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While less musically intense than the preceding This Year’s Model, Armed Forces doesn’t let up in the lyric department. Costello’s narratives are loaded with paranoia, irony, bitterness, and scathing humor. Originally titled Emotional Fascism, the singer’s third consecutive masterpiece is inspired by billboard sign slogans, insular observations, and social behavior that Costello found applicable to his own situation. “Oliver’s Army,” “Green Shirt,” and “Senior Service” address systemic governmental control. “Big Boys,” “Two Little Hitlers,” and “Accidents Will Happen” also concern control and betrayal—but that of the interpersonal nature.

Given the luxury of six weeks in the studio, Costello and the Attractions responded with spacious arrangements and a few extra touches and instrumental colors that add to the songs’ charm. Steve Nieve employs a monophonic Minimoog keyboard and pianos patterned after Abba’s sweet pop; whispers are exaggerated into black comedy shouts on “Goon Squad”; layered and echoed vocals provide the illusion of several Costello voices on multiple tracks. The band is of a piece, constantly in harmony and on the same page.

Half-speed mastered from the original tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited-edition 180-gram LP presents the vibrant dynamics of Armed Forces’ timeless pop songs in the highest possible fidelity. This album has never sounded so full, rich, airy, spacious, detailed, or necessary. The textures and voicings of Nieve’s keyboards are alone worth the investment. This pressing will have you dancing in the aisles and analyzing Costello’s brilliant turns of phrase for years to come.

Track Listing:
1. Accidents Will Happen
2. Senior Service
3. Oliver's Army
4. Big Boys
5. Green Shirt
6. Party Girl
7. Goon Squad
8. Busy Bodies
9. Sunday's Best
10. Moods For Moderns
11. Chemistry Class
12. Two Little Hitlers
13. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?

Stylistically versatile, deeply varied, and melodically catchy, this where Costello came into his own—and where the chemistry between virtuosic keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas, and drummer Pete Thomas produced one of rock’s best groups. A dynamic maelstrom of emotional spite, bitter frustration, sexual angst, and caustic political commentary, the 1978 set boosted Costello’s star and yielded innumerable standards: the undying MOR protest “Radio Radio,” fervent “Pump It Up,” smart “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea,” and spunky “No Action” are all here.

While often cited as Costello’s “angry” record, This Year’s Model has more to do with disappointments and denials. The album bursts forth with a savage energy not possible without the Attractions, which are responsible for the songs being built from the ground up. Where Costello’s voice and twangy guitar dominate My Aim Is True, here, sizzling rhythms and Nieve’s colorful organ runs anchor the foundations. This is a group effort, with Costello’s biting lyrics taking chances and forcing the listener to mull double meanings all the while the music zooms by at a fast clip.

More than 30 years after its original release, This Year’s Model will still leave you breathless. Railing against unachievable desires, Costello and company delight in the anguish, and spit such torment back out in the form of hook-ridden music that functions as a brilliant form of situational confirmation and emotional catharsis.

Half-speed mastered from the original tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered limited-edition 180-gram LP brings This Year’s Model’s vicious songs to the forefront like never before. Punchier, gutsier, and livelier than any of the myriad CD remasters, this analog edition offers a transparent window onto the Attractions' loose interplay, Nieve's carnivalesque organ work, and rabid pounce of the Thomas-Thomas rhythm section. Here, for the first time, are previously buried tones, textures, and details. It took years to happen, but this is how This Year’s Model was always supposed to sound.

Track Listing:
1. No Action
2. This Year's Girl
3. The Beat
4. Pump It Up
5. Little Triggers
6. You Belong to Me
7. Hand in Hand
8. (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea
9. Lip Service
10. Living in Paradise
11. Lipstick Vogue
12. Night Rally
13. Radio, Radio

12” album and a 7” containing “Fly On The Wall” material offering a unique insight into The Beatles at work in January 1969

Track Listing:
1. Get Back
2. Dig A Pony
3. For You Blue
4. The Long And Winding Road
5. Two Of Us
6. I've Got A Feeling
7. One After 909
8. Don't Let Me Down
9. I Me Mine
10. Across The Universe
11. Let It Be

Fly On The Wall - 7

Queen's grand, state-of-the-art 1980 pop album The Game was the group's only record to reach #1 in both the U.K. and the U.S thanks to the legendary singles Another One Bites the Dust and Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

Track Listing:
1. Play The Game
2. Dragon Attack
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Need Your Loving Tonight
5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
6. Rock It (Prime Jive)
7. Don't Try Suicide
8. Sail Away Sweet Sister
9. Coming Soon
10. Save Me

