Quick pre-order • Dare in Atmos • Includes 15 rare bonus tracks
The Human League’s iconic third studio album, Dare, will be reissued as an SDE exclusive blu-ray audio in October.
Produced by Martin Rushent, Dare was created by a new look Human League line-up that consisted of Philip Oakey (vocals, synthesizer), Jo Callis (synthesizer, guitar), Philip Adrian Wright (visuals, synthesizer), Joanne Catherall (vocals), Susan Ann Sulley (vocals) and Ian Burden (synthesizer).
With the new personnel came a fresh, cutting-edge pop sensibility and the group used this to create an album that was not only an enormous commercial and critical success upon its release, but one which has since been hailed as one of the most groundbreaking records of its time.
The album featured four singles, including UK top 10 hits ‘Love Action (I Believe in Love)’ and ‘Open Your Heart’, as well as the transatlantic No 1 ‘Don’t You Want Me’ (Virgin Records’ first British and American chart-topping single). The album was also No 1 in the UK albums charts and peaked at No 3 in the USA, with The Human League being seen one of the leaders in the so-called Second Invasion of British pop bands in America.
With its hit singles coupled withthe darker tone of some of the album tracks (‘Seconds’, ‘I Am The Law’), Dare’s stature and influence has only grown over time and it is regularly voted one of best albums of the 1980s in music polls. Q Magazine placed the album at No 69 in its list of ‘100 Greatest British Albums Ever’, at the turn of the Millennium.
The SDE exclusive blu-ray features a new Dolby Atmos Mix of Dare, created by John Barrett at Abbey Road Studios. Additionally, the disc includes a 5.1 Surround Sound Mix of the album and instrumental mixes in both Atmos and 5.1. Alongside this content sits the original 1981 stereo mix and bonus A-sides, B-sides, remixes and instrumentals from the original singles (in stereo).
Audio streams on the SDE exclusive blu-ray are as follows:
Dolby Atmos Mix (48 kHz / 24-bit)
5.1 Surround Mix (48 kHz / 24-bit)
Dolby Atmos Mix Instrumental (48 kHz / 24-bit)
5.1 Surround Mix Instrumental (48 kHz / 24-bit)
Original 1981 Stereo Mix (48 kHz / 24 bit)
Bonus tracks (in stereo) (48 kHz / 24-bit)
This Dare release is a region-free blu-ray and is No 47 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series. It will be packaged in a clear amaray case and ships in a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
The blu-ray is a limited edition and has a 14-day pre-order window which closes on 10 September 2025.. Availability cannot be guaranteed after that date. Pre-order only from the SDE shop using this link.
The Dare SDE exclusive blu-ray is released on 10 October 2025 via UMR.
Cherry Red will release Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah next month across three formats
A 3CD+blu-ray edition comes in clamshell box packaging with disc one devoted to the band Toyah with hits such as ‘I Want To Be Free’ and ‘It’s A Mystery’ while the second CD covers Toyah’s career as a solo artist. CD 3 is devoted to rarities, while the blu-ray includes 12 promo videos, 22 TV performances and concert footage.
3CD+blu-ray of Chameleon: The Best Of Toyah
The 2CD digipak edition omits the rarities and the blu-ray from the box set and a 2LP set pressed on gold-coloured vinyl offers 28 tracks from band and solo years.
Chameleon: The Very Best Of Toyah will be released on 5 September 2025, via Cherry Red.
Supertramp/Crime of the Century and Crisis? What Crisis? reissuesVinyl
Supertramp reissue half-speed remastered vinyl editions of their commercial breakthrough album, Crime Of The Century, and its follow-up, Crisis? What Crisis?
NOW Music will release a third volume of their ‘Now That’s What I Call An Era’ series next month. Such A Good Feeling: 1988-1995 focuses on the era when dance culture reshaped the mainstream, soundtracked a generation, and lit up the charts across the UK and beyond.
Available in 4CD form (deluxe hardcover book and standard card sleeve) and 3LP coloured vinyl this is a dive into the years of house, rave and club anthems, spanning the threshold that saw the 80s turn into the 90s. The CD editions feature 82 tracks while the triple vinyl set offers 46.
