Out This Week / on 5 April 2024
Reissues and releases

NOW 17 (2CD set)
Now That’s What I Call Music are continuing with reissuing the original compilations on CD and this week sees Now 17 reissued. This features 29 hits, three less than the original. The missing tracks are Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good to Me’, Phil Collins’ ‘I Wish It Would Rain Down’ and Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’.

Vampire Weekend / Only God Was Above Us (new album)
Vampire Weekend release their fifth studio album and first in five years. Frontman Ezra Koenig is surely asking for trouble by calling it their “Dark Side of the Moon meets Paul’s Boutique”, but we shall see!

Metallica / Garage Inc. (3LP coloured vinyl)
Metallica’s eighth album, Garage Inc. (released in 1998), is reissued as a 3LP set pressed in ‘Fade To Blue’ coloured vinyl.
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