The Big To-Do was recorded in three concentrated sessions during the first part of 2009: ten days in January, five days in March, ten days in May. That added up to 25 songs, a dozen of which sequenced into The Big To-Do. We had it mixed, mastered, and completely done, and Cooley wrote the best song that just needed to be on it, Patterson says with his raspy chuckle. This happens a lot with the Truckers, and it's always a good sign. So we went back in and recorded, mixed, and mastered 'Birthday Boy' pretty much in one fell swoop. Thirteen songs, then. The balance of the remaining tracks, plus five more they've cut in the interim, will make up the Truckers' next album, which Patterson projects as a quieter affair. This is, in large part, possible because the Truckers have such a long-standing relationship with David Barbe (ex-Sugar, etc.) and the Athens, GA, studio he calls Chase Park Transduction, which long ago Patterson helped to build so as to earn the right to record there.

It's gotten to where, that day of set-up time to get sounds and levels and all of that takes us about two hours, Patterson says. We can pretty much walk in the door, and we know exactly where to put everything to get that sound, so that's just one less thing to have to think about. I wanted to eliminate the distractions. That clarity of purpose translates into a delicious assortment of Trucker songs themed loosely around crime and (self-) punishment. The Wig He Made Her Wear, Patterson says, is both a true story (as seen on Court TV) and the closest he's come to making the movie he started out to make a decade or more back. The Fourth Night of My Drinking will speak for itself, and This Fucking Job (paired thematically with Cooley's wry Get Downtown) is arguably the most political song the Truckers have made since Living Bubba. Which leaves the deceptive, airy simplicity of Shonna Tucker's You Got Another and (It's Gonna Be) I Told You So to reckon with. We always knew she had that in her, Patterson says, delighted with the emergence of another strong songwriter in the band. It was never a secret. She was writing songs all along. But watching it come out has been a really amazing thing to behold.

Off the road, incidentally, didn't mean out of work. First off, there was the matter of cutting an instrumental album with the legendary Booker T, having previously served as the backing band to the equally legendary soul singer, Bettye Lavette. Potato Hole turned out all right, got a Grammy nod, and Neil Young added his touches separately even though it's pretty much a Truckers effort. But it's what they learned making Potato Hole that counts most. I think doing the Booker album really, really paid off a lot on the musical end of this record, even though stylistically it might not sound anything like that record, says Patterson, and then tells the story.

We made that record in four days, and that included the first day when it was, 'Booker, it's wonderful to meet you!' Maybe the third song we tracked just wasn't going the way he wanted it to go. We weren't quite understanding what he wanted. We were playing it right, but it wasn't right. All the sudden he just stopped the session. He gathered us around, and he told us a story about a Thanksgiving dinner, and the way it smelt in the house, he'd been on the road a long time, and they were all in - cousins and aunts he hadn't seen in several years. He said, 'It's just a day where nothing happens, but it's all really good.'

And we sat down and we played it, and we nailed it. It was like a revelation. We're a lyric-driven band, and our songs generally paint scenes and tell stories based on scenes. He instinctively knew that was how we operated. And I think it taught us a lot about how we operated. Going in and making this record, I could tell a real difference in the way the songs hold up musically. We put a little more care into that side of it than I think we ever did before because of what we learned from him.

...an absorbing hunk of smart, crunchy, guitar-driven music shot through with the band’s vivid narratives, balanced storytelling, barroom punch, and Southern accents. It’s a set that portrays desperate people trying to survive in these ever more desperate times, with the Truckers’ joyous pride and spirited attitude warding off any bitter aftertaste. Several songs are sad, and at times depressing, but the moods always point up. As it is for Bruce Springsteen, this blue-collar band not only believes in but preaches rock as salvation, and their iron-clad conviction suggests they won’t have it any other way. --Bob Gendron, TONE Audio, Issue 27

Track Listing:
1. Daddy Learned to Fly
2. The Fourth Night of My Drinking
3. Birthday Boy
4. Drag the Lake Charlie
5. The Wig He Made Her Wear
6. You Got Another
7. This Fucking Job
8. Get Downtown
9. After the Scene Dies
10. (It's Gonna Be) I Told You So
11. Santa Fe
12. The Flying Wallendas
13. Eyes Like Glue
14. Girls Who Smoke (vinyl only bonus track)

Despite his untimely death, the man managed to squeeze in a lot in his 27 short years on this earth, enough to earn him the title of “King of the Delta Blues”. Pretty impressive, given the competition! Johnson's style has influenced everyone from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton and he is widely considered to be one of the greatest guitar players to have ever lived! A widely reported legend of Johnson selling his soul to the Devil in order to gain prowess on the guitar seems likely given the talent the man possessed. This triple LP box set chronicles his short but legendary career, featuring everything Johnson ever recorded, including the many songs that made him famous and have long since become blues standards. Absolutely essential in any collection!

