NewsOut This Week / on 8 September 2017
Neil Young / Hitchhiker
Neil Young issues an unreleased 1976 album Hitchhiker. The 10-track album features a few songs later re-recorded for other albums, including Pocahontas and Powderfinger. 
Tori Amos / Native Invader (new album)
Tori‘s 15th studio album is released on CD, double vinyl and a deluxe CD edition which includes two bonus tracks and is packaged as a hardcover book.
Godley & Creme / Body of Work (box set)
After the recent 10cc and Eric Stewart sets, comes this generous Godley and Creme five-CD collection. This features all the albums they recorded for Polydor along with a selection of B-Sides and extended mixes. The booklet and box set has been designed by Kevin Godley himself!
Sparks / Hippopotamus (new album)
Announced way back in March, Sparks‘ new album Hippopotamus is finally released this week. Their UK tour kicks off later this month.
Free / vinyl reissues
Last year’s Free vinyl box is now broken up and the individual albums are available separately including 1970’s Fire and Water (pictured).
John Foxx & Harold Budd / Translucence / Drift Music / Nighthawks (3LP)
Vinyl box which features a trio of collaborations between former Ultravox frontman John Foxx and ambient/avant garde music composer Harold Budd. Signed editions still available.
The Waterboys / Out Of All This Blue (new album)
The Waterboys‘ new album, Out Of All This Blue, is a double, but triple deluxe sets are available on both CD and vinyl formats.
Stevie Wonder / Original Musiquarium (2LP vinyl)
Brilliant Stevie Wonder greatest hits. Originally issued in 1982 and now reissued on double vinyl. Beguiling artwork adds to the appeal, but the music is peerless.
- • UK Order: Original Musiquarium (2LP vinyl)
- • USA Order: Original Musiquarium (2LP vinyl)
- • GERMANY Order: Original Musiquarium (2LP vinyl)
Angelo Badalamenti / Blue Velvet soundtrack (vinyl LP)
Fire Records reissue Angelo Badalamenti‘s soundtrack to David Lynch’s 1986 film on vinyl LP.
- • UK Order: Blue Velvet OST (vinyl LP)
- • USA Order: Blue Velvet OST (vinyl LP)
- • GERMANY Order: Blue Velvet OST (vinyl LP)
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Got that Godley & Creme from Amazon today and for anybody wanting to know it was remastered by Andy Pearce. It’s a small box with 5 card sleeves in it and a booklet and what i have listened to so far the sound is good.
Sheila E’s new album “Iconic” is out now too: https://www.sheilae.com/product/iconic-pre-order/
Stevie Wonder never did get around to putting out “Original Musiquarium II” did he? I have Musiquarium I from when it came out and it is brilliant, right down to the sequencing of the tracks. Usually extra tracks on compilations are a bit like filler but not here – the 4 new tracks for this at the time included That Girl and Do I Do. Amazing. I can’t recommend it enough.
I also recommend watching Stevie Wonder perform Superstition on Sesame Street in the early 70s, if you’re not one of the 10 million people who have viewed this already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
And this is pretty good, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrvm2XDvpQ
If you love Sugar Mountain and The Needle and The Damage Done, you’ll love Hitchhiker unless the rip I heard is a demo or fake. I love my Neil when he rocks out: turn it up! Yeah!
You can currently hear Hitchhiker in full on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547036559/first-listen-neil-young-hitchhiker?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20170505
I think the Tori vinyl has been put back to October 20th.
Also out The National’s new album Sleep Well Beast. Just hope it’s not as compressed as the otherwise excellent Trouble will Find Me.
I wonder how long it’ll take for the Sparks Mart stuff to show up… For stuff I paid for 6 months ago it’d better be damn quick.
Nothing for me this week. Dr. John next week though!