The album was recorded over three days whilst the Heads were rehearsing for a couple of live dates with their friends, and peers, Mudhoney. The guitars, drums and bass were laid down live in Bristol, over-dubs added and then mixed/produced by John McBain in Portland.Initially planned as two single albums, (Volumes 1+2) it soon made sense that they should be put together as a double LP. Named in a nod to the Stooges' Raw Power classic 'Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell', it describes the trajectory we're all on.The Heads are renowned for their brutalist take on psychedelic rock, this new album shows how much they have absorbed from their years of existence, their peers and the world around them. Not much change though, they haven't mellowed out.The pummel is there, the spaced out sike zones are there, there's wigged out guitar solos that will peel the paint off the walls, there's even pop songs if you look/listen hard enough. John McBain has done a grand job in fine tuning the noise and sonic assault. It's hard to draw a direct "for fans of " list, because ultimately this album is for fans of the Heads.However, you can trace the DNA of this album back to the Stooges, Hawkwind, 13th Floor Elevators, Can, Mudhoney, Monster Magnet, Loop, Spacemen 3, MC5 etc. All squeezed through the Head's heavy sonic blender.A band that only ever existed on the fringes, "if you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space'.Life and jobs got in the way a bit but hey, at least that kept it pure.'One chord, three pedals, six years' was an old mantra of theirs. They've pushed that to 'three chords, double album, 20 years'.Don't expect another. Pre-apocalypse blues of rhythmic fuzz and acid rock.This album will be the soundtrack to navigate 2026.
Tracklist:
Hits Like a Dove
Cardinal Fuzz
Can't Stop the Rushing
It's about time...and Space
On
Snake Oil
Sunquaker
Socially Awkward
Entropic Dissolution
Bullets Fly But No Bees
It's All Over Now Sunshine
Off
UPC: 5061041821806Label: RoosterRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: CD
Breaking Out Of Heaven: 2007-2009 - Ronnie James Dio joined Black Sabbath for 1980's platinum selling Heaven And Hell album. When Dio regrouped with Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice between 2007 and 2009 they did so under the name Heaven & Hell. They released the live albums Live at Radio City Music Hall in 2007 and Neon Knights Live at Wacken in 2009, plus their sole studio album The Devil You Know in 2009. These recordings are now collected together as Breaking Out Of Heaven 2007-2009 on a 4CD set that includes a Blu-ray featuring the aforementioned live shows in their entirety. These were the last recordings made by Ronnie James Dio before he sadly passed away in 2010, and represent a fitting testament to the music he made with Black Sabbath, featuring tracks from Heaven And Hell, Mob Rules, Dehumanizer and The Dio Years.
Tracklist:
Atom and Evil
Fear
Bible Black
Double the Pain
Rock and Roll Angel
The Turn of the Screw
Eating the Cannibals
Follow the Tears
Neverwhere
Breaking into Heaven
The Devil Cried  - By Black Sabbath
Shadow of the Wind  - By Black Sabbath
Ear in the Wall  - By Black Sabbath
E5150 / After All (The Dead) [Live from Radio City Music Hall]
The Mob Rules (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Children of the Sea (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Lady Evil (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
I (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
The Sign of the Southern Cross (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Voodoo (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
The Devil Cried (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Computer God (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Falling off the Edge of the World (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Shadow of the Wind (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Die Young (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Heaven and Hell (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Lonely Is the Word (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Neon Knights (Live from Radio City Music Hall)
Mob Rules (Live at Wacken)
Children of the Sea (Live at Wacken)
I (Live at Wacken)
Bible Black (Live at Wacken)
Time Machine (Live at Wacken)
Fear (Live at Wacken)
Falling off the Edge of the World (Live at Wacken)
Follow The Tears (Live at Wacken)
Die Young (Live at Wacken)
Heaven and Hell (Live at Wacken)
Neon Knights (Live at Wacken)
E5150/Mob Rules (Live at Wacken)
Children of the Sea (Live at Wacken)
