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.

Duran Duran, Danse Macabre: De Luxe (Tapemodern/BMG)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP Box Set: Official Store

Duran Duran has reissued their 2023 album on CD and digitally with three new recordings: an original instrumental, "Masque of the Pink Death," that now opens the album; a cover of Electric Light Orchestra's "Evil Woman"; and "New Moon (Dark Phase)," a re-recording of the band's 1984 Top 10 hit "New Moon on Monday" featuring new contributions by Andy Taylor. Additionally, a triple vinyl box set includes four more unreleased tracks along with extras like art prints, a special booklet, tarot cards and even a "spirit board" with metal planchette to encourage a visitation of your own. Read more here!

James Blunt, Back to Bedlam: 20th Anniversary Edition (Atlantic)

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

"You're Beautiful" singer-songwriter James Blunt revisits his debut album with this remastered and expanded edition.  The refreshed Bedlam will come with a bonus disc of demos of the entire album, plus four additional demos and a B-side. (Just less than half of them have been previously released on CD singles or the Monkey on My Shoulder EP, a promo disc sold with copies of the album at Target stores in America.) The album will also be pressed on recycled red vinyl. Read more here!

Rory Gallagher, The BBC Collection (UMe)

18CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Late guitar hero Rory Gallagher was one of the most - and possibly the most - recorded artists by the BBC in the 1970s.  This massive set (also available in cutdown versions) brings together his incendiary performances for the broadcaster, including some that didn't even make the airwaves.  Get the track listing and much more here!

Melanie, As Years Go By: The Solar Studio Sessions (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Late singer-songwriter Melanie Safka's 2001 studio sessions comprising an eclectic roster of covers (previously released on such collections as Moments from My Life and Beautiful Hits) are reissued by Cleopatra in a package with new liner notes by Dave Thompson.  Melanie reinterprets such favorites as "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues," "Broken Wings," "For What It's Worth," "As Tears Go By," and "Dust in the Wind."  Available on CD and digitally.

Lady Gaga, Harlequin (Interscope) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Lady Gaga's surprise album of a couple weeks back hits general retail today.  The happily genre-jumping Harlequin is inspired by the actor-singer's role as Harley Quinn in the Joker sequel Folie a Deux and billed as a "companion album" to that film; Gaga has also described it as a "modern take on vintage pop."  It features many of the classic songs heard in the movie, including "(They Long to Be) Close to You," "Gonna Build a Mountain," "That's Entertainment," "Get Happy," and, of course, "The Joker" - all in newly-recorded versions and arrangements (some with tweaked lyrics) that stand alone (and without a Joaquin Phoenix vocal in sight).  A couple of original songs are inspired by the film and Gaga's character.  In a sense, the jazz-rooted Harlequin picks up where the artist's collaborations with Tony Bennett ended, but with a contemporary edge and a nod to the darkness explored in Joker.  Though Folie a Deux was met with chilly reviews and has underperformed at the box office, Harlequin is its own, brassy creature - tapping into the vein of joy that, by most accounts, the film completely and intentionally avoids.