Watch as SDEtv unboxes the recent Aerosmith vinyl super deluxe edition box set. This version of the reissue is D2C only and was released in late March. Links for other versions are below.
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Duran Duran/'The Wedding Album' and 'Thank You'Vinyl
Duran Duran’s 1990s album Duran Duran aka ‘The Wedding Album’ and Thank You are to be reissued on vinyl for the first time since their original release.
Cooking Vinyl has announced a standalone blu-ray audio edition of The Alan Parsons Project’s 1982 album Eye in the Sky.
The blu-ray features a brand new 2026Dolby Atmos MixbyAlan Parsons as well as the 5.1 Surround Mix from 2017 (also by Parsons – it won a Grammy!) and a hi-res (96/24) stereo remaster by Miles Showell.
Eye In The Sky was The Alan Parsons Project’s sixth studio album. It was Grammy nominated, selling in excess of two million copies and like other Alan Parsons Project albums, there were a variety of different lead vocalists employed including Chris Rainbow, Colin Blunstone, Lenny Zakatek, Elmer Gantry as well as Eric Woolfson himself. Session musicians included guitarists Ian Bairnson and David Paton and drummer Stuart Elliott (arrangements were by Andrew Powell).
Audio streams on the blu-ray
2026 Dolby Atmos Mix by Alan Parsons (48/24)
5.1 Mix of original album by Alan Parsons (96/24)
Stereo HD Remaster by Miles Showell (96/24)
The 16-page booklet that comes with this blu-ray contains lyrics and Alan Parsons’ thoughts on his Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes.
Eye in the Sky blu-ray will be released on 15 May 2026. Pre-order your copy from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
Tracklisting
Eye in the SkyThe Alan Parsons Project/Blu-ray Audio
Eye In The Sky In Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound and Hi-Res Stereo
NOW Music pulls on the flares and dons a ‘kipper’ tie as it heads back to the 1970s with its Yearbook series for a thorough musical examination of 1972.
4CD editions (the usual deluxe hardcover book and standard card sleeve sets) include 80 tracks and a blue vinyl 3LP version offers 50.
In terms of the 4CD version disc one offers tracks from John Lennon, Rod Stewart, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney and Wings, Harry Nilsson, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and more.
CD 2 goes Glam/Art-rock with contributions from Roxy Music, Sweet, Slade, Alice Cooper, and Mott The Hoople but also includes songs by Jeff Beck, Argent, Free, ELO, Hawkwind and ends with a certain novelty hit from Chuck Berry.
4CD deluxe edition
Disc three opens in style with Shirley Bassey’s Bond theme ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, and embraces an easy listening vibe with numbers from Andy Williams and Tony Christie (the original release of ‘Is This The Way To) Amarillo’). Soul is represented by The Stylistics, Diana Ross, Jackson 5, The O’Jays and more. The CD closes with Sly & The Family Stone’s ‘Family Affair’.
The fourth and final CD offers more Elton, Rod Stewart (via his vocal on Python Lee Jackson’s ‘In A Broken Dream – featured memorably on the soundtrack to Lars Von Trier’s 1996 film Breaking The Waves), Sweet, Elvis and Don McLean and features The New Seekers’ ‘I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing’.
Everything But The Girl/Eden and Amplified HeartCD
Everything But The Girl offer expanded CD editions of two key albums – their 1984 debut Eden and the million-selling Amplified Heart, from a decade later.
A “definitive” collection of work by the late, great Ryuichi Sakamoto. This anthology brings together iconic film scores, Yellow Magic Orchestra classics, and more. Featured tracks include ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’, ‘Andata’, and ‘Aqua’, alongside never-before-released pieces including ‘for Jóhann’ (a tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson), ‘BB’ (dedicated to Bernardo Bertolucci), and ‘20180219’ (featuring prepared piano). Also available as a 4LP vinyl box, these are far from cheap but the presentation sounds good. The vinyl box comes in a “hand-crafted textured slipcase” with elegant black foil detailing while the CD edition is a deluxe six-panel digipak constructed from premium black stock with black foil stamping and silver text.
t.A.T.u. / All The Things She Said (12-inch picture disc)
Number one in the UK 24 years ago, t.A.T.u.’sAll The Things She Said is reissued (and remixed) for this 12-inch picture disc. If you are wondering why, it’s because the song features in the HBO Max TV Series Heated Rivalry.
