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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (RecordJet)

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Kazumi Nikaido is probably most known within Japan for her composition of the main theme song for Isao Takahata's Studio Ghibli birdsong "Princess Kaguya", but a dedicated career of fine tuning and experimentations fall either side, and her 2006 album "Nikaido Kazumi no Album" is exemplary of an artist in full creative flow and P-vine is delighted to be releasing it as a 2xLP for the first time. It is hard to match a genre to the work as it meanders through tracks filled with jazz rhythms and cabaret extroversion into halls of ambience and electronica, but Nikaido is always closeby with a hand to guide listeners through its various sharp weaves and turns. One of its lead tracks "Kyou wa Tou" throws the kitchen sink at listeners with a loving touch as a stream-of-consciousness outpour from Nikaido leads an orchestra of jazz, handclaps and turntable scratching as it builds to a wall-of-sound climax. Those who keep up to date with j-pop will be well aware of some of the guest contributors to the album with various members of Sakerock assisting with arrangement and Hoshino Gen playing guitar on a number of tracks. Japanese jazz pianist Takeshi Shibuya's support heavily features and there is a guest appearance by Tenniscoats' Saya.

Nikaido is also no stranger to activity in the west. Through her extensive career she has traveled far and wide, and in 2011 linked up with Tara Jane O'Neil to release a collaborative self-titled LP on K-Records that saw the two artists bridge across their respective cultural backgrounds, and meet in the middle with a work that dared the other to build anew. Other excursions lead to a collaboration with Bill Wells on Lemondale, his collaborative project with Japanese musicians, after meeting the Scottish composer at Glasgow's Celtic Festival. More recently in 2018 she also supported Mount Eerie at Kobe's Guggenheim House and continues to remain active as both a solo artist as well as performing alongside the Gentle Forest Jazz Band.

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Diana Ezerex

My Past's Gravity

34,19 €* 37,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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I Need You Now Black Vinyl Puzzle Edition

Daryl Scott

12" | 1984 | EU | Reissue (ZYX)

17,99 €*

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (One Little Independent)

Stubborn Heart

Made Of Static

13,79 €* 22,99 € -40%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Moso Date / Yoake Wo Sagashite

Kiichibeer

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (PTA)

29,99 €*

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2000 | EU | Original (Chrysalis)

Robbie Williams

Sing When You're Winning

14,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Caroline)

Inner Tongue

Favours

14,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

Jouska

Everything Is Good

26,09 €* 28,99 € -10%

Jewel Box: And This Is Me

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Oslo-based Jouska are the musical and artistic partnership of Marit Othilie Thorvik and Hans Olav Settem. Taking influence from the likes of The Internet, Grimes and contemporaries Sassy 009, their brand of bedroom RnB encourages the listener to explore the furthest reaches of the emotional spectrum. Their debut album Everything Is Good is an introvert’s playground, exploring teenage isolation and heartbreak. In places overtly on tracks like ‘Because I Really Don’t Mind’, which Marit tells us is about “feeling like an alien in a person suit. Sometimes it feels like everyone else in the world is a collective group of beings who form a community of which I’m not a part of.” With the warm crackle of a vinyl record, the album’s sound has heart while using distorted elements to tell its story. Juxtaposing sensitivity with purposefully jarring sensory overload, half-whispered vocals are paired with pounding, industrial beats and drops. As well as reaching out into the fantastical, the album also portrays the mundane reality of life with depression. Being manipulated by toxic people alongside the pitfall of falling too deep into destructive cycle of self-pity. The title track elaborates on this – it’s “a portrayal of depression. It’s about waking up with the same draining anxiety in your body, disappointed that sleep didn’t cure you this time either.”

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Elton John

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mercury)

29,24 €* 38,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Hotel Surrender HHV GSA Exclusive Picture Disc Edition

Chet Faker

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BMG)

25,64 €* 26,99 € -5%

Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited to approx. 500 copies for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. For those countries only available at HHV.

