Busy bees: this week at South

New this week: The Beatles' Anthology 4 arrives as a newly curated triple-LP from Giles Martin, gathering 13 unreleased demos, rare session material from 1963–69, fresh mixes of Free As a Bird and Real Love, and the band’s final single Now and Then. With 26 tracks new to vinyl, notes by Kevin Howlett, and an intro from Derek Taylor, it’s the most expansive volume yet - pressed on triple 180g black vinyl. The Bug & Ghost Dubs' Implosion is a crushing, meditative, low-end odyssey: spectral dub stretched into drone, ambience, and sound-system ritual. Heavy, minimal, and ice-cold, it’s dub-techno, doom, and isolationist bass pressure colliding - mastered by Pole and released on The Bug’s PRESSURE label. A hypnotic, slow-motion wrecking ball built for deep listeners. Liz Harris’ debut as Grouper, Way Their Crept (20th Anniversary), returns to vinyl for the first time in 15+ years - the atmospheric, intimate starting point for one of modern music’s most singular voices. A hazy, homespun classic of room-tone ambience and ghosted melody. And finally, the Wild Style soundtrack gets a special edition celebrating the 4K restoration of Charlie Ahearn’s classic hip-hop film. This expanded transparent blue + orange 2LP set gathers the best tracks from past editions, the full instrumental album, and Kenny Dope’s edits, plus an A2 poster, five set photos, a flexi disc (Fantastic Freaks Live at the Dixie), and sticker sheet. Co-produced by Chris Stein and Fab Five Freddy, it remains a foundational Bronx document and a blueprint for hip-hop’s earliest sound.

Also landing as part of a strong run of soul and funk classics: Baby Huey's The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend returns, a towering psychedelic-soul milestone and one of the most heavily sampled albums of all time. James Brown's Hell reappears in all its sprawling, orchestrated, mid-70s funk glory, a double-album peak from the Godfather. Fred Wesley & The JB’s' Damn Right I Am Somebody brings back one of the tightest, hardest-hitting JB’s records, powered by deep grooves and political fire. And The O’Jays' Back Stabbers, the definitive Philly soul breakthrough, is newly reissued, a flawless mix of lush arrangements, social-soul songwriting, and timeless hits.

Browse them all 👉 here