To give you a feel of what the compilation is about, tracks include S’Express with the chart-topping ‘Theme From S-Express’, Deee-Lite’s ‘Groove Is In The Heart’, Soul II Soul & Caron Wheeler’s ‘Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)’, ‘Dub Be Good To Me’ from Beats International and ‘Killer’ from Adamski.
‘Rhythm Is A Dancer’ from SNAP! features on the second of four CDs along with Corona’s ‘The Rhythm Of The Night’, Dr. Alban’s ‘It’s My Life’, Haddaway‘s ‘What Is Love’ and more.
4CD hardcover deluxe of Such A Good Feeling 1988 > 1995
Bobby Brown’s ‘Two Can Play That Game’, CeCe Peniston’s ‘Finally’, Black Box’s ‘Ride on Time’, Neneh Cherry’s ‘Buffalo Stance’ and Freak Power’s ‘Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out’ are amongst the highlights of CD 3.
The CD version ends with a final disc that includes Yazz & The Plastic Population’s Acid House chart-topper ‘The Only Way Is Up’, Inner City’s ‘Big Fun’, Kym Mazelle and Robert Howard’s ‘Wait’, Utah Saints’ Kate Bush sampling ‘Something Good’, Moby’s ‘Go’ and The Prodigy’s ‘Charly’. Scroll down for full tracklistings for 4CD and 3LP variants.
NOW That’s What I Call An Era – Such A Good Feeling: 1988-1995will be released on 26 September 2025.
Patti Smith’s debut album Horses is reissued and expanded for its 50th anniversary.
The influential 1975 album has also been remastered direct from the original 1/4” master tapes, and will be available as a 2CD set and on 2LP black vinyl.
Unlike the previous 2CD ‘Legacy’ edition, which featured a live bonus disc, this time we are getting previously unreleased outtakes and rarities, including tracks from Patti Smith’s 1975 RCA audition tape. Eight tracks are previously unreleased. You can hear ‘Snowball’, above.
Horses will be reissued on 10 October 2025, via Sony’s Legacy Recordings.
8CD and 12LP box sets with new ‘Anthology 4’ • Documentary coming to Disney+
The Beatles Anthology arrived in November 1995 as an eight-part TV documentary and three double albums of unreleased outtakes and alternate mixes (released over a 12 month period). Now 30 years on, this landmark examination of The Fab Four returns, offering remastered and remixed audio, restored visuals and new content, in the form of a fresh episode of the documentary and a fourth volume of music available in new 8CD and 12 LP Anthology Collection box sets. The book, issued in 2000, is also being made available again.
New physical music releases
In terms of the music, the new Anthology Collection box sets have been remastered by Giles Martin. The original three double albums are unchanged (remastering apart), but are joined by Anthology 4, newly curated by Giles, including 13 previously unreleased demos and session recordings and other rare tracks. This extra volume also includes new mixes of the 1995 and 1996 singles ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’. They have been freshened up by original producer, Jeff Lynne, using de-mixed John Lennon vocals (the original ‘Free As A Bird’ music video has also been restored). ‘Now and Then’, the last Beatles song, is also on Anthology 4. There is no mention of Dolby Atmos Mixes of any of the 191 tracks that make up The Anthology Collection. That would be a massive undertaking, to be fair.
8CD box with Fab Four photo ‘bellyband’ removed (click to enlarge)
Both 8CD and 12LP box sets include the original sleeve notes for Anthology 1, 2 and 3; the new Anthology 4 includes track notes written by Kevin Howlett and an introduction compiled from 1996 interviews recorded with The Beatles’ close friend and adviser Derek Taylor. If you are wondering about the packaging, as far as I can tell, that rather dubious photo that has been chosen of The Beatles appears to be a ‘bellyband’ which is removable to reveal the classic Anthology artwork below. Phew!
Documentary coming to Disney+
The original eight episodes of The Beatles Anthology documentary series have been restored and remastered. These were originally screened on TV networks around the world (ITV in the UK) at the time and were released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1996 and then on DVD in 2003. They never made it to blu-ray and there is a question mark over whether that will now ever happen, since as with The Beatles Get Back and Let It Be, restored Beatles Anthology is coming exclusively to Disney+, beginning in late November.
12LP vinyl box with with Fab Four photo ‘bellyband’ in place (click image to enlarge)
The restoration has been overseen by Apple Corps’ production team, working with Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films & Park Road Post teams along with Giles Martin, who has created new audio mixes for the majority of the featured music.