This title is not eligible for further discount.

Track Listing:
Side A :

1 Kindhearted Woman Blues
2 Kindhearted Woman Blues (Alternate Take)
3 I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
4 Sweet Home Chicago
5 Ramblin’ On My Mind
6 Ramblin’ On My Mind (Alternate Take)

Side B:

1 When You Got A Good Friend
2 When You Got A Good Friend (Alternate Take)
3 Come On In My Kitchen
4 Come On In My Kitchen (Alternate Take)
5 Terraplane Blues
6 Phonograph Blues
7 Phonograph Blues (Alternate Take)

Side C:

1 32-20 Blues
2 They’re Red Hot
3 Dead Shrimp Blues
4 Cross Road Blues
5 Cross Road Blues (Alternate Take)
6 Walking Blues
7 Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Side D:

1 Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
2 If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
3 Stones In My Passway
4 I’m A Steady Rollin’ Man
5 From Four Till Late
6 Hellhound On My Trait

Side E:

1 Little Queen Of Spades
2 Little Queen Of Spades (Alternate Take)
3 Malted Milk
4 Drunken Hearted Man
5 Drunken Hearted Man (Alternate Take)
6 Me And The Devil Blues
7 Me And The Devil Blues (Alternate Take)

Side F:

1 Stop Breakin’ Down Blues
2 Stop Breakin’ Down Blues (Alternate Take)
3 Traveling Riverside Blues
4 Honeymoon Blues
5 Love In Vain Blues
6 Love In Vain Blues (Alternate Take)
7 Milkcow’s Calf Blues
8 Milkcow’s Calf Blues (Alternate Take)

The addition of drummer Steve Shelley brought a new dangerous edge to Sonic Youth and EVOL saw the group leaning toward a more aural rock 'n' roll sound as a result. Highlights include Green Light and Expressway to Yr. Skull. 180g pink vinyl.

Track Listing:
1. Tom Violence
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Star Power
4. In the Kingdom
5. Green Light
6. Death To Our Friends
7. Secret Girls
8. Marilyn Moore
9. Expressway to Yr. Skull
10. Bubblegum

Not Even in July was recorded by engineer Henry Hirsch, who after hearing some of JBM's early demos invited him to his breathtaking 19th Century church studio in Hudson, NY. Although much of the album's lyrical content came from his time on the west coast, it was the tranquil and introspective environment where the album was recorded that creates the rich textures, echoing timbre and profound atmosphere found on this entrancing compilation of music.

Track Listing:
1. Years
2. Cleo's Song
3. Ambitions & War
4. July On The Sound
5. Friends For Fireworks
6. Going Back Home
7. In A Different Time
8. From Me To You And You To Me
9. Red October
10. Swallowing Daggers

Featuring Christine Perfect (better known as the future Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac) the British ensemble Chicken Shack offers up a solid set of blues-influenced rock on their 1968 LP, fully titled 40 Blue Fingers Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve.

This LP was a promising debut, especially noteworthy for Stan Webb's Freddie King-inspired guitar playing and Christine Perfect's vocals. Webb does justice to his mentor with two instrumentals, King's San-Ho-Zay and his own Webbed Feet, and Christine proves the ideal counterpart: one of the few pianists paying homage to King's longtime collaborator Sonny Thompson.

It remains their finest work; Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown.

The album - with a nice spare sound, typical of Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label- will be enjoyed again, this time on audiophile vinyl.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl

Track Listing:
1. The Letter
2. Lonesome Whistle Blues
3. When the Train Comes Back
4. San-Ho-Zay
5. King of the World
6. See See Baby
7. First Time I Met the Blues
8. Webbed Feet
9. You Ain't No Good
10. What You Did Last Night

The Screaming Trees are considered to be one of the Godfathers of Grunge.

Although they were one of the best 'Seattle-bands' of the early nineties, they never achieved the commercial success of bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. Founded in 1985, the band had to wait till 1992 for their biggest success, the release of Sweet Oblivion. The song 'Nearly Lost you' became the Screaming Trees' biggest hit after being featured on the soundtrack of the movie Singles.

Lead singer Mark Lanegan started a very successful solo career after the Screaming Trees, working with the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Greg Dulli (Afghan Wigs), Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian) en UNKLE.

Being out of print for years, this 90's milestone will be finally available again!

