Katie Webster - Deluxe Edition - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Deluxe Edition brings together the most exciting and soulful moments from Shemekia's Alligator albums-16 pulse-pounding tracks of the very best modern blues and R&B. From the swaggering InchTurn the Heat UpInch to the soul-baring InchGhetto ChildInch to the rocking InchLivin' on LoveInch and InchIt's 2 A. M. Inch to the sly and sultry InchStay a Little Longer, Santa,Inch Copeland's immense vocal talents and captivating personality never cease to delight and amaze. Throughout Deluxe Edition, one thing is clear Shemekia Copeland is a charismatic artist possessing one of the great blues voices of this or any other era.

Crystal Clear LP. Blue Raspberry is Katy Kirby's follow up to her renowned debut album Cool Dry Place, which came out in February 2021. Singer/songwriter Katy Kirby introduced her warm, articulate vocals, perceptive lyrics, and playful adult-alternative style on her debut album as she toured tirelessly supporting bands like Waxahatchee, Andy Shauf, Julia Jacklin and Alex G.That record was a tried-and-true folk collection, perfectly displaying the chops of a young songwriter and emanating the warm feel of a band in a room; Blue Raspberry, made with the same band and producers (Logan Chung and Alberto Sewald), hits the gas and enters completely new territory as we see Katy truly step into her own as a songwriting force. She fearlessly leans far into baroque piano pop on tracks like 'Redemption Arc' and the title track 'Blue Raspberry', and lyrically she explores themes of loss and queer love. Very few are able to capture the same emotional, theatrical magic of artists like Fiona Apple, Tom Waits and Joanna Newsom but Katy pulls it off on this record; standout 'Drop Dead'.

Toyah's solo album Take The Leap! Is issued as an expanded Deluxe 2CD Edition for the first time. Packaged in deluxe 7Inch-sized gatefold packaging, it continue the series of expanded solo Toyah albums released by Edsel. Toyah's 1994 studio album was recorded with Salisbury band Friday Forever and includes eight re-recordings of classic Toyah material and six original compositions. CD1 adds four bonus tracks of which three are previously unreleased. This includes demos of album tracks Invisible Love and Lust For Love, first recorded in 1992 with Kiss Of Reality. CD2 contains 16 rarities with seven of these previously unreleased. CD2 features the long-awaited of original material Toyah wrote with members of Girlschool for their 'supergroup' project Strange Girls, who played live UK gigs and supported The Beach Boys in Germany. Long desired by fans who saw the Strange Girls live gigs; these three studio demos were recorded in 1991 but have remained unheard until their rediscovery in 2025. Further rarities, demos and remixes include a rehearsal demo of live Strange Girls favourite King Of Pain and previously unreleased home demos recorded with Cris Bonacci. The booklet contains rare and unseen photography from the album original shoot. A new sleevenote by Toyah archivist Craig Astley chronicles the 1991-1994 period and reveals how the solo album Toyah originally envisaged from the extensive material recorded in 1992 morphed into the Take The Leap! #project.