Green Day - Nimrod - VINYL LP

Five vinyl LP set. 25th Anniversary edition. Includes booklet, slip mat, cloth patch, and backstage pass. Features the original album on two LPs, one LP of previously unreleased Nimrod demos, and a two LP live set from Philadelphia recorded one month after Nimrod was released. Nimrod, Green Day's fifth studio album, was originally released on October 14, 1997. The Billboard Top10 LP declared InchGreen Day's best!Inch by Kerrang was driven by the hit singles InchHitchin' A RideInch, InchRedundantInch, InchNice Guys Finish LastInch and InchGood Riddance (Time of Your Life)Inch the latter of which has sold 5 million copies in the US alone. The song was written as a spiteful ballad and has evolved into the soundtrack of everyone's seminal life moments; even being featured in the Seinfeld series finale. The album has sold over 3 million copies in the US (triple platinum) and has been certified multi-platinum, platinum, or gold in several other countries, including the UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, and Spain.

Matthew Barnson's music does more than scrape the surface; it digs deep to reveal the skull beneath the skin. His new innova album brings together a range of his signature works that somehow manage to shimmer with harmony and Concord even in their noisiest moments. The impetus for The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (Memento Mori after Gerhard Richter) arose after he was asked to compose a work to accompany Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings shortly after his grandfather's passing. It is marked by a gradual introduction of different techniques, often resolving to an uneasy calm. Pulsing rhythms push this high drama work toward extremes of fragility and brutality. By contrast, in Vanitas (Dance Forms), Barnson made his own rules for a new suite of dances inspired by the opulence, elegance, and audacity of the French courtly dances that were all the rage at Versailles and soon all of Europe for a century. With a nod to the viola da gamba and continuo repertoire translated to cello and marimba, Barnson created a new work refracted through myriad influences the street art in Bushwick where he lived, the virtuosity of the not-so-recent avant gardes, and his recent foray into opera. He composed a work with surprising new tunefulness that emerges from his usual attention to dense textures. It is a work that questions, reinvents, is inspired by, and reacts to those ancient forms. The album also includes a short work, I Crossed the Samuel Beckett Bridge at Dusk. It was composed for two performers, a harpist and a single flute player playing piccolo, alto flute, and bass flute.

Almost Here is the striking debut from Oxford trio Unbelievable Truth, released in 1998 on Virgin Records - this re-issue faithfully replicates the original UK pressing with it's partially exposed inner sleeve, and is pressed on 180g vinyl. Also available as a deluxe re-issue that adds an extra LP of B-Sides and is packaged in a bespoke gatefold sleeve, also pressed on 180gm vinyl. Formed by vocalist and guitarist Andy Yorke, bassist Jason Moulster and drummer Nigel Powell, the band crafted an album that stood apart from the late-Britpop rush with a sound that was intimate, melodic and emotionally direct. Songs such as InchSolved,Inch InchHigher Than ReasonInch and InchAngelInch showcase Yorke's plaintive vocal delivery and the band's gift for dynamic build-ups, moving from hushed reflection to soaring climaxes without losing their understated core. Critically noted for it's cohesion and lyrical sincerity, Almost Here established Unbelievable Truth as a thoughtful counterpoint to the era's louder guitar bands. It remains a focused, atmospheric debut that rewards close listening and highlights a band confident in mood, melody and craft.