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NOW Yearbook: The Vault 1985

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NOW That’s What I Call Music continue with their Yearbook Vault releases of ‘lesser compiled’ tracks with a look at 1985.

4CD and 3LP coloured vinyl collections dig deep into the year’s musical landscape – with 78 tracks on the CD editions and 45 songs across three coloured (green) vinyl LPs.

The 4CD set – which comes in the usual deluxe hardcover book and card sleeve editions opens with Bruce Springsteen’s ‘My Hometown’ – the last single from the mega-selling Born in the USA before moving on to Bryan Ferry and Sting with ‘Windswept’ and ‘Love is the Seventh Wave’. Both of those songs are classic Vault tracks: great tracks off classic albums (Boys and Girls and The Dream of the Blue Turtles, respectively) that peaked WAY short of where many assume they did (neither cracked the UK top 40). Go West’s ‘Eye to Eye’ was only a single in the US, while ABC’s ‘Be Near Me’ was released both sides of the Atlantic, but fared much better Stateside. This disc continues with offerings from Fine Young Cannibals, China Crisis, Simply Red, Thompson Twins and the Art of Noise.

Deluxe hardcover book 4CD set

The second disc has an ‘alternative’ flavour, at least initially, with songs from Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Dream Academy and New Model Army before widening it’s net and scoping up minor hits from the likes of Tina Turner, Matt Bianco, Chris Rea and Squeeze.

CD3 has a dance floor slant with tracks including Cameo’s brilliant ‘She’s Strange’, Sheryl Lee Ralph’s ‘In The Evening’, the Stock Aitken Waterman produced ‘The Heaven I Need’ by The Three Degrees and Divine’s cover of ‘Twisting The Night Away’. Elton John & Millie Jackson’s ‘Act of War’ is a very popular 12-inch at Den Bosch record fair (I’m always seeing it) but it was a minor hit a few years before ‘Nikita’ revived Reg’s commercial fortunes here in the UK.

CD 4 has the kind of artists you’d find on a compilation called ‘American Highway Dreams’ (Pat Benetar, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, Kim Carnes, Dio, The Cars, Rick Springfield etc.), but since this is a Vault compilation it’s not all the usual big hits which at least means it’s not predictable

NOW Yearbook Vault ’85 will be released on 15 May 2026.

