Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form.

A Single Woman is an album from 1993 by singer, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. It was her last album. In 1993, A Single Woman was placed 3th in the Top Jazz Albums.

Nina Simone made her first trip into the studio in New York during 1957 to record her debut album Little Girl Blue.

Recorded in early 1971, Curtis / Live! finds Curtis Mayfield in top form at the intimate Greenwich Village club The Bitter End.

Production on Born Sinner began just a week after the release of Cole’s debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story.

Fat Freddy’s Drop hit the ground running with new studio album SLO MO, a bass-heavy blast of redemption and resolution.

Released in 1975 and produced by Lawrence Lindo aka Jack Ruby, Burning Spear's magnificent Marcus Garvey album set the benchmark for Roots Reggae and is still widely considered the greatest collection of its kind ever to see issue.

"This important album, Monk's first after a long absence from the recording studio, is a stunning reaffirmation of his power as a performer and composer. It is a brilliant and absorbing program of five Monk originals and three standards (and they might just as well be originals, so startling is their transformation at his hands). This is a beautiful album in every respect." - Pete Welding, DownBeat Magazine

With the panache of a circus sideshow barker, Richard James continues to push the boundaries of digitalia, fashioning easily one of the most interesting and unique catalogs in the canon. Freaky stuff indeed.

Blue Note Re:imagined returns this year with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene’s most hotly-tipped rising stars.

Quasimoto first came to life on Madlib's personal beat tapes in the producer’s early years in Oxnard CA - private music, not meant for release, made for himself and a small circle of local smokers and their car stereos.

Baxter Dury is pleased to announce his tenth studio album, ‘Allbarone’, released on Heavenly Recordings. The Album was produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence & The Machine), the first album he’s worked on in over five years.

“It is a fantastic album – funky, gritty and powerful, packed with incredible singing and potent songs that cast a stark eye over life’s hardships.” – The Guardian

This is the fourth mixtape by American rapper Mac Miller.

2012 reissue with updated artwork

Comprised of 11 tracks crafted from threads of '70s jazz and '90s neo-soul - the album is perfect for those that love Jill Scott, Solange, Shaolin Soul, Minnie Ripperton and Lauryn Hill. Produced by Inflo, who worked with Danger Mouse on Michael Kiwankua's last album Kiwanuka, he gives the record a similar nostalgic sophistication and soul.

Duke Ellington surprised the jazz world in 1962 with his historic trio session featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

The tracks are all secular Christmas seasonal songs, in contrast to her second Christmas album released in 1967.

Always a dancefloor friendly act, The Remixes (originally issued 25 years ago) is the sound of the Roses biggest tunes revisited by many of the foremost names in UK dance music at that time – including legends such as Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne and fellow Mancunians 808 State and A Guy Called Gerald.

Love Is Overtaking Me contains 21 tracks recorded between 1974 and 1990. 

When Aretha Franklin passed away on August 16, 2018 we lost the Queen of Soul, acknowledged as the foremost female singer of her generation, someone who sold over 75 million records in her glittering career.

Rare and killer Japanese soul funk tunes selected by Ryosuke Endo and Ryohei Tanaka.

Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese — focusing this time on the King Records catalog.

The seminal album from 1966 is one of Dylan's finest moments.

At the time the album was recognised for its bold departure from the group’s sonic traditions. In the years since, it’s been continuously celebrated, with tracks like ‘To Build A Home’ reaching huge audiences with over half a billion streams to date.

Barry Can't Swim's rise has been nothing short of meteoric. He returns this summer with his hotly anticipated second album 'Loner' .

LCD Soundsystem's debut album, re-pressed on vinyl. Electropunk, disco anthems and new wave dance. 

This album somber, expressive, intimate, and expansive all at the same time.

Joy Division compilation Substance, first released in 1988 fills in the missing pieces of the band's history with four non-album singles (Transmission, Komakino, Love Will Tear Us Apart and Atmosphere), plus their B-Sides.

Vision Songs Vol 1 (1984) is the Laraaji album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel. 