Pink Floyd’s 1975 concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena was first released on blu-ray last year on the Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue. It’s soon to come out on vinyl, via the previously announced 4LP set for Record Store Day but is now confirmed as a 2CD set in late April.
The performance was never professionally recorded so the origins of this recording is via the late bootlegger Mike “Mike the Mic” Millard, whose tapes from concerts across Los Angeles in the 1970s became renowned for their surprisingly clear sound quality. To conceal his recording equipment from venue security, Millard would often pretend to be disabled and arrive to concerts in a wheelchair.
The performance opened with early versions of songs initially titled as ‘Raving and Drooling’ and ‘You’ve Got To Be Crazy’, which later evolved into ‘Sheep’ and ‘Dogs’ which ended up on Animals. ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ in its two parts bookended another new composition, ‘Have A Cigar’. Following these new compositions, the band performed The Dark Side of The Moon in full, with ‘Echoes’ as an encore.
Meticulously restored and remastered by Steven Wilson, this is as good as it’s going to get in terms of a live recording of Pink Floyd’s 1975 tour.
The 4LP clear vinyl edition is released on Record Store Day on 18 April, and the 2CD edition is released six days later on 24 April 2026.
Yes founder and bassist Chris Squire’s 1975 album Fish Out Of Water is being reissued for its 50th anniversary as a CD+blu-ray set which includes a new Dolby Atmos Mix.
Recorded in the late spring and summer of 1975 while Yes was on hiatus (as members recorded their respective solo albums), Fish Out Of Water was essentially a collaboration between Chris Squire and his friend Andrew Pryce Jackman, an arranger who had been a member of The Syn, Squire’s band prior to the formation of Yes.
The album features contributions from former Yes drummer Bill Bruford, Yes keyboard player Patrick Moraz and noted musicians Mel Collins and Jimmy Hastings. The album was a Top 30 chart hit in the UK and also made the Top 75 in the US, going on to sell nearly 500,000 copies worldwide.
For this 50th anniversary CD+blu-ray set, engineer Stephen W Tayler has created new Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo mixes. The Blu-ray Disc also includes the Fish Out Of Water promotional film featuring ‘Hold Out Your Hand’ and ‘You By My Side’ and an album audio commentary from Chris Squire himself, recorded in 2006.
Fish Out Of Water is released on 10 July 2026 (was 26 June) via Esoteric. You can support SDE by pre-ordering via the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
As revealed by SDE yesterday, Paul McCartney’s new album is called The Boys of Dungeon Lane and it will be released at the end of May.
The album is described as “a collection of rare and revealing glimpses into memories never-before shared” and the album features 14 new songs and finds Paul “writing with rare openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania”. The first single is called acoustic number called, ‘Days We Left Behind’ which Paul describes as a “memory song”.
Both CD and vinyl editions feature embossed cover artwork and the vinyl includes a 12-page lyric booklet (obviously the CD will have a booklet too). There may well be more to come (!) but at the time of writing formats are black vinyl and indie pink vinyl (the latter is available to pre-order from the SDE shop using this link or the button below).
Update: HMV has red vinyl, McCartney’s store has green, Rough Trade: gold and Amazon has white vinyl variants.
The Boys of Dungeon Lane will be released on 29 May 2026, via EMI.
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Roxy Music’s 1980 album, Flesh + Blood, is now available to pre-order as a limited edition SDE exclusive blu-ray audio, #62 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series.
The band’s seventh studio album was a significant commercial success, reaching No 1 on the UK albums chart and enjoying two top 10 hit singles in ‘Over You‘ and ‘Oh Yeah‘. Third single ‘Same Old Scene‘ (a song that virtually invented Duran Duran) reached No 12 in Britain and Wilson Pickett cover ‘In The Midnight Hour’ was released as a single in the US.
This region-free blu-ray audio features a brand new 2026Dolby Atmos Mix, by Bob Clearmountain, who worked alongside original album co-producer Rhett Davies to create this immersive mix. It also includes a 5.1 Mix and the entire album in instrumental form, in Dolby Atmos, the first time Roxy Music have made available an instrumental version of any of their albums to be released. The original 1980 mix also features, remastered for 2026.