At the top of 2020, after a year of traversing the globe in support of 2019’s Run Fast Sleep Naked, Nick Murphy began creating music that simply felt good. Though the singer had retired his billionstreaming Chet Faker project four years prior, the new songs he was working on in his New York City studio had an energy reminiscent of his earlier work. Reviving the project “wasn’t on my radar” at the time, Murphy admits, but the next thing he knew, he had a full album. The result is Hotel Surrender, a radiant 10-track LP full of swaggering bass lines and electrifying melodies that reintroduces Chet Faker to the world – and to Murphy himself. Like his debut LP, 2014’s Built on Glass, Murphy wrote and produced Hotel Surrender solely on his own, finishing most of the songs before COVID-19 hit in March 2020. He admits that before Hotel Surrender, he had never approached his process with such ease. This time, as the album title suggests, he surrendered to the music. “There was this, like, unconsciousness—not thinking, but just feeling, letting it come out and letting it steer itself,” Murphy says. “The great lesson for me was that I could write from a place of joy. I was also just being kind to myself. None of this music was hurting, it just felt good. It made me feel better, and it helped me be better.”

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Alex Cameron

Miami Memory

12,79 €* 15,99 € -20%

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Alex Cameron's newest and most musically expansive LP, the glistening Miami Memory, takes a surprising turn. Cameron's flair for narrative and character are still on full display; yet Miami Memory's most frequent narrator is, for the first time, Cameron himself - singing with stunning candor of his three-year relationship with visual artist and actor Jemima Kirke. ''When you listen to these songs, and you're waiting for the twist, or the joke, or any kind of discomfort, I can assure you none of those things were there when I wrote them,'' says Cameron. ''These are true stories, of actual events. Specific but never esoteric. And graphic but never offensive. Miami Memory is the story of a couple balancing sex positivity with contemporary family values...It's my gift to Jemima, a symbol to hoist on the totem of love.'' Though remnants of his synth-driven earlier work sneak in to unsettle the tone, the bulk of Miami Memory, produced by Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, Father John Misty) and recorded and mixed by Marta Salogni (Bjork, Kelela), revels in the emotional overdrive of classic dad rock, its warm, anthemic songs driven by bass, guitar, sax, and layers of Vegas wedding chapel-ish organ. Cameron's dad rock funhouse of an album ultimately twists and subverts the genre: it recalls classics the white male ego has historically visited for its regular adrenaline injection, and morphs them into a singular ''stepdad'' rock that largely turns its lens away from the dads, celebrating the demise of old norms of gender and power. In his depiction of his relationship with Kirke, Cameron reveals a striking honesty about love and sex in a time where a palpable fleetingness hangs over everything from relationships to human life on this planet - but also where constricting mores have deteriorated enough to let ''family life,'' in all its morphing forms, exist outside of social obligation. With arresting straightforwardness, Cameron now sings as himself, paying tribute to sex positivity, female empowerment, family and responsibility, and, to his love, Jemima.
1. Stepdad 2. Miami Memory 3. Far From Born Again 4. Gaslight 5. Bad For The Boys 6. End is Nigh 7. PC With Me 8. Divorce 9. Other Ladies 10. Too Far

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Saori Yuki

Side By Side Concert

61,19 €* 119,99 € -49%

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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7" | 2021 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Saori Yuki

Kokoromochi Kimagure

62,99 €*

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Saori Yuki

1969

120,99 €*

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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10" | 2021 | JP | Original (Bud Music)

Nabowa

Fantasia EP

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Le Carnaval Des Animaux Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Xoxo Extreme

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Naris Core Records)

37,79 €* 62,99 € -40%

Answer Shadow Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day Japan 2021 Release.

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Hiroomi Tosaka

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Cdl Entertainment)

36,99 €*

After The Rain Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day Japan 2021 Release.

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Tokyo No.1 Soul Set

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (Edo Ya)

33,99 €*

Pansy & Daisy / Tonight At All Bars Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day Japan 2021 Release.

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Nanchara Idol

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (Naris)

30,99 €*

Fallen Torches Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day Japan 2021 Release.

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Mastodon

LP | 2021 (Reprise)

43,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Pure Noise)

Release: 2021

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day 2021 Release. “Fallen Torches”, the acclaimed track from Mastodon’s 2020 Medium Rarities compilation, is released for Record Store Day as a limited edition shaped picture disc. The b-side features the previously unreleased instrumental v

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Cold Moon

What's The Rush

17,39 €* 28,99 € -40%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (7A Records)

Micky Dolenz

Out Of Nowhere

30,59 €* 33,99 € -10%

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Daddy's Dream / Since You've Been Gone Colored Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Stratos Demetrio

7" | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Numero Uno)

10,49 €* 13,99 € -25%

Aruite Kaero (Go Home On Foot)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Record Store Day Italia 2021 Drop 2 release.