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl

Track Listing:
1. Shadow Of The Season
2. Nearly Lost You
3. Dollar Bill
4. More Or Less
5. Butterfly
6. For Celebrations Past
7. The Secret Kind
8. Winter Song
9. Troubled Times
10. No One Knows
11. Julie Paradise

Turin Brakes' Olly and Gale have rediscovered the working practices that got them started in the first place. Written, produced and (for the most part) performed entirely by the two of them, Outbursts is a collection of songs that returns to the essence of Turin Brakes. The post-punk new wave sound of 2007's Dark On Fire is gone, back are the heartfelt ballads, combined with feel good music!

Turin Brakes' strength and essence is summed up in one of the album's standout songs, Never Stops, a soulful repetative song with a bluesy feel, that shows the enduring spirit of Turin Brakes.

Paper Heart is a vulnerable little song with a haunting piano and string part.

Gale, who wrote two of the twelve songs, is reluctant to analyse the songs in terms of personal experience. You pick up on a tiny emotion within yourself and turn it into a film, Gale says. That's what being a good songwriter is all about, and Olly is one of the very best.

One of the most dramatic songs on the album is Radio Silence, a song which captures a sense of OK Computer-era Radiohead.

I just poured my heart out/Did I go too far? Olly sings on the beautiful, melancholic title track Outbursts, a song that recalls the jazz standards of the 1920s.

With artwork to match the sonic outbursts on the record and a classy 8-page full-colour booklet, this album is a piece of art in more ways than one.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl
* Gatefold Sleeve
* 8-page full-colour booklet


Track Listing:
1. The Sea Change
2. Mirror
3. Rocket Song
4. Paper Heart
5. The Invitation
6. Will Power
7. Apocolips
8. Embryos
9. The Letting Down
10. Radio Silence
11. Outbursts

Seven Moons, an album by Jack Bruce and Robin Trower that sees these prominent members of the seminal British rock and blues scene of the 1960s back together and in fine form.

Robin Trower was the founding guitarist in the band Procol Harum and Jack Bruce needs no introduction as the lead vocalist of Cream – who wrote a lot of their material, including one of the world's best-known rock guitar riffs in 'Sunshine of Your Love'. The duo made two joint recordings in the early 1980's, and have again teamed up on record, this time with British drummer Gary Husband - a member of Gary Moore's band and the pop band Level 42.

What makes Seven Moons such a success is that Bruce and Trower each play to their strengths, Bruce brings his distinctive croon/moan to bluesy, riff-oriented tunes dominated by Trower's playing. They conjure a Power Rock trio sound which touches on Cream and Hendrix yet draws from their own deep, dark wells of experience. Indeed it has been said that Seven Moons finds a space that Cream would have occupied had they recruited Hendrix: ballsy, economical, and confident. Trower, if anything, has toned down his usual space rock style, with some beautifully understated playing. Bruce's bass remains as it has always been, solid and tasteful, shunning the instrumental spotlight, whilst Gary Husband's drumming is also subtle, reflecting his jazz experience.

To sum it up simply, Seven Moons is a spot-on recreation of late-'60s blues-rock's halcyon days....Expertly done.

Track Listing:
1. Seven Moons
2. Lives of Clay
3. Distant Places of the Heart
4. She's Not the One
5. So Far to Yesterday
6. Just Another Day
7. Perfect Place
8. The Last Door
9. Bad Case of Celebrity
10. Come to Me
11. I'm Home

Gov't Mule is a southern rock jam band formed in 1994 as an Allman Brothers Band side project by Warren Haynes and Allen Woody. Deja Voodoo was released in 2004. This album is the first real band-album after Woody's passing away and the first to include keyboardist Danny Louis and bassist Andy Hess. It is comprised completely of songs which had never been performed live. When asked to describe the album at that time, Haynes said "It sounds like Gov't Mule, but it doesn't sound like anything we've already done. It has the same muscle and the same influences and character. But the fact is that it's a new band interpreting." The title is a reference to the fact that the band believes it rocks just like it used to before the death of former bassist Allen Woody.

Track Listing:
1. Bad Man Waling
2. About To Rage
3. Perfect Shelter
4. Little Toy Brain
5. Slackjaw Jezebel
6. Wine And Blood
7. Lola Leave Your Light On
8. Silent Scream
9. No Celebration
10. Mr. Man
11. My Separate Reality
12. New World Blues

The Nits are a Dutch art-pop-rock group, founded in 1974 in Amsterdam. Their musical style has varied over the years, as has their line-up, but the core members are lead singer and lyricist Henk Hofstede, Robert Jan Stips on keyboards (worked with Supersister, Gruppo Sportivo, The Golden Earring) and Rob Kloet on drums.

