The Fat Angel Sings

Presented in gatefold sleeve with 8 page booklet. Mick Ronson was one of the rock ‘n’ roll world’s lost legends. Although quiet and unassuming, he left a legacy of his brilliant work with the likes of Michael Chapman, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and the Ian Hunter Band along with scores of other artists, where Mick would give his talents as producer or arranger.

Issued for the very first time the original tapes of material that would go on to be re-recorded for the critically acclaimed ‘Heaven & Hull’ posthumously released album. Features guest vocals by David Bowie, Chrissie Hynde and Ian Hunter

Limited vinyl pressing of 500 copies, includes four page libretto, CD features three extra studio tracks plus six live recordings. Just seen for sale –‘To Hull And Back’.

Going to be released 30/8.

Joni Mitchell will release the next installment of her archival series, Joni Mitchell “Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)“, on Oct. 4.

6-CD SET includes nearly 100 unreleased recordings tracing Joni’s groundbreaking work from the birth of “Hejira” to her legendary collaborations with jazz luminaries. Features newly unearthed demos and studio outtakes (including the Hejira Demo’s! And a Paprika Plains work in progress tape!), sections from the Rolling Thunder Revue (including impromptu, offstage renditions), 1976 and 1979 Tour recordings, contributions from Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and more.

Throughout the latter half of the seventies, Joni continued to creatively break ground with her fearless and fluid exploration of jazz. Rather than tread the same path, she challenged and reinvented her style with a folk fusion like no other. Ascending to an unrivaled sonic peak, this innovative sound took shape across the gold-certified “Hejira” [1976], the gold-certified double-LP “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter” [1977], her collaboration with Charles Mingus entitled “Mingus” [1979], and live album “Shadows and Light” [1980]. Channelling the thrill and excitement of these records, 

Highlights from this collection include recordings and alternate takes from three of Mitchell’s albums, “Hejira”, “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter” and “Mingus”, plus live cuts from various tours, including Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue. It will be released as a 6-CD/digital version, as well as a 4-LP version that consists of Mitchell’s “personal favourites” from the 6-CD version.

the first song from the set, “Intro to Coyote / Coyote,” recorded at the Forum in Montreal, Canada on December 4th, 1975.

Joni Mitchell – “Intro To Coyote/Coyote”. Originally featured on her 1976 studio album ‘Hejira’, it was written on the tour bus while Joni traveled with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review.

The forthcoming ‘Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 4 – The Asylum Years (1976-1980)’ out October 4th, 2024 via Rhino Records.

Joni Mitchell is currently scheduled to perform two shows at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October. 19th and 20th, featuring special “Joni Jam” guests.

“No Hero”, our 5th studio album is coming out in September! We’re very proud of it and hope you like what you’ve heard so far?. Never knowingly lacking in a strife of surprises, crescendonically deadpan quartet Desperate Journalist return to the musical affray with a brand new single, ‘Unsympathetic Parts 1 and 2′. This is the first track to be taken from their fifth album, entitled “No Hero” on Fierce Panda Records.

As creative re-entries go, ‘Unsympathetic Parts 1 and 2’ is a gleaming, beaming signpost towards a longplayer which sees Desperate Journalist push and pull their original noirish indie sound into newer, ever more nubile shapes and jagged angles without losing that glowering essence rare.

Desperate Journalist very much consist of Jo Bevan (vocals, synths and drum machine); Robert Hardy (guitars, synths and piano); Caroline Helbert (drums, drum machines and percussion); Simon Drowner (bass and synths).

White LP / Greeen marble LP / CD / Cassette all available Indie record store exclusive Curaçao LP

With “The Future Is Our Way Out”, the American band Brigitte Calls Me Baby delivers a striking debut album, which shows a big sound with a lot of echoes of the legendary band The Smiths. It may take some time to get used to the vocals on Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s debut album, but if the voice of singer Wes Leavins has you in your hands, this band from Chicago quickly plays a winning game. Brigitte Calls Me Baby makes no secret of her musical heroes and finds them mainly in British and American music history. The band is not averse to compelling songs and a lot of drama, but once used to the songs on “The Future Our Way Out” is a wonderful album with a sound that, despite all the influences from the past, sounds fresh and contemporary.

