‘What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?’ is the eighth studio album by British post-punk legends Echo & The Bunnymen, originally released on April 16th, 1999. With an inspired selection of collaborators including strings from the London Metropolitan Orchestra and two songs featuring the American rap rock band Fun Loving Criminals, ‘What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?’ featured two singles, the title track, and the atmospheric fan favourite ‘Rust’, which would mark the band’s final Top 40 UK single.
Celebrating 25 years of “What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?“, the album is issued on vinyl for the very first time.2CD – The Double CD features 25 extra tracks including a live set from Cream, Liverpool 1997, Live At The Improv Theatre, 1999 plus B-sides, radio edits and unreleased tracks.
Enjoy this fully restored video of the iconic Echo & The Bunnymen single ‘Rust’.
Lovingly overseen by Dhani and Olivia Harrison, “Living in the Material World” has now been completely remixed from the original tapes for a stunning suite of 50th anniversary releases. Remixed by triple GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, John Lennon), the new mix elevates the album with a sonic upgrade, delivering a sound that’s brighter, richer, and more dynamic than ever before.
On November 15th, Dark Horse Records will revisit “Living in the Material World“, the classic 1973 solo effort from George Harrison, as an expanded 50th anniversary edition.
Said Dhani Harrison of this project:
“Finally, we are overjoyed to present to you the 50th anniversary package of George Harrison’s ‘Living in the Material World’. For those of you who are just discovering this album; This record was released in service and with deep love for all our Brothers and Sisters around the world who populate this dualistic system we live in called Earth. Peace be upon all sentient beings.”
Limited to 5,000 units globally, the Super Deluxe Edition box set features the album on 2LP (180g) and 2CD, which includes the newly remixed original album and a bonus disc containing 12 previously unreleased early renditions of every song on the main album. Additionally, the set includes a Blu-Ray of all album tracks and previously unreleased tracks in Dolby Atmos, and an exclusive 7” single of the never-before-heard recording of ‘Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond),’ featuring the Band’sRobbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Rick Danko alongside Ringo Starr.
Housed in a rigid slipcase, the box set contains a beautiful 60-page hardcover book curated by Olivia Harrison and Rachel Cooper, with unseen imagery and memorabilia from the era, handwritten lyrics, studio notes, and tape box images. Also included is a 12-page Recording Notes booklet, drawing from original “Living in the Material World” production notes, photographs, and reel-to-reel session tapes housed in the George Harrison Archive. For the first time, the Harrison archive team offers an in-depth, chronological account of the album’s creation, revealing insights that have never been shared with the public before.
White Denim, one of the very best rock bands to emerge this millennium, have gone through rapid changes in the 2020s, and now open an exciting new chapter with the wondrous album, ’12’, which arrives rich in hot tunes and fresh invention.
It’s always been hard to keep pace with James Petralli’s group, ever since they first exploded out of Austin, Texas in ’08 with hyper-kinetic post-punk bangers like “Shake Shake Shake” and “I Start To Run”. There was delicious romance in the original trio’s MO, as they hatched intrepid sounds together via lengthy jams in a 1940s Spartan trailer parked up in woodland outside the city. James duly raced on through shifting line-ups and kaleidoscopic shades of soul, jazz and Southern rock, always with a feel of in-the-moment authenticity.
As for so many musicians, the pandemic forced Petralli into a radical rethink in both life and creative process. Going into White Denim’s twelfth long-player, he relocated his family to Los Angeles, and, barred from the usual workouts “on the floor” with his latest group members under COVID, he plunged deep into the science of assembling tracks digitally, with contributions from players he’d sometimes never even meet.
The results on “12” are intricate, hi-tech and forward-facing, yet also somehow still of a piece with the questing ambition, rootsy swing and uplifting way with melody we’ve come to adore about Petralli’s music.
Bonus CD – Contains 6 live outtakes from the “12” recording sessions, including the singles ‘Light On’ and ‘Second Dimensions’ along with a cover of Prefab Sprouts classic ‘When Love Breaks Down’.
“Sniff More Gritty’ is an album of many faces, some belonging to Du Blonde, others belonging to a host of characters from past loves, to record industry executives, each played with humour and heartbreak in a one-man pantomime of glam-rock, punk, and a single, acrylic nail adorned middle finger. The glimmers of pop teased on 2021’s acclaimed ‘Homecoming’ LP become firework displays that illuminate stories of missed connections, anxiety, controlling relationships and hard earned peace. In spite of darkness, DuBlonde is choosing fun.
Having self-produced her third album, after years of working relationships with record labels and industry producers, Du Blonde found herself able to finally express herself musically in a way that her previous situation would not allow. The freedom that came with her move to production and engineering opened up a new sonic world for Du Blonde, one that is arguably catchier, more colourful and more exciting than anything she had been allowed to bring forth previously.
“Sniff More Gritty” is entirely performed (drums aside!), engineered and produced by Du Blonde, and also features unique collaborations with SkunkAnansie’s Skin, Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and The Futureheads’ Ross Millard, with additional mixing by Sam Grant of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs.