Audio streams on the Flesh + Blood SDE exclusive blu-ray:
The blu-ray comes packaged in the same deluxe hardcover mediabook packaging used for the Roxy Music’s Avalon and as ever, Flesh + Blood ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
Dolby Atmos Mixes on blu-ray offer much higher quality than their streaming counterparts – they are not compressed as on streaming platforms. Encoded in Dolby TrueHD Atmos it has a bit rate 10 times higher (up to 8000 kbits/s) than streaming’s Dolby Digital Plus (768 kbits/s).
Flesh + Blood will released on blu-ray on 10 July 2026 (was 19 June). This opportunity is TIME LIMITED; It available to pre-order for two weeks only, starting today. The pre-order window closes at midnight GMT on 8 April 2026. Availability after that point cannot be guaranteed.
Secure your copy of this SDE exclusive blu-ray of Flesh + Blood by using this SDE shop link or the button below.
Tracklisting
Flesh + BloodRoxy Music/SDE exclusive blu-ray audio
Tori Amos has made available a second song from her forthcoming album In Times Of Dragons.
The track is called ‘Shush’ and you can listen to it, below. It forms part of the highly conceptual album and presents a fictionalised version of Tori who marries a power-hungry “lizard demon” billionaire, who symbolises unchecked power, concentrated wealth, and political corruption.
“He represents what we’re dealing with right now,” Amos says. “He sees congressmen, senators, and even probably presidents, as people who answer to him and other billionaires, who don’t think you and I should vote. He’s trying to develop the kind of feudal system we had hundreds of years ago. But it doesn’t look like it once did. We don’t look like we’re in the trenches, in the muck. We have all the cool, digital devices now. So it looks different. But it has the same philosophy.”
‘Shush’ is the opening song on the 17-track album, and the full tracklisting was finally made available last week (scroll down). In Times Of Dragons is available across a number of formats, including an SDE exclusive blu-ray (for which the pre-order window has now closed).
Since it was officially announced in January, a signed CD edition has turned up on Amazon in the UK so that is one that is well worth snagging. We should have some contingency stock of the blu-ray around the week of release.
In Times Of Dragons will be released on 1 May 2026 via Decca.
Paul McCartney’s new album will be called The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, according to his brother Mike McCartney.
In a grammatically loose post on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) Mike said “Josh saw this teaser for r kids new album ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ in Liverpool yestas. It was familiar to him as he had designed the Dungeon Lane(Speke) artwork for his Uncle”
Josh is Mike’s son, Paul’s nephew and “r kid” is an abbreviation of ‘Our Kid’ which is of course an affectionate term for a sibling, particularly a brother, in Liverpool.
Dungeon Lane is a road in Speke, a suburb of Liverpool near what is now Liverpool John Lennon Airport, about a 15 minute drive from Paul’s old house in Forthlin Road. The postcode area is L24
A website has also been set up, with the URL theboysofdungeonlane.com which currently displays the artwork.
The title suggests Paul’s new album, at least in part, will have a nostalgic element to it, perhaps with references to The Beatles in their early days (‘Early Days’ was actually a song on 2013’s New). With Paul turning 84 on his next birthday (in June) it is hardly surprising that he’s thinking about where it all began. The Boys Of Dungeon Lane will be Paul’s 19th solo studio album (20th if you include Ram, which technically isn’t a solo album) and his first since the ‘rockdown’ release of McCartney III in 2020.
With a teaser campaign in full flow, an official announcement cannot be far off and could happen as soon as Friday this week. Stay tuned for more info on SDE.
Queen release a 5CD+2LP super deluxe box set of their second album Queen II. It includes studio outtakes and demos, live gigs, BBC sessions and backing tracks to the 1974 original.
Neil Diamond will release Wild at Heart, a new studio album, in May.
The album is comprised of unreleased recordings from the sessions that delivered 2008’s Home Before Dark album, his second collaboration with Rick Rubin (the first being 2005’s 12 Songs).
The 10 songs on Wild at Heart Drawn include contributions Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers and this album becomes the third party of a Rubin trilogy.
It’s being released on CD and 140g black vinyl but for not much extra cash you can secure a 2CD version with a 10-track greatest hits selection on CD 2.
Wild at Heart will be released on 8 May 2026 via EMI.
The Who’s 2023 live performance at Cornwall’s Eden Project, will be released on CD and vinyl in May.
This new live album sees Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey deliver 24 tracks, including all the usual hits, with many backed by the Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra.
