★4AD
In The Flat Field (LP)
Original UK edition of simply one of the best debut albums of the British new wave, dark and innovative, released in 1980 by the new-born 4AD label. Essential.
Junkyard (LP)
Original UK edition of the second and final album released by 4AD in 1982, art/psych/blues/punk fusion at its wildest and best.
Wheel In The Roses (LP)
1986 re-issue on 4AD of one of the most original and inimitable records produced by the new wave, originally released by the same label in 1980. Essential.
Labour Of Love (LP)
One of the most underrated artifacts of new wave and the darkest LP of experimental rock of the era, the sole album by the band that was Rema Rema and later became Wolfgang Press, released by 4AD in 1981. Total masterpiece.
3R4 (LP)
Original 1980 LP on 4AD of brilliant experimental/industrial/art-rock soundscapes by Wire's Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, am essential piece of the Dome puzzle.
Like This For Ages (12"EP)
Superb 1980 EP on 4AD by Wire/Dome's Gilbert and Lewis of experimental/eletronic rhythmic soundscapes.
Not To (LP)
Original 1982 UK edition of the excellent third album of art-rock/pop by Wire member.
Lonely Is An Eyesore (LP)
1987 compilation on 4AD with exclusive track by some of the most representative acts of the label's aesthetic, including Colourbox, This Mortal Coil, The Wolfgang Press, Throwing Muses, Cocteau Twins, Dif Juz, Clan Of Xymox, Dead Can Dance. With inserts.
The Agony Is the Ecstacy / Drunk On the Pope's Blood (LP)
1982 split LP on 4AD presenting Lunch's sidelong experimental track unavailable elsewhere and the Birthday Party live in London in 1981.
Dead Can Dance
The uncompromising eponymous debut, Dead Can Dance, harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds (including the distinct sound of the yangqin) with the then five-piece interchanging instruments to leave the vocals of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry as the only constant. The album’s cover was important as an introduction too, a Papua New Guinean mask that some believe when worn, a life force can be put into the inanimate wood - the dead can dance.
The Moon and the Melodies
Almost forty years after it was initially released, 'The Moon and the Melodies' by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.
The Drift
The legendary singer-songwriter and one-time teen idol re-emerges with his first album in 11 years. Anyone expecting conventional rock or pop should look elsewhere, however, as it is even more challenging than previous release 'Tilt.' It's always worth considering the route Scott Walker could have taken following his flirtation with the charts back in the sixties - an endless procession of 'farewell' tours, some dodgy dance collaborations and a slew of moribund chat-show appearances. He might …
The Childhood of a Leader
Scott Walker’s latest masterpiece is a tempestuous orchestral score to The Childhood of a Leader; a key and compelling component to Brady Corbet’s directorial debut, and Walker’s first O.S.T. since Pola X in 1999. If Bisch Bosch (2012) and his Soused (2014) collaboration with Sunn 0))) were a deadly one-two showing the old dog still has chops, this one is a stone cold haymaker. It’s all too rare that we’re totally wowed by movie soundtracks nowadays - Mica Levi’s Under The Skin being the most re…
Soused
When Sunn O))) first approached Scott Walker about appearing on their 2009 album 'Monoliths and Dimensions', little did they know what it would actually lead to. Four years on, Scott was back with something even more enticing, collaborating on 'Soused', a body of work he was writing with them in mind. With a career spanning more than five decades, Scott Walker's cult status remains as significant as ever before. Experiencing mega-stardom as part of The Walker Brothers before carving out a…
Bish Bosch
Deluxe double LP pressed onto 180g vinyl, includes a copy of the album on CD free inside. Also includes a comprehensive 36 page booklet. It can't be easy following a record as beguiling as 2008's genre-defying 'The Drift', but pounding to life with the incessant woodpecker percussion of album opener 'See You Don't Bump His Head', it's clear that 69-year-old Scott Walker has shock and awe in mind. He's never been an artist who's struggled with originality, and 'Bish Bosch' takes his aural cubism …
And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball?
'And Who Shall Go To The Ball And What Shall Go To The Ball' is the second release on 4AD for legendary artist and composer Scott Walker. The album, originally commissioned as a contemporary dance piece for disabled and non-disabled dance company CandoCo, is a twenty five minute instrumental work split into four movements.