Unfriended (2014)

Brian Eno - Nerve Net (1992) {2CD All Saints Records Deluxe Expanded Edition WAST031CD rel 2014}
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© 1992, 2014 All Saints Records / Opal Ltd. | WAST031CD
Ambient / Electronic / Avant-Garde / Experimental

Brian Eno will soon issue expanded versions of four of his albums originally released in the 1990s Nerve Net (1992), The Shutov Assembly (1992), Neroli (1993) and The Drop (1997) will each be reissued as a two-CD deluxe editions containing the original album and an additional disc of unreleased and rare Eno work specific to each record. Nerve Net includes the first ever commercial release of lost Eno album My Squelchy Life; The Shutov Assembly features an album’s worth of unreleased recordings from the same period; Neroli includes an entire unreleased hour-long Eno ambient work New Space Music; and The Drop includes nine rarely heard tracks from the Eno archives. Each album comes in deluxe casebound packaging and is accompanied by a 16-page booklet compiling photos, images and writing by Eno that is relevant to each release.

Jackson C. Frank - The Complete Recordings (2014) {3 CD Set Ba Da Bing - BING 105 rec 1957-1997}
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© 1957-97, 2014 Ba Da Bing | BING 105
Folk / Folk Revival / Folk Blues / Acoustic / Experimental

While Jackson C. Frank’s eponymous 1965 album and other material has enjoyed numerous official and unofficial reissues, Jackson C Frank: The Complete Recordings is the first to compile his entire recording career. The Complete Recordings contains a total of 67 tracks, 24 of which have never appeared before. Every song has been mastered or remastered, a number of them straight from the original, brittle reel-to-reels on which they were originally laid down.

Marillion - Live At The Forum 11 December 2014 (2014) {2CD Set Racket Records XMAS111214CD}
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© 2014 Racket Records | XMAS111214CD
Rock / Progressive Rock

Recorded and released live on the night at the London Forum, 11 December 2014.

Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) {5CD Parlophone 2564636166 rec 1979-1982}
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© 1979-82, 2014 Parlophone Records / Warner | 2564636166
Rock / Punk Rock / British Punk

UK five CD box set containing a quintet of original albums packaged in mini LP sleeves and housed in a slipcase. This set from the seminal Irish Punk band includes the albums Inflammable Material, Nobody's Heroes, Hanx!, Go for It and Now Then. How can you go wrong with each of the SLF classic album packaged in a nice slipcase box? A must for any true punk rock fan! Clear mastering and these have never sounded better - esp. Flammable Material.

Various Artists - Bring It On Home: Black America Sings Sam Cooke (2014) {Ace Records CDCHD1420 rec 1959-1976}
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© 1959-76, 2014 Ace Records | CDCHD 1420
R&B / Soul / Black Gospel / Early R&B

Previous entries in Ace's Black America Sings series have focused on Bob Dylan and the Beatles, but also Otis Redding – a singer/songwriter who shows up on Bring It on Home: Black America Sings Sam Cooke singing "Shake," a song that became more identified with Otis than Sam. This alone suggests how great Cooke's legacy is: he wove his way into the very fabric of pop culture, quite clearly influencing generations of soul and rock singers, but also shaping how R&B could cross over into pop, along with the parameters of how black musicians could set up their own independent enterprises in the music business.

Blossom Dearie - The Complete Recordings 1952-1962 (2014) {4CD Set Enlightenment-Verve EN4CD9028}
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© 1952-62, 2014 Enlightenment / Verve / Emarcy / Prestige | EN4CD9028
Jazz / Bop / Standards / Vocal Jazz

An idiosyncratic, girlish voice, snappy, flawless deliverance, and an irrepressible sense of light-hearted swing made Blossom Dearie one of the most pleasant singers of the vocal era. Her tenderness and glisten ensured that she'd never treat standards as the well-worn songs they often appeared in less competent hands. And though her reputation was made on record with a string of excellent albums for Verve during the '50s, she remained a draw with Manhattan cabaret audiences long into the new millennium.