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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Garbage, Bleed Like Me: Deluxe Edition (Interscope/UMe (U.S.)/BMG (U.K.))

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Garbage closed a chapter of their career in 2005 with the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, in 2005. Now, they’re reopening that chapter with a new deluxe edition of the album, due out in April.  The deluxe Bleed Like Me follows similar expansions of the group’s early discography on the Almo/Interscope/Geffen labels, where the post-grunge group – frontwoman Shirley Manson, multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and drummer Butch Vig – rose to fame in the ’90s with high-energy singles like “Only Happy When It Rains,” “Stupid Girl,” “I Think I’m Paranoid” and their theme to the James Bond film The World is Not Enough. The remastered album will be paired with a 17-track bonus disc that includes non-album B-sides and remixes, material from the 2007 sessions that yielded tracks on their first compilation Absolute Garbage, and even two commercially unreleased tracks (a remix of B-side “Never Be Free” and an acoustic version of non-album fan-favorite “Witness to Your Love,” recently featured on the group’s latest Anthology project in 2022.) 1LP and 2LP cutdowns will also be available.  Read more here.

Ohio Players, Observations in Time: The Johnny Brantley/Vidalia Productions (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Omnivore travels back in time to the early days of funk’s legendary Ohio Players with this expanded edition of the 1969 LP.   All 24 tracks from this period of Ohio Players’ discography are brought together on one release for the first time, encompassing the original Capitol LP, both sides of the group’s Tangerine single, both of their Compass Records singles, and subsequently released material from the era.  In-depth liner notes have been penned by Tim Dillinger-Curenton.  It’s available in both CD and digital formats.  Get the track listing and more here.

Niall Horan, The Show: The Encore (Capitol) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The One Direction singer-songwriter’s third album is expanded with nine bonus tracks including collaborations with John Legend and Lizzy McAlpine; live recordings; and alternative versions.  Available on one CD or two LPs.

Yes, Mirror to the Sky (InsideOut Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Yes reissues their 2023 album in a deluxe 2CD/Blu-ray edition with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 surround, and instrumental mixes.

Mike Post, Message from the Mountains / Echoes of the Delta (Sony Classical) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Famed composer and TV theme guru Mike Post (Hill Street Blues, Law & Order, The Greatest American Hero) returns with an ambitious LP comprising two Americana suites – one featuring a bluegrass band and the other a blues band – with soloists and orchestra.  Available on CD and digitally.

Sheila E, Bailar (Sony Latin) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Sheila E is releasing the first Spanish-language album of her illustrious career.  The first single off Bailar, “Bemba Colora,” features Gloria Estefan and Mimi Succar, while other guests on the album include Ruben Blades, Luis Enrique, Tony Succar, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Jean Rodriguez, Victor Manuelle, Mycheal Gabriel, Debi Nova, and Jose Alberto El Canario.