I (Live at Wacken)
Bible Black (Live at Wacken)
Time Machine (Live at Wacken)
Fear (Live at Wacken)
Falling Off The Edge Of The World (Live at Wacken)
Follow the Tears (Live at Wacken)
Die Young (Live at Wacken)
Heaven and Hell (Live at Wacken)
Country Girl/Neon Knights (Live at Wacken)
Heaven and Hell Road Movie
Hail the Gods of Metal
Meet the Mob
Radio City
30th Anniversary Interviews (Extra)
Ronnie James Dio Tribute (Extra)
UPC: 603497811410Label: RhinoRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: CD
Heavenly return! As fiercely independent as any punk band, but as sweetly melodic as any chart-topping act, Heavenly combine sharp-edged lyrics with shamelessly joyful pop music.'Highway To Heavenly' shares this musical recipe with the band's first four albums, all of which were released in the 1990s at a time when sensitive indie types in the UK were sheltering from the prevailing macho-rock storm under the Sarah Records umbrella, and when women in the US were starting to find their Riot Grrrl voices in the small town of Olympia, where labels like K and Kill Rock Stars were designing a new creative space.Heavenly were on Sarah Records in the UK and on K in the US - and maybe this is a useful shorthand for understanding the band's ability to meld the attitude of American Riot Grrrl bands with the pop charms of the English indie scene. In terms of style, Heavenly presented an androgynous look - short hair and pinafores for Amelia and Cathy - while Peter Rob and Mathew determinedly avoided the theatrics of male rock. Heavenly did not want to fit in with the hyper-gendered corporate music scene of the 1990s, and the band have stayed determinedly independent ever since (this new album is released on Rob and Amelia's Skep Wax label). The new songs are full of anger, of grief, of empathy, of love, and set themselves in opposition to the resurgence of the cold 'masculine energy' that is making the world a miserable, aggressive place today.
Tracklist:
Scene Stealing
Portland Town
Press Return
Skep Wax
Deflicted
Excuse Me
A Different Beat
Good Times
The Neverseen
She Is the One
That Last Day
UPC: 5055869551670Label: SkepwaxRelease Date: 2.27.26Format: CD
Douglas Robinson and Sal Mignano (both of The Sleeping) and Josh Eppard (cofounding member of Coheed And Cambria) share passions for authentic expressionand genuine creativity. Held. Isn't so much a beginning as it is a culmination. The post-hardcore trio's debut album, GREY, arrives fully realized, not as the tentativefirst step of newcomers, but as the collective fire of seasoned lifers discovering a new language together. It's the sound of raw instinct coalescing with earned wisdom.GREY doesn't announce itself so much as it emerges, inevitable and undeniable, like thunder rolling across a dark horizon. It's a force that feels eternal. Held.'s music feels elemental, evoking storms crashing against jagged cliffs or burning embers kindling, ready to reignite at any moment. It's urgent and relentless, yet also spacious,textured, and deeply human.There's gravity in every note, the kind that comes from survival turned into strength. Their sound is born of paradox: fiercely old-school in it's emphasis on live performance and feel, but modern in it's production and scope. Each song sounds both timeless and timely. Held. Is less a band than a force: fierce yet vulnerable, raw yet refined. They play as if the walls themselves are trembling, channeling a purity that feels rare in an age of algorithmic noise. Listening isn't consumption-it's recognition, like rediscovering something that's always been within you. Held. #carve out a place that feels both unshakably grounded and dangerously alive. It's more than music-it's an invocation, a reminder of the raw pulse that connects struggle to transcendence. For those who find themselves in the storm, Held. #offer not escape, but resonance: proof that inevitability can sound like liberation. UPC: 634164434137Label: Mnrk HeavyRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
From the moment that Hellripper burst into the metal world’s simmering consciousness back in 2014, the speed metal throne was destined to be conquered. Containing 8 new songs across 44 minutes, the highly anticipated 4th album “Coronach” reaches new levels of incisive, metallic intensity for the Scottish blackened speed metal threat. Bolder, braver and more adventurous than ever before, Hellripper are built for speed and ablaze with infernal glory! “Coronach” is available as CD, 180g. LP and as Digital Album. Don’t miss Hellripper’s European headlining tour with Schizophrenia and Sarcator in March/April…All hail the goat!