It will be released as a 2CD set and across 3LP vinyl box on 29 May 2026, via Earmusic.
Kraftwerk have announced a 50th anniversary blu-ray edition of their 1975 album Radio-Activity.
Using the original 16-track master tapes, Kraftwerkfounder Ralf Hütter with engineer Fritz Hilpert have created a brand-new Dolby Atmos Mix which takes Kraftwerk’s first all-electronic album and brings vivid new shading, forensic detail and richly layered cinematic depth to the most boldly experimental album in the Kraftwerk catalogue. I heard the Atmos Mix at a playback event in London last week and they’ve done a very good job with this mix.
The blu-ray edition features the album in the following versions:
Dolby Atmos Mix
5.1 Mix (48/24 – rendered from the Atmos)
Stereo Mix (48/24) [2009 remastered audio]
This region-free blu-ray audio comes with a booklet in clear amaray packaging, and ships with an SDE exclusive slipcase.
As with Autobahn from last year, there’s also a special vinyl picture disc edition of Radio-Activity which comes in a die-cut sleeve.
Radio-Activity is released on 15 May 2026 via Parlophone. You can pre-order your copy with the exclusive slipcase from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
Tracklisting
Radio-ActivityKraftwerk/Blu-ray with SDE exclusive slipcase
Eg and Alice were a short-lived duo who released just one album on WEA Records in 1991 called 24 Years Of Hunger.
A cult classic, a hidden masterpiece, an undiscovered gem… call it what you will, but the album – which has never been reissued – was influenced by Eg White and Alice Temple’s love of Prince, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan and Curtis Mayfield.
SDE Records’s forthcoming 2CD deluxe reissue of 24 Years Of Hunger features the original album and a disc of unreleased songs and demos. It has already garnered four star reviews in Mojo and Classic Pop and a 9/10 review in Uncut who called it a “impeccable” and a “deluxe 2CD set of elegant, earnest, impassioned pop”
The 2CD set comes in DVD-sized hardcover bookpackaging with 36 pages of lyrics and track-by-track commentary by Eg and Alice themselves. In this exclusive extract, the pair discuss the first single from the album, ‘Indian’:
Eg White: ‘Indian’ came out as the first single. We hadn’t thought it was an important tune at all and then Rob Dickins at Warners [Chairman of Warner Music UK] said, “that’s the tune that we can make hay out of. That’s the one”. I’d seen The Neville Brothers and was inspired by their song ‘My Blood’, imposing a narrative of being an outsider, almost accidentally. And I think that’s why we got signed to Warners. Lots of people did want to sign us at that point, probably four or five labels, but Warners had made all the records we love: Prince, that whole West Coast tradition. We thought, “thank you very much”.
Alice Temple: We also went with Warners because they were offering us the least amount of money and, luckily, Eg understood that the less money we took, the less money we owed because I didn’t understand at all – I just thought they gave you free money! I never thought about the business side of music, but Eg understood all that.
Eg White: We couldn’t get ‘Indian’ right. We did seven versions of it and the verses just got sadder and sadder. In the end, Rob told us to go substantially back. But when I hear it now, it sounds so bad. My mum [Lucy White] played strings on it; mum and Juliet [Davey], her then girlfriend, and later, her wife. “Jack Malloy”, is actually Mark Malloy, but he didn’t go up to anyone [as the lyric suggests]. It was a kind of a piss take. Franke Madrid sang the backing vocals on it. He’d done backing vocals for Brother Beyond. I got Franke back, and he just smashed it, again.
Alice Temple: The only live stuff we did, which I get cold shivers even thinking about now, was ‘Indian’ on [UK TV chat show] ‘Wogan’. You’ve got to remember that I had never sung live before in my life. ‘Indian’ was my least favorite song, and then suddenly we had to do ‘Wogan’, and it was me singing live to playback. I’ll never forget it – I was in the BBC, and I was in the bathroom the entire time. Meanwhile, Eg and the rest of the band, they’re all having a laugh, because all they have to do is mime and I’m shitting myself, knowing I’ve got to sing live on ‘Wogan’. I was in a permanent state of just sheer panic.
Alice is, I think, very happy that this ‘Wogan’ performance of ‘Indian’ does not appear to be on YouTube! So I have never seen it!
