ALBUM RELEASES JOHN COLTRANE RÓISÍN MURPHY

Giant Steps: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Saxophone giant Coltrane began work on this revolutionary album just weeks after he had completed recording with Miles Davis on 1959’s Kind Of Blue, the best-selling album in jazz history. Magic was undoubtedly in the air and Giant Steps has, correctly, been freighted with awards. Its allure is magnified in this Anniversary edition, with a picture essay book and a disc of alternate takes every bit as compelling as on the lovingly remastered original. Dazzling.

PRINCE

Sign ‘o’ The Times (Deluxe Edition)

Prince’s greatest album in all its matchless form is accompanied here by an unprecedented raid on the archives of a genius. The results exceed the loftiest hopes of fans with insights into Prince’s studio and live performance power. There’s a DVD of a dizzying Miles Davis-featuring live show, an amazing early take of I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man and 31 unreleased tracks. Available in a variety of editions and it’s positively regal.

Róisín Machine

The fun continues on this dancetastic followup to 2016’s Take Her Up To Monto. Floorfilling stomper Stimulation gets the show off to a compelling start, thereafter her enduring relationship with collaborator DJ Parrot, aka Crooked Man, captures surefire, sweet and salty gems aplenty. Her sharply tuned sensibility for the fun, elation and transcendence that club culture offers is gloriously upfront and celebratory. Excellent medicine.