The Kingdom - Just a Soul - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On August 5, exactly 10 years after it's original , Matador Records is reissuing Spoon's beloved eighth album, 'They Want My Soul,' on all digital platforms, with a 2xLP gatefold vinyl to follow in the fall. Along with the album's original 10 tracks-including all-time Spoon classics InchInside Out,Inch InchDo You,Inch and InchRent I PayInch- 'They Want My Soul Deluxe More Soul Edition' includes 11 demos and alternate versions, almost all of them previously unreleased. The reissue underlines the album's vaunted place amid one of rock's most bulletproof catalogs and offers a glimpse at the creative process behind a pivotal moment in the ongoing Spoon story.It's one thing for a band to last a long time. But it's something completely different-and inordinately more difficult-for a band to make very good records for a long time. Spoon is one of those bands. How do they do it? By maintaining dignity in a world hellbent on sucking it out of each and every one of us. By being unafraid to introduce new voices and creative expressions in their work, while never taking a corny left turn just for the sake of it. By knowing when they need to stop and recharge-and when to come back with force. They make it all look easy. But 'They Want My Soul Deluxe More Soul Edition' shows the hard work it takes to achieve greatness every damn time.

Andy Statman - Superstring Theory [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/22/2013

Unavailable for over 20 years, In The Beginning There Was Rhythm was Soul Jazz Records first foray into post-punk and punk-funk in the UK and captures the ground-breaking and seminal groups that crossed the divide of punk and dance music for the first time. // InchIn the Beginning is essential missing-link history - and body-rockin' funInch The Guardian // InchIn the Beginning doesn't have a single limp tune. It'll amaze new listeners and give old ones some hard-to-find tracks. Buy it.Inch Pitchfork // InchThere's no denying that In the Beginning There Was Rhythm is a great gateway into this expansive, fruitful, trailblazing era.Inch All Music // First released in 2001, this album is fully remastered, remade and presented once more in it's entirety and features A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, The Human League, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, The Slits, 23 Skidoo and This Heat. // The CD of the album comes with extensive sleevenotes and original photography. // As Muzik magazine noted on it's initial 'In The Beginning' is a choice selection from the fertile post-punk period when bands thought nothing of combining politics and philosophy with imported dance rhythms and edgy industrial angst. // The bands featured come (mostly) from the then bleak post-industrial North of England - Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds as well as Bristol and London, and yet all show a fascination with black American rhythms and an experimentation in sound that was completely unique at the time. // The title of the album comes from The Slits track of the same name.