This special 2CD physical deluxe edition is limited to 1,000 units worldwide and is an SDE exclusive available only from the SDE shop. It’s very close to selling out, so don’t miss out. You can secure your copy using this link or the button below.
24 Years Of Hunger, the 35th anniversary 2CD deluxe edition, will be released on 10 April 2026 via SDE Records.
Tracklisting
24 Years of HungerEg and Alice/2CD deluxe edition
CD 1: 24 Years of Hunger
Rockets
In A Cold Way
Mystery man
And I Have Seen Myself
So High, So Low
New Year’s Eve
Indian
Doesn’t Mean That Much To Me
Crosstown
IOU
I Wish
CD 2: Lonely Road: Demos & Remixes
Here Come The Rockets (Demo)*
Highway (Demo 1)*†
Lonely For Too Long (See What I Mean) (Demo)* †
Indian (Demo)*
Bobby & Holly
Shadow (Demo)* †
New Year’s Eve (Demo)*
Lazy Woman
Under My Spell (Demo)* †
Running To America (Demo)* †
Crazy Bastard (Demo)* †
Teenage Cinema Problem (Demo)* †
Highway (Demo 2)* †
It Doesn’t Mean That Much To Me (7” Version)
It Doesn’t Mean That Much To Me (Jesus Loves You Mix)
a-ha’s 2005 studio album, Analogue, will be released as a 2CD deluxe edition in April.
The band’s eighth album was produced by a-ha and Martin Terefe (mixed by Flood) and was notable for featuring ‘Analogue (All I Want)’, a song that returned a-ha to the top 10 of the UK singles charts after a 17 year drought. Swedish songwriter/producer Max Martin was brought in to work his magic on a song called ‘Minor Key Sonata (Analogue)’ and it was transformed into ‘Analogue (All I Want)’.
Other singles from the album include ‘Celice’ (which wasn’t issued in the UK) and ‘Cosy Prisons’, which featured backing vocals from Graham Nash.
Unlike the RSD 2LP vinyl (which simply spreads the album across four sides of vinyl) this 2CD set offers 21 bonus tracks, 15 of which are previously unreleased.
Appended to the album on CD 1 is a-ha’s last ‘proper’ B-side, the excellent ‘Case Closed On Silver Shore’, the radio mix of ‘Cosy Prisons’ and edits of ‘Celice’ and ‘Analogue (All I Want)’.
CD 2 is where it gets really interesting with early/alternate/demo versions of every album track, including the embryonic ‘Minor Key Sonata’ (which featured on the UK CD single of ‘Analogue’) and even an early version of the aforementioned ‘Case Closed On Silver Shore’.
This disc also includes three unreleased outtakes from the Analogue sessions. ‘Slanted Floor’ and ‘With You-With Me’ were both written by Morten Harket and Ole Sverre Olsen and later re-recorded for Morten’s 2008 solo album Letter From Egypt. The third outtake, ‘Windfalls’, was written by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy.
The two-disc set features newly mastered audio and is presented as a digipak with notes by Kieron Tyler with new contributions from the band’s Paul Waaktar-Savoy and Magne Furuholmen.
This Analogue 2CD set will be reissued on 17 April 2026, via Rhino. The 2LP vinyl is out the next day for Record Store Day.
Zappa / Beefheart / Mothers/Bongo FuryCD, Vinyl, Box Set
The new 50th anniversary super deluxe of 1975’s Bongo Fury expands the original album to 5CD+blu-ray (which includes an Atmos Mix). 2LP vinyl also available.
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine / Straw Donkey: The Complete Singles
This 1995 Carter ‘best of’ is remastered and expanded with some extra promo singles. It also features a DVD of restored videos. The 2LP vinyl version features the CD 1 audio.
Jeff Buckley’s sublime debut album, Grace, is to be reissued on blu-ray audio next month.
Originally issued in August 1994 on Columbia Records, the album features a cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ as well as ‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over’.
Grace has been mixed in immersive Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround Sound by Steven Wilson for this special blu-ray audio release. SDE is fairly sure the disc will contain a hi-res stereo version of the album, but this has not yet been confirmed by Sony. Although not on the original album, the blu-ray also includes ‘Forget Her’ in Atmos and 5.1.
Grace is released on blu-ray on 24 April 2026, via Sony. Pre-order from the SDE shop using this link or the button below. Going by our allocation these are going to be very limited.