Tracklist:
Hunderprest
Kinchyle (Goatkraft and Granite)
The Art of Resurrection
Baobhan Sith (Waltz of the Damned)
Blakk Satanik Fvkkstorm
Sculptor's Cave
Mortercheyn
Coronach
UPC: 198029866322Label: Century MediaRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: CD
the apple tree under the sea, the debut album from breakout alt-pop artist hemlocke springs, marks an exciting new chapter for the singer/songwriter/producer. this is a fever dream of a concept album in which our heroine sets off on a journey of self-discovery—one that requires her to confront the chaos and repression of her past in order to claim the full, liberatory life she once didn’t even know was possible. throughout the project hemlocke displays her most adventurous songcraft and playful vocals yet, while co-producing the apple tree under the sea with close collaborator BURNS (Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Charli xcx).
Tracklist:
the red apple
the beginning of the end
head, shoulders, knees and ankles
w-w-w-w-w
moses
sever the blight
sense is (prelude)
sense(is)
set me free
be the girl!
UPC: 5056167182962Label: Good Luck Have FunRelease Date: 2.13.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Last of the Bluesmen
Josie's in the Garden
Kuschty Rye
Belfast to Boston
I Couldn't Sleep for Thinking of Hank Williams
Ould Piece of Wood
Big Barn Bed
Peacocks' Waltz
Hollis Brown
I'd Rather Die Young
Let the Four Winds Blow
Drunken Nights in the City
Tumble Dry
Failed Christian
The Burial Ground
Big Old River
I've Gor a Secret
Too Late to Worry
Poor Man's Moon
Walk with Me
Belfast Train
Skin ; Bone
Fix Me Up Jesus
All Gone Crazy
Time to Put the Snakes to Bed
Poor Man's Moon
Old Black Coat
You Can't Do That
Hi Ya Folks
Down in the Amusement
Sick and Tired
Murder in My Heart
Mess of Blues
I Can't Help Falling in Love
Belfast to Boston
Here We Go Again
Tears on Your Face
Can't Help Falling in Love
Shining Star
Whisperinglove
Down in the Amusement
Foolish Hearts
Too Upset to Say Goodbye
Just Because
Cold Cold Heart
Couldn't Sleep for Thinking of Hank Williams
UPC: 787991804427Label: SilverwolfRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
One of the most free spirited and inspired indie rock debuts our island has seen for a while, Her's had seemingly AAA backstage access to styles and eras that made home in their mutant retro-futurist sound. There was always something instantly charismatic about Stephen and Audun which proved pivotal in shooting their jangly, oddball pop into the major leagues. Luminous guitar lines, tremulous dissonant vocals and an arsenal of gorgeous melodies, the collection tilts from rock to bossa nova, surf to garage, 50s ballad to indie classic. Through laughter and art, Her's take us away from the strife of everyday life and into a world that's a surreal reflection of our own, built from the detritus of novelty items in junk shops, bargain bin b-movies and late-night cop shows. Under the facade and strange world of characters and humour there lies a deeper undercurrent, this approach is one of the subtle reasons Her's stand apart and through this vehicle their messages still have the potential to shift perceptions.