There is now a completely new Episode Nine, including unseen behind-the-scenes footage of Paul, George and Ringo coming together between 1994 and 1995 to work on “The Anthology” and reflecting on their shared life as The Beatles.
The book
The Beatles Anthology book took so long to come to market (five years after the first episode and the first album was released) it felt like something of an afterthought at the time. That’s not to say it’s not an impressive tome and the 368-page book remains the only official Beatles Autobiography. It’s back in print for what is its 25th anniversary, although it appears to be exactly the same content as before, and as such is the least exciting element of this reissue campaign.
The 8CD and 12LP vinyl Anthology Collection box sets are released on 21 November, The Beatles Anthology documentary will screen on Disney+ from 26 November and the book is available from 14 October 2025.
Update: Anthology 4 was announced as a standalone product a month after the Anthology Collection was originally announced.
Quick pre-order • Second Thoughts in Atmos, 5.1 etc. + Mental Notes
Split Enz’ 1976 studio album, Second Thoughts, will be reissued as an SDE exclusive blu-ray in November and features a Dolby Atmos, a 5.1 Mix and more.
Formed in 1972 in Auckland, New Zealand, Split Enz, (initially known as ‘Split Ends’), were the first band from New Zealand to achieve major success beyond the Southern Hemisphere, blazing a trail with a sound and style entirely their own. They evolved from folk-inspired beginnings into a fusion of art-rock, new wave, and theatrical performance. Initially, the band members were Tim Finn, vocalist and guitarist Phil Judd, bassist Mike Chunn, violinist Miles Golding and flautist Mike Howard. But the line-up changed quite regularly and by the time of Second Thoughts, Eddie Rayner was playing keyboards, Robert Gillies took care of saxophone/trumpet, while Noel Crombie and Emlyn Crowther were on percussion and drums, respectively. Neil Finn joined in 1977.
Second Thoughts was produced by Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera and was the band’s first album release in Europe and North America but their second in Australia and New Zealand where Mental Notes was actually their debut. Second Thoughts features four tracks from Mental Notes along with a couple of tracks that were recorded during the sessions for Mental Notes (but not used) and then re-recorded for Second Thoughts. Additionally, the song ‘Matinee Idyll’ on Second Thoughts was a re-recorded and retitled version of an early B-side called ‘129’.
Split Enz photographed by Peter Hill-Travis (click to enlarge)
Speaking about the band now Phil Manzanera recalls “We (Roxy Music) arrived in Sydney after this horrendously long journey via Mumbai and all sorts of stopovers and I get into my hotel room, turn on the TV and there was Split Enz, playing live on GTK. I was absolutely blown away when I found out they were playing with us at the Hordern Pavilion there in Sydney. At the gig, I decided to watch from the side of the stage and was very impressed. My recollection is that when the band came off stage, I passed by their dressing room, put my head in and said, ‘Hey guys that was terrific. If there is anything I can do to help let me know.’ How it came about that they came to London, I don’t know, but I organised the recording of what became the album Second Thoughts at Basing Street Studios in Notting Hill Gate. During the recording I was amazed by how together and accomplished they all were with the song arrangements, but of course I didn’t really appreciate how long they had been gigging. It was a joy to work with them.”
I was absolutely enchanted and inspired by Mental Notes as a 17-year-old. It made me believe anything was possible. Fifty years later, it sounds as unique and timeless as it did then 2025
Neil Finn
The blu-ray is actually titled ENZcylcopedia Volumes 1 & 2 because it features versions of both albums, for a total of 5 different audio streams, including a brand new Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Mix of Second Thoughts by Michael Carpenter, a stereo mix of the same album by Eddie Rayner, and three music videos.
ENZcylopedia Volumes 1 & 2 blu-ray content:
MENTAL NOTES – 1975 Original Stereo Mix Remastered [96/24 bit]
SECOND THOUGHTS – Michael Carpenter Dolby Atmos Mix [48/24 bit]
SECOND THOUGHTS – Michael Carpenter 5.1 Mix [48/24 bit]
SECOND THOUGHTS – 2025 Eddie Rayner Stereo Mix [96/24 bit]
SECOND THOUGHTS – 1976 Original Stereo Mix Remastered [96/24]
MUSIC VIDEOS – Sweet Dreams, Lovey Dovey, Late Last Night
The blu-ray is presented in a clear amaray blu-ray case and will ship with a collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase. It includes a booklet with a note from Eddie Rayner, and an exclusive note from Atmos mixer Michael Carpenter.
