[tweetmeme]Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs.
Bob Mould
RELEASE: Beauty & Ruin
BACKSTORY: The former Hüsker Dü frontman this week releases his 11th studio album, a “compact epic” that “packs a staggering lifetime’s worth of emotion and experience into a 36-minute package.” (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.com
Peter Murphy
RELEASE: Lion
BACKSTORY: The former Bauhaus frontman this week releases his long-in-the-works 10th studio album, produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth. The album was preceded by lead single “Hang Up.” (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Echo & The Bunnymen
RELEASE: Meteorites m
BACKSTORY: The Bunnymen return this week, in the U.S., with their 11th studio album, featuring the singles “Lovers on the Run” and “Holy Moses.” It came out in the U.K. and Europe last week. (Stream full album)
BUY: Amazon.co
Morrissey
RELEASE: Vauxhall and I
BACKSTORY: Morrissey this week releases a 20th anniversary reissue of his fourth solo album, from 1994, that features a bonus CD or download of a concert recorded in London on Feb. 27, 1995. (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Camper Van Beethoven
RELEASE: El Camino Real
BACKSTORY: The indie-rock legends this week release a companion album to last year’s Las Costa Perdida. The new record is billed as a darker, grittier side of the same coin explored on the first album.
BUY: Amazon.com
James
RELEASE: La Petite Mort
BACKSTORY: The Manchester-bred rockers today release their latest studio album, a record that bassist Jim Glennie says “stretched us and the songs and pushed us to new heights in craftsmanship and intensity.” (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.co.uk
Paul Weller
RELEASE: More Modern Classics
BACKSTORY: The Modfather this week will follow up 1998′s Modern Classics with a new companion best-of that picks up where the previous set left off, collecting 20 favorites recorded over the past 15 years. (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
Soundgarden
RELEASE: Superunknown: 20th Anniversary Editions
BACKSTORY: The Seattle rockers this week reissue their monster 1994 album in a variety of different configurations, including a 5-disc Super Deluxe Edition box set filled with rarities and other bonus material. (Full details)
BUY: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
