Out This Week / on 27 January 2017

Bob Dylan / The Bootleg Series (5LP vinyl box set)

The first of Bob Dylan‘s Bootleg Series (vol 1-3) remains a classic and is available on vinyl again for the first time in over 25 years. 

Cream / Fresh Cream (super deluxe edition)

Cream‘s 1966 debut is reissued as this 3CD+blu-ray audio super deluxe package with the album in stereo and mono plus plenty of bonus material. 

The Move / Magnetic Waves Of Sound: The Best Of (2LP coloured vinyl)

New remastered The Move ‘best of’ features an hour long DVD (NTSC, region free) with UK and German TV appearances and a promotional film.

• • UK Order: Magnetic Waves Of Sound
• • USA Order: Magnetic Waves Of Sound
• • GERMANY Order: Magnetic Waves Of Sound

Bert Jansch / Living In The Shadows (box set)

Four-CD box set that brings together three Bert Jansch albums from the 1990s and a fourth disc of unheard and unreleased material from the same decade. Vinyl box also available. 

Various Artists / The Early Motown EPs, Vol 2 (7″ vinyl box)

Seven-inch vinyl box set reproducing rare Motown EPs released in 1965 from artists such as The Contours, The Marvelettes, The Temptations, Kim Weston and Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells and The Supremes.

• • UK Order: The Early Motown EPs, vol 2 
• • USA Order: The Early Motown EPs, vol 2
• • GERMANY Order: The Early Motown EPs, vol 2

Chicago II: The Steven Wilson Remix (CD)

Steven Wilson was last year invited by Chicago to remix their classic 1970 album. This new stereo remix is said to bring out a  “clearness, punch and definition” that it didn’t have before. A double LP vinyl version of this new mix will follow later this year.

• • UK Order: Chicago II Steven Wilson Remix
• • USA Order: Chicago II Steven Wilson Remix
• • GERMANY Order: Chicago II Steven Wilson Remix

Billy Joel / Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2 (3LP numbered vinyl)

This triple vinyl numbered edition of the Billy Joel collection from Mobile Fidelity has been mastered from the original master tapes on 180g vinyl at RTI. Not a bad price in the UK for this set, actually (there’s a double SACD version, too).

• • UK Order: Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2 (3LP vinyl)
• • GERMANY Order: Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2 (3LP vinyl)

Joe Cocker! (Hybrid SACD)

This hybrid stereo SACD of Joe Cocker‘s second album has been mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.

• • UK Order: Joe Cocker! (SACD)
• • USA Order: Joe Cocker! (SACD)