Tracklisting

NOW Yearbook Vault 85

NOW Yearbook The Vault ’85 Various Artists /

    • CD 1
      1. Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown
      2. Bryan Ferry – Windswept
      3. Sting – Love Is The Seventh Wave
      4. Go West – Eye To Eye
      5. Scritti Politti – Perfect Way
      6. ABC – Be Near Me
      7. Fine Young Cannibals – Blue
      8. The Colourfield – Castles In The Air
      9. China Crisis – You Did Cut Me
      10. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – La Femme Accident
      11. Midge Ure – That Certain Smile
      12. Blancmange – What’s Your Problem
      13. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – Good-Bye Bad Times
      14. Heaven 17 – …(And That’s No Lie)
      15. Simply Red- Come To My Aid
      16. The Style Council – Come To Milton Keynes
      17. The Power Station- Communication
      18. Adam Ant – Vive Le Rock
      19. Thompson Twins – Revolution
      20. TheArt Of Noise- Legs
    • CD 2
      1. Cocteau Twins – Aikea-Guinea
      2. The Jesus And Mary Chain- Just Like Honey
      3. The Dream Academy-The Love Parade
      4. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Green Shirt
      5. The Clash – This Is England
      6. The Stranglers – Let Me Down Easy
      7. The Damned – The Shadow Of Love
      8. Sisters Of Mercy- No Time To Cry
      9. New Model Army-No Rest
      10. This Island Earth – See That Glow
      11. Marillion- Heart Of Lothian
      12. Bonnie Tyler with Todd Rundgren – Loving You’s A Dirty Job (But Somebody’s Gotta Do It)
      13. Tina Turner – Show Some Respect
      14. Princess – After The Love Has Gone
      15. Loose Ends – Golden Years
      16. Brilliant- It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World
      17. Matt Bianco-More Than I Can Bear
      18. Daryl Hall & John Oates – Method Of Modern Love
      19. Chris Rea- Stainsby Girls
      20. Squeeze – Last Time Forever
    • CD 3
      1. Sheryl Lee Ralph – In The Evening
      2. Barbara Pennington – On A Crowded Street
      3. Miquel Brown – Close To Perfection
      4. The Three Degrees – The Heaven I Need
      5. Hazell Dean- They Say It’s Gonna Rain
      6. Laura Branigan-Spanish Eddie
      7. Divine – Twistin’ The Night Away
      8. Eddie Murphy – Party All The Time
      9. Patti LaBelle – New Attitude
      10. Elton John & Millie Jackson – Act Of War (Part 1)
      11. The Pointer Sisters – Baby Come And Get It
      12. Ready For The World – Oh Sheila
      13. The Limit – Say Yeah
      14. Mary Jane Girls – In My House
      15. Steve Arrington – Dancing In The Key Of Life
      16. Cameo – She’s Strange
      17. Sister Sledge- Dancing On The Jagged Edge
      18. Five Star – R.S.V.P.
      19. Eighth Wonder – Stay With Me
      20. Marilyn – Baby U Left Me (In The Cold)
    • CD 4
      1. Billy Joel – You’re Only Human (Second Wind)
      2. David Lee Roth- California Girls
      3. John Mellencamp – Small Town
      4. Bon Jovi – In And Out Of Love
      5. Dio – Rock ‘N’ Roll Children
      6. Pat Benatar – Invincible
      7. Kim Carnes – Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes)
      8. Oingo Boingo – Weird Science (From “Weird Science” Soundtrack)
      9. Animotion – Let Him Go
      10. The Cars – Tonight She Comes
      11. ‘Til Tuesday – Voices Carry
      12. Foreigner- That Was Yesterday
      13. Journey – Only The Young
      14. Rick Springfield – State Of The Heart
      15. Michael McDonald- No Lookin’ Back
      16. Philip Bailey – Walking On The Chinese Wall
      17. Chaka Khan- Through The Fire
      18. Whitney Houston – You Give Good Love

Madonna / Confessions II

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Madonna’s new studio album will be Confessions ll a follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor, which was released in late 2005.

Like its predecessor, this record is produced by Stuart Price and Madonna says “When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto”:

We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies. These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect

—with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people.

Sound, light, and vibration Reshape our perceptions Pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.

Quite. There’s a teaser trailer, which you can checkout below.

In terms of formats, the album will be available on single CD and single red vinyl editions which feature 12 tracks and are “non-stop mix” editions (which presumably means the tracks all segue). The CDs here are in a jewel case and the vinyl comes with a double-sided poster.

Then there are 16 track 2LP on pink vinyl and ‘softpack’ CDs which both feature 4 bonus tracks. It appears that these versions offer “12 individual songs” rather than the “non-stop mix” on the single discs. Certainly that’s how the spec reads to SDE at this point in time. The double vinyl includes a double-sided poster and an “exclusive numbered coat check” (which we think is a card ticket).

2LP pink vinyl features 16 tracks and comes with a poster and an exclusive ‘numbered coat check’

There is also a 16-track deluxe CD pocketed in a “unique 7 x 10.25 inch soft cover photo-book featuring exclusive images from the album’s photoshoot”. Additionally, a 16-track translucent pink cassette tape is being made available.

Most of the formats have different/alternate covers, making you wonder which, if any, is the ‘proper’ cover of the album. The main image on the post shows the cover of the 2LP and deluxe CD editions. Inevitably, there will be a plethora of coloured vinyl exclusives, most likely based on the single vinyl LP variant with the 12-track version of the album.

No tracklisting has yet been released and Confessions II will be released on 3 July via Warner Records. The pre-order links in the widgets below a very slow in coming through, but will update automatically.

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Duran Duran to release new single, Free to Love

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Duran Duran will release a new single later this month, called Free to Love.

