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Tom Petty’s estate have approved an expanded reissue of Petty and The Heartbreakers’ cult favorite “Long After Dark” as well as a limited theatrical reissue of “Heartbreakers Beach Party”, a legendary lost documentary created for MTV by Cameron Crowe in his directorial debut. But the party isn’t over yet: the estate is teaming up with Third Man Records to release a vinyl-only live set for the first time.

“Live in Edinburgh 1982: The Gennaro Tapes” is a triple album capturing a set at the Edinburgh Playhouse in Scotland at the close of 1982, just about a month after “Long After Dark” hit record store shelves.

With the band newly energized following the addition of new bassist Howie Epstein, this set captures a powerful 20-song set that includes tracks from the new album (lead single “You Got Lucky,” “Change of Heart,” Straight Into Darkness,” “A One Story Town”), favourites from their growing catalogue (“Don’t Do Me Like That,” “Refugee,” “Breakdown,” “Listen to Her Heart” and a powerful opening version of “American Girl”), and even a fistful of classic rock and soul covers (The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie,” a one-two punch of The Isley Brothers’ “Shout” and The Byrds’ “So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star”). The set was captured on cassette from the soundboard by one of the band’s most loyal road crew members, house mixer Gennaro Rippo, and “has not been touched since the day it was captured, pressed directly from cassette to vinyl.”

“Live in Edinburgh” will be available on vinyl in three colour variants: turquoise (for Petty’s official web store), orange wisp (for all independent record retailers), and maroon “reverse splatter” (for Third Man’s official web store; we’ll update with this link as it goes live). All tracks recorded live at the Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland – 12/9/1982. 

All three versions will be released next Friday, November 29th.

Esoteric Recordings is proud to announce the release of a new re-mastered four disc deluxe expanded boxed set limited edition (comprising 3 CDs and a DVD) of the legendary self-titled debut album by Barclay James Harvest.

This expanded reissue has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes and features an additional 33 bonus tracks drawn from new 5.1 surround sound & stereo mixes from the original multi-track master tapes, BBC radio sessions from 1968 and 1971, the singles “Early Morning”, “Brother Thrush” & “Taking Some Time On”, a rare Woolly Wolstenholme solo demo from 1969 of “The Sun Will Never Shine“, along with the 1968 short film Mr. Sunshine.

INCLUDES A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED 68 PAGE BOOK WITH MANY PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS & NEW ESSAY BY BJH SPECIALISTS KEITH & MONIKA DOMONE ALSO INCLUDES A FACSIMILE OF THE 1970 BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST ORCHESTRAL TOUR PROGRAMME, TWO FACSIMILE PRESS RELEASES FROM 1968 AND 1969, POSTCARDS AND A REPLICA 1968 RECORD SHOP POSTER FOR THE “EARLY MORNING SINGLE”

In April 1968 Barclay James Harvest released their first single, “Early Morning”, on EMI’s Parlophone label and became the first signing to EMI’s progressive label Harvest Records (named after them) the following year. Their self-titled debut album was released in June 1970, and saw BJH successfully fuse an orchestra with rock to create a unique, sometimes pastoral, form of symphonic progressive rock. Produced by Norman Smith (also famed for his work with Pink Floyd and the Pretty Things), Barclay James Harvest was dominated by the twelve-minute epic “Dark Now My Sky” and also featured such wonderful material as The Iron Maiden, Mother Dear, When the World Was Woken and the fine rock tracks Taking Some Time On and Good Love Child. The album established Barclay James Harvest as one of Britain’s most unique groups and paved the way for a remarkable career and a catalogue of music that continues to endure.

The set also includes a lavishly illustrated 68 page book with previously unseen photographs and an essay by BJH specialists Keith & Monika Domone. Additionally, the set includes a facsimile of the 1970 Barclay James Harvest orchestral tour programme and two facsimile press releases from 1968 and 1969, postcards and a replica 1968 record shop poster for the “Early Morning” single.

This special edition of Barclay James Harvest is a fitting tribute to a fine band.

