Out This Week / on 22 Jan 2016

Suede / Night Thoughts (new album)

Suede release their second studio album since reforming and their seventh in total. Night Thoughts is issued as this special CD+DVD edition packaged in a deluxe hardcover book. 

The Monkees / Classic Album Collection (10CD box)

A Monkees box that collects the band’s nine original studio albums and a tenth bonus disc of singles/rarities.  

The Long Ryders / Final Wild Songs (4CD box)

New four-CD box which features the ‘alt country’ pioneers’ three albums, many rare tracks and unheard live recordings. 

Steven Wilson / 4 1/2  (new album)

New six-track ‘mini-LP’ from Steven Wilson. Four of the songs originated during the sessions for Hand. Cannot. Erase., and one from the recording sessions for the previous album The Raven that Refused to Sing. Available on CD, blu-ray audio (with a 5.1 mix) and vinyl.

CD

• • UK Pre-order: 4 1/2
• • USA Pre-order: 4 1/2

Blu-ray audio

• • UK Pre-order: 4 1/2
• • USA Pre-order: 4 1/2

Tindersticks / The Waiting Room (new album)

Tindersticks releases their first studio album since 2012’s acclaimed The Something Rain. This CD edition comes with a DVD of videos. There is also a limited coloured vinyl pressing, that comes with the DVD.

• • UK Order The Waiting Room CD+DVD
• • USA Order: The Waiting Room CD+DVD

The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968

Originally issued in the early nineties, this Stax/Volt reissue is a 9CD box that features new packaging and full-color booklets with essays by co-producer, Rob Bowman.

• • UK Order: Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968
• • USA Order: Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968

Spandau Ballet / Access All Areas (CD+DVD)

Edsel’s apparently endless ‘Access All Areas’ series, which brings together a performance on DVD with the audio on CD, focuses its attention on a 1990 Spandau Ballet gig.

• • UK Order: Spandau Ballet Access All Areas
• • USA Order: Spandau Ballet Access All Areas

The Monkees / Cereal Box Records 

Four flexi-discs by The Monkees were once given away with a breakfast cereal.  Here is a limited edition reissue of all four: Last Train to Clarksville, Words, I Never Thought It Peculiar and Valleri (featuring rare TV mixes of the last three). For clarity, this is a limited edition reproduction of 4x 7″ flexi-disc singles, issued by Rhino.

• • UK Order: Cereal Box Records
• • ITALY Order: Cereal Box Records

Badly Drawn Boy / The Hour of the Bewilderbeast

The 3LP deluxe is already out, but this week sees the release of the 2LP vinyl reissue of the Mercury Music Prize-winning album that was issued in 2000. 

François Hardy / La maison où j’ai grandi

One in a series of vinyl reissues of the French singer and actress, François Hardy Although not the official title it became known as La maison où j’ai grandi (The House Where I Grew Up) after the most popular track on the album and was issued in 1966.

• • UK Order: La maison ou j’ai grandi
• • USA Order: La maison ou j’ai grandi