The song features their old mucker Nile Rodgers and will be released on 23 April on the eve of the band’s US/European/UK spring-summer tour which includes a 5 July headline at BST Hyde Park with the Scissor Sisters in support.

‘Free to Love’ appears to be a standalone single (most likely recorded a few years ago during the Danse Macabre sessions) and there’s no word of any physical release (Duran haven’t issued a CD single since 2007’s ‘Falling Down’).

Out This Week / on 17 April 2026

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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning SDE Exclusive blu-ray audio

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning Blu-ray

Mark Knoplfer and Emmylou Harris’ rather wonderful collaborative 2006 album All The Roadrunning is reissued for its 20th anniversary on SDE exclusive blu-ray. As usual, there’s a small amount available on the week of release.

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Motörhead / On Parole Sessions (3CD+blu-ray)

A 3CD+blu-ray Motörhead deluxe set with brand new Steven Wilson remix of the original album, extensive recording session outtakes remixed by Richard Digby Smith and blu-ray with an Atmos Mix.

SDE at the Record Fair in Den Bosch

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I’m in the Netherlands this weekend – the city of Den Bosch to be precise – to attend the 62nd “Mega Record & CD Fair“. There won’t be updates here, but if you follow SDE on instagram I’ll be posting there showing off some of what’s available and at what prices and hopefully giving you a flavour of the event. If you are there and you see me, come and say hello!

I first attended back in 2024 and there’s an account of that trip can be found here.

Pink Floyd / 8-Tracks

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Pink Floyd will release a new ‘best of’ compilation in June, called 8-Tracks.

As the title suggests, this collection features eight songs, all selected from the band’s 1971 – 1979 era. These include ‘Money’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2’, ‘Time’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’, alongside earlier cuts in ‘One Of These Days’ and ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal’. There is one rarity: the full version of ‘Pigs On The Wing’, with the Snowy White guitar solo, previously only available on the 8-track cartridge version of Animals, released in 1977.

Also, the track sequence has been edited by Steven Wilson using sound effects sourced from the original multitracks to make for a continuous listening experience in “classic Floydian style”. To allow for this Wilson accessed the original multitracks to lift out some of the sound effects to create crossfades between the tracks. This approach may or may not prove controversial, but at least they are doing something a bit different.

8-Tracks will be released on black vinyl, blue vinyl and CD (but not 8-track cartridge, unless we have a ‘surprise’ D2C product coming later) on 5 June 2026, via Sony.

Tracklisting

Pink Floyd / 8 Tracks

8-Tracks Pink Floyd /

      1. One Of These Days
      2. Wot’s… Uh The Deal
      3. Money
      4. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
      5. Wish You Were Here
      6. Time
      7. Comfortably Numb
      8. Pigs On The Wing

Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood SDE blu-ray pre-order – ends today

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The pre-order window for the Roxy Music Flesh + Blood SDE exclusive blu-ray closes today. It’s #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‘ 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 2026 Dolby 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:

  • Flesh + Blood 2026 Dolby Atmos Mix (48/24)
  • Flesh + Blood 2026 Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix (48/24)
  • Flesh + Blood 2026 5.1 Mix (48/24)
  • Flesh + Blood 1980 Original Stereo Mix – 2026 Remaster (48/24)

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), via UMR. The pre-order window closes at midnight GMT tonight – 8 April 2026. Availability after today 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

Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood SDE exclusive blu-ray

Flesh + Blood Roxy Music / SDE exclusive blu-ray audio

    • SDE exclusive blu-ray
      – 2026 Dolby Atmos Mix
      – 2026 Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix
      – 2026 5.1 Mix
      – 1980 Original Stereo Mix (2026 Remaster)
      1. In the Midnight Hour
      2. Oh Yeah
      3. Same Old Scene
      4. Flesh and Blood
      5. My Only Love
      6. Over You
      7. Eight Miles High
      8. Rain Rain Rain
      9. No Strange Delight
      10. Running Wild

