2021 REISSUES

…DAVID BOWIE’s (right) next retrospective box set will be released next year. Taking up where the 2018 box Loving The Alien (1983–1988) left off, it will cover the years up to 2001. However, the Tin Machine albums will not be included, leading to suspicions they might get a box of their own …speculation is rife that

NEW ORDER will release an extras-packed, beautifully designed ‘Ultimate Edition’ of 1985’s Low-Life in 2021… the BLUE NOTE label will continue their high-quality, VFM vinyl reissues. Expect Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch in May, Grant Green’s Idle Moments in June and Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage in July… after his work remastering and annotating the Richard & Linda Thompson box

Hard Luck Stories, Andrew Batts is preparing something similar for BOBBIE GENTRY (right) and MARIANNE FAITHFULL… a giant TEARDROP EXPLODES box set continues to be assembled by Julian

Cope and the group’s

PR Mick Houghton: full soundboard recordings from the mythic Club Zoo, demos and unreleased songs are expected. Expect it in autumn… Belgian synthpop eminences TELEX begin a series of remastered reissues on the Mute label, who also release a longawaited CAN live album in the autumn… a special 50th anniversary reissue of NEIL YOUNG’s After The Gold Rush arrives in March. The cover art’s solarized on special silver-coated paper stock, while the vinyl edition box includes a single with an unreleased version of Wonderin’, recorded in August ’69…