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April Set

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (Unchantable)

16,99 €* 33,99 € -50%

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Sailyard)

Kajuen

Sonensaishiki

47,99 €*

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Engelbert Calling: The Boxset Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Engelbert Humperdinck

4x7" | 2021 (So What)

41,59 €* 51,99 € -20%

Lounge At The Edge Of Town

Release: 2021

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Lounge At The Edge Of Town Curacao Record Store Day 2021 Edition

LP | 2021 (The Complete Atomic)

17,39 €* 28,99 € -40%

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (WEA)

Release: 2021

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Fred Bongusto

La Mia Estate Con Te

18,99 €*

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (High Moon)

Ryan Martin

Wandercease

22,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Eero Koivistoinen & Irina Milan

Pahan kukkia

LP | 1990 | EU | Reissue (Pro)

14,99 €* 19,99 € -25%

Release: 1990 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Death Is Bigger 1984-85 Clear Purple Vinyl Edition Vinyl Edition

Getting The Fear

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dais)

22,49 €* 24,99 € -10%

Abbabubba Black & White Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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It's testament to how fertile England's mid-80's musical landscape was that the splintering of short-lived post-punk pioneers The Southern Death Cult seeded so many memorable but divergent groups - from widescreen rock legends The Cult to romantic pop duo Into A Circle to "the Asian Public Enemy," Fun-Da-Mental. But the band's most potent subsequent cross-pollination was undoubtedly Getting The Fear, formed by The Southern Death Cult rhythm section of Barry Jepson, David 'Buzz' Burrows, and Aki Haq Nawaz Qureshi, joined by Temple Ov Psychic Youth associate Paul `Bee' Hampshire on vocals. Galvanized by Margaret Thatcher's "iron fist" austerity policies and the cultural liberation of punk, the group blazed to creative fruition, quickly landing a lucrative deal with RCA. But immediately after recording their 1984 debut single, Last Salute, a shake-up at the label left them stranded and without support. Rather than stall in music industry purgatory they chose to dissolve, escaping their restrictive contract. Bee's lyrics on "Last Salute" are fitting final words: "If this must end let it pass me by / I'll remain your friend, only flowers die." But this is of course only part of the story. Death Is Bigger: 1984-1985 rectifies history's error, collecting the group's entire vault of demos and unreleased songs alongside liner notes and a photo gallery capturing Getting The Fear in all their high libertine glory. The compilation's 10 tracks are alternately brooding, spiky, and sneering, fixated on dreams, sex, and Charles Manson (the sleeve of Last Salute famously features a detail from Manson's embroidered waistcoat, unbeknownst to label execs). Razor wire guitars slice across tense rhythms, veering between minimal and melodic, occasionally flowering into psychedelic poetry, revealing Bee's deep affinity with Psychic TV. Taken as a whole, the album showcases the breadth of forking paths facing UK post-punk in 1984: pop eating itself, new wave while still new, transgression as alternative not affectation. Getting The Fear's music feels eclectic and unfettered, following whim, lust, and impulse, glinting with darkness against the fires of youth: "The earth is still beneath my feet, I start to sink to lose myself / Friends and lovers stand around unconcerned, their eyes in flames."

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Black Francis

LP | 2021 (Demon)

Go Upstairs / Echo Beach Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 2021

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Soul Mekanik

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Rogue Cat Sounds)

13,99 €*

Average Minds Think Alike Transparent Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2019! Rogue Cat Sounds focus on purveyors of Wonk, with a Golden Pop pedigree, Soul Mekanik, AKA Danny Spencer and Kelvin Andrews. Folk whose musical CV takes in UK Acid House classic, Ride The Rhythm, Candy Flip, remixes for Lisa Stansfield, Mary J. Blige, and Aretha Franklin (to name just three of several hundred). Writing and producing for Robbie Williams. Complete with Maurice Fulton Remix & a beautifully designed sleeve.

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Vex

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Heptown)

23,19 €* 28,99 € -20%

The Way Of Union And Being

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Vex started in 2019 as the solo act from Tobias Kastberg, ordinarily playing in the hard-touring electro punk duo (and phenomenal live act) The Guilt. Average minds think alike is his debut album. The music of Tobias, of VEX, extends boundaries to a point where they blur all of the lines, manifesting a genre and sound that is part and parcel to its own being. We can call it post punk, but it’s danceable, like if Kraftwerk and Devo had a bastard love child that was raised in the industrial wastelands of a once proud blue-collar city. Obscure European synth sounds, unorthodox energetic styles.