Tracklist:
Harvey
Mannie's Smile
If You Know What's Right
Carry The Doubt
Low Beam
Breathing Easy
Blue Lips
She Needs Him
Love On The Line (Call Now)
Don't Think It Over
Under Wraps
UPC: 5065002066930Label: Heist Or HitRelease Date: 8.1.25Format: CD
Many bands promising uniqueness write a bum cheque. Her's, not only offer individuality, distinctiveness and originality, but an entire world brimming with fully realised characters and sounds. Where romance fades, bromance remains and like a pair of matching monogrammed bathrobes hanging side-by-side, it's rare to find a partnership so loveably kitsch and destined to belong together as Stephen and Audun. Stories and characters emerge throughout the collection, revealing an off-kilter world of atmospheric slacker pop, instilled with voyeuristic humour. A collection of all their early singles, and a few new tracks thrown in for good measure, Her's channel the surreal and the sublime through a twist of tropical technicolour. Each song it's own little microcosm of oddness. Intricately windy, bendy guitars are flung around a tight drum machine clatter to deliver a genuine indie classic.
Tracklist:
Dorothy
Cool With You
Marcel
Cop Theme
Speed Racer
Medieval
What Once Was
You Don't Know This Guy
I'll Try
UPC: 5065002066664Label: Heist Or HitRelease Date: 8.1.25Format: CD
This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R
Tracklist:
A Must to Avoid
Wonderful World
No Milk Today
Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
Just a Little Bit Better
Sunshine Girl
There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World
I'm Into Something Good
Silhouettes
Leaning on a Lamp Post
Something's Happening
The End of the World
I Can Take or Leave Your Loving
Dandy
I'm Henry VIII, I Am
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
UPC: 730167317122Label: Good TimeRelease Date: 2.2.23Format: CD
NYC-based indie rockers Hiding Places release their debut LP, The Secret to Good Living, on April 3, 2026 with Keeled Scales. Refined through years of live performance and studio work, their debut LP is the first in their catalog recorded together in a professional studio, instead of in their separate home bases. Originally hailing from North Carolina and Georgia, the band includes Audrey Keelin (vocals, guitar), Nicholas Byrne (vocals, guitar), Henry Cutting (drums), and Michael Matsikis (bass, production). Together, they've developed a forward-thinking sound with a sense of nostalgia built into it: a blend that draws from the collage-like indie rock of Yo La Tengo, the elegant slowcore of The New Year, the riffy story-songs of Drive-By Truckers, and the analog hum of The Microphones.Hiding Places (noun)Definition of Hiding Places1. : Being in a place of the present moment that a song transports you to.
Tracklist:
Dead Dove (Your Love Was Never A Waste of Time)
Holy Roller
One Hand
Waiting
Ballad No. 8
The Secret To Good Living
Heat Lightning
Pile of Thought
If The Floor Is Burning
Forget It All
UPC: 762983629547Label: Keeled ScalesRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
Known as one of the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time, HiM has sold over 10 million albums worldwide and are the first Finnish group to have received a gold-certified record in the United States. Despite breaking up in 2017, HiM are still a fan-favorite all over the world, and frontman Ville Valo continues to tour as a solo artist, while still incorporating fan-favorite HiM classics into his sets. When Love & Death Embrace: Best of 1997-2003 is the ultimate collection for fans, featuring all the favorite tracks from HiM's iconic first 4 albums. CD Digisleeve.
Tracklist:
Right Here in My Arms
Funeral of Hearts
Your Sweet Six Six Six
Heartache Every Moment
Buried Alive By Love
Wicked Game
Join Me in Death
In Joy and Sorrow
Soul on Fire
Pretending
Gone with the Sin
(Don't Fear) the Reaper
Poison Girl
Close to the Flame
Sacrament
When Love and Death Embrace
UPC: 4099964238495Label: Bmg Rights ManagemenRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
The band's second album with 4AD, recorded in Warren Defever's home studio and remixed by Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer (as with their debut), sees 23 songs quick-firing through emotions, with moments of soothing calm soon clashing with white noise and visceral chaos. Highlights include "Her Eyes Were Huge", on which lightly strummed acoustic guitar uplift Karin Oliver's swooning, gossamer drawl; the synth-led, inquisitive and prickly "Are We Still Married?"; and pensive instrumental waltz "Siting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking". A varied yet grounded compilation of new material and old (some dating back to Defever's junior high days), it finds the band entering a confident creative stride, leaving listeners enthralled by both it's beauty and darkness and proving Defever's inspired productions utterly unique. "Dark, disturbing, and beautiful [...] Held together by Warren Defever's artful production, it's 23 songs range from jealous contemplation to spiritual concerns, from gentle folk to white noise guitar outbursts. Karin Oliver's supple voice lends itself to an array of musical and emotional settings." - AllMusic
Tracklist:
Are You Comin' Down This Weekend?
