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Melbourne quartet Lowtide follow up their eponymous debut album of last year with a new 7' single, an invigorating transformation from their dreamy debut.

Due on January 27th, the 45 will be the band's second release with Opposite Number and it signifies the start of an exciting year for the band who have recently been awarded a prestigious arts grant for being one of Melbourne's finest exports.

Recorded in Melbourne by Matthew Hosking (VHS Dream), 'Julia' was originally written and recorded in 1988 by the French band Asylum Party. Driven by mechanical rhythms and buzz-saw guitar leads, the blissful dual vocals of Lucy Buckeridge and Giles Simon lend the Lowtide version a hazy glow that transcends the cold wave original.

'Spring', a Lowtide original, was recorded by Gareth Parton (The Go! Team, Foals) during the album sessions for Lowtide and displays what the Melbourne four-piece do best — Buckeridge and Simon combining forces on both vocals and bass, guitarist Gabriel Lewis layering lustrous washes of melody and drummer Anton Jakovljevic steering, head down, through the entire glorious racket.

2016 was a breakthrough year for the dream pop/indie pop/shoegaze specialists who received critical acclaim for their inaugurative long-player including #36 on Rough Trade's renowned Albums Of The Year list whilst also having amassed 4 and 4-and-a-half-star reviews in many of their homeland's rags, and a string of sold out shows (not to mention an AMP nomination). Steve Lamacq also became an affirmed admirer of Lowtide's rich songs and knack for writing a hit whilst calling their music 'effortlessly good'.

Lowtide are preparing themselves for what adventures may lay ahead... The Julia/Spring 7' single is an exhilarating stopover.

Spring recorded at Soundpark Studios, engineered by Gareth Parton.
Julia recorded at The Curtin Bandroom, engineered by Matthew Hosking.
Julia written by Asylum Party and performed by Lowtide.
Both tracks mixed by Matthew Hosking.
Mastered by Nao Anzai at R2R Mix Master.
Artwork by Jamieson Moore.

Studio album with CD Insert

1961 rare recordings

DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!!
This Triple LP release features six different Bob Dylan live performances spanning three decades all rolled into one deluxe package.
Performances featured are World Of John Hammond, 10th September, 1975, Saturday Night Live, October 1979, David Letterman Show, March
1984 & January 1992, Live Aid, July 1985 & Mr. Tambourine Man, February 1990, Farm Aid, September 1985 & Chabad, August 1986 and
Guitar Greats, October 1991.

Limited Edition.White vinyl. Gatefold

Live at the Fort Collins Stadium in Colorado on May 23rd 1976

The next release in the series of 40th Anniversary 7' Picture Discs from David Bowie is ... 'Sound and Vision'.

* First ever LP reissue, first time on CD
* All tracks newly re-mastered
* LP housed in deluxe Stoughton Tip-On' gatefold jacket
* Liner notes by Jack D. Fleischer
* LP includes download card for MP3 of the full album
Earlier this year, we released the mysterious, bewitching L'Amour, a 1983 private press record thought to be the only release by one of music's true lost talents: Lewis.
So lost, in fact, was Lewis, he eluded every effort to track him down. Scant details were known: just a series of possibly apocryphal stories about a sports car-driving Canadian with a model on his arm and a habit of skipping town when there were bills to be paid.
Deciding that Lewis' spider web-delicate songs demanded to be heard, we put the album out anyway, offering to present the due royalties to anyone who could prove they were Lewis.
One sure thing was this: Lewis was a man of many names: Randall A. Wulff among them. Now we have either found another alias - or perhaps even his real name - on the sleeve of a completely unknown album.
THE PRESS LOVED IT....
MOJO FULL PAGE REVIEW: A STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL ALBUM, AN ETHEREAL BLEND OF ARTHUR RUSSELL COUNTRY-FOLK, 'NEW MORNING' ERA BOB DYLAN AND DENNIS WILSON'S 'PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE'
LEAD 5/5 REVIEW IN THE TIMES: "IT'S A RESTRAINED , MELANCHOLIC MASTERPIECE, AVANT-GARDE IN IT'S PAPERY DELICACY, AND IT CAPTURES SOMETHING OF THE SADNESS OF LOS ANGELES AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE GO TO CHASE DREAMS THAT WILL NEVER COME TRUE. WULFF'S ALBUM WAS HIS DREAM TURNED INTO MUSIC, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE."