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Antonello Teora

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Blizzard Audio Club)

11,04 €* 16,99 € -35%

CD | 2016 | DE | Original (360 Grad)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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The Way of Union and Being” is born from the sometimes-unavoidable necessity of reinterpreting the perception of the spaces around us and the outside world in general, in order to have a truer and clearer vision of the inner spaces and the inner-self.

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DJ Soundtrax

Int. 80ies Pop

12,99 €*

Release: 2016 / DE – Original

Genre: Pop

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Do You Turn Red? Blue Vinyl Edition

Peter Manos

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Capitol)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

Hans Unstern

Diven

20,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Bernice

Eau De Bonjourno

25,99 €*

CD | 2020 | UK | Original (Forever Living Originals)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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New release by Canadian sweethearts referred to in the press as “Toronto’s ever-evolving backing band”
This LP “openly plays with the shape of a pop song,” drawing on the band members’ backgrounds in jazz, subverting rhythmic formulas, and resting in grooves that sit just outside of
The album’s sound is experimental in its truest definition, chopped up like musique concrete and then delicately placed back together with the loving touch of a scrapbook collagist

Bernice is the experimental pop vessel of musician/songwriter Robin Dann and her longtime collaborators Thom Gill (keyboards, guitar), Philippe Melanson (e-percussion and drums), Daniel Fortin (bass) and Felicity Williams (voice). Together and apart, they have performed with Martha Wainwright, Andy Shauf, Lido Pimienta, Bahamas, Knower, and Beverly Glenn Copeland among many others, which led to them being referred to in the press as “Toronto’s ever-evolving backing band.”

In their own right, however, they have repeatedly proved to be far more than the sum of their considerable parts. Bernice’s Polaris Prize-nominated 2018 LP 'Puff: In The Air Without A Shape' received major international attention, described as an “analytical, self-dissecting monument to ephemerality” by The New York Times, and “a fascinating musical conversation” that blends pop and R&B influences with C86 aesthetics by Pitchfork, alongside high praise from outlets like NPR, Fader, and Stereogum, and many more.

Nearly three years on from that release (for Bernice a rapid turnaround by comparison to the seven-year gap between their 2011 debut and Puff), the band return with their third full-length, Eau de Bonjourno, out March 5th from Telephone Explosion and figureeight records. It marks their first collaboration with producer Shahzad Ismaily, the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist who has worked with artists as varied as Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, John Zorn, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. While their genre reconstruction remains distinctly Bernice, Dann’s lyrics bring a newfound focus to storytelling in the present moment, compassionately meeting ourselves where we are, and finding joy in spaces that are familiar but ever changing.

Eau de Bonjourno, according to Dann, “openly plays with the shape of a pop song,” drawing on the band members’ backgrounds in jazz, subverting rhythmic formulas, and resting in grooves that sit just outside of predictable. Instead of letting instruments take extended solos, the tone is set on opener “Groove Elation” with brief blurts of synthesized sax, patient passages of space, or clusters of beats, tenderly held together by Dann and Williams’ intimate vocals. The album’s sound is experimental in its truest definition, chopped up like musique concrete and then delicately placed back together with the loving touch of a scrapbook collagist.

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Sault

Untitled (Rise)

15,29 €* 17,99 € -15%

CD | 2020 | UK | Original (Forever Living Originals)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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The fourth album by Sault scored 97/100 at Metacritic and is the most beloved album at HHVs Supreme 100 of 2020 list, chosen by 150 journalists, musicians, label makers and record collectors. Currently repressed and soon back in stock.

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Sault

15,19 €* 18,99 € -20%

The Legend Of Picasso Jones

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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The second album of Sault follows their debut "5" which came out just three months prior to this one. Heads all over the world were still in awe of "5", when all of a sudden "7" dropped. Now, by the end of 2020, they are four critically acclaimed albums deep into buiding their own legacy.

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Kill The Motherboard

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Empire)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1984 | JP | Original (Arista)

Jermaine Jackson

7,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Kidderminster)

Release: 1984 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with OBI

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Dodi El Sherbini

Fictions

10,79 €* 17,99 € -40%

Oh Nandu, What We've Done!

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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The first album of Dodi El Sherbini, Fictions, is romantic, modern and dreamy, but also leaves room for humor. It is undoubtedly the love feeling that is at the forefront of Dodi El Sherbini's Fictions. "Dandy", "black prince", "shadow man", many formulas have tried to define Dodi El Sherbini, French iconoclastic pop singer appeared on the music scene in 2014. Mysterious, we know little about him if it is only he had a thousand lives: he spent his childhood moving, studied philosophy, chained small jobs (server, door-to-door salesman) then became a stylist to finally indulge in music , "A real luxury" according to his own admission. He illuminated the year 2015 with three EP noticed and applauded by the hexagonal press who laid the foundations of a dreamlike pop, not far from Christophe or Sebastien Tellier.