Her Eyes Were Huge Things
The Charmer
Hope Called In Sick
My Feathers Needed Cleaning
The Well
There's Something Between Us And He's Changing My Wor.
The Phoenix, A Pool Of Ice
Are We Still Married?
Put Your Finger In Your Eye
Home Is In Your Head
Why People Disappear
Here Eyes Are Huge
Save The Birds
Chances Are We Are Mad
Mescalina
Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Out
Very Bad A Bitter Hand
Beautiful And Pointless
Tempe
Spirit And Body
Love's A Fish Eye
Dreams Are Of The Body
UPC: 191400041028Label: 4adRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
A storied part of the early 4AD catalog, His Name Is Alive - the creative outlet of Michigan musician Warren Defever - was signed to the label in 1989, after founder Ivo Watts-Russell fell in love with their dark and fragmented sonic inclinations via cassette demos sent in the post. The project's debut record, Livonia (named after Defever's hometown), was released in June 1990. While His Name Is Alive's sound was in line with the gothic echoes of labelmates Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance, they also had a different, nonpareil quality, something existing on the boundary of this earth and another realm further underground. It was this otherness that piqued interest and proved the fulcrum of an unpredictable sound that often changed tack before listeners could second guess.A product of nearly ten years of Defever's home recordings, produced and mixed by Watts-Russell and his This Mortal Coil collaborator John Fryer, their debut Livonia cemented the band's presence among the 4AD's well-established ethereal lineage, reinventing and refracting the 4AD sound through a prism. A study in shadows, the album examined the dual themes of love and loss, being woozily delivered as if dreamlike. When reissued a few years later in the US, the album's title track was added - a non-linear study in guitar distortion - which completed the record and is a track that now stands out as one of the band's finest moments.
Tracklist:
As We Could Ever
E Nicolle (Introduction)
If July
Some And I
Fossil (Verse)
E Nicolle
Caroline's Supposed Demon
Fossil
Reincarnation
You And I Have Seizures
How Ghosts Affect Relationships
Darkest Dreams
UPC: 191400040922Label: 4adRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
His Name Is Alive's final record on 4AD, the first where the band controlled all processes including mixing, saw a marked shift; their most diverse, yet accessible catalog entry. The project's soaring growth over time allowed Defever to employ an extraordinarily adventuring approach to the record's sound and vision, indulging his love for all kinds of music, be it tastes of looped dub ("Lord, Make Me A Channel of Your Peace", "The Homesick Waltz"), sugar-sweet 1960s pop ("Baby Fish Mouth", "Lip"), distortion-laden dream-gaze ("Can't Go Wrong Without You"), evocative alt-noise ("Sick"), or strummy folk ("Where Knock Is Open Wide"). Embracing the surreal and turning their experimentalism up a notch and with Defever's studio skills truly blossoming, many see this as a high point for the band. "Like a DIY cocktail of My Bloody Valentine's dreamy noise and the wee-hours arthouse sigh of fellow 4AD'ers This Mortal Coil, [Mouth By Mouth] generates a tremolo- and fuzz-laden frenzy underscoring Defever's debt to '60s garage psych." - Bandcamp Daily
Tracklist:
Baby Fish Mouth
Lip
Cornfield
In Every Ford
Lord, Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace
Drink, Dress, and Ink
Where Knock Is Open Wide
Can't Go Wrong Without You
Jack Rabbits
Sort Of
Sick
Blue Moon
Ear
Lemon Ocean
The Torso
The Dirt Eaters
UPC: 191400041127Label: 4adRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
