Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
Squeeze
RELEASE: The Knowledge
BACKSTORY: Squeeze this week releases its first new album in two years, a 12-track collection that includes first single “Innocence in Paradise” plus “Departure Lounge, “Please Be Upstanding” and more.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
Nine Inch Nails
RELEASE: Add Violence
BACKSTORY: This week sees the CD release of Trent Reznor and Co.’s latest EP, which has been out digitally since summer, and arrives on vinyl next month. Features the tracks “Less Than” and “The Lovers.”
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Residents
RELEASE: 80 Aching Orphans: 45 Years of The Residents
BACKSTORY: This 4-disc, 80-song anthology chronicles the life of the famed San Francisco experimental-rock act, from the band’s debut 1972 single to cuts from its most recent album, The Ghost Of Hope.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
Bob Marley and the Wailers
RELEASE: Live!
BACKSTORY: The Wailers’ legendary live album is newly expanded into a two-disc set featuring complete sets of both of the concerts that the group performed in London in the summer of 1975.
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- This week’s new releases: The Replacements, The Church, The Blow Monkeys, a-ha
- This week’s new releases: Giant David Bowie box set — plus Depeche Mode, The Cravats
- This week’s new releases: Marc Almond goes retro, Luna does covers and instrumentals
- This week’s new releases: Gary Numan, Lee Ranaldo, ‘Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave’
- This week’s new releases: Sparks, Waterboys, The Dream Syndicate, Living Colour
