Encore Records

Heaven 17

Penthouse and Pavement Box Set

UK 3 disc set !
Disc 1 is the remastered album.
Disc 2 contains 20 demos.
Disc 3 is a dvd with a ‘making of’ documentary.

Regina Spektor

Live In London

A very generous 22 track live cd with a dvd that has 26 performances interspersed with documentary footage !

Pet Shop Boys

Ultimate

Limited cd/dvd version.

A career spanning Best Of cd with a dvd that contains 27 of the PSB’s BBC television appearances as well as
their set from Glastonbury 2010 !!

Matt & Kim

Sidewalks

Matt & Kim are the indie pop equivalent of Red Bull and vodka: sweet, easy to swallow, and capable of delivering a kick on the way down.

The Brooklyn lovebirds stick to what they do best on their third album, which reprises the formula that made their previous record, Grand, an underground success.

Propaganda

Secret Wish - 25th Anniversary Edition

Digitally remastered deluxe two CD 25th Anniversary edition of the Synth band’s 1985 debut including a plethora of bonus material.

Norah Jones

Featuring

In the wake of her 2002 blockbuster debut, Norah Jones became an in-demand duet partner, popping up on albums from all manners of musicians.

This compilation helpfully rounds up 18 of these guest appearances, including a cut by the Jones-fronted country cabaret outfit the Little Willies, and what impresses is the range of collaborators and the consistency of the music.

Anybody who called Norah up for a duet was clearly smitten by her way with slow-burning seduction, as they almost without fail cast her in that role for their own recordings, smoothing out rough edges or adding some sultry sophistication.

Orange Juice

Coals To Newcastle

Limited edition seven disc (six CDs + DVD) box set from the ‘80s Scottish Pop band led by Edynn Collins.

Coals To Newcastle contains the band’s complete discography and other studio recordings as well as a collection of their BBC sessions.

The DVD contains the band’s two promotional clips for ‘Rip It Up’ and ‘What Presence?!’ (the latter directed by Derek Jarman), their four performances on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the rare posthumous concert video ‘Dada With (The) Juice’.

Yaz

Reconnected Live

In 2008, Clarke and Moyet united for a tour of the U.K., Europe, and North America.

The concerts were recorded and the result is this two-CD set.

Clarke revamped and re-recorded the backing tracks for the two Yazoo albums, so these in-concert performances have a warmer, fuller instrumental sound.

Clarke still plays and sequences the tunes live, but today’s technology has smoothed out the brittle high end that made some of Yazoo’s songs sound like video game soundtracks.

For her part, Moyet’s voice has aged well. It’s richer and deeper; her vocals are even more affecting than they were 26 years ago.

Paul McCartney & Wings

Band On The Run (Deluxe)

Digitally remastered and expanded three disc (two CDs + DVD) edition of this 1973 album from the Rock ‘n’ Roll legend including a bonus CD containing nine rare tracks and a bonus DVD that features rare footage, music videos and behind the scenes features and the One Hand Clapping documentary.

There is also a limited 4 disc version in a numbered hard cover book that contains all of the above plus a bonus documentary cd.

Sufjan Stevens

Age Of Adz

The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds) is Sufjan Stevens’ first full-length collection of original songs since 2005’s conceptual pop opus Illinois.

While the sounds on this record are distinctly “artificial” (drums machines and analog synths reign supreme), the proclamations of the songs are unabashedly visceral, sung loudly, with a backdrop of insistent orchestration.

The result is an album that is perhaps more vibrant, primary and explicit than anything Sufjan has done before, incorporating themes that are neither historical nor civic, but rather personal and primal.