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What’s Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition bonus LP. Featured are four rare cuts making their vinyl debut, highlighted by a previously unreleased “stripped” version of the title song, plus all six original mono single mixes and their B-sides, with all of those 7″ versions on vinyl for the first time since their original releases. With two 180gm records, a tip-on heavy stock jacket, original gatefold with complete lyrics, this formidable release also includes printed sleeves with track details, and a rare image from the cover sessions

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Dry is PJ Harvey’s stark, seminal 1992 debut album… a fully-formed call-to-arms! Features “Dress” and “Sheela-Na-Gig”.  The minute I heard this I knew PJ Harvey was going to make a LOT of great music…this one was a game changer and now on vinyl?  Had to get it. Have to play it loud.  -John Richards

It has finally arrived!  Been waiting for this for a long time and we now have the vinyl LP pressing of PJ Harvey’s fifth studio album.  Produced by PJ Harvey, Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey. Originally released in November 2000, in 2001 it won the Mercury Music Prize. Faithful to the original recording and package, cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of longtime PJ Harvey producer Head.  It’s a perfect record.

180-gram vinyl.  The debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience was initially issued in mono and then ‘enhanced stereo’ on later issues. The UK cover photography was by Bruce Flemming. Releases in Europe had the words “Jimi Hendrix” placed above the title. These later issues were ‘enhanced stereo’, with tracks listed on the back. The USA & Canadian issues were released after the band appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, along with The Who. It’s art was directed by Ed Thrasher, using a Karl Ferris infra-red fish-eye photo. There is a key difference to the tracks on this album, with some removed and replaced by the earlier singles, plus a change to the running order.

On John Richards’ Top 10 already this year, Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, produced by British synthpop group Hot Chip. The fruits of their labor reveal a gleaming, supercharged, Afrofuturist blinder. Electricity is the first album Ibibio Sound Machine have made with external producers since the group’s formation in London in 2013 by Williams and saxophonist Max Grunhard.  An incredible ride and a must listen on vinyl.

Vinyl LP pressing. Ultra Mono’ – is the sound of Idles heading into battle, battering ram in hand. The songs double down on the vitriolic sneer and blunt social commentary of their past work. Not far beneath the surface of their self-admitted sloganeering lies a deeply complex and brutally relevant album that chews up cliches and spits them out as high art for the masses.

Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Loving In Stereo is the soundtrack for a summer quite unlike any other. The British producer duo have created a huge disco record for the post-social distancing age, with a life-affirming, dancefloor-igniting, sun-kissed celebration of all the things that make music irresistibly joyful.