Review: The Flaming Lips commemorate the 25th anniversary of their classic album The Soft Bulletin with a limited-edition 2LP. This special edition features eye-catching Zoetrope designs by Drew Tetz and Wayne Coyne, along with new sleeve artwork and an insert with text by Coyne. Originally released in 1999, The Soft Bulletin marked a pivotal moment in the band's career, transitioning from alt-rock obscurity to festival headliners. The album includes standout tracks such as 'Race for the Prize,' 'Waitin' for a Superman,' and 'Feeling Yourself Disintegrate.' The new 25th Anniversary Vinyl is a visually and sonically enhanced experience, showcasing the Flaming Lips' evolution and enduring impact on the music scene.
Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (5:52)
Buggin' (Lips mix) (3:10)
A Machine In India (4:10)
Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand (4:30)
The Captain (5:11)
Satellite Of You (4:16)
The Spiderbite Song (Early mix) (3:56)
Slow Motion (Early mix) (3:13)
1000 (feat Hands - Final mix) (5:49)
Little Hands (Rough mix) (4:38)
The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now (4:59)
Review: Following the release of The Soft Companion in 1999, the Flaming Lips' management team hastily put together a promo CD featuring out-takes, radio edits and alternate versions recorded during the same sessions. Those ultra-limited, hard to find promo CDs have since become in-demand items amongst the band's legion of fans, hence this first ever "official" release on rather fetching silver vinyl. It boasts various "early mixes" and demos by the band themselves, numerous B-sides and a handful of cuts that ended up as bonus cuts on international releases of the wildly popular album.
I Know I've Got To Make That Dream The Real Thing (demo) (1:09)
Do You Realize?? (instrumental) (3:29)
Review: As is the modern way with all major album birthday milestones, this one now gets a special 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition which means it comes on limited edition pink vinyl. It is a record that collects together four fab fan favourites. The major one is the 24-minute epic 'Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream (demo)' which takes up all of the a-side and is a truly immerse and heady sonic trip. It is one of the group's most epic ever tunes and also included are 'Duck Dodgers Theme (Duck Dodgers Demo: With Wayne Scratch Vocal),' 'I Know I've Got To Make That Dream The Real Thing (Demo),' and last but not least the lovely melancholy of 'Do You Realize?? (Instrumental).'
Review: No matter your age, you are likely to be a fan of Fleetwood Mac's self-titled and legendary album from 1975. It was their tenth album and second eponymous work after their 1968 debut and is often known by fans as The White Album. The lineup was the first to feature Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as a vocalist, with Bob Welch having left in 1974. The album hit the numbering spot on the Billboard 200 and gave rise to three top-twenty singles 'Over My Head', 'Rhiannon', and 'Say You Love Me.' This reissue comes on limited edition heavyweight vinyl.
My Number (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs remix - extended) (7:08)
Give It All (Lindstrom remix) (8:40)
Dreaming Of (Joe Corti remix) (5:03)
Balloons (Kieran Hebden version) (8:45)
Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie remix) (8:10)
Late Night (Koreless remix) (8:05)
Review: Not all indie-rock bands are particularly keen on getting their music remixed by electronic artists, but Foals have always embraced the potential of reworks. For proof, check Collected Reworks, a beautifully packaged set of remixes that charts the course of their 15-year career in revisions rather than singles or greatest hits. Pressed to vibrant coloured vinyl (there are green, yellow and pink slabs of wax), it contains a mixture of old and new remixes including stellar interpretations from both big room headliners (Hot Since '82, Hot Chip, Solomun and Purple Disco Machine all deliver vibrant dancefloor-focused takes), experimental electronica heroes (see the versions by Kieran Hebden and Mount Kimbie) and underground scene stalwarts (see the long-overlooked 2015 Lindstrom tweak of 'Give It All').
I'm Done With The World (& It's Done With Me) (2:56)
Review: It's been more than 10 years since Foals first ignited indie spirits with their Antidotes LP and following Total Life Forever and Holy Fire, the Oxford-founded group have held firm in purporting their fully fledged sound. The band's aesthetic has grown in size and stature over the years with this LP looking at what seems to be the large scale arena. The lighter, melancholic and finger picking techniques of their surf rock and synth subtleties appear nonchalantly in tracks "On The Luna" and "Exits" - with 80s UK synth and George Michael-styled vocals to boot - while its stadium ecstasy for the chorus humming "Sunday".
Review: Oxford's Foals, now ten years old and some seven years on from their debut, have pulled the neat trick of elevating themselves to dizzy heights without essentially compromising their kinetic mixture of art-driven experimentation and widescreen melodic grandstanding. Yet 'What Went Down', their fourth salvo thus far, shows a band newly reinvigorated, and somehow managing to be both heavier and more danceable in turn. As angry and inventive as ever, the howls of mainman Yannis Philippakis have lost none of their cathartic charge, the chime of their guitars remains as seductive, yet so vibrant and vivacious is this collection of songs that their elevation to festival headliner status seems a foregone conclusion.
Right Now (feat Black Thought of The Roots, Styles Of Beyond) (4:12)
Petrified (3:34)
Feel Like Home (feat Styles Of Beyond) (3:50)
Where'd You Go (feat Holly Brook & Jonah Matranga) (3:45)
In Stereo (3:20)
Back Home (feat Common, Styles Of Beyond) (3:49)
Cigarettes (3:43)
Believe Me (feat Eric Bobo, Styles Of Beyond) (3:39)
Get Me Gone (1:50)
High Road (feat John Legend) (3:17)
Kenji (3:47)
Red To Black (feat Kenna, Jonah Matranga, Styles Of Beyond) (3:03)
The Battle (feat Celph Titled) (1:33)
Slip Out The Back (feat Mr. Hahn) (2:42)
Be Somebody (feat Lupe Fiasco, Holly Brook, Tak of Styles Of Beyond) (3:18)
There They Go (feat Sixx John) (3:21)
The Hard Way (3:36)
Welcome (feat Kenna) (3:31)
Review: Warner Records has put together this special reissue of The Rising Tied as a limited-edition apple-red double album which includes four bonus cuts that are making their vinyl debut. It first landed in 2005 from Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and marked his first foray into solo hip-hop production. The album went platinum and is packed with big-name collaborations with plenty of the scene's biggest names sun as Como as well as pop heroes like John Legend. Those bonus tracks are 'Be Somebody,' 'There They Go,' and 'The Hard Way' which were on CD back in 2005 and 'Welcome' which was a standalone single in 2015.
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