VINCE CLARKE announces Solo Album
Vince Clarke has announced details of his debut solo album, Songs of Silence, a 10-track lyric-less album of uncategorisable ambient
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Author: Paul Browne
GENERATION BLITZ – Dusk To Dawn
‘Generation Blitz’ was dreamed up as a creative concept that pays tribute to the Blitz Club spirit. Compiled by Martin James and Timo Jalkanen with support from Gary Fones, the album has been billed as an effort that is “reclaiming the 1980s from Stranger Things cosplayers, neon obsessives and Miami Vice nostalgics”. A sentiment of brash confidence and swagger that seems perfectly in-step with the Blitz ethos.
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SOFT CELL ‘NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET’ 6-CD 98-TRACK SUPER DELUXE EDITION
Initially released in November 1981, Soft Cell’s classic album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, in the words of Marc Almond, “Tells a
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Pop Songs At The Movies
The movie business has served up many successful (and sometimes unsuccessful) films whose appeal is given a boost by incorporating popular songs into their soundtracks. In this excerpt from a feature in the September Blitzed, we look at a wide variety of movies that have made good use of a particular song (and sometimes in the most unexpected ways).
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ALTERED IMAGES – Bite 40th Anniversary Edition
2023 sees classic Altered Images album Bite celebrating its 40th anniversary. As a result, it will be reissued in two
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MOONAGE DAYDREAM
“Ever since I was sixteen, I was determined to have the greatest adventure that any one person could ever have…”
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SOFT CELL – *HAPPINESS NOW COMPLETED… AND EXTENDED
Described as “Science fiction stories for the 21st century”, Soft Cell’s 2022 album *Happiness not included delivered new electronic tunes
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SIOUXSIE’S MANTARAY album due for reissue
Siouxsie Sioux’s 2007 debut solo album Mantaray is to be reissued this month. The new version of the album accompanies
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ETHEREAL ADVENTURES: THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
The musical catalogue of Liverpool band The Teardrop Explodes is peppered with pop gems, psychedelic delights and baroque ballads. A
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ABC – THE LEXICON OF LOVE 40th Anniversary Edition
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of ABC’s The Lexicon Of Love – one of the most revered albums of the 1980s – it is being reissued as a 4LP and Blu-ray box set as well a stand-alone half-speed remaster LP of the original album.
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