A DELUXE 4 DISC LIMITED EDITION BOXED SET OF THE CLASSIC 1970 DEBUT BJH ALBUM

“Field Theory” is the second studio album from Dublin four-piece Melts. Recorded live to tape at Black Mountain Studios in Summer 2023 and produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, it’s a collection of turbulent electronic psych-rock shaped by bulldozing motorik synth lines, densely layered guitars, primal percussion and the cavernous vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny. While their highly-praised 2022 debut ‘Maelstrom’ dealt with forces on a larger scale affecting a whole city, “Field Theory” explores connections on a smaller, interpersonal scale.

The title takes the scientific term Field Theory, which describes how forces interact and influence particles around them, and applies it to the interactions between people, to the space between all of us, how people interact and affect others around them. Expanding on the album’s themes, Melts write: “Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved. We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces. The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without. At the heart of “Field Theory” lies the realisation that we inhabit each other’s worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.”

MELTS’ album ‘Field Theory’, April 12th 2024 on Fuzz Club

Our long-awaited third album ‘Insight’ feels like the defining moment of the band’s history and the conclusion of a trilogy: It’s everything our debut ‘Observed in a Dream’ (2016) and the sequel ‘Prepared for a Nightmare’ (2020) hinted at — and more. Mixed and mastered by Maurizio Baggio (known for his work with The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher, and The Vacant Lots), our sound has been refined into a sharper and more expansive sonic landscape than ever before. This album sees us exploring greater depths and heights, embarking on a hypnotic journey through the shadows, filled with pulsating post-punk, shimmering shoegaze and atmospheric psych-noir.



The recording process was a bit different than on our previous releases. Frontman Trond Fagernes penned and recorded the guitar, bass, and vocals with a drum machine first, then acoustic drums and synths were added later as well as guitar contributions on some songs by returning founding member Rune Øverby. This process enabled more experimentation and creative freedom with each instrument before adding them layer by layer.


‘Insight’ is the album we’ve always wanted to create, but at the same time it’s the most personal and emotionally hardest we’ve made so far. Lyrically, it delves into a wide range of emotions, from somber reflections about loss and sorrow to feverish depictions of love, escapism and catharsis.



“Wildly addictive mix of post-punk, shoegaze and psychedelia.

Performed by:
Trond Fagernes (vocals/guitars/bass)
Ola J. Kyrkjeeide (drums)
Kenneth Eknes (synth)
Rune Overby (guitar on track 6, 8 & 9)

“Crippled Crow” is the final single from Oslo post-punk/dream-gaze band Mayflower Madame’s upcoming album ‘Insight’

Billed as her debut solo album, this feels like a more than worthy follow up to 2002’s amazing “Out of Season” (credited as a collaboration with Rustin Man). “Lives Outgrown” features production by another Talk Talk alumni, Lee Harris, and contains sonic ghosts of Gibbons‘ past; some haunting, subtle echoes of the anxious moods explored on Portishead’s Third – but there’s a general tilt away from the jazz and soul that has previously informed her work in favour of some kind of ancient British folk through a dreamlike prism. 30 years of music and not one single miss. A masterpiece. 

Beth Gibbons releases her debut solo album “Lives Outgrown“. Featuring 10 beautiful new songs recorded over a period of 10 years, the album was produced by James Ford and Beth Gibbons with additional production by Lee Harris (Talk Talk).

“Diamonds, Rhinestones and Hard Rain” is the fourth album from the Stockholm institution that is Les Big Byrd, the band consisting of Joakim Åhlund (Caesars, Teddybears), Frans Johansson (Fireside), Christian Olsson and Nino Keller (Caesars). “Diamonds, Rhinestones and Hard Rain” features lyrics and song titles in both Swedish and English, but the most crucial language is its musical one, created by Joakim Åhlund and Frans Johansson when they formed the band in 2011 and nurtured lovingly since, especially since the former took back control of the production side of things on Eternal Light Brigade.

Closer ‘The Night Bus’ is an especially striking demonstration of just how far Les Big Byrd have come over the course of the past decade or so; an electrifying twelve-minute odyssey that buzzes with nocturnal energy, bringing in swells of brass, twinkling pianos and sparkling synths. It is the sound of this most exhilaratingly adventurous of bands continuing to obliterate their boundaries.

released March 22nd via Chimp Limbs.

