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When dissected carefully, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking becomes a fascinating conceptual voyage into the workings of the human psyche. As an abstract peering into the intricate functions of the subconscious, Waters' first solo album involves numerous dream sequences that both figuratively and symbolically unravel his struggle with marriage, fidelity, commitment, and age at the height of a midlife crisis.

It is a hefty box in every sense: 13 CDs, supplemented with two DVDs, accompanied by a gorgeous hardcover book and a variety of tchotchkes, including a poster that traces the twisted family trees and time lines of the band and, just as helpfully, replicas of legal documents that explain why the group didn't retain rights to its recordings for years…

There’s a sense of continuity that runs through the music that San Francisco’s Scott Hansen makes as Tycho. But Weather, his follow-up to 2016’s Epoch, marks a major shift: It’s his first album to feature vocals—not just massaging them into the mix, but setting them front and centre. That’s hardly unusual for Tycho’s brand of chill, but where his peers might recruit a rotating cast of featured singers, Weather’s eight vocal tracks are all the work of just one person: Saint Sinner, a.k.a. Hannah Cottrell—a Texas singer-songwriter with very little on record until now. Hansen had wanted to work with a singer for years, but nothing had ever clicked. With Cottrell, things were different, and before long a handful of demos had turned into an entire album. "I just kind of followed her on her trip,” Hansen tells Apple Music. “I wanted this to be somebody nobody had ever heard of. I was just like, this isn't a feature, this is literally what Tycho is right now.” Through each of the album's tracks, Hansen tells us more about that transformation.

MQR is once again proud to present our newest title, Forever and Ever, a mashup of The Division Bell and The Endless River designed to make The Division Bell less radio-friendly and The Endless River less avant garde. It is intended as a true final Pink Floyd record, an alternate reality version of what should have been released in 1994.

Fire in the Blood: The Definitive Collection, a massive career-spanning box set featuring the work of Welsh singer and songwriter Shakin’ Stevens. The 19 CD box set features all of Shaky’s albums as a solo artist, from his first signing and album on Track Records, to his latest studio album, Echoes Of Our Times and it also comes with four CDs of rarities. Shaky was a chart sensation in the UK in the 1980s, in fact, he was the biggest selling singles artist of that decade. Stevens enjoyed 15 British top ten hits in the 1980s and four UK number ones. In total, this set contains 266 tracks and notable inclusions are a live concert recorded at the Paris Theatre, London for BBC Radio 1 in 1980 and the four rarities discs are packed with B-sides, 12-inch mixes, two previously unreleased tracks and more.