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Out This Week / on 5 November 2021

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By Paul Sinclair

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ABBA Reloaded

ABBA / Voyage CD, Vinyl

After all the build-up and all the hype, ABBA‘s first studio album in over 40 years is finally out this week. The SDE shop has a few copies of the limited blue vinyl available.

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Radiohead / KID A MNESIA CD, Vinyl

Radiohead reissue their studio albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) together as one 3LP or three-CD package called KID A MNESIA

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Paul McCartney / The Lyrics Book

Paul McCartney releases The Lyrics, a new book described as “a self-portrait in 154 songs”.

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Jethro Tull / Benefit 50th anniversary CD, DVD

Jethro Tull‘s 1970 album Benefit will be reissued as an expanded six-disc set in the same ‘book’ format as the reissues that have been so well received over the last six or seven years.

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Garbage / Beautiful Garbage reissue

Garbage / Beautiful Garbage CD, Vinyl

Garbage will reissue a 20th anniversary edition of their third studio album, Beautiful Garbage. Formats include 2LP vinyl (including a white vinyl limited edition) and a decent looking three-CD set.

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Pretenders / 3CD deluxe reissue

The Pretenders / Pretenders & Pretenders II CD

The Pretenders first two albums are reissued as three-CD deluxe editions, both of which are “curated by Chrissie Hynde”.

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Billy Joel / The Vinyl Collection Vinyl

Sony’s Legacy Recordings release The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1 a new Billy Joel box set that brings together his studio long-players from the 1970s and a couple of live albums.

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Erasure / I Say I Say I Say CD

Erasure reissue their sixth album, 1994’s I Say I Say I Say as an expanded two-CD deluxe set. Produced by Martyn Ware, it features the hit singles ‘Always’, ’Run To The Sun’ and ‘I Love Saturday’.

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Air / 10 000 Hz Legend 2CD+blu-ray deluxe edition

Air / 10 000 Hz Legend CD, Blu-ray

French duo Air release a 20th anniversary edition of their third album 10 000 Hz Legend in November. This deluxe edition is a three-disc set comprising two CDs and a blu-ray with a Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround mix.

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Blondie and Fab 5 Freddie / Yuletide Throwdown pink vinyl 12-inch EP

Blondie / Yuletide Throwdown Vinyl

Blondie haven’t delivered that box set but do open the vaults a little bit for Christmas with a new limited edition 12-inch EP, featuring ‘Yuletide Throwdown’, the track co-written and performed with Fab 5 Freddy, recorded around the time of Rapture, and using the same samples.

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Diana Ross / New album 'Thank You'

Diana Ross / Thank You CD, Vinyl

Diana Ross finally releases her delayed new album, Thank You. It’s her first studio album since 2006’s I Love You.

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Wet Wet Wet / The Journey CD, Vinyl

Wet Wet Wet issue their first studio album with new singer Kevin Simm.

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  1. Meanwhile Diana’s “Thank you” might be one of the most boring records i have ever heard. I really hoped for something good when i heard the first and the second single but as a whole there is nothing to keep your interest . Too many ballads with no melody and the same theme in lyrics(think we are the world / heal the world but boring x100). I cherish streaming services for these cases. Listen before you buy. And i m not on the wrong site ;)

  2. I love Voyage… of course I do. For such a long time there was never the desire from the four members to resurrect ABBA. But incredibly they have and what they’ve gave us is a record, full of feeling, life experience and real emotion. Something I find lacking from other artists music. Even the less “cool” tracks Little Things and Bumblebee wrap you in a blanket of childhood warmth. But when you listen to I Can Be That Woman you still hear ABBA at the top of their game. A beautifully crafted melody, storytelling lyrics, harmonies to die for and an incredible vocal delivery from Agnetha which encompasses the whole depth of the song….. very much a work of art. Thank you for a lifetime of music and I for one will be returning to the hope that you change your mind again about this being the end.

