Amber Arcades - Barefoot On Diamond Road - VINYL LP

Tammy Wynette, known as the InchFirst Lady of Country MusicInch, was one of the music's truly iconic figures. This much beloved entertainer - during a twenty-seven year recording career - saw the of 42 studio albums and charted 73 singles. By the time the two albums in this collection were released, producer Billy Sherrill had developed a distinctive styling for the hit-making singer, with her Inchsob in the voiceInch heightening the emotions of songs' lyrics, perfectly blending in with the smooth musicianship and string arrangements and backup vocals by The Jordanaires. Both albums were released in 1974 and each was headed up by a hit single. 'Another Lonely Song' gave the singer her 14th No. 1 solo chart single. The album also included covers of three already proven country hits 'Satin Sheets', 'Keep Me In Mind' and 'Help Me Make It Through The Night'. Seven months later came InchWoman To WomanInch with it's Billy Sherrill penned title track reaching No. 4 in Billboard's Country Singles Chart and offering another touch of home-spun feminine advice. Once again, the album presents songs from many of the most respected writers in the business - Dave Loggins Please Come To Boston', Mickey Newbury's 'I Don't Think About Him No More' and Shel Silverstein's 'For The Kids', the last revealing that this one-time Playboy cartoonist was more than just a humourist. Both albums appear on CD for the first time.

Vinyl LP pressing includes and housed in a gatefold sleeve. Amber, the second full-length from Autechre and considered by many to be their ambient opus (though we imagine they wouldn't call it that!) having been out of print on vinyl since 2001. Amber contains eleven tracks of sparse Ae minimalist machine modules that blur the boundaries between isolationist electronica and richly vivid techno soundscapes. Considered by many fans to be the most crucial recording from the group, it contains some of their most immersive soundscapes to date. Steering away from the post-hardcore dynamics that shone through on Incunabula, Amber moves further away from anything resembling 'techno' and moved into more territories of abstract ambience. These eleven crystal-like cubes of sound came together to produce some of the most mind-bendingly hypnotic sounds to be committed to wax during the 90's. Placing Ae up in the ranks of legendary composers such as Steve Reich and Manuel Gottsching as well as their Artificial Intelligence contemporaries with whom they were crafting the building blocks of the future. There is something uniquely immersive about Amber, it's almost as if as you are playing it the sounds are fading away before they even begin, when played from the start you can lose a lot of time within the endless gradients that adorn it's cover, before the sounds just seemingly, disappear. Included with this is a download of an original Autechre live set, previously only available in the Autechre webstore, with artwork by long time creative collaborators The Designers Republic.

Tracked in the decade after Duster went on hiatus, Canaan Amber's debut solo EP CA demonstrates the California-born guitarist's affection for San Francisco jangle and Santa Cruz surf. Crawling at a banana slug's pace, Canaan wraps the loneliest one-string guitar solos around a cluster of hollow rhythms and ghostly mumbles. The original 2012 five-song CD has been expanded to include seven other demos plundered from the prolific songwriter's vault. More Wolf Moon than Black Moon, CA continues to explore and map the hidden galaxies that make up the Duster universe.