Hiss Golden Messenger - I'm People. The brand-new album from Hiss Golden Messenger and the first release with Chrysalis Records. I'm People is a vivid, deeply human album born from a period of rupture, renewal, and vast American wandering. Written across Bolinas, the North Carolina Piedmont, and a Santa Fe motel room, the record traces the artist's search for clarity through landscapes both external and internal. These songs move through heartbreak, aging, fatherhood, desire, disillusionment, and the hard-won hope that remains after the spirit has been scraped bare. Produced with Josh Kaufman at Dreamland, a decommissioned church outside Woodstock, the album carries the warmth of musicians playing live in a circle, stained-glass light filtering across guitars, drums, and upright bass. Contributions from Bruce Hornsby, Sam Beam, Marcus King, Sara Watkins, Amy Helm, Eric D. Johnson, and members of Dawes enrich a sound world that feels immediate, vulnerable, and fully alive. "I'm People is an intensely human record, and so one that needed to feel immediate, vulnerable, and fully dancing; something you could touch, sing along to, know about, recognize, relate with. I know what the record is to me and I bet it's not so dissimilar from what it's about to you, at least in the broad strokes: The heartbreak and exhilaration, the absolute black comedy of being a person on this razor's edge that is America circa 2025. What other choice do we have than to be hopeful?" - MC Taylor on I'm People. Hiss Golden Messenger is a Grammy nominated artist based in North Carolina, with multiple Album Of The Year and Best Americana Album awards, reaching #2 in the Americana Charts and performances and tours across the world, including the UK and Europe + performances on US TV; Late Night With Seth Myers.
Tracklist:
In the Middle of It
Who You Gonna Run To?
Shaky Eyes
Mercy Avenue
I'm People
Seneca (Time Is a Mother, Baby)
Last Orders
Gabriel
Heavy World
Alright and Then Some
Spirit Cat
Depends on the River
UPC: 840401722923Label: ChrysalisRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Living on the Ceiling
Cruel Summer
Smalltown Boy [Edit]
Young at Heart
Takes a Little Time [Single Mix 2]
Hit That Perfect Beat
Sally
Don't Leave Me This Way
Don't Go [Single Version]
She Drives Me Crazy
C'Mon and Get My Love [7" Version]
Born This Way
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
You're History
Monsters and Angels
It's On
Something Good [7 Inch Mix]
Halcyon [Edit]
Stinkin' Thinkin'
It's Alright [The Guvnor Mix]
Regret
Inner City Life [Radio Edit]
I Believe [Edit]
Daydreamer
Sunshine After the Rain [Two Cowboys Club Edit]
I'm Alive [Eat Me Edit]
Sugar Is Sweeter [Armand Van Helden's Sugar Daddy Edit]
Wonderwall
Keep on Jumpin' [Bizarre Inc Remix Edit]
Never Ever
Nothing Lasts Forever
You Are the Universe
Beat Goes On [Radio Edit]
Buzzin' [Radio Edit]
You Don't Know Me
To Earth With Love [Radio Edit]
Please Don't Turn Me On [Radio Edit]
Overload [Edit]
Starbucks
I Begin to Wonder [Radio Version]
UPC: 5061017257561Label: London RecordsRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
Seelie Court - the world's premier label for rare and previously unreleased archive recordings of underground folk, rock, proto-metal, and psychedelic music presents a haunting folk rock album made from the exquisite compositions of Bob Hughes. This inexplicably ultra-rare private pressing is generally unknown, and includes a stunning version of the fragile and monumentally melancholic 'High & Dry', a song that is a genuine masterpiece, predating Radiohead's identically titled pop tune. Recorded Late Winter 1977 - University of East Anglia (UEA) Music Centre, Norwich. UPC: 741869416594Label: Good TimeRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Buoyed by the joy of creating their 2022 album - Confidence - The Hoosiers are swaggering back through the saloon doors of the music industry with both barrels locked and loaded. Armed with their sixth album, Irwin Sparkes & Alan Sharland pick up where they left off; honing a more adult take on the jubilant sound that made a name for them back in 2007. Reflections between the duo probed the question of why even bother to make an album - at considerable cost - in an age with scant regard