4/5 REVIEW IN THE GUARDIAN: WHAT A STRANGE AND SINGULAR ALBUM THIS IS. THERE ARE HINTS OF BOB DYLAN IN HIS CHEWIER MUMBLES, AND OF KAREN DALTON IN HIS ELUSIVE SOFTNESS'
PITCHFORK 8.6/10 REVIEW: IT CAN BE WEIRDLY ADDICTIVE, WITH EACH SUBSEQUENT LISTEN PROMISING TO REVEAL SOME ESSENTIAL SECRET OR SHED LIGHT ON THE MAN ON THE ALBUM COVER'
UNCUT PLAYLIST: AN ENTIRELY MYSTERIOUS CANADIAN ALBUM FROM 1983, REDOLENT OF ARTHUR RUSSELL AT HIS MOST ETHEREAL'
Sourced soon after the re-release of L'Amour, Romantic Times is the 1985 follow-up to L'Amour - and it's released as Lewis Baloue. The name may be slightly different, but this is absolutely our man: a familiar blond posing on the sleeve, a familiar, tortured voice pouring his heart out over languid synths and synthetic waltz beats.
Remastered from a sealed, vinyl copy of the ultra-rare album, the album was discovered in the vaults of DJ and collector Kevin Sipreano' Howes in Vancouver, BC. It's so rare that what is, at present, the only other known copy - found in the same Calgary store where Aaron Levin discovered a batch of sealed copies of L'Amour - is presently soaring into quadruple digits on eBay.
Even engineer Dan Lowe, credited for working on the album at Calgary's Thunder Road Studios, remembered little about the session other than that Lewis seemed to be under the influence'. Yet the music is utterly captivating.
The album further fleshes out the Lewis myth - we see him pictured in that white suit with his famous white Mercedes and a private jet too, we hear him focussing more intently on matters of the heart, and appearing to unravel in the process. I felt like I was witnessing a full-blown exorcism of a phantom clad in the finest linen,' writes filmmaker and historian Jack D. Fleischer in his brand new liner notes. This record went further (than L'Amour ). It was a personal plea, of sorts. Something had gone wrong. Nerves were clearly exposed.'
It paints Lewis, then, as being more like a David Lynch character than even his debut did, exposing the darkness beneath the sheen. The album is presently being readied for release to the throng of new fans Lewis has found, willingly or not. The man himself remains a total enigma.

Bill Baird has announced details of his next album 'Summer is Gone' releasing on 21st October via Talkshow Records. His last album 'Earth Into Aether' was critically accalimed, receiving a 5* Shindig album review, 8/10 Uncut album review and a 4*review in Record Collector.
Musically, Summer Is Gone, in Bill's words - 'it's baroque symphonic pop, ambient clouds, and sound collage'. The record itself is a piece of art,using holographic foil stamping along with a translucent vinyl, and to celebrate this release, Bill Baird in partnership with One Pixel Wide have created summerisgone.live, an expansive artistic project that explores what happens when we apply this concept of time to music. This is a deeply personal album exploring the simple fact that life is short, time is flexible and the best moments of our lives pass in a blur.
Baird spent countless hours to produce over 250 unique mixes of the ten tracks that span the record. These mixes will then be reassembled into unique sequences every hour on the custom website, meaning each time the site is visited, a new version of the record is created, a version which will not repeat itself, well not until 15 billion years later.

Neues aus der Rubrik: Kinder, wie die Zeit vergeht! Zehn Jahre ist es Anfang 2017 schon wieder her, dass
Frank Turner - nach Stationen bei Kneejerk und Million Dead - mit seinem Debütalbum "Sleep Is For The
Week" solo reüssierte. Seine warme, authentische Stimme und die Gitarre, mit der er sich selbst begleitete,
und die Geschichten vom Leben, vom Verlieren und von der Liebe schienen einen Nerv zu treffen, denn
spätestens seit Turner mit seiner Begleitband im Juli 2012 bei der Eröffnungsfeier der Olympischen
Sommerspiele im Olympiastadion London vor rund 80.000 Zuschauern und einem weltweiten TV-Publikum
auftrat, gehört er zu den ganz Großen. Grund genug für sein Label Xtra Mile, zum zehnjährigen Jubiläum
Turners Debüt in einer Deluxe-Variante erneut zu veröffentlichen. "Sleep Is For The Week" erscheint als
Doppel-CD und -LP im Klappcover auf 180-Gramm-Vinyl. Dabei werden die 13 Originalsongs durch sechs
Stücke von Turners selbstgebrannter Demo-CD aus den Anfangstagen ergänzt. Beim Digitalformat enthält
die erste CD das Album, während sich auf der zweiten CD die Demosongs finden. Ähnlich beim Vinyl, nur
dass dort auf der B-Seite der zweiten Platte das FTHC-Logo aufgedruckt wurde.

Lee Hazlewood was a late bloomer. Following a meandering career as a disc jockey, producer, songwriter, label executive and solo artist, Hazlewood hit the jackpot at the ripe age of 37 with 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin',' the song Nancy Sinatra took to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its success convinced MGM Records that Hazlewood was a bankable star, and they signed him as an artist in his own right the same year. But as a self-described "non-singer" whose cult 1963 debut, Trouble Is A Lonesome Town, was little more than a happy accident, they'd perhaps gotten the wrong end of the stick where Lee was concerned.

In three years on the label, Hazlewood delivered three albums and sundry odds and ends, beginning with 1966 album The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood. The LP found Hazlewood gunning-in as much as he ever did-for commercial success, blending country, pop, novelty, mariachi, and lounge music into something unusually of-the-moment.

