Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
David Bowie
RELEASE: Low, Heroes, Stage, Lodger, Scary Monsters
BACKSTORY: The five classic albums that were compiled in newly remastered form on the late Thin White Duke’s A New Career in Town box set last year receive individual releases this week on CD and vinyl.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Felt
RELEASE: Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty, The Splendour of Fear, The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories, Ignite the Seven Canons, The Seventeenth Century
BACKSTORY: Felt’s first five albums are reissued on CD, vinyl and digital.
Altered Images
RELEASE: The Epic Years
BACKSTORY: This 60-track, 4-disc box set collects nearly all of Altered Images’ Epic Records’ output, including three full studio albums and a fourth disc collecting eight 12-inch dance mixes.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: Ride’s new EP, Superchunk’s ‘What a Time to Be Alive’
- This week’s new releases: ‘The Sound of Liverpool 1976-1988’ box set, Ramones vinyl
- This week’s new releases: Simple Minds’ ‘Walk Between Worlds,’ big Roxy Music reissue
- New releases: They Might Be Giants, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mudhoney, Book of Love