  3. I like Voyage, it’s an album like the old days a listening experience as a ‘whole’ with ups and downs, bangers and growers, and as someone who loved Arrival back in the day (and whenever I hear Dancing Queen get thrown back to my childhood in a way only music can) I feel this album is the unlikeliest gift ever Abba is back and hearing tho girl’s voices…is like some kind of sorcery. How do they sound so good?

    It’s not fair to expect this album to be incredible, Prince never made anything like Sign o’ the Times in decades of releases.

    1. Please don t compare those two artists. Abba are great pop masters but Prince was above classification , one of the greatest to exist in music history.

  4. One of the biggest ABBA fans here and reading with interest the comments. I won’t go on too much but I’m three times in and it’s a grower for sure. I was 17 when The Visitors came out and that was a disappointment AT THE TIME for me coming after SuperTrouper. Only one song on the visitors sent shivers down my back first time through and that was Head Over Heels. – the most “ABBA” song on it. But in time I realised it was a progression of sorts. But for those criticising Voyage for Little Things (which I like just not track 3) I say Two for the price of one!!! Worst song ever. Ode to Freedom is just mind bogglingly good. So I just need to wait 40 years for the final album “departure” and I am complete. And happy.oh! Amongst the many versions o bought my plain old black vinyl has a white label stuck fast the the outer rim- looks like a crescent moon on the eclipse!! Wonder if that will be worth anything as a rarity. Other purchases this was was the mistake that was the numan box sett. How I never noticed there were no picture covers with this I don’t know. Monumental disappointment. May send back. And finally donnas all systems go and work that magic coloured vinyls. Amazing sound quality. All systems go is a great album.

  5. I think if you listen to Voyage hoping for The Visitors type album, then that’s a bit unrealistic, and you’re likely to be dissapointed. Voyage covers the range of ABBA sounds from the schlager/ folk park sound they’ve used over the years through to the more electronic sound on the Super Trouper and The Visitors albums.

    I like this album alot, it’s a bonus album I never could have hoped for, so I’m just going to enjoy it and hearing Agnetha and Frida singing again, is just pure bliss for me. That said i cannot listen to The Little Things- and have removed it from my album playlist!

  6. Tori Amos Signed Ocean to Ocean CD hit the doormat this morning. Apparently there are two versions of this – one signed direct to the front cover (as all ideally should be) and one with a signed insert in the booklet. I ordered from Decca and I got the insert version but it is very nice. Gold marker pen and signature clearly not rushed. Just kicked the family out so i can listen to it….

  7. Absolutely falling in love with Voyage.

    Abba have done the seemingly impossible and delivered the next Abba album, seamlessly moving on from where they left off.
    Reading some reviews the reviewers make it clear with their words they really never got Abba in the first place.

    Some seem to think it should have been 10 x Don’t Shut Me Down, every one a banger or it’s a failure. Other than Gold there isn’t an album by Abba that does that. All of the albums are populated by odd little ditties here and there. Maybe they expected a new Abba Gold? Every album has that one irrepressible monster (Dancing Queen, SOS etc.) and two or three indispensible, beautiful songs that grow in your brain (If it Wasn’t For the Nights), 4 or 5 strong album tracks (Slipping through my fingers), the oddity (On and on and On) and the one you were never *quite* sure about, but has it’s place (The Way Old Friends do). Your Mileage may differ of course with song titles but there isn’t an album with 10 Dancing Queens or 10 x The Winner Takes it All. Just like Queen or The Police albums.

    I love Little Things, which seems to get much derision on some reviews determined to show their cool chops, like the Grauniad.

    It’s an album, remember them? It flows. I can’t imagine listening to the utter majesty of Ommadawn without the twee-est song ever, On Horseback, finishing it off, and so it is here.

    Hopefully there will be a longer thread to discuss but I just wanted to say it’s exactly what I thought and hoped it would be: Abba 9.