Lushly orchestrated and-like the album that preceded it-half-sung, half-spoken in a way that Hazlewood made all his own, the album collected solo versions of songs made famous by Sinatra and others ('Sand,' 'Boots,' 'So Long Babe,' 'Summer Wine'-included as a bonus duet with Suzi Jane Hokom) alongside some of his career-best solo compositions, among them the Morricone-like opener, 'For One Moment.' It's a record of extremes: 'When A Fool Loves A Fool' is as light and throwaway as anything he ever laid down, while the wistful 'My Autumn's Done Come' (sample lyric: "Let those I-don't-care days come in, I'm tired of holding my stomach in") is as raw and honest.

Despite MGM's best efforts, Hazlewood proved difficult to market without a Sinatra to temper his baritone drawl, and you'd suspect Hazlewood wasn't taking it quite as seriously as they might have hoped anyway. By 1967, Hazlewood had founded the LHI imprint and was busy building his own empire-one we've been lovingly archiving for the past few years. We now present this missing link in the story, plus follow-ups Lee Hazlewoodism: Its Cause and Cure (1967) and Something Special (1968). Welcome, then, to Hazlewood's magnificent MGM years.

*8LP + 4CD + DVD + BOOK*

*RELEASED ON BLACK FRIDAY/RSD NOVEMBER 28TH. LIMITED AMOUNTS AVAILABLE.

*Seven years in the making, There's A Dream I've Been Saving is the ultimate artifact for Lee Hazlewood heads new and old. Now, for the first time, you can enjoy the entire experience on vinyl. This landmark box set contains an expansive LP-sized hard cover book detailing the label history of Lee Hazlewood Industries, accompanied by 8 LPs + 4-CDs and the never-before-released film Cowboy in Sweden.

*5/5 FULL PAGE LEAD REVIEW IN MOJO!

*5/5 FULL PAGE REVIEW IN RECORD COLLECTOR!

*9/10 IN CLASH:'A REMARAKBLE FEAST FOR HAZLEWOOD AFICIONADOS AND OPEN-MINDED MUSIC LOVERS ALIKE'

*9/10 THELINEOFBESTFIT: 'As an introduction to both Lee and his legacy, you would be hard pressed to find a more comprehensive and better presented package.'

*4/5 LEAD REVIEW IN Q : 'What a fascinating bastard, and what a wild trip'

+ 172 Page Hard Cover Book

* LP-sized cloth bound book with gold foil stamp

+ Over 150 Rare & Unseen Photos

* In depth liner notes documenting the label's history, album-by-album breakdown, 27 artist profiles, LHI timeline, and interviews with Lee, along with dozens of LHI artists and key players.

+ Cowboy in Sweden the Film on DVD (1970, 60 mins)

* First time available

* New digital transfer from the original 16mm master negative at the Swedish Broadcasting Co.

* Fully restored in HD with re-mastered sound

* Region Free

8 LPs + 4 CDs (107 tracks in each format)

* Everything Lee recorded for LHI, including every 45 single and album (Cowboy in Sweden, Forty, The Cowboy & The Lady, and Requiem For an Almost Lady), plus a handful of unreleased tracks.

* Key tracks from the LHI stable of artists, including Suzi Jane Hokom, The Kitchen Cinq, Ann-Margret, The International Submarine Band, Honey Ltd., Arthur, The Aggregation, Sanford Clark, Lynn Castle, The Surprise Package, Virgil Warner, and Hamilton Streetcar, amongst many others.

* 14 unreleased tracks

* LPs housed in gatefold "tip-on' jackets

* All LPs on colored wax (4 variations)

* Foil stamp numbered 'tip-on' slipcase

* Lacquers cut by John Golden Mastering

+ Meticulously Re-Mastered

* Analog transfers captured at 24-bit/96-kHz. 95% of transfers from original analog master tapes (remainder transferred from mint vinyl).

+ From Lee's Personal 'Stache

* Flexi disc feat. 10 mins of unheard Lee 'studio chatter' ('Play it like a cowboy song')

* Reproduction of Lee's original embossed LHI business card
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* 18' x 24' full color poster

Rodriguez, the enigmatic subject of the 2012 Academy Award®-winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, released two albums with Sussex Records, 1970’s Cold Fact and 1971’s Coming from Reality. Out of print on vinyl for several years, both albums are newly remastered by Alex Abrash at AA Mastering set for release on August 30 release by Sussex/UMC on CD and 180-gram black vinyl. Cold Fact is the debut album from singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. In 1971 the album was released in South Africa by A&M Records. In 1976, several thousand copies of Cold Fact were found in a New York warehouse and sold out in Australia in a few weeks. It went to No. 23 on the Australian album charts in 1978, staying on the charts for 55 weeks. Coming from Reality is the second and (to date) final studio album from singer and songwriter Rodriguez, originally released by Sussex Records in 1971.
The CD for Coming from Reality features three additional bonus tracks, originally recorded in 1972-’73 for a third album that was never completed. The tracks were co-produced by Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore, who also co-produced Cold Fact. The tracks were first issued in 2009 on the Light in the Attic CD release, and they were also featured on the Searching for Sugar Man soundtrack.