A really stacked week of reissues to follow that long weekend.

So firstly this week, Take a Picture is the sublime 1968 LP from Margo Guryan and we wrote a little about it for this past weekend’s Sunday Classic. It is available this week via Numero on a suitably resplendent gold colour vinyl pressing and it really is lush!

As dreamy as you like and available on vinyl for the first time since 1986, The Moon And The Melodies is a collaborative album from Cocteau Twins and the esteemed minimalist composer Harold Budd. It is all such ethereal stuff, layers and waves of melancholic ambience and glimmering beauty. An album of real lightness, an essential for fans of either artist and ambience and dream pop more broadly. A proper mood, very highly recommended.

+ Remastered from the original tapes by Robin Guthrie.
Repressed and celebrating its twentieth anniversary, Mark Lanegan’s Bubblegum has a new pressing this week via Beggars Arkive and it still sounds absolutely massive. Released in conjunction with the Estate of Mark Lanegan, this pressing has been remastered across a double LP pressing. Absolutely stacked with guests (Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri of Queens of the Stone Age, Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs, Wendy Rae Fowler, Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin of Guns N' Roses), the two duets with PJ Harvey that are just pure magic. A real dark treasure.

+ Available on a limited double Red colour vinyl pressing.

There is also a lavish “XX” 20th anniversary edition, but we have currently sold out. We are trying for more so do register for interest, here.

Keeping it heavy, Fugazi’s 2001 LP The Argument gets a new edition this week via the mighty Dischord. It was the final studio LP before going on indefinite hiatus and is absolutely some of the band's most darkly charged and knotty moments… And that is saying something!

+ Available on limited 'Thor' Blue colour vinyl.

Craft go back into the Prestige Records vaults this week for a reissue of pianist Patrice Rushen’s free flowing Prelusion. A real winder through styles and modes, with Joe Henderson bringing some saxophone fire too!

Released as part of Jazz Dispensary’s Top Shelf series.
Also this week; Mute reissue a couple of LPs from industrial titans Throbbing Gristle with The Third Mind Movements and TGCD1. We have a 2024 remaster of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine’s Post Historic Monsters. An 80’s Love Affair compiles six classic Pink Rhythm cuts, the mid-80’s solo project from John Rocca. Real-nice artwork matching Pink vinyl. Another one turning twenty, The Prodigy reissue their fourth LP, Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned.

Lastly for today, ‘Ornithology: The Best of Bird’ really is an essential jump off point to discover the iconic Charlie Parker. It focuses on Bird’s prime years between the mid-forties and mid-fifties and highlights just how pioneering and influential he was. A saxophonist of such grace, this one really is full of magic. Lush new art and great liner notes too.