BILL FAY GROUP
TOMORROW, TOMORROW, TOMORROW REISSUE
2LP / CD
01. Strange Stairway / 02. Spiritual Mansions / 03. Planet Earth Daytime / 04. Goodnight Stan / 05. Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow / 06. Just A Moon / 07. To Be A Part / 08. Sam / 09. Lamp Shining / 10. Turning The Pages / 11. Love Is The Tune / 12. After The Revolution / 13. Jericho Road / 14. Strange Stairway (Demo) / 15. Birdman (Bonus Track) / 16. Life / 17. Hypocrite / 18. Man / 19. Cosmic Boxer / 20. We Are Raised / 21. Isle of Sleep / 22. Coming Down / 23. Hypocrite (Demo) / 24. Spiritual Mansions (Demo) / 25. Cosmic Boxer (Alternate Version) / 26. The Coast No Man Can Tell (Bonus Track) / 27. Man (Take 1) / 28. When We Set Sail (Bonus Track)
The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fay’s unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of almost twenty-five years. With each new album comes new hosannas and evangelizers — Jeff Tweedy, Kevin Morby, Adam Granduciel and Julia Jacklin, to name just a few.
The Bill Fay Group, in particular, is Fay’s most significant collaborative work; he records as a member of a larger group here, and the result summons a grander sonic scale, an elegant counterweight to Fay’s instincts for the understated. Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow brings to bear the galactic qualities of early rock, the intricacy of jazz improv, and Fay’s earthy folk magic.
Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow has a patchy release history: recorded between 1978 and 1981, it was not released until 2005, when it appeared on CD with limited streaming and no vinyl companion. A 2006 reissue brought the album onto vinyl but with a truncated sequence and nine songs missing. Now, finally, Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow arrives in full worldwide.
Label: DEAD OCEANS
THE CULT
DREAMTIME LP
LTD LP /LP
A1. Horse Nation / A2. Spiritwalker / A3. 83rd Dream / A4. Butterflies / A5. Go West (Crazy Spinning Circles) / B1. Gimmick / B2. A Flower In The Desert / B3. Dreamtime / B4. Rider In The Snow / B5. Bad Medicine Waltz
The Cult, who celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2024, see their adventurous and highly-regarded debut album, Dreamtime, released on special 40th anniversary vinyl.
Originally released in 1984, following the band’s evolution from the Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and then simply The Cult, Dreamtime finds the outfit featuring Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, pivoting from their goth and punk roots into something eclectic, aspirational, and adventurous. Rife with lyrical references to the indigenous cultures of the Americas and Australia, and set against a more bombastic and muscular musical backdrop, Dreamtime hints at what would envelop the band over the next four decades, a dedication to their wholly unique songwriting, both musically and thematically, and the frenzy that was soon to come with the release of Love only a year later.
‘Spiritwalker,’ the first single from the album, hit #1 on the U.K.’s independent chart.
Available on limited opaque red coloured vinyl.
Label: BEGGARS BANQUET
ERIKA DE CASIER
STILL
LP / CD
01. Right This Way / 02. Home Alone / 03. Lucky / 04. The Princess / 05. ice (ft. They Hate Change) / 06. Test It / 07. ooh / 08. Believe It / 09. Anxious / 10. Ex-Girlfriend (ft. Shygirl) / 11. Toxic / 12. My Day Off / 13. Twice (ft. Blood Orange) / 14. Someone
The 33-year-old Danish singer, songwriter and producer built a cult following with her 2019 debut album Essentials, and built on that “cult” designation with 2021’s Sensational, her first for 4AD. Since then, she’s performed at some of the biggest festivals in the world, written for pop stars (NewJeans) and sung on hyped dance tracks (Mura Masa, Shygirl). But when she ushers you into the expanses of her third album she’s inviting you to leave any crass The Nordics’ Next Big Thing or Rising Alt-Pop Star epithets at the door. She may have won a lot of new fans in the past three years, and a lot of high-profile collaborators (Dua Lipa, Blood Orange, Eartheater, etc.) but as this album’s title confirms, she’s the same old Erika de Casier. Still.
All of this to say the album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound here. Her songwriting is as masterful and universal as ever, and her proficiency as a producer heightened as she produces other voices (They Hate Change, Shygirl, Blood Orange) for the first time. She also invites new collaborators, working with live musicians in addition to samples. N, co-producer of Essentials and Sensational, returns here, but added to the fold are Jonathan Jull Ludvigsen, Carl Emil Johansen, Niels Kirk, Christian Rhode Lindinger, Nick León, Kirsten Nyhus Janssen and Tobias Sachse, adding live drums, synths, guitar, bass and more.
Available on indie exclusive clear vinyl.
Label: 4AD
