Out This Week / on 24 February 2023

Haircut One Hundred’s 1982 album Pelican West is reissued as multi-disc vinyl and CD box sets.

The 2015 4CD+DVD super deluxe of a-ha’s 1985 is released as a 6LP vinyl set (but there’s no DVD).

The Now That’s What I Call Music Team continue their popular Yearbook series with a new volume devoted to 1986. Now Yearbook ’86 is available as a 4CD deluxe book edition, a 3LP coloured vinyl (both limited) and a standard 4CD set.

Collected is a new vinyl compilation featuring the best of Nik Kershaw. It features songs from all nine of Kershaw’s studio albums including his most recent, 2020’s Oxymoron and this initial pressing features a bonus LP of 12-inch mixes. Sold out on the SDE shop, grab one if you see one elsewhere since this one-time 3LP pressing (of 1000 units) is also sold out at the distributors, and therefore effectively out-of-print.

The 4CD+blu-ray David Bowie deluxe set was released in November 2022. This week sees the single vinyl LP edition that features an alternate version of the Hunky Dory album made up of different versions of each track (‘An Alternative Journey Through Hunky Dory’).

The Alan Parsons Project’s 1980 album The Turn of a Friendly Card is reissued as a 3CD+blu-ray deluxe box set.

Yesterday Today 1992-2018, is a massive Ocean Colour Scene 15CD box set. The large format package features all 10 of their studio albums and five CDs of rarities.

Young Limbs Rise Again is a compilation album that celebrates the subculture of Goth via the music that was played, and the bands that performed at the legendary Batcave, a weekly club night hosted in London’s Dean Street (and later in Leicester Square) in the early 1980s.