Admiral Fallow - The Idea Of You - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'First Of The Birds' is the new album from Glasgow's Admiral Fallow. A richly colourful and brooding affair, their fifth record is shot through with a collective spirit and understanding born of almost twenty years together. These songs detail new life and familial bonds, unafraid to explore lucidity and uncertainty, close-up and widescreen, dynamic push-and-pull. It feels something like a revelation; a burst of warm light on a new morning. Released 31st October 2025 on Chemikal Underground.

Digitally re-mastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition of this 1995 album from the British Pomp rockers including a bonus five track CD. Originally released in 1995, this was the first posthumous by the band since Freddie Mercury's death in 1991. The album topped the charts in Western Europe, with it's single, InchHeaven for Everyone,Inch reaching the Top Ten. Musically, Made in Heaven harked back to Queen's 1970s heyday with it's strong melodies and hard rock guitar playing, topped by Mercury's bravura singing and some of the massed choir effects familiar from InchBohemian Rhapsody.Inch Even if one did not know that these songs were sung in the shadow of death, that subject would be obvious. The lyrics were imbued with life-and-death issues, from the titles - InchLet Me Live,Inch InchMy Life Has Been Saved,Inch and InchToo Much Love Will Kill YouInch. The odd thing about this was that Mercury's over-the-top singing had always contained a hint of camp humor, and it continued to here, even when the sentiments clearly were as heartfelt as they were theatrically overstated. Maybe Mercury was determined to go out the same way he had come in, as a diva. If so, he succeeded.

Double vinyl LP pressing. For the first time on vinyl,  Keep Movin' On, a 23-song collection that encompasses some of Sam Cooke's best loved and most incisive songs and represents the artist both at the very pinnacle and, tragically, at the very end of his ground breaking career.  The songs that comprise Keep Movin' On were, for the most part, written and produced by Sam Cooke following his successful fight for complete creative and economic control over his recordings and repertoire. The notion of artistic self-determination was an unheard-of concept for virtually any recording artist, let alone a young rhythm and blues singer in the early 1960s. Reatures an essay by notable Sam Cooke biographer Peter Guralnick, written expressly for the initial CD in 2001. Guralnick defines Cooke's recordings sound Inchas spontaneous, as elegant, as full of mirth, sadness, and surprise as when it first came out of his mouth, translating somehow across the ages in ways that have little to do with calculation or fashion and everything to do with spontaneity of feeling, with a kind of purity of soul. Inch