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: A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982)
BACKSTORY: The third in Parlophone’s series of career-spanning box sets is out this week in 11CD and 13LP editions featuring everything Bowie released between 1977 and 1982, plus a new mix of Lodger by producer Tony Visconti.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
Depeche Mode
RELEASE: The Best Of: Volume 1
BACKSTORY: The band’s 2006 greatest-hits set gets a triple-vinyl reissue this week, featuring tracks such as “Everything Cuonts,” “Strangelove,” “Walking In My Shoes,” “Never Let Me Down Again” and the then-new song “Martyr.”
BUY: Amazon.com
The Cravats
RELEASE: Dustbin of Sound
BACKSTORY: The jazz-punk combo from the U.K.’s Class of ’77 returns with its first new album in more than three decades, a 13-track affair featuring songs such as “Jingo Bells,” “Motorcycle Man” and “All U Bish Dumpers.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: Marc Almond goes retro, Luna does covers and instrumentals
- This week’s new releases: Gary Numan, Lee Ranaldo, ‘Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave’
- This week’s new releases: Sparks, Waterboys, The Dream Syndicate, Living Colour
- New releases: OMD, Crowded House’s Neil Finn, The Sisters of Mercy, Alien Sex Fiend