    1. Yes, I saw that typically po-faced and somewhat joyless Grauniad review – presume they were expecting ABBA to have some songs featuring Drake, Charlie XCX or Dua Lipa… having heard it 2-3 times today there’s nothing as strong (for me anyway) as the two epic lead songs from September but maybe that will change. It is very much an ABBA album in that its album tracks are cut from the same cloth as many from its predecessors, but none are less than charming, and I look forward to them growing on me… This is a great day

    2. Have to agree Chris, I’ve read many reviews that seem like the reviewers have some serious bias against the band. Mind you that Christmas tune does possibly seem cringeful although I’ve yet to hear it personally…

  8. I just can´t understand the hype for this new album, okay, it´s ABBA but this album is weaker then their last one ” Visitors. ” I love ABBA but this album is crap in my ears. Sorry, Agnetha, Björn, Benny & Anni Frid.

    2. Well I ‘m certainly glad you took your time over that in depth contemplation when comparing two things 40 years apart, one of which you have had 40 years to come to terms with and one you have had less than a day to listen to.

      But no, Crap it is! “I love Abba”… does that mean you have Abba Gold?

      Give us a break. I am sure Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid live for snap reviews of their work

      One thing I would add…. when the albums that we all love were first made, not just Abba but all the other bands too. Reviewers were professionals, in print or on radio. It shows, not just about this album but so many other things, everyone is now a “reviewer” with their own spot to promote, whether on a website, like this one, or on the godforesaken lands of YouTube or TwatTok. Everything has to be instant, everything has to be extreme. It’s the best, its the worst, decisions on which herd to follow made before (I am sure in many cases) even a note has been heard. People desparate for attention with their own channel to promote won’t get anywhere saying something is “Ok, quite good 7 out of 10” It has to be 11 or zero. Rant almost over. Thank god for this site, I love it when Paul says something is “not bad” or “Everything it should be and nothing more”. The middle is quite deserted with everyone clamouring to be noticed at the extremes.

      1. I think everyone’s entitled to their opinion. I went all giddy and gooey when this was announced – the marketing campaign successfully pushed the nostalgic Abba buttons and it all seems a success, so mission accomplished. However I’ve given it a few spins today, and so far I have to agree – a handful of good tracks and some stuff that I can’t imagine listening to much again. But, outside of ‘Visitors’, which for me is a masterpiece and their only cohesive and consistently great album statement, it was ever thus with Abba – most of their albums are mixed bags quality wise, which I guess is why so many people stick with the Abba Gold volumes, which curate the great stuff, rather than going for deep dives. I’m not dissing them to appear cool – I hope I’m proved wrong in the long term, but there’s so much other great stuff to explore nowadays that I’m not sure I have the time and the patience to devote to it.

      2. Chris Squires, I got all their original albums as deluxe edition. Don´t get me wrong, I love ABBA. I just listened 3 times in a row to the new album but it doesn´t make klick until now. Does it need more spins for me ? Some albums needed more spins for me to say it is something I like. Also this one ?

        1. Apologies Jack, a tad over the edge there. I guess all albums deserve a good hearing before we come to the boil. To me, I have heard Voyage about 8 or 9 times today and it’s no better and certainly no worse than The Album or Voulez Vous. That’s why I said it was Abba 9, it’s all of the things you would find in a normal Abba album. However it is a different world it is being born into. there is a banger, there are tracks I instantly like, there are tracks that I see myself liking and one or two I will probably have to work on. But so it was with every album that people profess to love. I know I was only 15 when I first heard The Dreaming but I am pretty certain my response was akin to wtf!

          I do believe that, in time this won’t be viewed as an oddity but just as part of the canon. Particularly as the girl’s voices are bloody marvellous.

          2. It´s okay, Chris, I am a person who didn´t like the new album, I listened to the album today three times. No way, it is not that good for ME. If you like it all is good.

  9. Email just received from Abba store stating delay in shipment as problems with some vinyls (fire at sleeve factory apparently). Email does include a free download code though.
    HMV version received this morning and Amazon version out for delivery today.

  10. Also out this Friday is the Gary Numan singles box containing the first 15 7″ singles from Tubeway Army and Gary Numan. I didn’t bother with this one, I just don’t like what they have done with this set. Where are the picture sleeves???

