Out This Week / on 5 Feb 2016
Elton John / Wonderful Crazy Night (new album)
Elton John releases his 33rd studio album this week. Wonderful Crazy Night is available on CD, vinyl, expanded deluxe CD and super deluxe box set.
Erasure / Wonderland, The Circus & The Innocents (vinyl)
Erasure are celebrating their 30th anniversary and this week sees the reissue of their first three albums on 180g vinyl.
The Cars / Translucent coloured blue vinyl
An Elektra Years coloured vinyl box (& CD set) is on the way, but for some reason The Cars‘ 1978 debut is getting a standalone translucent blue vinyl issue this week too.
- • UK Pre-order: The Cars blue vinyl
- • USA Pre-order: The Cars blue vinyl
- • GERMANY Pre-order: The Cars blue vinyl
Suzanne Vega / Solitude Standing Live at the Barbican (2LP)
Suzanne Vega‘s 2012 concert at London’s Barbican celebrated 25 years of her second album Solitude Standing. This is released on vinyl for the first time this week.
- • UK Order: Solitude Standing Live at the Barbican 2LP
- • USA Order: Solitude Standing Live at the Barbican 2LP
- • GERMANY Order: Solitude Standing Live at the Barbican 2LP
Bert Jansch / Avocet
The Scottish folk musician’s 12th album (issued in 1978/9). Each track is named after a seabird and this new limited vinyl edition from Earth Records comes with a number of high-quality lithograph art prints representing each of the birds on the album.The cover image is interchangeable with any of the prints. Deluxe CD hardcover book edition also available.
Ennio Morricone / The Hateful Eight (OST)
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is his first film with a ‘proper’ soundtrack. Ennio Morricone, no less, scores the Western.
Jerry Goldsmith / Total Recall expanded OST
A new two-CD expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith‘s score for Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi / action classic.
John Lee Hooker / Simply John Lee Hooker
Union Square Music’s ‘Simply..’ series continues with this massive value three-CD John Lee Hooker set in a tin box.
By Paul Sinclair
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