There seems little doubt that if they weren't so geographically challenged, The Nits would be on par with bands like XTC and Prebaf Sprout. Few bands can match their stamina: how many other bands can claim to be reinventing themselves after 30 years and 20 albums? Yet, the Nits are from Holland and furthermore, the occasional tour of the U.S. and Canada aside, they quickly made it clear that their only concession to the big outside world would be to sing in English. Also, the Nits specialize in making their latest album sound as little like the last as possible. This has simultaneously guaranteed them a modest, yet stable degree of success across continental Europe, where fans appreciate their integrity and commitment to playing intimate venues.

Their 1987 LP contains several hits, but the song that brought the band to the attention of an international audience was titletrack In the Dutch Mountains. This Dutch Vinyl Master LP deserves the audiophile treatment, so we present the 180 grams remastered 2LP with 3 bonustracks that weren´t on the original LP and a beautiful etching on the side D.

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl
* Remastered Audio incl. 3 bonustracks
* 3 sides with music– 1 side contains 'etching'


Track Listing:
Side A:

1. In the Dutch Mountains
2. J.O.S. Days
3. Two Skaters
4. Pelican and Penguin
5. In a Play (Das Mädchen im Pelz)
6. Oom-Pah-Pah

Side B:

7. The Panorama Man
8. Mountain Jan
9. One Eye Open
10. An Eating House
11. The Swimmer
12. Good Night

Side C:

1. Strangers Of The Night
2. The Magic Of Lassie
3. Moon And Stars

Side D:

´Etching´

The 2010 2LP edition of "Raw Power" on Music on Vinyl contains 2 different versions of this rock-milestone.

LP1 features the recently remastered version of David Bowie's original 1972 mix. After years of criticism -regarding the original mix- this new mix will set the record straight for once and for always: This ís the ultimate version of "Raw Power".

Accompanying the 2010 mix, we've included the 1997 edition that was revamped by Iggy Pop himself. Same 8 songs, whole new sonic approach: A complete overview for audiophile listeners and Stooges fans!

This double LP set contains a 16-page booklet with rare pics and liner notes and quotes by Iggy, James Williamson and Scott Asheton!

• 180 grams audiophile vinyl 2LP
• Remastered version of 1972´s Bowie mix + Iggy Pop´s 1997 Revamped Mix
• Gatefold sleeve
• Incl. 16-pag. booklet w/liner notes and previously unseen pictures

Cut from Original Masters by Chris Bell and Pressed at Pallas: Total Audiophile Quality!

Deluxe Packaging Features Stoughton Box, 6-Panel Folder, and Individual Jackets

Released five years after Metallica's famous Black album, Load remains proof that the legendary Bay Area band was capable of much more than thrash signatures and charged metal. Coming at a time when hard rock was in the process of reorganizing, the 1996 set led the way and announced to the world that Metallica wasn't content to rest on its laurels.

By slowing down the tempos, decreasing the aggression, and upping the depth of its grooves, the quartet channels its English and Southern rock influences in spectacular fashion. Load mines the shorter, blues-oriented approaches pioneered by Led Zeppelin, Cream, Lynryd Skynyrd, and Deep Purple, expanding on these classic parameters by retaining some of the ferocious bite Metallica injected into its formative early works.

Having sold more than five million copies in the U.S. alone and topped the Billboard album charts for four consecutive weeks, the album confirmed that Metallica's evolution happened without any inherent loss to its basic appeal. Guitarist Kirk Hammett is allowed more room to explore tonalities, and rhythms serve the songs in concise fashion, making the record Metallica's purest rock effort. Ain't My Bitch, King Nothing,Hero of the Day, and Until It Sleeps all received considerable airplay and remain concert and radio staples to this day.

Now, fans can finally hear Load in supreme fidelity. Receiving the same audiophile treatment afforded the group's first five records, Warner Bros.' deluxe limited edition LP box set of Load has been cut from the original masters by Chris Bell, pressed on 180g LP at Pallas in Germany, and spread out over four discs of 45RPM vinyl for the ultimate sonic experience. Housed in a box printed at Stoughton and featuring four single-pocket jackets with a six-panel folder, this stands as the sweetest Metallica package yet! Don't miss out on your chance to add another essential release to your Metallica collection!

Track Listing:
1. Ain't My Bitch
2. 2 X 4
3. The House Jack Built
4. Until It Sleeps
5. King Nothing
6. Hero Of The Day
7. Bleeding Me
8. Cure
9. Poor Twisted Me
10. Wasting My Hate
11. Mama Said
12. Thorn Within
13. Ronnie
14. The Outlaw Torn

Cut from Original Masters by Chris Bell and Pressed at Pallas

Load Also Available as a Deluxe Limited-Edition 180g 45RPM 4LP Box Set

Released five years after Metallica’s famous “Black” album, Load remains proof that the legendary Bay Area band was capable of much more than thrash signatures and charged metal. Coming at a time when hard rock was in the process of reorganizing, the 1996 set led the way and announced to the world that Metallica wasn’t content to rest on its laurels.