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Zenamon

12" | 2015 | DE | Original (Private)

12,79 €* 15,99 € -20%

Release: 2015 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Mint, Cover: Mint

2LP | 2016 | DE | Original (Private)

Schaltkreis Wassermann

SKW

43,99 €*

LP | 2014 | DE | Original (Private)

Release: 2016 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop, Soundtracks

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Including LSD blotter art print + poster + reproduction of the first two promo inserts from the 1980's, gatefold cover, free download card.

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The D-Lights

She's Coming From Mars!

18,74 €* 24,99 € -25%

Gerhard Heinz, Orchester Michel Dupont

Release: 2014 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Numbered edition on black vinyl.

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Jess Franco's Bloody Moon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

3LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Director's Cut)

32,19 €* 45,99 € -30%

LP | 2014 | DE | Original (Private)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop, Soundtracks

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Near Mint

Red Vinyl. Side 3 has a deeper scratch, the other sides are between VG+ and NM

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The D-Lights

She's Coming From Mars!

18,39 €* 22,99 € -20%

LP | 1984 | US | Original (Epic)

Release: 2014 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Numbered first pressing on white vinyl with white Private Records jojo which integrates visually into the sky artwork like an UFO.

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The Jacksons

Victory

10,99 €*

Release: 1984 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

12" | 1989 | DE | Original (L.A.B.)

The Front

You Can Dance

59,99 €*

Cornelius Claudio Kreusch

Release: 1989 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Cover has storage signs.

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New York City Uptown Downtown

12" | 2003 | EU | Original (BlackMudSound)

6,49 €* 9,99 € -35%

Release: 2003 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Renaud

Métèque Picture Disc

43,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Johnny Hallyday

Mon Nom Est Johnny

46,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Amir

R3ssources Picture Disc

35,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Unplugged II Jubiläums Edition

Die Fantastischen Vier

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rekord Music Publishing)

40,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Productions Mar)

Henri Des

Cest Le Pere Noel

21,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Happiest Place)

Engürdetz

Sillmjölke

18,39 €* 22,99 € -20%

High Times: Singles 1992-2006 Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Engürdetz perhaps weren’t a known name to the vast music devouring public - but for a brief period in time & to a scene of chosen few, they were a name associated with raw, gut-opening & kill em' all industrial mayhem. Made up by the duo of Drajan (Brainbombs, Diskad, Orchestra Of Constant Distress a.o.) & Lanchy (Brainbombs, Totalitär, Swinehood a.o.).

With only three extremely limited cassettes released between 1986-1988 they managed to maintain a place in Swedish industrial history - connected to acclaimed & contemporary names such as Lille Roger (later Brigher Death Now) & Arvid Tuba.

’Sillmjölke’ differed from the duo’s previous outputs. The tracks had moved closer into the formula of a ”standard” song formula & the influences from British industrialists such as Whitehouse had become more apparent, along with sections that made your mind venture to the freer & ambient sides of Swell Maps (even if they didn’t necessarily know who Swell Maps were at the time).

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Jamiroquai

Box Set | 2006 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Catalog)

60,99 €*

Release: 2006 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Andre Van Duin

75 Jaar Gewoon Andre

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Intensity Zone Blue Vinyl Edition

Götterdämmerung

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Alice In...)

26,09 €* 28,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Better Days Black Vinyl Edition

Like Elephants

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Las Vegas)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 1986 | EU | Reissue (ZYX)

Alex Chroma Band

A New Day

14,99 €*

You Can't Keep A Good Man Down Pink & Purple Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Reissue of this italo disco rarity from 1986 with remixes by Flemming Dalum and Rey David Diaz.

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Billy Preston

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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180 gram audiophile vinyl / 1986 ALBUM WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY THE TWO-TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNER AND ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME LEGEND / FEATURING THE SINGLE “WHAT ABOUT THE LOVE” / LIMITED EDITION ON PINK & PURPLE MARBLED VINYL

Billy Preston was an American musician, who encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk and gospel. He worked as a top session musician during the Sixties, backing artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones and the Beatles amongst others. He is even the only non-Beatle musician to be given a credit on a Beatles recording at the band’s request. His solo career took off during the first half of the Sixties, but it was his early Seventies soul work that put him on the permanent musical map. You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down was one of Preston’s final studio albums and originally came out in 1986.

