Pressure Points is a live album, recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in May 1984. The concert was part of a tour to promote the new Camel album from that year, Stationary Traveller. The line up centred around guitarist and vocalist Andrew Latimer (the sole remaining member from the classic 1970s lineup) and interestingly included three keyboard players (Ton Scherpenzeel, Chris Rainbow (also providing some vocals), and Richie Close), alongside Colin Bass on bass guitar and vocals, and Paul Burgess on drums and percussion.

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The Singer is a three CD collection which brings together recordings from Dame Shirley Bassey’s EMI and United Artists catalogue. It includes, in remastered form, not only recordings of some of her most loved vocal performances, but also alternate versions, rarities and some unreleased tracks. A major highlight of the collection are the previously unreleased live concert recordings from the Royal Albert Hall on 3^rd November 1973, from which excerpts were broadcast by the BBC on New Years Day 1974.

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If you follow Anthony Phillips work, this remastered edition of a session recorded for Radio Clyde in July 1978, will be a treasured addition to your collection. It was originally issued in 2003 and has been unavailable for some time. Alternatively, if Anthony Phillips is a new artist to you, this is a great introduction to his work and will have you hooked and wanting to explore more of his music. 

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This three CD box set documents a time, in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s, when jazz was colliding with rock, folk and blues music. In a context of societal change, and movements and protests coalescing around the hope for a better world, the musical freedom that was enabled through this dissolving of musical boundaries and fault lines, made perfect sense. 

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Music Inspired By The Snow Goose is perhaps the most well known and appreciated album in Camel’s illustrious musical career and stands to this day as a classic of progressive rock from the 1970s. There are many reasons for this. It was inspired by the evocative 1941 Novella, The Snow Goose, written by Paul Gallico. A poignant and moving story of friendship and redemption set in the Essex marshes with the emblematic symbol of the wounded Snow Goose and its interaction with the two main human characters forming the narrative centrepiece. In addition, the London Symphony Orchestra are featured on the recording, conducted by the very talented David Bedford, who also created the very fine orchestral arrangements.

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There are few runs in extreme metal as solid as Obituary’s opening quartet of albums. Between 1989 and 1994, the Floridian death metal pioneers delivered four records on Roadrunner that didn’t just shape their own career: they helped lay the very foundations of death metal itself. Slowly We Rot, Cause of Death, The End Complete and World Demise tell the story of a band finding its voice and then doubling down on what made them unique, even as the metal landscape around them shifted.

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Alligator Records remastered version of the 2008 release Orange Blossoms, takes an introspective look at the life of JJ Grey.

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Ric Sanders may have been in Fairport Convention for 40 years, but rewind back past that time and he was actually in Soft Machine, dozens of UK jazz-rock, and, before that, for his first paid job, Stomu Yamash’ta’s Red Bhuddha Theatre, for something even more experimental. But even those staging posts don’t fully denote his true love, which is the blues. As he said, in a recent interview, to describe his style across all his diverse genres: “That’s my cunning secret. I play everything like it’s the blues.” I think he’s being modest, but, y’know, it explains a lot, and hurrah to Talking Elephant for re-releasing these two mementos of his still occasional side-project, dating from 2015 and 2019 respectively.

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Formed in Quebec in 1989, Gorguts were the brainchild of Luc Lemay, and initially performed more brutal, traditional death metal, before morphing into one of the leading exponents of ‘technical death metal’ with complex and dense arrangements. This release features extensive liner notes from respected journalist Olivier Badin, and a lengthy and detailed new interview with Gorguts founder and mainstay Luc Lemay.

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Back in 1984, if you’re old and wise enough to remember, The Bluebells came careering into the UK top 40 chart with Young at Heart, a song which, musically, sat somewhere between the Celtic fiddling of Dexys Midnight Runners and The St Winifreds School Choir featuring Clive Dunn. Although the song was fairly successful on its first release, it didn’t reach the top spot until 1993 after featuring in a TV advert. Originally a Bananarama album track, the song defined the sound of The Bluebells and, 40 years later, they’re back with a super special edition re-release of the 1984 album.

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The Bolton Iron Maiden, the band that set Bolton’s rock scene alight during the early-mid seventies have finally achieved commercial release for their ‘history of the band’ album, Maiden Flight. Spanish label Guerssen Records have taken the plunge and deliver a product that the band and its still-loyal army of followers will treasure forever.

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Album number two, Brown, followed Green. Green continues to be a landmark album with huge tracks like Chime and Belfast being perennial electronic classics. A tough act to follow, all things considered, however Orbital really stepped up to the plate with Brown. Like it’s predecessor, it is full of more electronic classics that live on in Orbital’s live shows to this day and form a vital piece of the tapestry of dance music.

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In 2023, Nigel Schofield decided to have a go at cleaning up a couple of the Broughton Castle recordings using new technology.  When they heard the cleaned-up tracks, Ralph McTell and Dave Pegg were delighted and they asked Nigel if he could put the rest of the recordings through the same process.  He did and, just as the remastering was completed, news emerged of another GPs recording, this time from a gig at Horsham’s Capitol Theatre on 27^th September, 1981.  If anything, the quality of the Horsham recordings was superior to the Broughton Castle masters and they also included half a dozen songs that didn’t feature on the 1991 Woodworm CD. 

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As Hothouse Flowers got older, like any good band, they evolved their sound. Their early trio of albums are three absolutely top notch albums. The Older We Get collates them brilliantly with their respected extras. Hothouse Flowers continued to record two more studio albums after their London Years. Their live shows are always great fun and they celebrated their first two albums on tour in 2025.

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These two albums, squeezed onto one CD, represent their first two releases, hailing from 1976 and 1977 respectively. 1976, then, and whilst rose tinted mirror shades might have you recall it as an era of unbridling punk, the big sellers were still an older guard: Floyd, Springsteen and Dylan, so it was all the more extraordinary that the rock album of 1976, as awarded by Melody Maker that December, was the eponymous debut by the two sisters. Not an album with anything very much akin to rock in it at all, it seems from a much earlier age, with strong elements of folk, country, ragtime and jazz seeming far more to the fore.

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Exquisite and extensive- The Show Must Go On collects the complete works of the first incarnation of the British Nirvana, plus a plethora of non-album singles, outtakes, rarities and later works – on a mammoth 12-CD set.  A veritable treasure-trove for completists and new initiates alike!

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The Chrysalis programme  of 50^th Anniversary special edition reissues of Robin’s run of classic 1970’s albums continues!  Last year, we were treated to a deluxe version of Bridge of Sighs.  This time, it’s 1975 album For Earth Below that is the focus of attention.  If you’d forgotten what a magnificent album For Earth Below is, now’s the time to refresh your memory.

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63 interpretations of Dylan standards (and not-so-standards) from across the musical spectrum.  Bluegrass, ska, hard rock, pop, country and psychedelia – all Dylan life is here…

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May be a little overstating the cause, but Fly From Here is a revelation. That could be mainly due to the time given to listen properly to the new Return Trip, that makes it feel like a new album. A new clarity with Squire’s bass thundering through that seems to brim with confidence, should confidence be a button on the remix console that could be added. The original release shouldn’t be discounted although it is now a hard to find artefact yet the streaming services prove useful.

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This mammoth compilation of 10 LPs showcases Caravan at their best…. Live. The six concert appearances between 1976 and 2001 reveals their unique brand of prog rock, improvising and extending many of their studio recordings.

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