By slowing down the tempos, decreasing the aggression, and upping the depth of its grooves, the quartet channels its English and Southern rock influences in spectacular fashion. Load mines the shorter, blues-oriented approaches pioneered by Led Zeppelin, Cream, Lynryd Skynyrd, and Deep Purple, expanding on these classic parameters by retaining some of the ferocious bite Metallica injected into its formative early works.

Having sold more than five million copies in the U.S. alone and topped the Billboard album charts for four consecutive weeks, the album confirmed that Metallica’s evolution happened without any inherent loss to its basic appeal. Guitarist Kirk Hammett is allowed more room to explore tonalities, and rhythms serve the songs in concise fashion, making the record Metallica’s purest rock effort. “Ain’t My Bitch,” “King Nothing,” “Hero of the Day,” and “Until It Sleeps” all received considerable airplay and remain concert and radio staples to this day.

Now, fans can finally hear Load in stunning analogy fidelity. Warner Bros.' standard 2LP set of Load has been cut from the original masters by Chris Bell and pressed on 180g LP at Pallas in Germany. Housed in a gatefold jacket printed at Stoughton, and containing two inserts, it's another essential release to add to your Metallica collection!

Track Listing:
1. Ain't My Bitch
2. 2 X 4
3. The House Jack Built
4. Until It Sleeps
5. King Nothing
6. Hero Of The Day
7. Bleeding Me
8. Cure
9. Poor Twisted Me
10. Wasting My Hate
11. Mama Said
12. Thorn Within
13. Ronnie
14. The Outlaw Torn

A true audiophile dream album come true, Birds Of Fire culminates the collective geniuses of these five players led by the haunting guitar licks of John McLaughlin into territories rarely heard and not seen since. Kicking things off with the mesmerizing title track Birds Of Fire, followed by McLaughlinÆs tribute to Miles Davis with Miles Beyond, the listener soon becomes intrigued with the stunning and powerful musical collaborations of this superstar quintet.

The new decade comes with an incredible gift to the serious audiophile and jazz/rock fusion collector as Friday Music is very proud to announce the 180g Audiophile Vinyl release of Birds Of Fire by The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Mastered impeccably from the original Columbia Records tapes by Joe Reagoso/Friday Music and Kevin Gray at AcousTech, and pressed painstakingly by RTI.

Track Listing:
1. Birds Of Fire
2. Miles Beyond
3. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters
4. Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love
5. Thousand Island Park
6. Hope
7. One Word
8. Sanctuary
9. Open Country Joy
10. Resolution

For the final mixes, Benevento handed off his work to three of his favorite engineers: Mell Dettmer (Sunn O))), Eyvind Kang, Jesse Lauter (Low Anthem, Elvis Perkins) and Vid Cousins (Amon Tobin, Kid Koala). The results range from the day-glo electro-rock of It Came From You to the simply-stated lullaby Illa Frost to the shimmering Arcade Fire-meets-Brad Mehldau anthem Two Of You.

Track Listing:
1. Greenpoint
2. Between The Needles
3. Two Of You
4. Numbers
5. It Came From You
6. Ila Frost
7. RISD
8. You Know I'm No Good
9. Music Is Still Secret
10. Wolf Trap
11. Snow Lake

The Next Stop Soweto Series is the result of several years of painstaking research and vinyl archaeology in South Africa by compilers Duncan Brooker and Francis Gooding.

Track Listing:
1. J.K. Mayenger & The Singwedzi Sisters Khubani
2. Mahotella Queens - Wozani Mahipi
3. The Heroes - Come With Me
4. The Monks - Blockhead
5. Bra Sello & His Band - Soul Time Nzimande Go
6. The Toreadors - Gwinyithse
7. The Heroes - Funky Message
8. The Klooks - Nkuli's S Shuffle
9. The Soul Prophets - Soul IMBAQ
10. Philip Malela & The Movers - Intandane (Part 1)
11. Bazali Bam - Bazali Bam
12. The Mgababa Queens - Akulalwa Soweto
13. Down Tones - Short Man's Soul
14. The S.A. Move - Skophom
15. The Heshoo Beshoo Band - Wait And See
16. Philip Malela - Tiba Kamo
17. The Grasshoppers - I Am There
18. Electric Six - Lovely Wami
19. The Anchors - Last Time
20. Flaming Souls - Mosquito
21. Soul Throbs - Little Girl
22. Gibson Kente - Saduva

Band of Horses is Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds. Long-time touring members of the group, Infinite Arms marks the recording debut of Ramsey and Reynolds, while Barrett and Monroe graced the last album, Cease to Begin. Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band’s inception.