I came across Brigitte Calls Me Baby. For a moment I thought that Morrissey had finally made a good album, but the voice of the singer of Brigitte Calls Me Baby sounds a bit different than that of the British singer, who unfortunately seems to have lost his way at the moment.

Despite the comparison with Morrissey’s voice, the vocals on Brigitte Call’s Me Baby debut album.

Morrissey is audibly a source of inspiration for the American singer, who also mentions Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley as sources of inspiration, something that can also be heard in a number of tracks on the debut album of the band from Chicago. Wes Leavins likes to sing out loud, which creates a lot of drama, but in the end the vocals on “The Future Is Our Way Out” by Brigitte Calls Me Baby almost always stay on the right side of the line as far as I’m concerned and these vocals are really impressively beautiful at times.

The fact that the opening track of the album reminded me of Morrissey was mainly due to the vocals, but also musically I heard similarities with the music that Morrissey’s band The Smiths made in the distant past. As a result, the music of Brigitte Calls Me Baby sometimes feels a bit British, but the songs on the band’s debut album also have an American side.

Certainly the more uptempo songs on the album have some of the music with which The Strokes once appeared, while a touch of Americana brings the aforementioned musical heroes of Wes Leavins a little closer. Personally, I like the songs that are close to the music of The Smiths because of the guitar lines and the vocals, because the oeuvre of the illustrious British band can’t be influential enough for me.

“The Future Is Our Way Out” by Brigitte Calls Me Baby is full of rock-solid songs, which, despite the dominant vocals and the frequently recurring guitar lines, sound surprisingly varied. the further I get and the more impressed I get with the debut album of the band from Chicago, which easily walks through time in terms of influences and covers a number of decades. I dare to predict Brigitte Calls Me Baby a bright future, especially if Wes Leavins can also show his impressive voice on stage.

“Everything And Nothing” is a compilation originally released in 2000, detailing the career of art-pop star David Sylvian. As well as solo material from throughout his two-decade solo career with Virgin Records, some of it previously unreleased, there’s re-recordings of key tracks from Sylvian’s bands Japan and Rain Tree Crow. This lavish 10 CD Box Set contains all of David Sylvian’s solo albums released on his own independent label, samadhisound, between 2003 and 2014, plus the albums recorded with Nine Horses, Jan Bang & Erik Honoré and Franz Wright & Christian Fennesz.

Also contains an exclusive compilation CD, “Do You Know Me Now?” featuring non-album tracks recorded with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Nine Horses.

Alongside the remixes of “Ghosts” and “Bamboo Houses”, the album features tracks such as the beautiful ‘Ride’ from the ‘Secrets of the Beehive’ sessions, two dobro pieces written with Bill Frizell and “Cover Me with Flowers” from the ‘Dead Bees On A Cake’ sessions, plus the classic “Some Kind of Fool’ taken from Japan’s sessions for ‘Gentleman Take Polaroids’.

Officially commissioned web site promo for David’s “Everything And Nothing” compilation album. This mini site was ultimately never used. Be sure to watch in 480, fullscreen and to keep watching after “Darkest Dreaming” finishes.

The box contains a 100-Page Hard Cover Book with an Introduction by David Sylvian and an essay on the samadhisound aesthetic by Adrian Shaughnessy plus 3 CD Holders featuring the work of Canadian musician and painter, Lance Austin Olsen.

Please get to hear the new OSEES album this week, their blazing ‘SORCS 80’ including not only their trademark guitar bursts but a load of brass too! I’m getting hints of heavy ska-hardcore from the 00’s as well as the obvious and welcome psychedelic garage groove. Another particularly prolific outfit that have another album out this week is the ‘something-for-everyone’ Australian powerhouse, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. As far as the actual music goes, the feel good 70’s influenced blues-psych of ‘Flight B741’ is definitely my favourite sounds I’ve heard from them in a while. It’s definitely got less of a concept than some of their recent work, but the band sound like they’re having as great time and the scuzzy-psych-blues soar works so well with KG’s whole slacker aesthetic, leaning into the swagger and crafting a raucous, feel-good whole.