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Jan Smit

Boven Jan

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Dominique A

Le Monde Réel

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Andre Hazes

Alleen Met Jou

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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12" | 1992 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

Madonna

Erotica Picture Disc

33,29 €* 36,99 € -10%

Release: 1992 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tropa Macaca)

Tropa Macaca

Animais Sintéticos EP

29,99 €*

Kaleidoscope Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Very limited private press.

The new record by Tropa Macaca brings together two pieces, Animais Sintéticos and Aerossol, which were previously presented in an exhibition context, at gnration in Braga and at Pada in Barreiro, in the years 2022 and 2020, respectively. Both exhibitions, which took the title of the pieces, presented themselves as immersive installations that allied music to Joana da Conceição's paintings and videos. These two exhibitions are different pacts between the audible and the visible, and of both with the world.

Here are the texts that accompanied the exhibitions, as well as links to visual report. Animais Sintéticos, gnration, Braga, 2022 The exhibition Animais Sintéticos exists like a landscape, the kind we remember when we are not there, alive, but suspended inside us. Enigmatic for us who created them, they accompany us, and if we imagine that one day they had a beginning, an original referent outside of us, the time they have already spent with us forces us to doubt that this is so. Time has uprooted them, torn them from that place. We look closer, we reflect, we examine, we meditate, and when, as in a quantum leap, we originate what becomes there, we believe that it has always been there, that we have crossed the glass, that we have come close to the mystery. It is a landscape like this that is offered in this exhibition. One of those that say more about us than about the world, at a time when we already know what we already felt, that we are not the world. An exercise in quantum paleontology, where the painting, the music, and the moving image are echoes of this place we inhabit, between promise and ruin. A confrontation, in the form of an elegy, in search of reconciliation.

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Rachael Dadd

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Memphis Industries)

20,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (RecordJet)

Lobby Boy

Autobahngold

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original

Ajay Mathur

Talking Loud

41,64 €* 48,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Banco Presenta Francesco Di Giacomo

Non Mettere Le Dita Nel Naso Limited Clear Yellow Vinyl Edition

LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (BTF)

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Lee Paradise

Lee Paradise & Co

21,99 €*

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Pop

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Toronto’s Dan Lee steps out of the spotlight and into the producer’s chair on the new collaborative Lee Paradise LP, Lee Paradise & Co., due October 28 2022 on Telephone Explosion. Lee Paradise & Co. follows 2020’s critically acclaimed The Fink LP, and finds Lee flipping the shadowy nihilism of the project’s previous releases upward into a sort of cybernetic universality. This is Dan Lee in producer mode, veering away from the pursuit of a singular musical direction rooted in personal vision, towards of a process rich in collaboration, emotional expansion and tonal exploration.

Starting off as a set of mood-focusedinstrumental sketches drafted by Dan on his own, the compositions began coloringthemselves in after he started sending the tracks out to collaborators, asking them to contribute without much in the way of direction or intention. With help from an ensemble cast of artists including Carlyn Bezic (Jane Inc.), Jonathan Pappo (Scott Hardware, No Frills, Ducks Ltd), Scott Hardware, Isla Craig, Victoria Cheong (New Chance), Jay Anderson, Charise Aragoza & Lukas Cheung (Mother Tongues) and Daniel Woodhead (Moon King), nearly every aspect of this album’s creation eventually became open to collaboration, from musical performances, lyric writing, and vocals all the way through to mixing and mastering.

Sonically, the record is still unmistakably Lee Paradise: a widescreen polyrhythmic psychedelia that melts, bubbles, whirrs and klanks; the sound of the human and the machine grooving in accordance towards new futures. The album’s sonic palette is at once synthetic, warm and extraterrestrial. Arpeggiated square wave melodies dance in lockstep with crunching hi-hats, digital bells and chimes fall like crystal rain in stereo above plush pads and gurgling bass figures. Used to finishing the records on his own, Lee mixed this album with Montreal’s Asher Gould-Murtagh and the results are spacious, dusty and dubbed out. “Carnival” sets the scene with it’s stuttering, busted funk groove and ribbons of aqueous vocal harmony from New Chance’s Victoria Cheong. “Raffles”(featuring one of Daniel’s two vocal performances on the record) radiates a mellow optimism in its solar-warped balearic bliss. The album’s final track, “Youngish” is a gliding, melancholic downtempo instrumental thumper saturated in a kaleidoscopic array of lysergic tones. As always, the record anchors itself to the dancefloor with the screwed-down electro of “Cement”, the swinging midnight afterglow of “Leaving” and “CS2X”’s fluttering rave arpeggios.