for the form? "The conversation that had been picked up with fans following Confidence had taken on a momentum of it's own and we were compelled not to lose something so valuable", says Irwin. With Compassion, Al & Irwin wished to imbue the listener with this new-found sense of self-belief in what they do and who they are. This time the question of how to focus the album was handled in a novel way: "Releasing an album into the world is like releasing your intentions so we wanted to approach it as if we had a genie offering us one wish", says Al Sharland. "On a personal and political level, it's apparent that we could all do with more compassion." The way we talk to ourselves influencing how we talk to each other and thereby creating the world in which we live; this tied together the songs already written ('Everybody Is A Little More Broken Than They Pretend To Be', and 'Don't Hang Your Head') with those that would be written with the concept of compassion in mind ('Permission To Rest'). Perhaps where compassion is needed the most is when it comes to people who don't share our values and this is what the title track 'Compassion' is grappling with. "We love playing in this band more than ever and we feel so loved by the fans we have and this album is a big, stanky hug back to them", clarifies Irwin. "We don't just want to leave the world with better music than when we found it", winks Al, "we want to leave it a more confident, compassionate spinning orb.
Tracklist:
Multiply
?Automatic Glow
?So High
Sleeping With The Light On
Compassion
Don't Hang Your Head
Lonely Together
Jigsaw Heart
Everybody Is A Little More Broken Than They Pretend To Be
Man From The Magazine
Permission To Rest
The Final Piece Of The Puzzle
UPC: 5053760138969Label: Crab RaceRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
Bolstered by 140 million Spotify streams, a sold-out nationwide headlining tour, support for the likes of The Wonder Years and New Found Glory and headlines in Alternative Press, Hot Mulligan's third LP, Why Would I Watch cements their evolution as one the most versatile and profoundly moving bands in the underground. Produced by longtime collaborator Brett Romnes, Why Would I Watch is Hot Mulligan at their loudest, their poppiest, and, ultimately, their most poignant. "We didn't really have grand ambitions when we went in to make this album," explains Freeman. "I liked you'll be fine, and I just wanted us to make another good one." Adds Sanville wryly: "If we had made a bad record, I'd have gotten into a plane and fallen out of it." Therein lies the true magic of Hot Mulligan, the push and pull of puns and pathos that might seem diametrically opposed at first but actually intersect to perfectly encapsulate life in a heavy, ADD-addled world.
Tracklist:
Shouldn't Have a Leg Hole But I Do
It's a Family Movie She Hates Her Dad
And I Smoke
This Song Is Called It's Called What's Is Called
No Shoes in the Coffee Shop (Or Socks)
Christ Alive My Toe Dammit Hurts
Betty
Cock Party 2 (Better Than the First)
SHHHH! Golf Is on
Gans Media Retro Games
Smahccked My Head Awf
John "The Rock" Cena, Can You Smell What the Undertaker
UPC: 843563161548Label: Wax BodegaRelease Date: 5.12.23Format: CD
Cherry Red are both delighted and excited to announce the release of this previously unreleased live performance by Howard Jones, recorded Live At The Marquee club in London in September 1983. This live concert was discovered in among the master tapes that were having their audio transferred as potential bonus tracks for the Human's Lib re-issues in 2018. This concert took place on 20th September 1983 with 'New Song' just outside the Top 40 and a couple of days prior to Howard making his debut performance on Top Of The Pops. Audio remixed by Howard Jones. Packaged in a digisleeve. CD booklet contains rare & previously unseen photos.
Tracklist:
Tao Te Ching
Bounce Right Back
What Can I Say?
Natural
Hunt the Self
Pearl in the Shell
Change the Man
Equality
What Is Love?