As well as the SDE exclusive blu-ray, 5CD and 3LP vinyl boxes are available. The 5CD features 2025 remasters of Mental Notes and Second Thoughts along with the 2025 Eddie Rayner mix of the latter. Additionally, the box set offers 1979 compilation The Beginning of the Enz and mostly unreleased live tracks via CD 5, Wide Angle Enz.
ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2 release is a region-free blu-ray audio and is #46 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series. Don’t miss out. This product is a limited edition and the pre-order window closes on 3 September 2025. Availability cannot be guaranteed after that date, so secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the SDE shop, either directly via this link or using the special SDE shop buy button below. We ship worldwide.
ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2 on SDE blu-ray (and the other formats) will be released on 14 November 2025, via Chrysalis.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1972 album Some Time In New York City and their 1972 concerts at Madison Square Garden (less than three months after the album’s release) are the focus of a marathon 9CD + 3 x blu-ray box set, Power To The People, to be released in October, the day after what would have been Lennon’s 85th birthday.
Following last year’s similarly exhaustive Mind Games extravaganza (watch the SDEtv unboxing), 92 of the 123 songs across the 12 discs are previously unreleased. These include demos, outtakes, jams, home recordings and additional live performances. The box set has been compiled by Sean Ono Lennon, helped by mixing from Paul Hicks and audio restoration by Sam Gannon, with mixes mastered at Abbey Road by Alex Wharton.
Now retitled as simply New York City, the studio tracks from Some Time In New York City were co-produced by Lennon and Ono with Phil Spector. The new edition has omits the controversial ‘Woman Is The N****r Of The World’, which, don’t forget, was actually a single in some territories including North America (although not the UK) – the only one to be released from the album. The last official release of this song was 2010 when it was included in the Signature Box and on the reissued Some Time in New York City album. It wasn’t included on 2020’s Gimme Some Truth compilation and so it was always going to be an issue if John’s Estate wanted to reissue the 1972 album.
The new edition features extended versions of ‘John Sinclair’ and ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’. It has been remixed Ono Lennon and his team as The Ultimate Mixes, while a separate disc by Sam Gannon, The Evolution Documentary, is an audio montage detailing New York City’s tracks via demos, rehearsals, outtakes and studio conversations.
A disc of jams from the sessions includes many covers of the likes of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and The Coasters, plus “Elements Mixes” which isolates the orchestral parts of four songs.
Power to the People 9CD + 3 x Blu-ray box set (click to enlarge)
A big part of this box set is material from the concerts recorded on 30 August 1972 at Madison Square Garden which featured a guest appearance by Stevie Wonder. The afternoon and evening gigs, dubbed The One To One Concert, were in aid of children with educational and developmental needs. They would be the only full-length shows Lennon played after The Beatles split. They were also his last public concerts with Ono. To be clear, none of this audio was on the Some Time in New York City album, but was first released after John’s death in 1986 as Live in New York City. The 11 tracks on this release were mostly made up from the afternoon show (generally regarded as the weaker of the two performances).
The first CD in the new box set is a ‘hybrid’ best of, combing the best of the afternoon and evening live shows, while CDs 2 and 3 offer each show, individually. ‘Sisters O Sisters’ was performed at both concerts but is excluded from both in this box set (although the studio version is included).
CDs 4, 5 & 6 cover New York City (the studio tracks from the ’72 album) as detailed above, and then the next two CDs offer ‘live jams’ from the 1969 Peace And Love For Christmas UNICEF Benefit at London Lyceum and the 1971 Fillmore East show in which Lennon and Ono jammed with Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention. CD 7 is effectively the live tracks from the original album (newly mixed of course) while CD 8 is previously unreleased.
The final CD deviates from the theme somewhat and delivers 33 home demos (‘Home Jams’) from John’s private quarter-inch tape and cassette collections, recorded at the St. Regis Hotel in NYC and the Campus Inn in Ann Arbor, Michigan; the latter includes four tracks with protest singer Phil Ochs.