Lee Paradise & Co. is the sound of an expert producer and sound sculptor conceding to the elusive flows of inspiration, knocking genre conventions askew and hopscotching between a variety of styles, musical identities and sound worlds with absolute panache.

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Andre Hazes

Jij En Ik

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Unday)

Sam De Nef

Dawn / Dusk

If You Want / Summer Time HHV Exclusive Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP in gatefold sleeve. Sam is a young songwriter, a singer and a musician, but he's a sketch artist at heart.Dawn/Dusk became the perfect sketch, loose yet meticulously crafted. Boundless, yet beautifully framed.

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Laura Angel

12" | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Disco Segreta)

20,89 €* 21,99 € -5%

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on blue wax. Only available at HHV.

Disco Segreta sets your summer on fire with the official reissue of two killer obscure italo-disco masterpieces! Out of the catalog of the no longer active cult Savona-based label Disco In, this 7” released in 1985 in 1000 copies sung by the mysterious Laura Angel, is probably one of the most elusive, with original copies hardly ever showing up ! “Summer Time” carries all the fascinating stylistic elements of italo-disco: romantic struggle, summer-inspired ital-english lyrics sung by a catchy female voice, over minimal 80s drums and arpeggiated basslines; while “If You Want” is possibly one of the finest examples of that all-Italian peculiar mixture of darkwave, synth-pop and italo-disco. Two superb melanchol-italo tearjerkers, with a masterful use of three classic italo disco fetish synths: E-mu Drumulator, Juno 106, Korg Poly 61. As usual with us, the first ever 12” reissue of this 45 - in a limited edition on 180g. high-quality vinyl - will be lovingly remastered, respectful of the actual tracks’ 80s lo-fi vibe, and will feature the original 45 versions.

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Andre Hazes

Voor Jou

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Anouk

Trails Of Fails

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | UK | Reissue (Cooking Vinyl)

Ricky Ross

Short Stories Vol.2

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

America

Harbor

25,49 €* 29,99 € -15%

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Demoiselle Red Vinyl Edition

Micky Dolenz

LP | 1998 | EU | Reissue (7a)

31,99 €* 39,99 € -20%

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Doe Maar

Klaar

27,19 €* 33,99 € -20%

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

David J. Kirchner

IG Pop Red Vinyl Edition

Tom Allan & The Strangest

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited to 100 copies on red vinyl.

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Taats Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Glitterhouse)

19,99 €* 24,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nocut)

Eisfabrik

Eisplanet

25,59 €* 31,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Lauluja Black Vinyl Edition

Kaj Chydenius

LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Tin Angel)

Ian Daniel Kehoe

Yes Very So

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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A Single Man Limited Remastered Edition

Elton John

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Mercury)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Propeller)

Florence Dore

Highways & Rocketships

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sundazed)

Kitty Ford

Pussycat

24,64 €* 28,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Demon)

Daniel O'Donnell

I Wish You Well

30,99 €*

Wir Sind Schön Violet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Daniel O'Donnell's recording career has now spanned 35 years and he continues to delight fans around the world by his recording and touring activities. Daniel is the UK chart's most prolific and one of the most successful recording Artists. In 2021, he broke his own world record, by becoming the first recording artist to chart at least one new album every year in the Artist Albums Chart for 34 consecutive years. During his career, in the United Kingdom Daniel has amassed forty-seven Top 75 albums, including nineteen Top 10 albums, with seventeen of them this Century, a feat not achieved by any other recording Artist. After two albums with legendary international Producer Nigel Wright, Daniel retreated to Black Mountain Recording Studio, to work with home-grown local talent and record an album of new songs. The resulting album to be released in November is 'I WISH YOU WELL', which includes the up-tempo Bublé-esque 'Under A Spell Of Loving You' and 'Always There' written especially for Daniel by Brendan Graham and Rolf Loevland, who wrote 'You Raise Me Up'. As he looks back at his long and successful recording and touring career, for which he shows no signs of slowing down, Daniel can appreciate the pleasure that he has brought to millions of his adoring fans, his selfless philanthropy and receiving his Honorary MBE for services to the music industry and charity. With another stylish TV commercial to support the album's release, Daniel remains as relevant today, as when he charted his first album in the 1980s.