61 Tori Amos / In Times Of Dragons

60 Heaven 17 / The Luxury Gap

59 Heaven 17 / Penthouse and Pavement

58 Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning

57 The Who / Quadrophenia

56 George Michael / Faith

55 Bryan Ferry / Boys and Girls

54 Thin Lizzy / Nightlife

53 Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) / The Raw & The Cooked

52 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair

51 Propaganda / A Secret Wish

50 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome

49 Elton John / Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

48 The Who / Who Are You

47 The Human League / Dare

46 Split Enz / ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2

45 Mark Knopfler / Sailing to Philadelphia 

44 Matt Deighton / Today Become Forever

43 De La Soul / 3 Feet High and Rising 

42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives

41 Mike Oldfield / Hergest Ridge

40 Claudi Brücken / Night Mirror

39 Elton & Brandi / Who Believes In Angels?

38 Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms

37 INXS / Listen Like Thieves

36 Roxy Music / Avalon

35 Envy of None / Stygian Waves

34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective

33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain

32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream

31 Elton John / Diamonds

30 The Who / Who’s Next

29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap 

28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet

27 Thin Lizzy / 1976

26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent

25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines

24 Ultravox / Lament

23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs

22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much

21 Keane / Hopes and Fears

20 Wham! / Make It Big

19 Wham! / Fantastic

18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River

17 Paul Young / No Parlez

16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos

15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern

13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe

13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre

12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love

11 Suede / Suede

10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells

9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting

8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)

7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time

6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George

6. Orbital / Optical Delusion

5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore

4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours

3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven

2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange

1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point

Beastie Boys / To The 5 Boroughs 3LP set, unboxed

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Watch, as SDEtv unboxes the 3LP vinyl reissue of the Beastie Boys 2004 album, To The 5 Boroughs, which will be released next week.

Tracklisting

To The 5 Boroughs Beastie Boys /

    • CD 1
      1. Ch-Check It Out
      2. Right Right Now Now
      3. 3 The Hard Way
      4. It Takes Time To Build
      5. Rhyme The Rhyme Well
      6. Triple Trouble
      7. Hey Fuck You
      8. Oh Word?
      9. That’s It That’s All
      10. All Lifestyles
      11. Shazam!
      12. An Open Letter To NYC
      13. Crawlspace
      14. The Brouhaha
      15. We Got The
    • CD 2
      1. Brrrr Stick Em
      2. And Then I
      3. Now Get Busy  (Japanese bonus track)
      4. Ch-Check It Out (Just Blaze Remix)
      5. Triple Trouble (Brainpower Remix)
      6. Triple Trouble (J. Wizzle Remix)
      7. Triple Trouble (Dexter’s Triple Decollte Situation) (Australian single)
      8. Triple Trouble (Graham Coxon Remix)
      9. Rizzle Rizzle Nizzle Nizzle
      10. MTL Reppin’ For The 514
      11. RRNN: Straight Outta Shibuya

Bruce Springsteen / Live From Asbury Park 2024

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Sony are releasing Bruce Springsteen’s ‘homecoming’ performance in Asbury Park that formed part of the Sea.Hear.Now festival back in 2024.

The set runs for over three hours and is presented across three CDs as Live From Asbury Park 2024. There are no other physical formats, apart from a 5LP RSD edition. Springsteen performed to 35,000 fans with the E-Street Band and played 29 songs that spanned his entire catalogue.

Live From Asbury Park 2024 will be released on 29 May 2026, via Sony Music.

