Luke Haines - Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Bizzy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Joseph's deli & lottery is an album about a place we've never entered, but instead dream of what it's like inside. After an extensive break from recording new music we spent a day filming in a new PNW town to reconnect. Over the course of the day we gradually rediscovered the pulse of the band's collaboration. Finding beauty, humor and intrigue in every moment led us into nightfall as we followed an orange glowing light in the distance. The sacred ritual of following the light in the dark felt bittersweet and deeply metaphoric. When we arrived at the destination, rather than walking in we decided to fuel that feeling into a new album. Drifting between the subtle comfort and acceptance of being in the darkness mixed with moments of emerging into the light, the album tends to sway back and forth in many aspects. Never lost is Fox Academy's classic appreciation of love, beauty, stores, food, halloween, brands, corporations, and professional sports. With a swirling mix of new and old for t

Mork - Katedralen [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/06/2025

Having played with The Servants in the late 1980s, Luke Haines carved a unique niche for himself in the 1990s with witty lyrics, wry humour and some stellar tunes with The Auteurs and other acts (Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof). By 1999, feeling aghast at the state of the Brit Rock scene in the UK, Luke decided to Inchstart a righteous solo tripInch, having been commissioned to write the soundtrack for the film Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (2001). Sticking with Virgin Records, Luke then unveiled his first solo album proper, The Oliver Twist Manifesto, before fronting a new-look Auteurs for Das Capital. In due course, Luke switched labels to indie Fantastic Plastic for Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop (2006), followed in 2009 by 21st Century Man. Since then, he's curated a string of imaginative, amusing and always worthwhile albums for Cherry Red Records. Alive And Well... is the first-ever anthology of Luke's solo work, cherry-picking musical highlights from each of his long players as well as a smattering of B-sides, radio sessions, rarities and - on Disc 4 - a raft of previously unissued material. With sleeve-notes by Luke himself, Alive And Well... is a very personal statement spanning the last two decades of the musical life of Luke Haines.