’ and The 5th Dimension’s easy-pop classic ‘Up, Up And Away’ from 1968.
4CD deluxe version offers hardcover book packaging
CD3 offers (amongst many others) The Rubettes’ ‘Sugar Baby Love’, Bay City Rollers’ ‘Bye Bye Baby’, Carl Douglas’ massive No 1 ‘Kung Fu Fighting’, more Sparks (with Looks, Looks, Looks’), Terry Jacks‘ ‘Seasons In The Sun’, David Essex’s ‘Gonna Make You A Star’ and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel’s iconic ‘Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me).
The final disc is more on point with singles from T. Rex, Sweet, Mud but also includes Elton John, Brotherhood Of Man and a reminder that Billy Ocean existed in the 1970s with ‘Love Really Hurts Without You’. It’s great to see an ABBA song on a NOW compilation even if ‘Honey Honey’ isn’t the original but a cover by Sweet Dreams. The last disc signs off with The Wombles’ ‘Remember You’re A Womble’.
As well as the 4CD versions there’s the usual 3LP pressed on coloured vinyl. The 4CD sets have 81 tracks whereas vinyl buyers have to settle for 53.
NOW That’s What I Call An Era – Ballroom Blitz: 1967-1976 will be released on 6 November 2026.
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The pre-order window for the Jean-Michel JarreOxygène SDE exclusive blu-ray closes tomorrow at Noon (BST).
This iconic 1976 album has been mixed in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround by David Kosten, Steven Wilson and Jean-Michel Jarre, from the original multi-tracks, with sessions in Paris and London to perfect these immersive mixes.
In addition to the Atmos and 5.1 mixes, the blu-ray also features a Miles Showell 2026 remaster of the original 1976 album made from a new transfer of the original stereo tapes (recently unearthed from Jean-Michel Jarre’s archive). This is unlimited audio presented at the highest possible resolution (192 kHz / 24 bit) – the original version has never sounded better, and possibly never will!
Audio streams on the SDE exclusive Oxygène blu-ray:
Additionally, the blu-ray includes Oxygène (Part IV)original music video, upgraded to HD, and an exclusive 30 minute video interview with Jean-Michel Jarre, David Kosten and Steven Wilson conducted at Abbey Road Studios earlier this year, during the remastering sessions.
The blu-ray is a hardcover deluxe presentation and comes with 48-page booklet featuring essays from music journalists Alexis Petridis (The Guardian, UK) and Alma Rota (Rolling Stone, France) and David Kosten’s notes about mixing in Dolby Atmos (all three in both French and English). It also includes rare images from the forthcoming book Machines: A History of Electronic Music by Jean-Michel Jarre (to be published by Thames & Hudson on 29 October).
The blu-ray is #80 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase. This SDE exclusive (region-free) blu-ray is the ultimate way to experience one of the most influential electronic albums ever released.
The Oxygene blu-ray is released on 4 December 2026. Pre-order only via the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
In somewhat depressing news, music retailer HMV has announced that it will close its flagship London shop, 363 Oxford Street, in March next year.
This branch has a terrible on-off history. After the original era, it closed in 2000, only to reopen again back in 2013. It survived for six years before being closed in 2019!
The entertainment giant then returned to 363 Oxford Street (in the old days, when there was two HMVs in the same street, this was always referred to as the ‘Bond Street’ HMV) as recently as April 2023 so by the time it shuts, the tenancy will have lasted only four further years.
HMV are blaming the landlords, claiming they are trying to double the rent. Although why they wouldn’t have put some provision in the contract, only three years ago, for a viable long term rent agreement, is a bit of a mystery.
363 Oxford Street is only one of two HMVs in London (the other being at Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush). The company has promised to maintain a “significant presence” in the capital.