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Bruce Springsteen and E-Street Band / Live from Asbury Park 2024

Live From Asbury Park 2024 Bruce Springsteen / 3CD set

    • CD 1
      1. Lonesome Day
      2. Blinded By The Light
      3. Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
      4. Growin' Up
      5. The Promised Land
      6. Spirit in the Night
      7. Thundercrack
      8. The E Street Shuffle
      9. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
      10. Hungry Heart
      11. Local Hero
    • CD 2
      1. Atlantic City
      2. Tougher Than the Rest
      3. Long Walk Home
      4. Racing in the Street
      5. Because the Night
      6. She’s the One
      7. Wrecking Ball
      8. The Rising
      9. Badlands
      10. Thunder Road
      11. Meeting Across the River
    • CD 3
      1. Jungleland
      2. Born to Run
      3. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
      4. Bobby Jean
      5. Dancing In the Dark
      6. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
      7. Twist and Shout
      8. Jersey Girl

Aerosmith 4LP vinyl super deluxe edition, unboxed

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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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Aerosmith Aerosmith /

    • LP 1: Aerosmith (2024 Remaster)
      Side 1
      1. Make It
      2. Somebody
      3. Dream On
      4. One Way Street
      Side 2
      1. Mama Kin
      2. Write Me A Letter
      3. Movin’ Out
      4. Walkin’ The Dog
    • LP 2: Aerosmith (2024 Mix)
      Side 1
      1. Make It
      2. Somebody
      3. Dream On
      4. One Way Street
      Side 2
      1. Mama Kin
      2. Write Me A Letter
      3. Movin’ Out
      4. Walkin’ The Dog
    • LP 3: Paul’s Mall Live Performance, 20 March 1973
      Side 1
      1. Introduction
      2. Make It
      3. One Way Street
      4. Somebody
      Side 2
      1. Write Me A Letter
      2. I Ain’t Got You
      3. Mother Popcorn
      4. Movin’ Out
    • LP 4: Paul’s Mall Live Performance, 20 March 1973 (Continued plus Bonus Tracks)
      Side 1
      1. Walkin’ The Dog
      2. Train Kept A Rollin’
      3. Mama Kin
      Side 2 – Bonus Tracks
      1. Train Kept A Rollin’ (Session Take)
      2. Make It (Rehearsal Take)
      3. Make It (Alternate Take)
      4. Write Me A Letter (Alternate Take)
      5. Harmonica Bass Jam Jelly (Session Take)
      6. Joined At The Hip (Aerojam)
    • 12″ Single: Dream On “Clouds” Disc (45 RPM)
      Side 1
      1. Dream On (2024 Remaster)
      2. Dream On (2024 Mix)
      Side 2
      1. “UV Printed Cloudscape” [i.e. no music]

The Alan Parsons Project / Eye in the Sky blu-ray audio

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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 2026 Dolby Atmos Mix by Alan 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

The Alan Parsons Project / Eye in the Sky blu-ray audio

Eye in the Sky The Alan Parsons Project / Blu-ray Audio

    • Eye In The Sky In Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound and Hi-Res Stereo
      1. Sirius (Instrumental)
      2. Eye In The Sky
      3. Children Of The Moon
      4. Gemini
      5. Silence And I
      6. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned
      7. Psychobabble
      8. Mammagamma (Instrumental)
      9. Step By Step
      10. Old And Wise

NOW Yearbook 1972

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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’.

NOW Yearbook 1972 will be released on 8 May 2026.

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NOW Yearbook 1972 Various Artists / 4CD set

