NewsOut This Week / on 22 Jan 2016
Suede / Night Thoughts (new album)
Suede release their second studio album since reforming and their seventh in total. Night Thoughts is issued as this special CD+DVD edition packaged in a deluxe hardcover book. 
The Monkees / Classic Album Collection (10CD box)
A Monkees box that collects the band’s nine original studio albums and a tenth bonus disc of singles/rarities.
The Long Ryders / Final Wild Songs (4CD box)
New four-CD box which features the ‘alt country’ pioneers’ three albums, many rare tracks and unheard live recordings.
Steven Wilson / 4 1/2 (new album)
New six-track ‘mini-LP’ from Steven Wilson. Four of the songs originated during the sessions for Hand. Cannot. Erase., and one from the recording sessions for the previous album The Raven that Refused to Sing. Available on CD, blu-ray audio (with a 5.1 mix) and vinyl.
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Tindersticks / The Waiting Room (new album)
Tindersticks releases their first studio album since 2012’s acclaimed The Something Rain. This CD edition comes with a DVD of videos. There is also a limited coloured vinyl pressing, that comes with the DVD.
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968
Originally issued in the early nineties, this Stax/Volt reissue is a 9CD box that features new packaging and full-color booklets with essays by co-producer, Rob Bowman.
Spandau Ballet / Access All Areas (CD+DVD)
Edsel’s apparently endless ‘Access All Areas’ series, which brings together a performance on DVD with the audio on CD, focuses its attention on a 1990 Spandau Ballet gig.
The Monkees / Cereal Box Records
Four flexi-discs by The Monkees were once given away with a breakfast cereal. Here is a limited edition reissue of all four: Last Train to Clarksville, Words, I Never Thought It Peculiar and Valleri (featuring rare TV mixes of the last three). For clarity, this is a limited edition reproduction of 4x 7″ flexi-disc singles, issued by Rhino.
Badly Drawn Boy / The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
The 3LP deluxe is already out, but this week sees the release of the 2LP vinyl reissue of the Mercury Music Prize-winning album that was issued in 2000.
François Hardy / La maison où j’ai grandi
One in a series of vinyl reissues of the French singer and actress, François Hardy Although not the official title it became known as La maison où j’ai grandi (The House Where I Grew Up) after the most popular track on the album and was issued in 1966.
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Also released on Friday – The Truth A Step In The Right Direction.
3CD compilation with many tracks making their debut on CD.
The Truth were formed by singer/guitarist Dennis Greaves, after the demise of his previous band Nine Below Zero in 1982, with guitarist Mick Lister, ex-9BZ bassist Brian Bethell, drummer Gary Wallace & organist Chris Skornia. Signing with WEA’s Formation label, The Truth charted with their debut single, the vibrant & uplifting ‘Confusion (Hits Us Everytime’), which reached No. 22 in May 1983. The follow-up, ‘A Step In The Right Direction’, peaked at No. 32 that August. A third single, ‘No Stone Unturned’, was released in February 1984. The band then signed with I.R.S. Very few of the dozen or so Truth tracks (spread across various formats) have ever been reissued on CD. A Step In The Right Direction is the first-ever retrospective of The Truth’s early recordings, boasting not only their entire output for Formation but also two further discs of live material & a handful of previously unheard demos! Disc 2 combines two BBC concerts which were broadcast at the time; Disc 3 finds The Truth in full effect at the famous Marquee, a venue which Nine Below Zero had made their own. Many of these concerts boast songs which the band never issued on vinyl. Dennis Greaves & Mick Lister have been involved with this worthwhile release, with sleeve-notes by Mojo’s Lois Wilson. The package is housed in an attractive card wallet as a fitting tribute to one of the key Mod bands of the period .
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Direction-Singles-Demos-1983-1984/dp/B01891FQAA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1453413665&sr=8-2&keywords=the+truth
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How is the Stax box packaged. Does it still come in it’s original 12×12 box. I see all three sets are up at Amazon for just under a ton for the lot. That used to be the price for each one!
Suede was announced so long ago I had forgotten it was coming out… Any reviews/thoughts on the film or should I stick to the CD version?
I haven’t seen anything of this film…. but if you forego the ‘hardcover book’ edition, the ‘standard’ CD+DVD can be had for only a couple of quid more than the CD-only option:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Thoughts-Suede/dp/B0150Y6Q94/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1453127190&sr=1-3&keywords=suede
I’ve gone for the standard CD+DVD version of Night Thoughts. Only £2 more than the CD, so worth a punt. Not interested in paying £30 to get the book version.
Also out this week is the debut project from Nick Beggs, Marco Minnemann and Roger King, entitled “The Mute Gods” – http://themutegods.com/tmg/
Also out John Cale M:FANs which includes Music for a New Society remastered along with new albums from Shearwater and Jesu / Sun Kil Moon.