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Jens Friebe

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

17,49 €* 24,99 € -30%

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Kartel)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Limited to 100 copies.

The millennium was one long bad prank / we looked at each other and knew right away: that's it." The world out there is going to the dogs. Well, not just since yesterday. And it won't be over tomorrow either. Shitty times, then. Of course, you could meet them with cynicism. Or with despair. But maybe not. Maybe we could also draw hope, precisely because it would be so much easier to lapse into doom and gloom and bitter laughter now. And maybe it's okay to need something to keep our spirits up in the midst of the apocalypse.

And that's how WIR SIND SCHÖN came to be, Jens Friebe's ninth album, which, like the previous albums, is also released on Staatsakt, punctually four years after the last one (2018's FUCK PENETRATION). It is a cheerful-melancholic, ironic-serious, nonchalant piece of music, which just has no desire for staleness and contemplation. The hymn-like, beautiful title track "Wir sind schön" (We are beautiful), which embraces kitsch with self-deprecating seriousness and is above all comforting, gets to the point: the better world out there, we can build it ourselves. Despite everything. "It's an anti-nihilist album," Friebe says. No Future is already not wrong, but not so funny anymore, if the Future really rather scorching earth in prospect. But it's not that the problematic is erased. It appears on the record in the most diverse forms: In the almost socially realistic depiction of a youth friendship destroyed by the multi-tiered education system with the beautiful title - shimmering between urban sociological treatise and fairy tale - "The Shrinking City", in the devastating protocol of failed self-care ("Das Nichtmehrkönnen") or the enigmatically gloomy fantasy "What Have We Done". But the listener never gets bogged down in these low points of mood, but is always pulled out and up into the euphoric, utopian. Or, as in the rousing protest song "Sing it to the Converted", into the militant. But what sounds at first like the sheer repetition of banal slogans, turns out in the next moment to be a reflection on the necessity of repeating banal slogans. Because, as the last few years have shown, even the seemingly self-evident must be reminded again and again. Or, as Friebe puts it, "Doesn't the priestess preach to the converted / How long would they be converted if they never heard her?"

Similarly immediately poignant and intricate at the same time is "Free": what is freedom? Neoliberal exploitation, a privilege of the better-off, as preached by certain federal finance ministers? Or naked skin in the sunlight, partying, wind in the treetops, rage unleashed? Yes, this is somehow also satire, but not only: Friebe does not leave it at simply denouncing a grievance like a tired cabaret artist. Between the shifted drums, minimalist instrumentation and velvety grooves and background vocals (as on other tracks by Elektrik Diva MALONDA and Pola Lia Schulten), the actual, truthful longing for a freedom that is not characterized by anti-social economic order and commercial exploitation also comes through.

Should we laugh or cry? Maybe just both, as on "Ende aller Feiern," a sixties-poppy, subtly queer love triangle, with probably one of the best lines ever to make it into a German-language break-up song: "Wir haben uns alles erzählt/Nur zuletzt wollt' ich nicht alles wissen/I think you noticed that/And bit me goodbye."

Standing still has never been Jens Friebe's thing, but this time it's musically a bit further from the indie rock habitus that still made up FUCK PENETRATION or NACKTE ANGST ZIEH DICH AN WIR GEHEN AUS (2014). Yes, a penchant for anthems, crooner-like and storyteller is always part of Jens Friebe, but this time Afrodiasporic musical styles play a bigger role. More soul, more grooves, a certain smoothness that suits the hope that flashes again and again between ironic distance and realistic description of the present on WIR SIND SCHÖN.

Although the real drums have been almost entirely replaced by the drum computer, Staatsakt colleague Chris Imler again has a style-defining role on this album with synths and additional percussion. On "Die Schrumpfende Stadt" (where Herman Herrmann can also be heard on bass) he programmed the beat. Mense Reents (Goldene Zitronen, Sophia Kennedy) mixed "Der Wahn" and "Ende aller Feiern". As with all albums since DAS MIT DEM AUTO IST EGAL (2007), Berend Intelmann was again responsible for the production.

WIR SIND SCHÖN is an antidote to our times, an embrace of all the ambivalences we have to endure every day and an adrenaline injection into the heart of apathy. The world is complicated, but that's okay. Because, "When our eyes get used to the dark / Look at us and you'll see: We are beautiful!"

Lyrics: Aida Baghernejad

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Alison Sudol

Still Come The Night

12,79 €* 15,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Freaksville)

Benjamin Schoos

The Love Note

19,19 €* 23,99 € -20%