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.
The Alarm
RELEASE: Equals
BACKSTORY: Mike Peters this week releases his first album under the banner of The Alarm since 2010’s Direct Action. The 11-song record features “Two Rivers,” “Beautiful” and the Billy Duffy collaboration “Coming Backwards.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
David Bowie
RELEASE: Welcome to the Blackout: Live London ’78
BACKSTORY: Rhino Records this week releases a CD version of David Bowie’s latest Record Store Day release, a live set recorded at Earl’s Court in London in 1978. Features “Heroes,” “Fame,” “Five Years” and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Innocence Mission
RELEASE: Son on the Square
BACKSTORY: The long-running indie-folk group this week releases its 10th studio album and first in three years, a 10-song collection that includes “Records From Your Room,” “Shadow of the Pines” and “Buildings in Flower.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Flaming Lips
RELEASE: Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990
BACKSTORY: This 6CD box set brings together the band’s first four Restless Records albums and a host of b-sides and other rare tracks.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Posies
RELEASE: Dear 23
BACKSTORY: Omnivore Recordings this week reissues the band’s 1990 major-label debut in a 2CD set that includes a remastered edition of the original album and a second disc of demos, alternate mixes and other tracks.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: The Cure, Peter Murphy, Nine Inch Nails, Pete Shelley
- This week’s new releases: Johnny Marr, Peter Buck, English Beat, Sisters of Mercy, King Blank
- This week’s new releases: Poptone, Midge Ure, Tony Hadley, Violent Femmes
- This week’s new releases: Shriekback, The Smithereens, Bow Wow Wow, The Fall
Enough with the Bowie reissues. Go to your local used store and get way cheaper than these pricey reissues. It’s such a bore. Reissue LONG LOST gems.
What cheap reissue of “Blackout” is one going to find at their local store? Not to mention on CD.
For a format that has been said to be dying for the past 15-20 years, there sure are a lot of obscure reissues being made available on CD.
CD is the new vinyl. 8-)
Let’s hope so. Despite my fond memories of vinyl it is not a practical format for me these days and I find MP3s and streaming wanting at best. CD remains my format of choice. Long live physical formats!
Welcome to the blackout may be the very last CD i’m able to buy from Amazon since they are about to block Aussies from their stores (except for the local junk shop offering).
It’s going to be an interesting listen for me as Stage was one of my first Bowie albums purchased decades ago and I can “play” the whole album in my mind, so this will be a bit like having a remix album.