    • CD 1
      1. John Lennon, The Plastic Ono Band, Yoko Ono & The Harlem Community Choir – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
      2. Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well
      3. Don McLean – American Pie
      4. America – A Horse With No Name
      5. Simon & Garfunkel – America
      6. Carly Simon – Anticipation
      7. Bread – Baby I’m-A Want You
      8. Harry Nilsson – Without You
      9. Neil Diamond – Song Sung Blue
      10. Gilbert O’Sullivan – Clair
      11. Colin Blunstone – Say You Don’t Mind
      12. Cat Stevens – Morning Has Broken
      13. Michael Jackson – Got To Be There
      14. Bill Withers – Lean On Me
      15. Labi Siffre – It Must Be Love
      16. Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now
      17. Paul Simon – Mother And Child Reunion
      18. Bob Dylan – If Not For Yo
      19. Paul McCartney & Wings – Mary Had A Little Lamb
      20. Elvis Presley – I Just Can’t Help Believin’
    • CD 2
      1. Alice Cooper – School’s Out
      2. Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
      3. Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
      4. Sweet – Wig Wam Bam
      5. Slade – Mama Weer All Crazee Now
      6. Elton John – Crocodile Rock
      7. Chicory Tip – Son Of My Father
      8. Jeff Beck – Hi Ho Silver Lining
      9. Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs – Seaside Shuffle
      10. Blackfoot Sue – Standing In The Road
      11. Family – Burlesque
      12. Argent – Hold Your Head Up
      13. Free – Little Bit Of Love
      14. Electric Light Orchestra – 10538 Overture
      15. Hawkwind – Silver Machine
      16. Lindisfarne – Lady Eleanor
      17. Marmalade – Radancer
      18. Jo Jo Gunne – Run Run Run
      19. The Move – California Man
      20. Chuck Berry – My Ding-A-Ling (Live At Lanchester Arts Festival, 1972)
    • CD 3
      1. Shirley Bassey – Diamonds Are Forever
      2. Andy Williams – Speak Softly Love (Love Theme From “The Godfather”)
      3. Cher – The Way Of Love
      4. Sammy Davis Jr. – The Candy Man
      5. Tom Jones – The Young New Mexican Puppeteer
      6. Tony Christie – (Is This The Way To) Amarillo
      7. Middle Of The Road – Soley Soley
      8. The New Seekers – Beg, Steal Or Borrow
      9. Vicky Leandros – Come What May
      10. Love Unlimited – Walkin’ In The Rain With The One I Love
      11. The Stylistics – Betcha By Golly, Wow
      12. Diana Ross – DoobeDood’nDoobe, DoobeDood’nDoobe, DoobeDood’nDoo
      13. The Supremes – Floy Joy
      14. Donnie Elbert – Where Did Our Love Go?
      15. The Drifters – Saturday Night At The Movies
      16. Archie Bell And The Drells – Here I Go Again
      17. Jackson 5 – Lookin’ Through The Windows
      18. The O’Jays – Back Stabbers
      19. The Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
      20. Sly & The Family Stone – Family Affair
    • CD 4
      1. Elton John – Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long Long Time)
      2. Python Lee Jackson featuring Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream
      3. Slade – Take Me Bak ‘Ome
      4. Sweet – Little Willy
      5. Elvis Presley – Burning Love
      6. Gilbert O’Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)
      7. Don McLean – Vincent
      8. Michael Jackson – Ben
      9. The New Seekers – I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
      10. Melanie – Brand New Key
      11. Hook & The Medicine Show – Sylvia’s Mother
      12. Johnny Cash – A Thing Called Love
      13. Faron Young – It’s Four In The Morning
      14. The Fortunes – Storm In A Teacup
      15. Junior Campbell – Hallelujah Freedom
      16. Hurricane Smith – Oh, Babe What Would You Say
      17. Peter Skellern – You’re A Lady
      18. The Congregation – Softly Whispering I Love You
      19. Les Crane – Desiderata
      20. The Pipes And Drums Of The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards – Amazing Grace

Sananda Maitreya / Juvenilia 6LP set, unboxed

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Watch, as SDEtv unboxes the recent 6LP vinyl set from Sananda Maitreya (the artist formerly known as Terence Trent ‘D’Arby).

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Juvenilia: The Columbia Years Sananda Maitreya / 6LP vinyl

