Only two weeks ago GORILLAZ released their 8th album CRACKER ISLAND. Their best since their debut to my ears.
And as it happens with all big artists/bands a deluxe edition with
bonus tracks is released for fanatic fans. Gorillaz added 5 tunes on
theirs. A couple of new ones and alternate versions of other tracks.
2023 will see politically engaged songsmith BILLY BRAGG
and Cooking Vinyl celebrating his 40-year career (1983-2023).
The career spanning 14 CD box set, contains more than 300 tracks
including highlights from each of Billy’s twelve studio albums, non-album
singles and B- Sides, session tracks, rare live recordings, collaborations,
and previously unreleased material from across his journey.
In the early 80s, I realised if I wanted to hear music that said something about the state of the world, I’d have to make it myself. To mark my 40th anniversary, I’ve compiled a number of commemorative releases spanning my career since then. Pre-order: https://t.co/BuRCFT8RJSpic.twitter.com/Or2sN0JqVh
LOADED (FULLY RE-LOADED EDITIONis a new vinyl box set that includes
nearly all of the music from its expansive 2015 CD reissue but comes with
nine LPs boasting stereo, mono and full-length mixes of the original album.
Demos, studio outtakes and live recordings also feature in the box
set and several tracks will be available on vinyl for the first time.
The special edition comes in foil-wrapped slipcase containing the vinyl,
a poster of the album’s cover art, and an illustrated booklet with liner notes
by Lenny Kaye that appeared in ‘Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition’.
By then John Cale and Nico had left the band
In addition to the nine LPs, the set also comes with four 7″s that
reproduce the official singles and B-sides released from ‘Loaded’.
Famous Californian rockers LINKIN PARK will not come back as
a band following lead singer Chester Bennington‘s suicide in 2017.
Mike Shinoda: “The only Linkin Park news I have for you is that… Yeah, we talk
every few weeks — I talk to the guys, or some of the guys. And there’s no tours, there’s
no music, there’s no albums in the pipeline. Okay, so let me just tell you that. So just
keep in your minds that that is not happening.”
Instead they revisit older material. In 2020, they re-released debut LP Hybrid Theory featuring unreleased songs. And last year they made their fans happy with a deluxe version of Minutes To Midnight , from 2007.
And they’re not done yet.
A special 20th-anniversary edition of Meteroa waits in the pipeline to be unleashed.
It features a previously unreleased song, named LOST featuring Bennington’s vocals.
For this special occasion the masterwork (Top-10 Bowie album in Turn Up The Volume‘s Bowie book will be re-released with a vinyl picture disc and a half-speed mastered black vinyl edition on 14 April. Pre-order details here.
This new pressing of Aladdin Sane was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with “fully recapped electronics” from 192kHz restored masters of the original master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. Both vinyl editions are cut from the same master, which means the picture disc is actually half-speed mastered too, although although the half-speed black vinyl is going to sound better than the picture disc.
Manchester’s synth-pop heroes NEW ORDER start 2023 with
a Definitive Edition Boxset of their third LP LOW LIFE. One of
their best, released on 13 May 1985.
The box includes the original album on 180g vinyl LP and CD – remastered.
A second CD of unreleased audio, and 2 DVDs of live performances from
1984 and 1985, the singles, plus a hardback book.
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON by prog-rock titans PINK FLOYD is one of the best known/sold albums ever, selling to its own and all of the future generations following
its release on 1 March 1973, 50 years ago.
To celebrate the event a new deluxe box set will be released on 24th March.
It includes CD and gatefold vinyl of the new 2023 remastered studio album and Blu-Ray + DVD audio featuring the original 5.1 mix and remastered stereo versions. The set also includes additional new Blu-ray disc of Atmos mix, plus CD and LP of ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon – Live At Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974’, a 160-page hardback photo book, a music book, replica 7” singles and memorabilia.
Last year Swedish post-punk mavericks VIAGRA BOYS
scored big time with their third full length CAVE WORLD.
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
As is totally normal in recent marketing years, deluxe editions come
some months after the original releases to boost sales of both. Also
normal is that most deluxes aren’t worth the money as the added music
varies from mediocre to bad, to totally worthless (I don’t own any). If it
was ace music it would have been on the LP’s first release, right?
But as we know, the moment you say normal something abnormal pops up.
Like here. The new expanded Cave World issue features 4 splendid new tracks,
I repeat: 4 splendid new tracks. Here they come.
– IT AIN’T ENOUGH –
Viagra schizophrenia.
. – STRETCH MY ARMS –
A moony ballad. Come again.
A moony ballad.
. – MILK FARM –
The boys as we know them.
. – ONLY FRIEND –
Another moony ballad. Come again.
Another moony ballad.
Manchester’s giants NEW ORDER start 2023 with a Definitive Edition Boxset of
their third LP LOW LIFE. One of their best, released on 13 May 1985 (stream below).
The box includes the original album on 180g vinyl LP and CD – remastered.
A second CD of unreleased audio, and 2 DVDs of live performances from
1984 and 1985, plus a hardback book.
THE CURE have their long-promised 30th anniversary
deluxe vinyl edition of their 9th album WISH out now.
26 November 2022
Yes, the LP with this pop diamond on.
The deluxe edition contains no less than 24 previously unreleased tracks and four
that were previously only available from the mail order-only tape Lost Wishes.
Robert Smith “There’s a side to the album which I had kind of forgotten, a very gentle, yearning thing which is quite beautiful. TRUST is one of the best things we’ve ever done
I think, it’s played with great feeling, and To Wish Impossible Things is another gorgeous, melancholic piece. in fact, it could well be my favourite song on the record.”
“In the studio control room it all sounded excellent, but I got too busy sorting out our
upcoming concerts to properly oversee the mastering. It was too late to do anything
about it; the album was out, and we were off around the world again. It has really
bugged for me for a very long time. It has taken 30 years, but finally, my Wish has
come true.”
Content: 3CD 45-track edition, 2xLP vinyl edition,
1CD edition, also available digitally. Details here.