Track Listing:
1. Factory
2. Compliments
3. Laredo
4. Blue Beard
5. On My Way Back Home
6. Infinite Arms
7. Dilly
8. Evening Kitchen
9. Older
10. For Annabelle
11. NW Apt.
12. Neighbor

Band of Horses is Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds. Long-time touring members of the group, Infinite Arms marks the recording debut of Ramsey and Reynolds, while Barrett and Monroe graced the last album, Cease to Begin. Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band’s inception.

Features:

- 180g vinyl
- CD (slipcase)
- Download Card of Full Album
- Collector's Edition Poster
- 10 High Quality Photos by Christopher Wilson
- All packaged in custom/limited edition box set


Track Listing:
1. Factory
2. Compliments
3. Laredo
4. Blue Beard
5. On My Way Back Home
6. Infinite Arms
7. Dilly
8. Evening Kitchen
9. Older
10. For Annabelle
11. NW Apt.
12. Neighbor

I can't tell you anything but the truth. These words, sung by Jack Johnson in his latest studio album, To The Sea, define the ethos of a man born and raised in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Water is the subconscious, says Jack, and that water for me is the ocean. To get to the sea is being able to dig in and touch things that aren't on the surface. That reference, that we've got to get to the sea, is about a father leading his son to try to understand himself. Johnson’s fifth studio release, was co-produced by Johnson, his bandmates bassist Merlo Podlewski, keyboardist Zach Gill, and drummer Adam Topol, and Johnson’s longtime engineer Robert Carranza. To The Sea was recorded at Johnson’s two solar-powered studios: The Mango Tree in Hawaii and the Solar Powered Plastic Plant in Los Angeles.

Track Listing:
1. You And Your Heart
2. To The Sea
3. No Good With Faces
4. At Or With Me
5. When I Look Up
6. From The Clouds
7. My Little Girl
8. Turn Your Love
9. The Upsetter
10. Red Wine, Mistakes, Mytholody
11. Pictures Of People Taking Pictures
12. Anything But The Truth
13. Only The Ocean

PisanoÆs is not a new songwriting voice. He is best known for being part of the Wars of 1812, an ascendant Wisconsin-bred quartet. Their first album together, Status Quo Ante Bellum, was more than just an album. It was relocation and aspiration and PisanoÆs lyrical Eden. As the Wars went on hiatus, Pisano continued to hone his craft, keeping his days full as a teacher at a small private school while fine-tuning, at night, the songs that would soon become Inter-Be. Feeling confident in the songs, Pisano approached Moen, a seasoned drummer and engineer best known for his involvement in Laarks and Amateur Love. After being asked to add some percussive elements, Moen added his thundering drumrolls and perfectly timed fills, but he also added something much more: a melodic soundscape that would complete the evolution of the songs. So was born the partnership that is called Peter Wolf Crier.

Track Listing:
1. Crutch & Cane
2. Hard As Nails
3. Down Down Down
4. Untitled 101
5. For Now
6. You're So High
7. Demo 01
8. Lion
9. Playwright
10. Saturday Night
11. In Response

So much has been said and written about Miles Davis’ “Kind Of Blue”, it’s virtually impossible to summarize all the necessary info to the length of this note. We could simply list some facts (best sold Jazz album ever worldwide). We could try to explain why it’s the best jazz album ever made, but the music itself will do that to you. As Bill Evans said in the original liner notes for the record, the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording. Miles Davis laid out the themes before the tape rolled and the band improvised.

The end results were fragile and wondrous. Recorded during 2 sessions in 1959, “Kind of Blue” worked on many different levels and will do so for many years to come. We´re proud to announce a very special version of the most influential (jazz)album ever. We present the orginal album in remastered form plus an extra LP containing 2 tracks that weren’t available on vinyl before (an alternate take of ‘Flamenco Sketches ‘ and a version of ‘On Green Dolphin Street’ recorded prior to the Kind of Blue sessions, with the legendary line-up of Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb). We present a limited number of the album on classy blue 180 grams vinyl (3000 numbered copies).

Also, we´ve graced this first-time ever 2LP edition of this musical masterpiece with a gatefold sleeve with additional liner notes.