  11. That expanded AIR album is obscenely expensive here in Australia. $63!! For a 3 disc set!! Not a chance.

    On a happier note, cannot wait for ABBA and that Radiohead set.

  12. Also this week The NeverEnding Show: Live In The Netherlands new Live Double Album from Alan Parsons with some editions on and the album title is a new studio song prelude for a new album coming next year as well…

  13. Does anyone have any news on the REM -New Adventures in HiFi re-release?
    The super deluxe was initially down for Oct 29 but is now listed as Nov 12 on Amazon.
    However, my local HMV seemed to have the vinyl in when I popped in yesterday.

    2. I got my marbled vinyl earlier in the week and have been massively enjoying spinning it this week. I always liked it but haven’t listened to it for ages – it’s gone up in my estimation – fantastic. Still not as good as the first five IRS classic albums, but up there and at the moment feeling better than Green and Automatic … (which probably suffers from over- exposure and over- familiarity, as with Out of Time). Hope they do something good with Up.

  14. I think I might have bought every different vinyl version of the Abba album, all the colours and both picture discs. Bet I only end up playing the CD.

  15. Also out this week:

    The Diva is back!
    Anna Netrebko “Amata Dalle Tenebre” CD+BluRay Deluxe Edition. Standard CD. Vinyl. Released by Deutsche Grammophon (Universal Music).

    Gregory Porter “Still Rising – The Collection” 2CD Digipack. 2CD Jewelcase. Vinyl. Released by Blue Note (Universal Music).

  17. As a long-time SDE reader and occasional buyer, I hope Paul won’t mind me plugging this – I’ve just released my debut (and possibly last!) album. Might be your cup of tea if you like arty-pop (Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Pulp etc. – actually my drummer is Steve Nieve’s nephew :)) Link to listen/buy here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AcPD3M-hbY

    2. Eamonn Singer by any chance?! (You must be tired of this joke …). Sounds very good! How did you end up with Steve Nieve’s nephew on drums?!

      1. Thanks Paul!
        @G.D. Wilde – Yes, not sure who the ‘coolest’ Eamon/n out there is…slim-pickings between him and Holmes. Poor old Eamonn Andrews…this is your life….

        So, one day at rehearsals the bassist and drummer were working-out the ryhthm for my last ”hit” single All The Trimmings… when the bassist says, “This kind of has a Costello feel”. To which the drummer replied “Oh, my uncle played keyboards for him!”. As he’s quite an unassuming chap, I’m not sure I ever would have found-out otherwise!

  19. Some things never change…. I have read several “Opinion pieces” online about how the Abba comeback has been an utter failure, using figures to back up their arguments, figures it has to be said that would have held up 39 years ago but as is the way of moden media there’s the truth and “The Truth”. One desparately negative review was stating that having only sold 3,000 physical copies of their “boring” single was a disaster, which is just wrong on so many levels. The final one was stating that this disastrous comeback has caused the girls to back out of all promotional work and the boys to quickly state that this was the end of ABBA because no-one was bothered about them.

    I don’t really know where to start as they are so wrong on so many levels and it is sad that journalism, if that is what it is, has had to stoop so low to deliberately misuse “facts” for their own ends but I guess that is universal and stretches far beyond an Abba comeback.

    1. Yes, couldn’t agree more. 3,000 physical copies of the single seems like quite a lot to me, given that a fair number of the people who really like Abba wouldn’t know where to buy a single nowadays, even if they wanted one. And that aside, pre-order for the album seem reasonably healthy. More to the point, I suspect that success of the comeback will ultimately be determined by the number of tickets sold for the forthcoming show, not copies of a single, or even a download

  20. Another very busy week ! Of course, the release of the new Abba record is the event of the week (or the year), but the Radiohead reissue is also very welcome. The bonuses are extremely interesting. There’s a version of Like Spinning plates that might be even better than the original. I was a little disappointed by The Pretenders reissues. Not the music, it is wonderful. The first two albums are reissued in a LP-sized format, but there are only 3 CDs. They did not need to be that big. What a waste of natural resources !

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