Out This Week / on 18 January 2019

Thereza Bazar / The Big Kiss (2CD deluxe)
Thereza Bazar of Dollar fame released an Arif Mardin produced solo album in 1985 called The Big Kiss. The album has never been issued on CD and so this is a case of famine-to-feast as fans will welcome this new two-CD expanded edition which offers demos, seven-inch mixes and extended mixes in addition to the ten album tracks.
Various Artists / 12″ 80s (3LP vinyl)
Good value triple LP set featuring a reasonable selection of original extended mixes from the 1980s. Includes Dead Or Alive, Propaganda, Eighth Wonder, Haircut One Hundred, Scritti Politti and more.
Fun Lovin’ Criminals / Another Mimosa (new album)
This new FLC studio album is a follow-up of sorts to 1999’s Mimosa. ‘ The 12-tracks comprise nine cover versions, two re-interpretations of well-known FLC hits and one original.
…my personal release highlight this week is the new Joe Jackson album “Fool”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXrMD5i9B3Y
Looks like Amazon have started hiking their prices up already in the wakes of HMV’s impending demise. Just to let people know that Thereza Bazar album is only £10.99 on base.com.
The Twilight Sad new album also out this week ‘It won’t be like this all the time’.
This band gets bigger by the minute!
Cure fans may like it and anyone who likes dark dreamy guitar groups.
I do.
The 12″ 80s is a triple vinyl
That would work better than a double with six songs per side!
Ah, the post Holiday lull.
We spend the last 5 months of the year swimming in excellent releases, and then we hit January.
Well Ben, some of us have been waiting decades for Thereza Bazar to be released so I for one am thrilled it’s January and couldn’t give much of a monkeys about anything else released over the last 5 months :-)
Plus the score to There Will be Blood by Johnny Greenwood, hitting vinyl for the first time, apparently.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/There-Blood-Music-Motion-Picture/dp/B07KLCRXWS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1547479079&sr=1-1&keywords=there+will+be+blood
Can’t imagine that 12″ album is going to sound any good with 30-40 minutes of music on each side.
Also, should Thereza’s offering be famine to feast, rather than the other way around?
Correct about Thereza. Apologies, I’m blaming early Monday morning…
JPC states that 12″ 80s is a triple LP; Amazon UK seems to have crrected it, too. https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/various-artists-12-80-s/hnum/8819107
Hi, this is a triple album with 4 tracks on each side.
I can’t imagine that 12″ is going to sound good either. It’s vinyl. Cue Rice Krispies.