The three blu-rays effectively repeat all the content on the nine CDs with audio in hi-res stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos. It’s not clear whether everything is in Atmos and 5.1 but certainly all the concerts will be, as well the New York City content and the like. It’s hard to see how (or why) John’s acoustic demos would be mixed in Atmos or 5.1
This is lavishly presented, as you’d expect from the team that brought you that massive Mind Games box set. The box includes a 204-page book with an oral history of the album and concerts. It also adds a newsprint poster, sticker sheets, replica concert tickets, plus replica backstage and aftershow passes. The box set is packaged in a 10” slipcase with silver foil titling and a lenticular cover of Lennon and Ono’s faces.
2LP and single CD editions offer the 17-track ‘hybrid’ best of TheOne to One concerts and there’s also a 2CD edition (with lenticular sleeve) with the afternoon show on CD 1 and evening show on CD 2.
The One To One Concert will be available separately as 4LP vinyl and 2CD editions (these both might possibly be direct-to-consumer, since retail links are hard to come by), with a hybrid version of the two concerts also available separately as 2LP and 1CD. Vinyl versions feature an eight page 12” booklet, a newsprint poster and two postcards.
Power To The People and The One To One Concert are released via Capitol/UMC on 10 October 2025
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John Lennon Yoko Ono The Plastic Ono Band Elephant's Memory
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band and A Star Studded Cast of Thousands. Peace and Love for Christmas, in aid of UNICEF, Live at the Lyceum Ballroom, The Strand, London, 15 December 1969
Cold Turkey (live)
Don’t Worry Kyoko (live)
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Frank Zappa and The Mothers, Fillmore East, New York, 6 June 1971
Well (Baby Please Don’t Go) (live)
Jamrag [Say Please / King Kong / Aawk] (live)
Scumbag (live)
Aü (live)
CD 8 / Blu-ray 3 – Live Jam 2
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with David Peel and The Lower East Side Live at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally, Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 10 December 1971
Attica State (live) †
The Luck Of The Irish (live)
Sisters, O Sisters (live) †
John Sinclair (live)
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band. Live at the Benefit for the families of the victims of the riot at Attica State Correctional Facility, Apollo Theater, Harlem, NYC, 17 December 1971
Attica State (live)
Sisters, O Sisters (live) †
Imagine (live)
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band. Live on the David Frost TV Show, The Little Theatre, 240 West 44th Street, NYC, 16 December 1971
Attica State (live) †
Sisters, O Sisters (live) †
John Sinclair (live) †
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory Band. Live at the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, Americana Hotel, NYC, 4 September 1972
BMG will reissue Supergrass’ fifth studio album, Road to Rouen, in October.
Recorded in France (in Rouen, geddit?) the 2005 album saw the band in a reflective mood, with an introspective vibe and longer more orchestral compositions. It features the singles ‘Low C,’ ‘Fin’ and ‘St Petersburg’.
Road to Rouen petrol and forest green 2LP vinyl
The album has been “fully remastered” is being reissued as a 2CD deluxe and on 2LP ‘Petrol and Forest Green’ vinyl. Content on both is similar but the CD set ultimately offers 17 bonus tracks compared to the vinyl’s eleven. The content includes ‘débranché’, or unplugged, versions of songs.
Road to Rouen will be issued on 3 October 2025, via BMG. The official shop has a 2CD+2LP vinyl bundle that come with a signed postcard.
Radiohead are to release a live album with tracks from their 2003 studio album Hail To The Thief.
Hail To The Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 comprises live versions of 12 of the 14 songs from the original album. It replicates the original running order, though no live versions of ‘Backdrifts’ or ‘A Punch Up At A Wedding’ are included, despite both songs being performed regularly live on the accompanying album tour.
The album is compiled from four concerts, in London, Dublin, Buenos Aires and Amsterdam and was mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton. It is released digitally today and will receive a vinyl-and CD physical release in October, with the press release stating the vinyl will be a one-off pressing. Vinyl formats include a opaque red vinyl edition from indie stores and cyan coloured vinyl edition from Radiohead’s website.
It’s only Radiohead’s second live album, following 2001’s I Might Be Wrong, and is the band’s first release since Kid A Mnesiain 2021 which offered previously unreleased material from the sessions for Kid A and Amnesia.
This live album of Hail To The Thief happened as a result of Thom Yorke helping to create the play Hamlet Hail To The Thief with the Royal Shakespeare Company. It opened at Manchester Aviva Studios in May, before running at Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in June.