Singer sonwriter Beabadoobee has a new album out, this new one is a beautiful slice of indie-pop perfection. There are more than hints of the sweetly sung melodic synth from ‘Beatopia’ but once again, it’s matured into something that’s both undeniably addictive to listen to and brilliantly written and produced.

Paul Weller’s 2003 rarities compilation is reissued as a 3LP vinyl set.

Paul Weller’s 2003 compilation “Fly On The Wall” is a triple vinyl compilation that includes B-sides, remixes, and rarities from Paul’s time at Go! Discs and subsequently Island Records between 1991 and 2001. This compilation has been unavailable since its original release. Notable tracks include “The Loved,” “Fly On The Wall,” and “The Riverbank.” The set also includes Weller’s take on classic tunes like Lennon’s “Sexy Sadie” and “Instant Karma,” and Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released,” as well as a blistering version of Crosby Stills Nash and Young’s “Ohio.” It also features a remix of “Wild Wood” by Portishead.

Beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves

‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’, the latest album from Beabadoobee, recorded at Shangri-La, Malibu, with renowned producer Rick Rubin and long term collaborator Jacob Bugden. Born in the Philippines and raised in London, Beatrice Laus, known as Beabadoobee, has emerged as a British indie icon.

 ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’ captures Bea’s confidence and introspection, with themes of self-acceptance and personal growth woven throughout. It stands as a testament to her artistic evolution and resilience, marking a significant milestone in her career.

Osees – Sorcs 80

This album was a self imposed ambitious project for us. Something to kick in the creative flow. The last few years, having been a challenging time in general, felt like a good time for a pivot. The last two albums were so guitar and keyboard centric, I wanted a weird and fun set of parameters for us to work with. I demo’d everything at home on cassette 4 track (harkening back to simpler times) using drum loops, and just had at it ’til I had a pile of “songs”.

Tom and I chose one sound each using synths and created a range of 3 octaves of that sample, then loaded them into Roland SPD-SX samplers and learned the transcribed songs using drum sticks. The idea was to change the way we wrote and to have 4 people along the front of the stage essentially playing percussion. So no guitar, no keys.

As we were recording I kept thinking how the sounds, when paired up, sounded a bit like brass. So, we added a saxophone horn section to round out the horniness of the sound with a bit of reedy bell tones. Thanks to Cansfis Foote & Brad Caulkins on tenor and Baritone saxophones 🙂 Sort of a Dexy’s Midnight Runners meets Von LMO meets The Flesh Eaters meets the Screamers kinda punk junk.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flight b74

The band set aside all genre tripping and conceptual detours, crank up the guitars, and let loose with some straight-ahead classic rock jamming

Quivers – Oyster Cuts

“Oyster Cuts”, the Merge Records debut of Quivers, finds the Melbourne, Australia–based outfit awash in the kind of emotions people tend to fear losing themselves in. Finding love after grief, the outsized guitar pop of Quivers gleams like the surface of an ocean, beneath which lies a reef that is at turns beautiful and painful, its features alien and sharp enough to wound. Propelled by melodies that at times recall Galaxie 500 and The Pretenders, Quivers make music that is tender and tough, compelling the listener to dive in again and again, each song a new angle on all of your feelings.

“Oyster Cuts” is sunshine pop with blood in the water. The losses and loves that have informed Quivers’ music since their inception the sudden loss of a brother in the cracked optimism of “We’ll Go Riding on the Hearses” (2018) and the life in and after grief of “Golden Doubt” (2021) ripple into “Oyster Cuts“, which is committed to moving forward while accepting that some feelings, like grief, are a cycle. Crucially, Quivers committed to moving forward with each other. Paring away the choir and strings of “Golden Doubt”, “Oyster Cuts” is a showcase for what’s still possible when four people Sam Nicholson (guitars), Bella Quinlan (bass), Michael Panton (guitars), and Holly Thomas (drums) make music together.

