Some riffs, weird disco, beautiful meditations and other highly recommended reissues.

Hello, Friends.

4AD have brought an absolute treasure out of the vaults this week with Air Miami’s Me Me Me. Air Miami was Mark Robinson and Bridget Cross, formerly of ‘D.C. indie rock band UNREST, alongside drummer Gabriel Stout and producer Guy Fixsen. The project only recorded this one full LP (with some self-released bits and an EP) and it stands up unbelievably well; melodic and anthemic but also quite dark and full of rich sonic directions. It doesn't sound like an album from 1995.

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Pete Weiss, this new edition sees the album spread over two LPs and cut at 45rpm. Pressed on Florida-inspired aqua and orange vinyl, its stunning artwork is housed in a gatefold sleeve with Hideaki Kodama’s ‘Girl B 1988’ photo still adorning the cover. A one-time pressing.

We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records present the first ever official reissue of Tokyo-based pianist Satsuki Shibano's ode to Erik Satie. Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie 1984 is a really stunning collection that further examines Satie’s influence on the ‘kankyō ongaku’ (environmental music) movement. A beauty.

Time flies when you’re having fun…Trouser Jazz fun! Ninja Tune release a 20th Anniversary Edition of Mr Scruff’s super-fun, squelching, feel-good banger, Trouser Jazz. A really joyous trip through funk and soul cuts. The album is pressed on Red and Blue colour discs and the sleeve is really fun, with artwork by Mr. Scruff & Airside, plus infinity peelable trouser sticker on the cover, to reveal silver and gold foiled 20th anniversary trousers!

“Trouser Jazz is quite possibly the answer to all of your sugar-fueled Saturday morning disco prayers.” - Pitchfork



The jazz reissues are absolutely fantastic this week (we know, ain't they always), starting firstly with Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago under Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series. The 1959 session boasts the same band featured on Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, with the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane joining Cannonball Adderley's alto. Really graceful stuff with plenty of melancholy. This edition is transferred from analogue tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

John Coltrane also appears on the Mal Waldron Sextet Mal/2 reissue. Recorded two years earlier in 1957, pianist Mal Waldron really does fly up and down the keys with incredible flow. This import edition is produced as part of the Craft Original Jazz Classics Series and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI with all-analogue mastering from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.

Two absolute blazers on Third Man Records too, with the hard boppin’ Donald Byrd taking flight into psychedelic space on Electric Byrd, and Thad Jones’ Detroit - New York Junction, a seminal title in Detroit’s jazz history from the mid-fifties. Both are pressed as very limited colour vinyl editions.

Light In The Attic keep the Jim Sullivan story rolling with a new Blue and Black Splatter vinyl pressing of his iconic U.F.O. album; a weathered, bruised and worldly trip through outsider Americana that ultimately ended up with an abandoned VW bug in New Mexico. A wild story and an album that remains as enthralling as whenever you first heard it.

The Steely Dan reissue series rolls into album number three with Pretzel Logic. The production is pure radio gold mastery, but there are some weird progressions into jazz-pop that keeps this one an ever-evolving beast. Smart, but with heart.

Also this week we have a very limited number of The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land 25th Anniversary Remixes 12”, with exclusive new remixes from Mefjus and Camo & Krooked, Gydra and René LaVice alongside Andy C’s iconic “Firestarter” remix from last year. A limited yellow vinyl reissue of Cate Le Bon’s 2016 Rock Pool EP, recorded during the sessions for her Crab Day LP. Finders Keepers are in a furious jazz-prog-psych mood with Egmont & The ff Boom by Daniel Schell & Dick Annegarn, a 1978 Belgian concept album featuring members of the revered COS.

Lastly this week, it’s big box Neil’, with Official Release Series Volume 5 from the Neil Young estate. We’re back in 1989-1991 with the four album run to include Freedom, Ragged Glory, Weld and Arc. Rough and wild, and although he’d never shied from being overly political as far back as Buffalo Springfield, this is where he started to really yell. The box includes b sides and previously unreleased versions.