    • LP 1: Introducing The Hardline (translucent green vinyl)
      SIDE A
      1. IF YOU ALL GET TO HEAVEN
      2. IF YOU LET ME STAY
      3. WISHING WELL
      4. I’LL NEVER TURN MY BACK ON YOU (FATHER’S WORDS)
      5. DANCE LITTLE SISTER
      6. SEVEN MORE DAYS
      SIDE B
      1. LET’S GO FORWARD
      2. RAIN
      3. SIGN YOUR NAME
      4. AS YET UNTITLED
      5. WHO’S LOVING YOU
    • LP 2: Neither Fish Nor Flesh (red vinyl)
      SIDE A
      1. DECLARATION: NEITHER FISH NOR FLESH
      2. I HAVE FAITH IN THESE DESOLATE TIMES
      3. IT FEELS GOOD TO LOVE SOMEONE LIKE YOU
      4. TO KNOW SOMEONE DEEPLY IS TO KNOW SOMEONE SOFTLY
      5. I’LL BE ALRIGHT
      6. BILLY DON’T FALL
      SIDE B
      1. THIS SIDE OF LOVE
      2. ATTRACTED TO YOU
      3. ROLY POLY
      4. YOU WILL PAY TOMORROW
      5. I DON’T WANT TO BRING YOUR GODS DOWN
      6.  …AND I NEED TO BE WITH SOMEONE TONIGHT
    • LP 3 & 4: Symphony Or Damn (gold vinyl)
      SIDE A
      1. WELCOME TO MY MONASTERYO
      2. SHE KISSED ME
      3. DO YOU LOVE ME LIKE YOU SAY?
      4. BABY LET ME SHARE MY LOVE
      5. DELICATE
      SIDE B
      1. NEON MESSIAH
      2. PENELOPE PLEASE
      3. WET YOUR LIPS
      4. TURN THE PAGE
      SIDE C
      1. CASTILIAN BLUE
      2. T.I.T.S./F&J
      3. ARE YOU HAPPY?
      SIDE D
      1. SUCCUMB TO ME
      2. I STILL LOVE YOU
      3. SEASONS
      4. LET HER DOWN EASY
    • LP 5 & 6: Vibrator (blue vinyl)
      SIDE A
      1. VIBRATOR
      2. SUPERMODEL SANDWICH
      3. HOLDING ON TO YOU
      SIDE B
      1. READ MY LIPS (I DIG YOUR SCENE)
      2. UNDENIABLY
      3. WE DON’T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME TOGETHER
      SIDE C
      1. C.Y.F.M.L.A.Y?
      2. IF YOU GO BEFORE ME
      3. SURRENDER
      4. TTD’S RECURRING DREAM
      SIDE D
      1. SUPERMODEL SANDWICH W/CHEESE
      2. RESSURECTION
      3. IT’S BEEN SAID

Out This Week / on 3 April 2026

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Everything But The Girl / Eden and Amplified Heart CD

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.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Winterland

Winterland was an 8LP vinyl box set back in 2011 and is now reduced to this single LP ‘highlights’ edition. BBC Sessions gets the same treatment.


Ryuichi Sakamoto / Opus

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.’s All 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 / Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena

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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.

Tracklisting

Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena Pink Floyd / 2CD and 4LP

      1. Raving and Drooling (Live bootleg – Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      2. You’ve Got To Be Crazy (Live bootleg – Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1-5) (Live bootleg – Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975 )
      4. Have a Cigar (Live bootleg – Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      5. Shine on You Crazy Diamond (6-9) (Live bootleg – Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      6. Speak to Me (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      7. Breathe (In The Air) (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      8. On the Run (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      9. Time (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      10. The Great Gig in the Sky (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      11. Money (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      12. Us and Them (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      13. Any Colour You Like (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      14. Brain Damage (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      15. Eclipse (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)
      16. Echoes (Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 1975)

Chris Squire / Fish Out Of Water 50th anniversary

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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.

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Chris Squire / Fish Out Of Water 50th anniversary CD+Blu-ray

Fish Out Of Water Chris Squire / 50th anniversary CD+blu-ray

    • CD: The 50th Anniversary Stereo Mix By Stephen W Tayler
      1. Hold Out Your Hand
      2. You By My Side
      3. Silently Falling
      4. lucky Seven
      5. Safe (Canon Song)
      Bonus Track:
      1. Silently Falling (single version)
    • Blu-ray
      The 50th Anniversary Mixes By Stephen W Tayler (Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound & Stereo)
        1. Hold Out Your Hand
        2. You By My Side
        3. Silently Falling
        4. Lucky Seven
        5. Safe (Canon Song)
      Bonus Track
      1. Silently Falling (single version)
      Visual Content
      1. Fish Out Of Water – The promotional film featuring ‘Hold Out Your Hand’ and ‘You By My Side
      2. 2006 Fish Out Of Water – Audio commentary with Chris Squire