Justin Townes Earle – All In: Unreleased and Rarities (The New West Years)

Justin Townes Earle – All In: Unreleased and Rarities (The New West Years) is a fitting tribute to Justin’s legacy – The collection features many never heard before songs, demos, and cover tunes, spanning his time as a New West Records recording artist.

“Kids In The Street“, his first record on New West Records, in May of 2017 – The album received critical acclaim and further cemented Justin’s legacy as one of the best active songwriters in music – Songs like, “Champagne Corolla” showcased his wry sense of humour as well as his deft ability to build upon the music that came before him while at the same time creating something unique and new.

Familiar, inventive, creative, and clever. Justin would release his second album with New West Records in May of 2019. “The Saint of Lost Causes” was hailed as one of the best albums of 2019 by Rolling Stone Magazine with “half a dozen or so career classics.” “I was trying to look through the eyes of America,” Earle says. “Because I believe in the idea of America – that everybody’s welcome here and has a right to be here.” Earle tells these American stories in detail and without judgment. While some songs cite historic events like “Flint City Shake It,” and “Don’t Drink The Water,” other tracks present fictionalized narratives that are no less harrowing, or true-to-life, as heard in “Appalachian Nightmare,” “The Saint Of Lost Causes,” and “Over Alameda.”

Justin Townes Earle was always a champion of the underdog and All In features in depth looks at the hopeful, and the hopeless. Fueled by empathy, baked in the blues, Justin was never without something poignant or humorous to say. Sadly, Justin passed away in 2020 at the age of 38.

Steve Kilbey – Bespoke Wheels and Winged Heels (An Anthology 1987-2023)

A stylishly designed anthology of solo and collaborative recordings curated into a deluxe gatefold sleeve double album. Spanning the years 1987 to 2023, the album moves through varying styles and moods all of which are a pleasure to listen to, whether in your car on a long country road or through the city at night or sitting down and absorbing the lush audio experience. Songs taken from 20 albums (one song from each album) all of which will be made available once more. Deluxe gatefold sleeve with full colour printed inner bags. Photos courtesy of Toby Burrows, includes arguably some of the best songs Steve Kilbey has written (and co-written). The very first album of its kind dealing with Kilbey’s not unimpressive solo career.

Drop Nineteens – Delaware

“Delaware” is one of the classic shoegaze records. Formed in Boston in 1991, Drop Nineteens instantly attracted much attention from the UK media and record companies, eventually signing to Hut records. Their debut “Delaware” is a beautiful record, noisy and melodic in equal measures, a record that is full of youth and innocence. The mix of the predominately english shoegaze style with a more american style akin to the Pixies and Sonic Youth gave Drop Nineteens a distinctive sound. The album has instant pop thrills such as ‘Winona’, rambling lsd influenced lo-fi epics such as ‘Kick the Tragedy’, indie pop gems such as ‘Your Aquarium’, with a cheeky and full blooded cover of madonna’s ‘Angel’ thrown in for good measure – yet it still hangs together as a coherent album.

After more than 45 years, the American punk band X thinks it’s enough enough, but leaves with a bang, because their supposed swan song “Smoke & Fiction” has become a fresh, energetic and inspired sounding album. There aren’t many bands that were founded at the end of the 70s and still sound this energetic. The punk band X does it on the album “Smoke & Fiction” which, according to the band itself, is really the very last album. After all these years, the band is still loyal to punk. “Smoke & Fiction” contains mainly energetic and punky songs, which are rushed through at a brisk pace. However, the members of the band can play and the vocals on the album are also excellent. The punk of X sounds wonderfully melodic and pushes the boundaries here and there by adding a touch of Americana, but “Smoke & Fiction” also definitely deserves the predicate punk. It provides a beautiful and dignified farewell.

