If you’re interested in something new-not-new for the stereo, we have so much to tell you about.

We start this bumper edition of Best New Reissues spiritually in Liverpool somewhere between 1976 and 1982 under the supreme guidance of our main man Richard Norris. Weird Scenes from The Hangout is an album of Psychedelic & Freakbeat Dancefloor Anthems 1967-1982 that he has curated around his legendary Liverpool Club Night ‘The Hangout’. Loads of all time bangers and lots of supreme good vibe energy, this really is such a lush set and Richard and Two-Piers have done a great job on the package too!

+ Exclusive Neon Green Marble & Glass Pink Marble Colour Vinyl.
+ Neon Pink & Transparent Curacao Colour Vinyl.

We wrote a little bit about MF DOOM’s seminal MM.. Food? for Sunday Classic and you can read that here, and shop the gorgeous 20th Anniversary Edition here.
Transgressive have pressed a limited 10th Anniversary Edition of Alvvays’ eponymous debut and it still has such precocious jangle! Whether knowingly droll or with euphoric shimmer, it is such evocative stuff. Love it. This pressing is great too, remastered by Bernie Grundman and pressed on 'Cerulean in Cloudy Clear' colour vinyl.

We’ve had some pretty serious classics landing over the last week or so, to include; Talking Heads’ absolutely amazing debut Talking Heads:77 on a double pressing to include outtakes, alternatives and rarities. Available on exclusive TH:77 green colour vinyl too. Domino have gone into the esteemed John Cale vaults for all-new 2024 pressings (both remastered from the original tapes) of The Academy In Peril and Paris 1919. We have a trio of early seventies Fairport Convention records, with Angel Delight and Full House in the racks and "Babbacombe" Lee due to land imminently. We also got Unhalfbricking back after a little whiles away too. Such a fantastic run of material. Also getting a lot of coverage on the shop stereo are the Buffalo Tom reissues via Beggars Banquet. Let Me Come Over, Birdbrain and Big Red Letter Day, full of heavy chords with whip and crackle. A really great band.

Not new, but also previously unreleased, Domino have released Seed Cake On Leap Year, a set of Cass McCombs cuts that he taped whilst living in the vibrant Berkeley between 1999-2000. Some are relatively primitive, some are pretty raw, all of them really hit; he is such a great songwriter.

Beggars Banquet have made a 30th Anniversary Edition of Up To Our Hips, the third LP from The Charlatans. Such a great fan package, this. Pressed on limited Petrol Blue bio vinyl, it includes ten bonus live session recordings, rare mixes and more, all curated by Tim Burgess.

We’ll be running a little feature on the website this week specifically concerning November’s Jazz reissues as they have been pretty amazing in quality and quantity. Available in the shop now, we’re heavy-playing; Dexter Gordon, Duke Pearson, Thelonious Monk Septet, Blue Mitchell, Grant Green, Coleman Hawkins Quartet and Herbie Hancock.
Also in the racks these last couple of weeks; The Twilight Sad’s Forget The Night Ahead and Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave [Demos]. Major Lazer’s (Pew Pew!! Electro pop bangers!!) Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do. The eponymous Cloth on Rock Action. Vegyn’s (previously rare as hen's teeth) Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds.

Lastly for now, an album that we are very fond of and have been absolutely loving on the stereo. 666 (The Apocalypse of John, 13/18) is the third and final studio album by Greek progressive rock icons, Aphrodite's Child. The biblical concept album (created in partnership with Greek film director Costas Ferris) was hugely expensive, arriving to a confused critical response and a fairly disastrous commercial return. But, the truly great will always find an audience and this free-flowing double LP of supreme Balkan rock opulence is just high art. Really high art!