Release Round-Up: Week of June 19

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. Sheena Easton, The Singles: 1980-1987 (Cherry Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Pop’s Sheena Easton series has a new crown jewel: a 25CD box set chronicling her singles from the EMI years in the ’80s – and yes, this set has unreleased material as well.  The Singles 1980-1987 follows two recent boxes following Easton’s EMI recordings in full (not strictly the original albums, but plenty of unreleased and alternate material in the mix)….

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Favourite Shirts: Demon Introduces Half-Speed Master Edition Series with Yardbirds, Labi Siffre, Haircut One Hundred

Demon Music Group has recently launched a new series of Half-Speed Master Editions, all cut from original stereo tapes at AIR Mastering and pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  Today, we’re looking at three of these titles. Demon has had a long history with The Yardbirds’ Roger the Engineer (1966) including a 1986 expanded edition on CD, a single-LP vinyl reissue in 2019, a double-LP vinyl reissue in 2020 for Record Store Day, and a generous 2-LP/3-CD/1-7″ single box set in 2021.  Appropriately enough, Roger has been selected as one of the first Half-Speed…

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Cherry Pop Goes Plus One on Double-Disc Haircut One Hundred Reissue

Fans of the sumptuous ’80s pop of British outfit Haircut One Hundred are in for a treat with Cherry Pop Records’ exhaustive double-disc edition of the band’s 1982 debut album, Pelican West.  Fronted by singer/songwriter Nick Heyward, Haircut One Hundred blended New Wave, jazz and funk into a dazzling sonic package, all biting guitar chords and propulsive bass lines chased with expressive saxophone lines and horn charts for a little cosmopolitan extra. In the band’s home country, they logged their first four singles into the U.K. Top 10, with biggest hit “Love…

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