When life gives you anthropomorphic whistling lemons, why not write a song? One late night, post-restaurant shift, Imogen Badrock (vocals/synth) and Josh Yeung (guitar/vocals) acted on a bleary-eyed creative urge that resulted in a goofy demo about an organic lemonade drink, sparking the formation of the Manchester dream-pop troupe now known as Umarells. After bringing in bassist Ryan Marsden and drummer Sarah Knowles, Umarells sealed the deal as a quartet during a group trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, a thrill-seekers’ “dystopia” that will forever hold a special, sugar-coated place in their hearts. “All roads lead to Blackpool,” they joke.
Now with the addition of lead guitarist Fuchsia Summerfield, Umarells—their name taken from a very specific Italian word for retired men who watch construction sites—arrange pieces of post-hardcore, shoegaze, Midwest emo, and ‘00s indie-psych into reflections on grief, loss, and failed relationships, all shot through with ocean-deep introspection and mixed by Alex Greaves (bdrmm, Working Men’s Club). One of the band’s earlier offerings, “Closer” considers “the state of dreaming and how it’s all disconnected and unusual,” explains Badrock, while “One More Day” is about “one of our really close friends and missing them,” says Yeung. “It’s a dedication.”
“Another day without you / Another week without you / Another month without you / Can’t take the days without you,” sings Badrock in her incandescent coo on the EP’s standout title track, a loving portrait of friendship filtered through the lens of pillow-soft indie-pop.
For “Ocean,” Badrock worked a little magic with her Korg synth to conjure a wave of washed-out textures in thrall to the song’s watery namesake. “I sort of envisioned the sea coming in and out,” she explains. “Connected with Josh’s melancholy guitar playing, it’s about the breakdown of a relationship and those moments when you’re just looking out at the ocean and reflecting on everything.”
The diaristic trajectory continues on twinkling indie-pop dreamscape “You’re Not Here,” which was released as the band’s debut single for FOMO in November 2023 and is described as a “bit of a liberation song.” Badrock says: “I wrote this when I felt free of a relationship and able to do as I please without being told I couldn’t. As the song builds at the end it’s a cathartic release of the past, a bit of an ode to a siren.”
Ultimately, the band’s soaring autobiographical missives form the widescreen soundtrack to their lives, and film fan Marsden would love for one of their songs to be featured in a movie. “I guess we’d probably suit like a Lost in Translation-type-film, something artsy and emotional.
*SIGNED PRINT EDITION* After forming on a group trip to Blackpool, Manchester-based quartet Umarells have announced their debut EP ‘One More Day’ via Fear of Missing Out Records. The record circles peaks, plummets, and upside-down turns for a front-row seat on the emotional Big Dipper of life. The faded sparkle of the Blackpool seaside trails through five postcards of smouldering indie-rock on the EP.
Formed in Bristol, 4-piece Lice have become one of UK experimental rock’s most inventive and ambitious outliers. Their second album ‘Third Time At The Beach’ – a three-part epic exploring our struggle to better understand the world around us – arrives on the 20th September via AD 93. Darting between minimalism, rock, techno and more, it sends us hurtling us through time and space: featuring a cast of astronauts, cavemen and dinosaurs.
Their second album“Third Time At The Beach” – a three-part epic exploring our struggle to better understand the world around us – arrives via AD 93. Darting between minimalism, rock, techno and more, it sends us hurtling us through time and space: featuring a cast of astronauts, cavemen and dinosaurs.
“Third Time At The Beach’s” concept is expressed through three movements. The first (‘Unscrewed’, ‘White Tubes’, ‘Red Fibres’) presents the child being introduced to the world, hammered into shape through prevailing culture, and realising they have reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world. The second (‘To The Basket’, ‘Wrapped In A Sheet’, ‘Scenes From The Desert’, ‘Mown In Circles’) is a disorientating, alien sequence: reevaluating fundamental concepts including money, time, nationhood and language. In the third (‘Fatigued, Confused’, ‘Third Time At The Beach’, ‘The Dance’), the individual embraces these new ideas – granting them a changed understanding of the world, and more agency in the path they take through it.
This is the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman’s third solo album & documents her struggle to cope following the death of her estranged father in 2010 and the subsequent break-up of Rilo Kiley. ‘The Voyager’ finds the always relatable songwriter at her sharp-witted best, singing about her experiences with honesty and incisiveness.
The 10th Anniversary reissue of the 2014 album featuring “Just One of the Guys”, “The Voyager”, “She’sNot Me” and more on Translucent Sea Blue vinyl. This is the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman’s third solo album and documents her struggle to cope following the death of her estranged father in 2010 and the subsequent break-up of Rilo Kiley. “The Voyager” finds the always relatable songwriter at her sharp-witted best, singing about her experiences with honesty and incisiveness
“The Voyager’s” 10th anniversary limited edition translucent sea-blue vinyl is available now exclusively in the US at indie record stores!
After a hiatus from touring, Black Pumas returned to the road in 2024 in support of their acclaimed sophomore album “Chronicles of a Diamond. “Live From Brooklyn Paramount” captures the “Electric Church” live experience created by Eric Burton, Adrian Quesada and their six-piece band.
The first single “Know You Better” is out now! You can pre-order the album today on webstore exclusive Sauvignon vinyl (limited to 300 copies), Brooklyn Brownstone vinyl, and CD,
The 2xLP set features songs from both Chronicles and their million-selling debut, including the Grammy nominated “Colors”, “Black Moon Rising”, “More Than A Love Song” & their version of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.”
The Fat Angel Sings 