Out This Week / on 16 August 2019

Spear of Destiny / The Virgin Years (4CD clamshell box)
Great value 58-track four-CD package rounds up all of the releases on Virgin Records in the late 80’s by Spear Of Destiny. Features two studio albums with bonus tracks, a CD of extended versions and 1987’s Live at Hammersmith Odeon. Also includes a booklet with detailed sleeve notes. Sounds like a great little package!
Kim Wilde / Aliens Live
We’ve had Kim Wilde‘s Here Comes The Aliens album back in March last year, the deluxe edition in October and now comes Aliens Live, which as you might gather from the title, is a live album of the tour. Double CD and 2LP vinyl offer plenty of hits.
Lionel Richie / Hello From Las Vegas
Lionel Richie‘s new 12-track live album showcases his recent residency in Las Vegas. Available on vinyl and CD.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/163800
This is weird. So they did remaster “I Gotsta Get Paid” to what looks like really good dynamics but could not manage to do that with “Piece” (which is at least level-shifted as to not be so goddamn loud) and the live tracks??
Frank Turner’s new album No Man’s Land is also released this Friday. It’s almost a concept album, telling the stories of various women throughout history whose stories have largely fallen out of memory or been overlooked. He’s doing a series of podcasts where he looks into the story of the woman or women celebrated in each song, which is about halfway through its run at the moment (it’s being released at a rate of one episode a week, on Wednesdays).
Bundles/signed stuff/exclusive blue vinyl still available from his store here:
https://store.frank-turner.com/?utm_campaign=FrankTurnerNoMan%27sLand20190702&utm_content=&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Website&utm_umguk=frank-turner.com%2F
New album, “Infest the Rats’ Nest” from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is also out on friday.
Also out last Friday – Godley & Creme Consequences 5-CD box set:
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/godley-and-creme/consequences
or
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Consequences-Godley-Creme/dp/B07TZXTZP6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KLLX4GPJCJBF&keywords=godley+creme+consequences&qid=1565641866&s=music&sprefix=godley+creme+consequences%2Cpopular%2C182&sr=1-1
Just received mine today and remastered sound quality is excellent.
Not exactly this week, but on the 20th of August Sixto Rodriguez’s 2 studio albums are re-released. If you are not familiar with Rodriguez or the interesting “mystery” of his disappearance, then watch the excellent “Searching for Sugar Man” documentary. Great music too!
Date now changed to the 30th of August
Thanks for the Spear of Destiny Set Information.
Orange vinyl with that yellow/green sleeve is quite a choice, Kim.
Glad to see the Ride album mentioned. Their last one Weather Diaries was so good, as was the Tomorrow’s Shore EP. I’ve got a great September ahead of me, seeing Ride and Swervedriver shows a fortnight apart in Melbourne. Shoegaze September!
I also saw on the Paul Weller Instagram page that a P.P. Arnold album came out last week featuring contributions from Weller and Steve Craddock.
There’s a 5cd version of Godley and Cremes Consequences out this week.
“Where can I find Lionel Richie?”
“Asleep at home in L.A., probably.”
;-)
Wondered how many people were didn’t know that there was a 3CD coming out later and bought the 1CD edition.
Kim Wilde’s 2LP is pressed on orange vinyl, by the way… Usually you mention this Paul. :)
Kim Wilde CD is done. Can’t wait for this release.
Hi everyone thank you for these news. The Kim Wilde’tour last year was fantastic. I saw Kim in Live in 2018, London & Paris, It’ was so great. Can’t wait Aliens Live! We love Kim in France too.
Good day to everyone :)
Kim Wilde’s first ever live album :)
Can’t wait to hear this.
She’s so great and rock live with her band.