Reclaiming her universe, Jane Weaver returns with brand new single ‘Love In Constant Spectacle’, evoking spectacular images perhaps impossible to capture with the human eye, nor aperture.   Taking measured steps that lead you to something very special, our protagonist pours all her creative resources before the needle drops. Secretly, this might be more conceptual in its execution, than initially meets the eye. “It’s about searching for joy, wanting to love and feel loved, then uncovering it in unusual places and in the smallest, hidden things in life.

Magnified under rocks and stones, it explores connecting with nature and your surroundings as opposed to other people – focusing on autonomy, new beginnings and feeling bewitched” adds Jane Weaver This is the poetic vision of one woman only, turning a new chapter, erecting a new scaffold, drawing empty landscapes as we slowly watch new colours, codes shapes and languages fill the frame.

Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning), this is a new awakening that’s evident from the needle drop. – Accompanied by a new video animated by Kamran Kaur (@kamrankaur) she describes “The woman here is always moving forward in pursuit of something but constantly finding herself succumbing to nature’s spell. Nature leads her back to herself, as that which she was searching for was there all along.”

We’re delighted to announce our 3rd studio album “Rituals” is out now on Severn Songs Ishmael Ensemble’s third long player “Rituals” marks a significant leap for the Bristolian musicians. With their live-instrumentation-meets-electronic merging of styles, the group were always broader than the ‘new UK jazz’ tag which they were often given, but here their scope and boundary-pushing ambition is more evident than ever before. 

Still maintaining a blend of spiritual jazz, dub, experimental and electronic soundscapes, here those elements are vigorously whipped-up into huge cyclones of sound, more song-based and accessible than before, but also almost psychedelic in its euphonic blend of colours, textures, facets and moods.  

It’s by far our most ambitious work to date, written over the last 3 years, this one has been a real labour of love. I knew I wanted to do something different this time round, I wanted to capture those moments of pure elation & euphoria we’ve shared on stage as well as those moments of raw & intimate fragility we’ve experienced off it…

“Rituals” was written as an album, a long player, and I hope, at least once, you’ll listen to it that way…

released September 6th, 2024

Written by Ishmael Ensemble

Pete Cunningham – Vocals, Saxophone, Synths
Holly Wellington – Vocals, Piano, Synths
Stephen Mullins – Guitars
Jake Spurgeon – Bass, Backing Vocals, Synths
Rory O’Gorman – Drums, Percussion

Taken from the new album “Rituals”

Demon Records presents the first ever vinyl pressing of The Durutti Column’s 2009 studio album “Love In The Time Of Recession”. Formed in Manchester in 1978, The Durutti Column were one of the first acts signed to the iconic Factory Records by Tony Wilson.

Primarily the project of guitarist and vocalist Vini Reilly, the group have a cult following with notable fans including Brian Eno and John Frusciante. “Love In The Time Of Recession” finds Reilly and co continuing to explore genre-blending sounds. Highlights include the fuzzy guitar filled ‘In Memory Of Anthony’ (a tribute to the late Factory Records founder), and ‘More Rainbows’, an instrumental conversation between Vini Reilly’s soaring guitar and girlfriend Poppy Morgan’s dreamy electric piano.

Release date: 6th November, 2020

Tess Parks recently released her critically acclaimed third solo album, ‘Pomegranate’ and is sharing a video for ‘Running Home To Sing’ ‘Pomegranate’ is available now on colour vinyl and CD now!

On ‘Running Home To Sing’, Parks said “I guess subconsciously, through working with Joe Bressler on this video and his interpretation of the lyrics, this song is about anything you feel an unhealthy attachment to, and having the courage to change the things that you can and finding the inner strength to set yourself free. There is such a happier life waiting for you. The things that are right for you will remain, but the right people and the right circumstances will always reveal themselves once you make the space. I promise you. Thank you for all the love for this album so far – it means a lot a lot.”

Longing. Heartbreak. Levity. Joy. Being filled with love for all things. All of these sensations flow at once through ‘Pomegranate’. Re-establishing Parks as the consummate artist-observer against a swirling nouveau-delic backdrop, her third solo album arrived on October 25th 2024 and was produced by multi-instrumentalist and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who shared mixing duties with Grammy-nominated engineer Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes, Arcade Fire).