Radiohead have long been critical of Hail To The Thief, which had been designed as a return to a more immediate way of working following the protracted sessions for Kid A and Amnesia. Yorke told Spin in 2006 that: “We wanted to do things quickly and I think the songs suffered,” while Ed O’Brien stated the album has too many songs. In 2008, Colin Greenwood described the album to Mojo as “a holding process” in between its predecessors and the following In Rainbows.
I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played. I barely recognised us.
Thom Yorke
Yorke now says the old live recordings helped him to reassess Hail To The Thief while working on Hamlet Hail To The Thief. He said: “In the process of thinking of how to build arrangements for Hamlet Hail To The Thief, I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs.
“I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played. I barely recognised us, and it helped me find a way forward. We decided to get these live recordings mixed and released. (It would have been insane to keep them for ourselves). It has all been a very cathartic process.”
Radiohead have worked on solo projects since 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool, but it’s strongly rumoured that they will reunite for a tour next year.
Hail To The Thief – Live Recordings 2003-2009 will be released on 31 October 2025, via XL.
The ‘Shine EP’ and album Apple by Mother Love Bone, the short-lived Seattle band that helped to jump start the Grunge movement in the late ’80s, will be reissued on CD and vinyl in September.
Mother Love Bone was fronted by vocalist Andrew Wood, with the other members being Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Stone Gossard and Greg Gilmore. Wood died, of a heroin overdose, between the EP coming out in March 1989 and the scheduled release of the Apple album, a year later. The band ended and the albumwas eventually released a few months later, in July 1990.
Ament and Gossard would later form Pearl Jam with Mike McCready, all of whom had participated in the Temple of the Dog tribute project, from which emerged one eponymous album in early 1991.
Both the ‘Shine EP’ and Apple feature remastered audio and coloured vinyl editions (‘Hanbanero’ orange and ‘Opaque Sky’ blue) are available via indie retail.
Both titles are released on 26 September 2025 via UMR/Island.
Deep Purple’s classic 1972 live album Made In Japan is reissued as 5CD+Blu-ray and 10LP boxsets featuring newly remixed versions of all three of its concerts, plus both stereo and Atmos mixes by
Steven Wilson.
The Albums 1974-1976 is a 3CD clamshell box set that includes Be-Bop Deluxe’s first three studio albums: 1974’s Axe Victim, the Roy Thomas Baker produced Futurama (1975) and Sunburst Finish from 1976. Comes with a booklet.
The Cranberries / No Need to Argue (30th anniversary)
The Cranberries‘ No Need to Argue anniversary release is available as a 2CD set or as a 2LP vinyl package. Both feature the same 9 bonus tracks, including an unreleased demo of ‘Zombie’ and a few tracks from Woodstock in 1994. Stephen Street (the original producer) has remastered the album and there’s actually also a single LP and single CD version without the extras.
The 1987 Pretenders ‘best of’ is reissued as a 2LP set. It features the 2018 remasters by Chris Thomas except for the tracks from Get Close, which are brand new remasters!
Coldplay reissue their debut album – and all their album albums – on Eco vinyl. ‘EcoRecord’ is an injection-moulded LP is made entirely from, on average, nine recycled plastic bottles. It has been manufactured using 100% recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate), instead of PVC. Consumers are promised no degradation in sound quality. If you aren’t sold on the Eco credentials, all the single LPs are under £25 which pretty competitive these days.
For those of you who are interested in the SDE Surround Series blu-rays, I wanted to give you a update as to where we are and where we are going as we head towards September and the start of Autumn in 2025.
So far this year we have announced 11 titles, only two of which – Matt Deighton’sToday Become Forever (#44) and Mark Knopfler’sSailing to Philadelphia (#45) have not shipped. They are both released in next month (5th and 26th of September, respectively). Matt’s album is limited to 1000 units and is still available, although there are not too many left.
So far as the rest of the year is concerned, I have good news and bad news. The very good news is that there are many more blu-rays to come, probably at least another 10 titles! We’ve been working hard in the background and have got some fantastic albums lined up, including chart-toppers from the 1980s, rock classics from the 1970s and a few surprises. That’s the good news, the ‘bad’ news is that these are going to come thick and fast.
