Waterloo To Anywhere is the debut album from the short-lived, briefly adored Dirty Pretty Things – Originally released on Vertigo Records in May 2006, the album reached No 3 in the UK charts and spawned three Top 40 singles – This re-issue, available from 7 June, is pressed on high-quality 180g black vinyl. What do …
Modus Operandi had been released in 1997 and was both a critical and commercial success, underlining Photek as something of a shadowy leading figure in the world of drum and bass, after his apprenticeship in the preceding years with Metalheadz. Solaris, appearing three years later was eagerly anticipated and found Photek playing with form and …
Shake Down, the debut album from the much-respected London-based Savoy Brown Blues Band is being reissued on LP on the 21st April. Led by Kim Simmonds, Savoy Brown Blues Band were one of the UK’s most successful and exportable outfits. Shake Down is viewed as one of the strongest and most respectful captures of the …
Watusi, the fourth album from the legendary Leeds-based indie institution The Wedding Present, is augmented for this 30th anniversary edition with a second LP of non-album tracks and alternative versions. Each LP is pressed onto high quality 180g coloured vinyl (Green Vinyl / Orange Vinyl) and is presented in a gatefold sleeve. Also included is …
After the huge, consolidating success of 1992’s Waking Hours, Twisted was a confident return for Del Amitri, now comfortably established as one of the 90s most interesting, exhilarating groups. Although they were very much in another lane, it’s impossible not to hear the subtle influence they had on the-then current Britpop phenomenon with the chiming …
Standing In The Light, the much loved third album by Level 42, is available again on LP as a strictly limited audiophile gold vinyl pressing. Out 19 January 2024 Buy LP Side 1: 1. Micro-Kid 2. The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) 3. Out Of Sight Out Of Mind 4. Dance On Heavy Weather …
Starting off as a janglesome Scottish indie group, Del Amitri had developed into a west-coast influenced leftfield pop act, and now with the wind of success in their hair (after the protracted build of Waking Hours), the group – Justin Currie, Iain Harvie, David Cummings, Andy Alston and Brian McDermott – paired up with producer …
Originally issued on Science/Virgin in September 1997, Modus Operandi established Photek (aka Rupert Parkes) as an unmistakable force within the realm of drum and bass and downtempo. Born in Suffolk, Parkes, learnt saxophone as a child, but by the early 90s, he like many others, got into electronic music, and by the middle of the …
Cocteau Twins – vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde – formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s. The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will Heggie, by 1981 they had added Fraser and the following year signed to 4AD, one of the most illustrious of the indie labels. With Raymonde …
Cast were formed in 1992 and were something of a scouse supergroup, with leader, guitarist John Power previously bassist in The La’s and bassist Peter Wilkinson coming from Shack. Originally a loose conglomerate with various members, Power added guitarist Liam ‘Skin’ Tyson and drummer Keith O’ Neill, and by 1994 Cast were signed to Polydor. …
