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Echoes is a double-CD collection of some of Pink Floyd's best songs. It's also a fascinating document of the band's history. They began life as Syd Barrett's phantasmagoric plaything before clasping the wings of Icarus and ascending toward the sun on an epic space-rock odyssey, eventually turning left once they reached the dark side of the moon and burning up on reentry, crash-landing on every earthlings' home hi-fi. And it's all here–30 years of the Floyd's awesome back catalog trimmed down to two handsome CDs.

Coinciding with his fiftieth birthday, The View From Halfway Down signals a brand new chapter for Andy Bell thirty odd years into his career. The product of a gradual, four-year process and finished during lockdown, the album was entirely written and recorded by Andy, engineered by Gem Archer and mastered by Heba Kadry.

EMI's massive ALTERNATIVE: 120 ORIGINAL HITS collects (takea guess) 120 alternative/modern rock culled from its huge roster of players and recordings. A relatively eclectic affair, the album boasts cuts from huge acts like Coldplay, KT Tunstall, and Gomez, as well as up and coming superstars such as Bat for Lashes and Magic Numbers.