Let me explain: Our label partners decide on the announcement date and the release date of the reissue campaign of which the SDE blu-ray is part. SDE is not in control of this aspect, and although we try to influence things where possible, we mostly have to go with the flow. Normally this works okay in less busy times of the year, but in the music industry’s always busy ‘Q4’ period, that is going to be more of a challenge, especially when we are working with multiple labels.
What does all this mean? It means that there may be times in the next few months where announcements follow each other much more closely than normal. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to tell you in advance of the schedule, largely due to respecting the confidentiality of our label partners, but also because we often get very late notice of announcement dates, anyway. It will likely get complicated with pre-order windows overlapping and closing in close succession.
BEST ADVICE: If you want something, just put a pre-order in early and secure your copy. You can always check what you have on order by going to account section of thesdeshop.comand signing in by putting in the email address you used to order any items. On that subject, try not use different email addresses to order via the SDE shop. If you do that multiple accounts get set up in the background and when you log in to one of them, it will look like items are ‘missing’ from your pre-ordered items, when actually they are listed under another account with some other email address you once used!
The SDE shop customer services team are always very happy to hear from you and to help if you need to get in touch (via contact@thesdeshop.com) to discuss any pre-orders or issues. As has always been the case, we cannot combine pre-orders, I’m afraid.
In summary, I like to think we will look back on this period as a golden age for immersive and surround audio on physical formats and I’m proud of the role that SDE has played in this, with the SDE Surround Series. Who knows how long it will last, so my philosophy is let’s all try and enjoy it and make the most of it while we can! Working in the background on these releases, can at times be frustrating, and often exhausting, but mostly it’s a real pleasure and as we approach our half-century in this series, I still get a real kick out of announcing each new title and hoping to delight you and exceed your expectations, with the content on these exclusive blu-rays.
Thanks, as always, for all your support and we look forward to the next announcement (which will be quite soon).
Paul
Paul Sinclair SDE Editor. theSDEshop.com. SDE Records.
BMG will reissue two more Bryan Ferry albums in September. The long-players in question are Frantic from 2002 and Avonmore from 2014.
Frantic combines originals such as ‘A Fool for Love’ and ‘San Simeon’ alongside some covers of Bob Dylan and Lead Belly songs, with guest appearances from Brian Eno and Johnny Marr. Because it was issued in the early ‘noughties’, this album actually got a multi-channel release on DVD-Audio at the time (I have a copy). Frantic gets a slightly revised front cover for this campaign.
Although there’s 12 years between them, Ferry only issued three albums in between Frantic and Avonmore (two if you don’t count The Jazz Age, on which he doesn’t perform). Avonmore was well received with Bryan again working with his longtime producer Rhett Davies . Johnny Marr is back again and Nile Rodgers plays on many tracks. Songs include ‘Loop De Li’, ‘Driving Me Wild’ and the cover of Robert Palmer’s ‘Johnny and Mary’.
Frantic is reissued on blue vinyl while Avonmore is pressed on red vinyl for this reissue campaign. Both are released on CD in Japanese style vinyl replica presentations.
Frantic and Avonmore will be released on 19 September 2025, via BMG.
The pre-order window for the Mark KnopflerSailing to Philadelphia SDE exclusive blu-ray is about to close.
The blu-ray features a Guy Fletcher Dolby Atmos Mix, an exclusive instrumental mix (in Atmos) and the original stereo mix. This has14 songs, based on the original UK CD tracklisting, which featured ‘Do America’ (omitted from the International release) and ‘One More Matinee’ (missing from the US release).
This is a region-free blu-ray audio and is #45 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series. It will be packaged in a clear amaray case and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
The Sailing to Philadelphia blu-ray pre-order window closes tomorrow, 5 August 2025. Availability cannot be guaranteed after that date (Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms blu-ray was released in May and is already sold out). Pre-order via the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
Sailing to Philadelphia will be released on 26 September 2025 via Mercury/UMR.
