2024

Svenska synth-fenomenet KITE har aldrig släppt ett fullständigt studioalbum, tills nu. 'VII' samlar 14 av duons djupaste och mest dynamiska låtar. Tagna från deras sex 7"-singlar som släppts under det senaste halvdecenniet uppvisar albumet på ett övertygande sätt KITEs distinkt filmiska variant av svensk darkwave i all sin prakt och ödslighet. Här samsas samarbeten med Blanck Mass, Anna von Hausswolff och Henric de la Cour, från dystopisk pop till existentiella ballader och new romantica.

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler släpper sitt tionde soloalbum, och hans omisskännliga röst svävar över de distinkta gitarrerna och de eleganta arrangemangen. Tillsammans med Dire Straits har han skrivit några av rockens mest kända låtar, bl.a. "Money For Nothing", "Sultans <br/>Of Swing", "Walk Of Life" och "Brothers In Arms". På sina solo-alster är han friare och behöver inte hålla sig till en formula. Det lågmälda tilltalet och de träffande texterna känns dock igen.

30 years ago, Roxette released their fifth album "Crash! Boom! Bang!", including a stream of hit singles like "Sleeping In My Car", the title track, "Fireworks", "Run To You" and "Vulnerable".<br/> <br/>The album would sell more than five million copies and was followed by their second World Tour, which saw them perform for over a million people, including the second performance ever by an international act in China.<br/> <br/>We're celebrating this classic album's 30-year anniversary with a unique special edition: a double album in black and white vinyl with 18 tracks and an 8-page booklet.<br/> <br/>- Roxette were among the three most played artists on American radio during 1989, 1990 and 1991, and we were on top of the charts all over the world. So, it's no wonder we felt pretty confident when it was time to record the new album, Per Gessle says.<br/> <br/>- Having had that kind of success made us feel that we had a perfect opportunity to stretch out into new directions. To show slightly different sides of what Roxette could be. And I still think "Crash! Boom! Bang" is our best album.

Supertramp: Live in Paris '79 [Gatefold / 3 Vinyl LP]

Indochine: Babel Babel [Gatefold / 3 Vinyl LP]

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its original release in October 1999, Genesis' multi-platinum selling 'Turn It On Again: The Hits' is being made available on vinyl for the first time.

In the summer of 1972, the band were riding high on the crest of a popularity wave, as they sold out huge arenas on the back of their critically acclaimed, chart-topping fifth album Thick As A Brick. <br/>They went into the renowned studio, where the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens had previously recorded at. The band quickly nicknamed it 'Chateau D'isaster' after a series of equipment failures, bed bugs and food poisoning.<br/><br/>After a band meeting where the decision was made to return to the UK, they part-recorded a treasure trove of quirky material on master tapes which were ferried back to continue work on in London - only to decide to start over with a whole new album project, which was to become A Passion Play, released in 1973.<br/><br/>And so the Château tapes became the great lost album of Tull mythology until twenty years later when Ian Anderson reworked and completed most of the original material to release on the Nightcap album as the Chateau d'Isaster Tapes. Then in 2013, they received a make-over by Steven Wilson, for inclusion on the A Passion Play: An Extended Performance book-set. Now, for the first time, these recordings will be available on vinyl. <br/><br/>About the album, Ian Anderson says "There are some good things going on there, and I really quite like the songs which had lyrics, lots of theatrical references such as the bomb in the dressing room. I was trying to create this idea of the world of theatre somehow mirroring the real life outside on the streets and in society."