Like a warm Mediterranean breeze, it travels across lands, seas and eras, distilling essential rhythms and cosmic pulsations.

Ray Charles At Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Seminal album from cult Ghanaian musician Alhaji K. Frimpong, recorded in 1976 and considered to be one of the best highlife albums ever recorded. Features the masterpiece Kyenkyen Bi Adi M’awu (come back my love) - universally known in Ghana, covered and sampled by artists such as Chronnix, Gnarls Barkley and many more. Backed by Vis a Vis - one of the most influential bands to come out of the Ghana Highlife / Afro Rock movement. Unique avant garde sound that blends traditional highlife percussion and horns with synthesizers. Original copies of the album are extremely rare. The album was reissued in limited quantities in 2011 and has been unavailable since - even reissue copies sell for high prices on the second hand market. Record Store Day exclusive pressing comes on Blue vinyl with heavyweight sleeve.

This is a new half-speed master exclusively for RSD and part of the Two Tone Records 40th Anniversary celebrations.

Ethereal, exceptional, beautifully orchestrated pop music from one of the late 20th century's most idiosyncratic artists, Scott 3 contains a series of lush, mesmerizing songs that typify the free-spirited, experimental late 1960s. in this third solo album, Scott Walker gives free rein to his more epic impulses on songs like the careening We Came Through, a prime example of the kind of marvelously over-the-top pieces that made him a byword for eccentricity, while 30th Century Man is almost the exact opposite, featuring only the mellow-voiced singer and an acoustic guitar.

Celebrating the photography of Robert Doisneau, 25 years after his death.

Hendrix flew into London from New York on September 23rd 1966 with his new manager Chas Chandler and within a couple of days started auditioning for The Experience. 

Michael Jackson's Thriller is the bestselling album of all time, with 45 million worldwide sales powered by eight grammy awards.

Long in the Tooth represents the culmination of a 15-year journey by a band that has consistently carved its own distinct path through the grooves of history.

Wewantsounds continue its extensive Meiko Kaji reissue program in partnership with Teichiku Records and Meiko Kaji herself, with the release of Gincho Wataridori, her debut album from 1972.

Sahra Halgan, Somaliland's iconic singer, freedom fighter, and cultural activist, returns with third album Hiddo Dhawr, a culmination of enduring friendship and global exploration

Like an out-of-control firecracker, Iggy Pop has made his often erratic way through a musical career since the sixties, beginning with The Stooges; then a series of solo albums, and an ever-widening list of interesting collaborations with both major stars and unknowns.

At long last: the classic Steely Dan catalog is back on vinyl.

This DJ-Kicks is the latest instalment in Quantic’s ever-evolving artistic trajectory, an accompaniment to those moments when the gloaming disappears into darkness. Will Holland’s longstanding dedication to a full range of melodic and percussive expression alongside continued musical collaboration is what makes his edition of DJ-Kicks such a rare beauty.

Pink is the closest thing to a "proper" club record that Kieran Hebden has produced in his 14 years as Four Tet.

New album from David Byrne with the New York City-based musical ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. Features guest appearances by St. Vincent, Hayley Williams of Paramore, and Tom Skinner of The Smile.

Singularity is the proper follow-up to Jon Hopkins' 2013 breakthrough Immunity, a spellbinding album of highly intricate, glitchy techno which nevertheless felt organic, and even classical at times.

Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul-jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge.

Pan Amsterdam blends experimental hip-hop, jazz, funk and electronic influences, resulting in shapeshifting, genre-defying tracks.

First Word Records is very proud to bring you a brand new EP from Amanda Whiting, entitled 'Can You See Me Now?'

hopefully ! - a life-affirming exploration of fatherhood, childhood and alternative music, marking Loyle Carner as you’ve never heard seen or heard him before.

The ambitious album, intended as somewhat of a sequel to Ready to Die, picking up where its predecessor left off.