Tracklisting
Sailing to Philadelphia Mark Knopfler/SDE exclusive blu-ray
What It Is 4:57
Sailing to Philadelphia (featuring James Taylor) 5:29
Who’s Your Baby Now 3:05
Baloney Again 5:09
The Last Laugh (featuring Van Morrison) 3:22
Do America (4.11)
Silvertown Blues 5:32
El Macho 5:29
Prairie Wedding 4:26
Wanderlust 3:52
Speedway at Nazareth 6:23
Junkie Doll 4:34
Sands of Nevada 3:56
One More Matinee 3:57
1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point
2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange
3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven
4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours
5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore
6. Orbital / Optical Delusion
6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George
7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time
8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)
9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting
10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells
11 Suede
12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love
13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre
13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe
14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern
15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos
17 Paul Young / No Parlez
18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River
19 Wham! / Fantastic
20 Wham! / Make It Big
21 Keane / Hopes and Fears
22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much
23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs
24 Ultravox / Lament
25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines
26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent
27 Thin Lizzy / 1976
28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet
29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap
30 The Who / Who’s Next
31 Elton John / Diamonds
32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream
33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain
34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective
35 Envy of None / Stygian Waves
36 Roxy Music / Avalon
37 INXS / Listen Like Thieves
38 Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms
39 Elton & Brandi / Who Believes In Angels?
40 Claudi Brücken / Night Mirror
41 Mike Oldfield / Hergest Ridge
42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives
Imogen Heap’s second album, Speak For Yourself, is being reissued as a 2LP vinyl set, in October, for its 20th anniversary.
The 2005 album has been remastered with Heap’s longtime friend and mastering engineer Simon Heyworth, and this new vinyl edition is cut at 45RPM and pressed on two 180g records.
It also boast “newly curated” packaging, with a spot UV cover, a poster and records house in printed poly-lined inner sleeves. There’s 3500 copies of the black vinyl available worldwide and also some coloured editions, (splatter and pink editions have recently sold out via Heap’s online shop).
Speak For Yourself will be released on 24 October 2025.
Originally released in 1975, Chicago IX gathered the band’s most iconic tracks from their early albums into one hits collection. This new 50th anniversary edition (available on 2LP and CD) expands the original 11-track lineup into a 21-track collection that now includes songs from every studio album released between 1969 and 1980. Several songs from Chicago (1970) appear in their Steven Wilson remix/edit versions, first issued in 2017.
Originally released on cassette and sold at gigs, A Certain Ratio’s live album gets an official release with new artwork. Described as an “essential artefact from the band’s career” it captures their summer ’85 US tour supporting label mates New Order across the East Coast and Canada. Tracklisting is as follows: 1 Sounds Like Something Dirty, 2 The Fox, 3 Shack Up, 4 Life’s a Scream, 5 Wild Party, 6 Flight, 7 And Then Again, 8 Touch, 9 Knife Slits Water, 10 Si Firmir O Grido.
D:Ream (Peter Cunnah and Al Mackenzie) release their fifth studio album Do It Anyway. The 2LP edition is pressed on red and green coloured vinyl and is available signed via Amazon.
David Gilmour will release a concert film and live album of his 2024 Luck and Strange tour, in October.
Live at the Circus Maximus is the concert film which runs for 142 minutes and is available either as a 2xblu-ray or 3xDVD set. The blu-rays features a Dolby Atmos soundtrack alongside 5.1 and 96/24 audio.
2 x blu-ray set of ‘Live at the Circus Maximus’
The live album is called The Luck and Strange Concerts and features audio recorded at selected shows from the tour and blends solo tracks from David’s most recent album as well as classic Pink Floyd anthems such as ‘Sorrow’, ‘High Hopes’, ‘Breathe (In The Air)’, ‘Time’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, and ‘Comfortably Numb’.
This is available as a 4LP vinyl box set, on 2CD. Note, that the audio for this live album is also available in the 2xblu-ray with Atmos, 5.1 and 96/24 stereo (just like the concert film). Both video formats also offer video of rehearsals, documentaries and promo videos.
Perhaps inevitably, there’s a massive super deluxe edition box set (direct-to-consumer only) which brings together ALL of the above formats and adds a 120-page book of photos by Polly Samson taken on the tour. This comes in a “custom made” box. Yours for £336!
Amazon alternate cover art for both 2CD and 4LP sets
Amazon has exclusive alternate covers for both 2CD and 4LP and you can pre-order the 2xBlu-ray edition from the SDE shop, using this link or the button below.
Live at the Circus Maximus / The Luck and Strange Concerts are released on 17 October 2025, via Sony.
