Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
Sinead O’Connor
RELEASE: I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss
BACKSTORY: Sinead O’Connor returns with her 10th studio album and first in two years, and a high-profile makeover. Tracks include “How About I Be Me,” “Dense Water Deeper Down” and “Your Green Jacket.”
BUY: Amazon.com
Grant Hart
RELEASE: “Every Everything: The Music, Life and Times of Grant Hart”
BACKSTORY: Gorman Bechard’s documentary on Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart comes to DVD this week with a host of extras, including two additional hours of interview footage with Hart.
BUY: Amazon.com
John Foxx
RELEASE: The Virgin Years: 1980-1985
BACKSTORY: John Foxx this week releases a 5CD box set including the four albums he released between 1980 and 1985, with B-sides and outtakes added to each album and on a bonus fifth CD called Fusion/Fission.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Suzanne Vega
RELEASE: Close Up Series
BACKSTORY: Suzanne Vega this week releases a 5CD/1DVD box set rounding up the Close Up albums of her re-recorded catalog originally released between 2010 and 2012, with a disc of bonus material and a live DVD.
BUY: Amazon.com
Cocksure
RELEASE: TVMALSV
BACKSTORY: The new project from Wax Trax! Records mainstay Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks, Ministry, etc.) and Acumen Nation’s Jason Novak releases its nine-track debut this week. Front 242’s Richard 23 guests.
BUY: Amazon.com
Stiff Little Fingers
RELEASE: No Going Back
BACKSTORY: The punk legends return with their 10th studio album and first in 11 years, a 12-song collection that includes tracks such as “Liar’s Club,” “My Dark Places,” “When We Were Young” and more.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Sinead’s “new” look kind of makes me want to give Swing Out Sister a second listen.
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New Sinead O’Connor album is amazing!
Lady GaGa if she were in the movie “Underworld”…is that the look she’s aspiring to? If so, she nailed it. That latex is so naw-t!!
I LOVE Sinead’s song. It hits me where I live right now.