Quick blu-ray pre-order• Atmos by David Kosten, Steven Wilson & Jean-Michel • 192/24 Unlimited stereo remaster by Miles Showell • CD and vinyl options
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jean-Michel Jarre’s groundbreaking 1976 masterpiece Oxygène, BMG will be reissuing the album for its a 50th anniversary on CD and vinyl, with an SDE exclusive blu-ray also available to pre-order – for a very limited time – presenting the landmark album with its most advanced audio presentation to date.
Oxygène (English: Oxygen) is an album of instrumental electronic music composed, produced, and performed by the French composer Jean-Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976. Jarre recorded the album in his home using a variety of analog synthesizers and other electronic instruments and effects. It became a bestseller and was Jarre’s first album to achieve mainstream success. It was also highly influential in the development of electronic music and has been described as the album that “led the synthesizer revolution of the Seventies”
This iconic recording has been mixed in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround by David Kosten, Steven Wilson and Jean-Michel Jarre, from the original multi-tracks, with sessions in Paris and London to perfect these immersive mixes.
In an excerpt from notes in the blu-ray booklet, David Kosten explains the methodology of this process:
“A crucial part of the original 1976 production was the extreme left/right panning between a dry (un-effected) sound and an echoed version of itself. Mostly on the original Oxygène stereo mix, we hear a dry sound panned hard to the left, and a rolling, repeating tape-echo version of it panned fully to the right, at the same level as the dry tone. This gives the music an incredibly wide, spacious and unique feel.
All of this was vital to keep intact while making new versions for 2026 – the sound balance was so carefully mixed and delicate on the 1976 original stereo mixes, and we worked to both recreate the sonics of the original mixes, and to allow the music to breathe anew in a three dimensional format.
We refined all of the motion, the spatial positioning and balances of the album. We have let go of some of the [original][ fixed left/right panning in these new immersive versions, and often allowed the trailing, vaporous echoes to move around the space (‘Part II’ has lots of this). All the sounds disappear into the centre speaker at the end of ‘Part III’, before re-emerging with the birdsong, directly above us, using the height speakers. In ‘Part V’, the drums and bass circle the listener, while the melodies play from multiple spaces around the room. The ocean in ‘Part VI’ crashes over us from front to back now – and the seagull flies about the landscape too!”
In addition to the Atmos and 5.1 mixes, the blu-ray also features a Miles Showell 2026 remaster of the original 1976 album made from a new transfer of the original stereo tapes (recently unearthed from Jean-Michel Jarre’s archive). This is unlimited audio presented at the highest possible resolution (192 kHz / 24 bit) – the original version has never sounded better, and possibly never will!
Audio streams on the SDE exclusive Oxygène blu-ray:
Additionally, the blu-ray includes Oxygène (Part IV)original music video, upgraded to HD, and an exclusive 30 minute video interview with Jean-Michel Jarre, David Kosten and Steven Wilson conducted at Abbey Road Studios earlier this year, during the remastering sessions.
The blu-ray comes with 48-page booklet featuring essays from music journalists Alexis Petridis (The Guardian, UK) and Alma Rota (Rolling Stone, France) and David Kosten’s notes about mixing in Dolby Atmos (all three in both French and English). It also includes rare images from the forthcoming book Machines: A History of Electronic Music by Jean-Michel Jarre (to be published by Thames & Hudson on 29 October).
The SDE exclusive blu-ray is #80 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and comes packaged in the same deluxe hardcover media book packaging used in the past for Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry SDE blu-rays. As ever,itships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
This SDE exclusive (region-free) blu-ray is the ultimate way to experience one of the most influential electronic albums ever released, but don’t hang around because this blu-ray edition is a TIME LIMITED release; the pre-order window closes in just 9 DAYS, on 15 October 2026. Availability after that point cannot be guaranteed.
Oxygène will be released on CD and vinyl via BMG on 20 November 2026. The blu-ray will follow on 4 December 2026. Pre-order the SDE exclusive blu-ray only via the SDE shop using this link or the button below. Vinyl and CD pre-order options are further down.