Although The Smiths continued to improve over the course of their career, the songs here are vital and alive, making sure that their debut remains startling and exciting to this day

Born to an African-American opera singer and a Jamaican footballer who played for Celtic in Glasgow, Gil Scott-Heron was a ground-breaking musician and writer whose melding of poetry, soul and political activism paved the way for the arrival of rap and prefaced neo-soul by some decades.

It’s a special, but also a strange sensation to be releasing an album of one of your early musical heroes. I first discovered The Movers on my very first “record safari” in 1996. My destination was Bulawayo, in southern Zimbabwe, and to get there I had to travel via Jo’burg. While in town I stopped at a store called Kohinoor, in search of Mbaqanga – also known as Township Jive – and found a few tapes which I listened to non-stop on the bus that carried me to the land of Chimurenga Music. One of these cassettes included the songs “Hot Coffee” and “Phukeng Special” which instantly became part of my daily life. Twenty-five years later I’m still grooving to them.

Thematic, resonant, addictive and perfectly formed, it's a thrillingly coherent statement piece. Additional artists featured include Erykah Badu, Grey Reverend, Cornelia and Szjerdene.

Sounds Beyond Barriers One of the most politically charged terms of the 20th century, the Iron Curtain was a metaphor for political and cultural division. In a post-war telegram Winston Churchill referred to the fault line that ran through Europe between East and West as "an Iron Curtain is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind".

Japanese Funk, Boogie and City Pop from King Records 1974-88 selected by Dj Notoya

In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife.

Rising from the wreckage of a war torn planet, Czarface joins forces with MF Doom in the epic Czarface Meets Metal Face! Blending Doom's trademark abstractions and Czarface's in-your-face lyrical attack.

Beck returns with his first album of new material since 2008′s critically-acclaimed 'Modern Guilt'.

1991's Out of Time was the album that catapulted R.E.M. from an indie favourite to one of the biggest bands in the world.

Songs of Faith and Devotion is the eighth studio album by Depeche Mode, originally released in March 1993 by Mute Records.

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Freak The Speaker' is an evolution of The Allergies trademark sound, seeing duo Moneyshot and Rackabeat deliver their biggest beats to date on their latest album.

A new, remastered, clear vinyl edition of The James Taylor Quartet’s seminal debut The Money Spyder.

Brand new selection of rare and classic releases made at Studio One by reggae's leading women!

The first Pulp album for almost 24 years!

Horizon is a new collaborative album by Resavoir & Matt Gold.

House of the Rising Sun features several guest performances by New York studio aces, including Joe Beck, Don Grolnick, David Sanborn, Fred Wesley and Michael Brecker amongst others.

With classics such as "If You Want Me To Stay" and "Que Sera Sera", Fresh is one of Sly & The Family Stone's masterpieces.

Daniel Avery described Ultra Truth as an album "about looking directly into the darkness, not running away from it."

Globetrotting Texan trio Khruangbin are set to release ‘Hasta El Cielo’, the band’s glorious dub version of their second album ‘Con Todo El Mundo’. The full album has been processed anew along with two bonus dubs by renowned Jamaican producer Scientist.

Craig Charles has been a soul and funk fan since his teenage years in Liverpool, going to see local heroes The Real Thing live, and wearing out his shoe leather dancing in the city’s many underground clubs. 

The early 21st Century, a shadowy figure rose from the dust that settled atop forgotten record collections throughout Africa, leaving behind trails of clues, but Luaka Bop unmask a phantom: the great William Onyeabor.

Dreamstate is Kelly Lee Owens fourth studio album. The new album will be her first released at new label home dh2 - a brand new electronic music imprint at renowned independent label Dirty Hit being spearheaded by George Daniel of The 1975.

A collection of the best gospel - soul thumpers from the Boddie Recording Company and BOS Records by way of The Numero Group.

The Album That Created A Superstar' - Originally released at the end of 1973, the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the crowning moment of an upward trajectory marking the unstoppable rise of Elton John.

"All the Vanguard music is informed by an extra sense of discovery, as if the musicians were suddenly aware of what they were on to and were celebrating the achievement."

Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760 is the first new music from Aphex Twin in five years.