X was founded in 1977 and can be counted as one of the standard-bearers of the Los Angeles punk scene. The band was formed when bassist, singer and songwriter John Doe (real name: John Nommensen Duchac) had become acquainted with the New York punk scene in general and the music of The Ramones in particular and wanted to make this kind of music himself.

He found allies in guitarist Billy Zoom (real name: Ty Kindell) and singer Exene Cervenka (real name: Christine Cervenkova). The band wore out a number of drummers, until in 1978 D.J. Bonebrake appeared and the ultimate line-up of X was a fact. The band has made quite a few albums.

X’s farewell party, released its very last album this week. “Smoke & Fiction” received remarkably good reviews, especially in the United States, The members of X have now reached retirement age, but still sound surprisingly fresh on their band’s new album. “Smoke & Fiction” opens with a lot of energy and everything you expect from punk, The rhythm section pounds away nicely, the guitar riffs are simple but accurate and the vocals are nice and rough and energetic, but compared to the bands from the early days of punk, both the music and the vocals on X’s album sound a bit better. The punky songs of the band are raw, but also remarkably melodic and this also applies to the vocals of John Doe and Exene Cervenka that complement and reinforce each other in a beautiful way.

The members of the band may be quite old by now, but that is not to be heard on “Smoke & Fiction”, which sounds fresh and inspired for ten songs. After half an hour it’s over, but in that half hour your mood and your energy level get a big boost.

The love for the music of The Ramones is still audible in X’s songs, but the band from Los Angeles is now doing its own thing with the influences from the past and therefore sounds a lot more versatile than the great examples of yesteryear.

John’s intro: “Hi fans! Welcome to the furniture auction. Good evening, tables and chairs.”

Another great concert from the successful WDR Rockpalast series, recorded live on March 17th, 1983 at Audiomax, Hamburg (Germany) – plus bonus track “Look At That Girl” from “Die Aktuelle Stunde” (WDR) from October 12th, 1989!- John Martyn’s impassioned vocals and dazzling guitar make this an extraordinary concert performance John Martyn (born Iain David McGeachy on September 11th, 1948 in New Malden, Surrey, died January 9th, 2009 in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland) was an exceptional guitarist and accomplished singer/songwriter

 This stunning concert was recorded for German TV just after the release of his studio album “One World“.

Unfortunately the original master tape for “Singin’ In The Rain” could not be located and so this song has been omitted through necessity.

Green Day’s fortunes received a massive shot in the arm in 2004 with the release of “American Idiot”, the group’s second absolute classic of their career. Containing the huge hit singles ‘American Idiot’, ‘Boulevard Of Broken Dreams’, ‘Holiday’, ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’ and ‘Jesus Of Suburbia’, this ambitious and brilliantly executed concept album inspired by the upheavals in American society post-9/11 shifted over nine million copies in the States alone. This 20th Anniversary edition contains B-sides and demos, a live show from Irving Plaza that year, and the 2015 documentary film “Heart Like A Hand Grenade”.

Green Day’s seventh studio album “American Idiot” was released in September 2004 and has since sold over 23 million copies worldwide. The album is a punk rock opera masterpiece that won the Best Rock Album at the 2005 Grammy Awards

This limited Edition Super Deluxe Box Sets (vinyl and CD), to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this legendary album. The CD Super Deluxe contains 4 CDs which feature the original album and also includes 15 unreleased demos, a 15-song 2004 concert from Irving Plaza, NYC (9 songs previously unreleased), and 14 tracks that were released as B-Sides and bonus tracks. The box set is completed with two Blu-rays that feature the film “Heart Like A Hand Grenade”, 35 minutes of Green Day live at the BBC, and a new, unreleased documentary: “20 Years of American Idiot” plus a 48-page book, an enamel pin set, sticker sheet, and cloth patch.

8LP + 2x Blu-ray box set on Reprise. Includes a 36-page book, a large Green Day flag, and the iconic American Idiot red tie.