• 180 grams audiophile vinyl
• Remastered Audio
• Limited Edition on Blue Vinyl (3000 numbered copies)
• First-time ever 2LP edition incl. 2 bonustracks
• Gatefold Sleeve incl. additional liner notes


Track Listing:
LP1

Side A

1. So What (9:03)
2. Freddie Freeloader (9:46)
3. Blue In Green (5:37)

Side B

1. All Blues (11:32)
2. Flamenco Sketches (9:24)

LP2

Side A

1. Flamenco Sketches (ALTERNATE TAKE) (9:24)

Side B

1. On Green Dolphin Street (9:48)

With roots going back as far as 1996, the West Coast act are as sublime as they are surreal with a sound loaded with hazy nostalgia and a fiercely experimental pop palette. From the Haunted Graffiti series (from which the full bandÆs name is now derived), which featured the likes of Worn Copy (2005) and House Arrest (2006), Ariel Pink has established himself as one of the most prolific songwriters of his generation, a visionary producer in the vein of Joe Meek and ArielÆs hero and previous collaborator, tape deck dilettante, R. Stevie Moore, creating a world through certain production touches.

Track Listing:
1. Hot Body Rub
2. Bright Lit Blue Skies
3. LÆestat (acc. to the widowÆs maid)
4. Fright Night (Nevermore)
5. Round And Round
6. Beverly Kills
7. Butt-House Blondies
8. Little Wig
9. CanÆt Hear My Eyes
10. Reminiscences
11. Menopause Man
12. RevolutionÆs A Lie

"I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year. But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title." - Eminem

Track Listing:
1. Cold Wind Blows
2. Talkin' 2 Myself Feat. Kobe
3. On Fire
4. Won't Back Down Feat. Pink
5. W.T.P.
6. Going Through Changes
7. Not Afraid
8. Seduction
9. No Love Feat. Lil Wayne
10. Space Bound
11. Cinderella Man
12. 25 To Life
13. So Bad
14. Almost Famous
15. Love The Way You Lie Feat. Rihanna
16. You're Never Over
17. Untitled

Antidotes, the acclaimed debut album by UK quintet Foals, won them attention, and the opportunity to evolve in a space of their own. Coming two years after that impressive introduction is Total Life Forever, the sound of a band settling into and surveying the decay of old protocols. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ and recorded in Gothenburg, Total Life Forever is an album as persuasive emotionally as Antidotes was physically.

Track Listing:
1. Blue Blood
2. Miami
3. Total Life Forever
4. Black Gold
5. Spanish Sahara
6. This Orient
7. Fugue
8. After Glow
9. Alabaster
10. Two Trees
11. What Remains

Blow by Blow is Jeff Beck's 1975 solo album and considered one of his best releases among fans and colleagues. Former Yardbirds sideman Chris Dreja had predicted in 1965 that Beck's current sound ...was 1975. In a glowing review on Allmusic, Mark Kirschenmann said that Blow by Blow ranks as one of the premiere recordings in the canon of instrumental rock music.

As an all-instrumental album it was a surprising commercial success, with a jazz fusion-like approach seldom seen on best-selling lists at the time. It was certified gold in 1976.

The album was produced by George Martin and recorded at his own AIR studios. Martin also composed string arrangements for two of the tracks, 'Scatterbrain' and 'Diamond Dust'. Stevie Wonder returned the favor of Beck's work on his 1972 LP Talking Book, by playing on Blow by Blow and contributing the song 'Thelonius'.

As a big admirer of fellow guitarist Roy Buchanan, Beck dedicated the track 'Cause We've Ended as Lovers' to him.

Track Listing:
1. You Know What I Mean
2. She’s A Woman
3. Constipated Duck
4. AIR Blower
5. Scatterbrain
6. Cause We’ve Ended Now As Lovers
7. Thelonius
8. Freeway Jam
9. Diamond Dust

You've Come a Long Way, Baby was Fatboy Slim’s 2nd studio album, released in October of 1998 on Skint Records. Fatboy Slim was, of course, none other than Norman Cook, formerly of The Housemartins, Beats International and Freakpower. The album peaked at # 1 on the UK Albums Chart and 34 on the U.S. Billboard 200. Four hit singles were released from the album: The Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Trippin, Praise You and Right Here, Right Now, each of which reached the top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.

The album received very high praise from critics, particularly for its beats and catchy hooks, and is considered a benchmark album in so-called Big Beat Music. In 1999, it was certified 3× platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In 2000, the album was ranked #81 in Q magazine's readers' poll of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Available again in this gatefold 2LP edition!

Track Listing:
1. Right Here, Right Now
2. The Rockafeller Skank
3. Fucking In Heaven
4. Gangster Trippin’
5. Build It Up, Tear It Down
6. Kalifornia
7. Soul Surfing
8. You're Not From Brighton
9. Praise You
10. Love Island
11. Acid 8000

* 180 grams audiophile vinyl
* incl. 4-page insert

Side One:

1. Suzanne
2. Sisters Of Mercy
3. So Long, Marianne
4. Bird On The Wire
5. Lady Midnight
6. The Partisan