Paul McCartney / The Boys of Dungeon Lane

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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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The Boys of Dungeon Lane Paul McCartney /

    • CD
      1. As You Lie There
      2. Lost Horizon
      3. Days We Left Behind
      4. Ripples in a Pond
      5. Mountain Top
      6. Down South
      7. We Two
      8. Come Inside
      9. Never Know
      10. Home to Us
      11. Life Can Be Hard
      12. First Star of the Night
      13. Sailsman Saint
      14. Momma Gets By

Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood SDE exclusive blu-ray

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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 2026 Dolby 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:

  • Flesh + Blood 2026 Dolby Atmos Mix (48/24)
  • Flesh + Blood 2026 Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix (48/24)
  • Flesh + Blood 2026 5.1 Mix (48/24)
  • Flesh + Blood 1980 Original Stereo Mix – 2026 Remaster (48/24)

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.

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Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood SDE exclusive blu-ray

Flesh + Blood Roxy Music / SDE exclusive blu-ray audio

    • SDE exclusive blu-ray
      – 2026 Dolby Atmos Mix
      – 2026 Dolby Atmos Instrumental Mix
      – 2026 5.1 Mix
      – 1980 Original Stereo Mix (2026 Remaster)
      1. In the Midnight Hour
      2. Oh Yeah
      3. Same Old Scene
      4. Flesh and Blood
      5. My Only Love
      6. Over You
      7. Eight Miles High
      8. Rain Rain Rain
      9. No Strange Delight
      10. Running Wild

61 Tori Amos / In Times Of Dragons

60 Heaven 17 / The Luxury Gap

59 Heaven 17 / Penthouse and Pavement

58 Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning

57 The Who / Quadrophenia

56 George Michael / Faith

55 Bryan Ferry / Boys and Girls

54 Thin Lizzy / Nightlife

53 Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) / The Raw & The Cooked

52 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair

51 Propaganda / A Secret Wish

50 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome

49 Elton John / Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

48 The Who / Who Are You

47 The Human League / Dare

46 Split Enz / ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2

45 Mark Knopfler / Sailing to Philadelphia 

44 Matt Deighton / Today Become Forever

43 De La Soul / 3 Feet High and Rising 

42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives

41 Mike Oldfield / Hergest Ridge

40 Claudi Brücken / Night Mirror

39 Elton & Brandi / Who Believes In Angels?

38 Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms

37 INXS / Listen Like Thieves

36 Roxy Music / Avalon

35 Envy of None / Stygian Waves

34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective

33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain

32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream

31 Elton John / Diamonds

30 The Who / Who’s Next

29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap 

28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet

27 Thin Lizzy / 1976

26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent

25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines

24 Ultravox / Lament

23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs

22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much

21 Keane / Hopes and Fears

20 Wham! / Make It Big

19 Wham! / Fantastic

18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River

17 Paul Young / No Parlez

16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos

15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern

13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe

13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre

12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love

11 Suede / Suede

10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells

9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting

8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)

7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time

6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George

6. Orbital / Optical Delusion

5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore

4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours

3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven

2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange

1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point

Hear Tori Amos’ new single, ‘Shush’

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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.

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Tori Amos / In Times Of Dragons

In Times Of Dragons Tori Amos /

      1. Shush
      2. In Times Of Dragons
      3. Provincetown
      4. St Teresa
      5. Gasoline Girls
      6. Ode to Minnesota
      7. Fanny Faudrey
      8. Veins
      9. Strawberry Moon
      10. Song of Sorrow
      11. Flood
      12. Pyrite
      13. Tempest
      14. Angelshark
      15. Blue Lotus
      16. Stronger Together
      17. 23 Peaks
      HMV exclusive bonus track
      1. Black is the New Black