Dreams of a Better Place
New Song
Conditioning
Human's Lib
UPC: 5013929193734Label: Cherry RedRelease Date: 1.30.26Format: CD
2014 debut album from the acclaimed Irish musician released as a special two CD edition including a bonus disc that contains an additional 13 live and studio tracks including 'Arsonist’s Lullabye” plus several others. Following up his two early EPs, Hozier co- produced the self-titled album with Ron Kirwan (PJ Harvey and Depeche Mode). Tastemakers and critics alike wholeheartedly embraced Hozier's spirited and soulful sound. He's drawn praise from NPR, New York Magazine, KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, MTV Buzzworthy, Consequence of Sound, to name just a few.
Tracklist:
Take Me To Church
Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene
Jackie And Wilson
Someone New
To Be Alone
From Eden
In A Week (Featuring Karen Cowley)
Sedated
Work Song
Like Real People Do
It Will Come Back
Foreigner's God
Cherry Wine (Live)
In The Woods Somewhere
Run
Arsonist's Lullabye
My Love Will Never Die
From Eden (Live)
Jackie And Wilson (Live)
Someone New (Live)
Work Song (Live)
Take Me To Church (Live)
Problem / Regulate (BBC Live Session)
Whole Lotta Love (BBC Live Session)
Do I Wanna Know? (BBC Live Session)
Lay Me Down (BBC Live Session)
UPC: 198029028423Label: Sony LegacyRelease Date: 5.16.25Format: CD
Unreal Unearth is the highly anticipated new album from Grammy nominated Irish singer-songwriter, Hozier. This 16 track collection has production credits for Hozier, as well as Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman, Jennifer Decilveo, and Bekon. Hozier burst onto the global music scene in 2013 with his hit single "Take Me To Church," now RIAA certified DIAMOND, with over 13 million in combined sales and streaming volume. Hozier, his self titled debut album from 2014 is RIAA certified 3x PLATINUM, and the 2019 follow up album Wasteland Baby! Is RIAA certified GOLD. Hozier has toured globally, and played numerous festivals including Coachella, Glastonbury, Bannaroo, ACL, and more. #four panel soft pak, with 20 page insert booklet
Tracklist:
De Selby (Part 1)
De Selby (Part 2)
First Time
Francesca
I, Carrion (Icarian)
Eat Your Young
Damage Gets Done - Hozier ; Brandi Carlile
Who We Are
Son of Nyx
All Things End
To Someone from a Warm Climate (Uiscefhuaraithe)
Butchered Tongue
Anything But
Abstract (Psychopomp)
Unknown / NTH
First Light
UPC: 196588162428Label: Columbia RecordsRelease Date: 8.18.23Format: CD
Wasteland, Baby! is the highly anticipated sophomore album singer-songwriter Hozier. The 14 track album was preceded by the September, 2018 release of Hozier's 4-track EP, Nina Cried Power. The track Nina Cried Power' is also included on Wasteland, Baby! and features vocals from multi-Grammy Award-winning artist and performer Mavis Staples and instrumentation by renowned Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Booker T. Jones. The track was highlighted as one of Barack Obama's favorite songs of 2018. The album also includes the singles 'Movement' and 'Almost (Sweet Music).' Wasteland, Baby! is the follow up LP to Hozier's 2014 critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. With a phenomenal reception by critics worldwide, the album was also a commercial success, reaching Top 10 chart positions in Ireland, UK, United States, Canada, Australia, Denmark, and Greece. The album included this first worldwide hit, 'Take Me To Church,' that a nomination for Song of the Year and the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Tracklist:
Nina Cried Power - Hozier feat. Mavis Staples
Almost (Sweet Music)
Movement
No Plan
Nobody
To Noise Making (Sing)
As It Was
Shrike
Talk
Be
Dinner & Diatribes
Would That I
Sunlight
Wasteland, Baby!
UPC: 190759179529Label: Columbia RecordsRelease Date: 3.1.19Format: CD