There's harmony in your hands: This week at South Records

There's harmony in your hands: This week at South Records

A big one this week with The Beatles' Rubber Soul, newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. The Deluxe 2LP adds a second LP of session highlights and early versions, plus Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out, while the Super Deluxe 5LP + 7" box adds the complete sessions collection, original mono album, US Capitol version, 7" single and an 88-page hardback book.

Also new is Vanishing Twin's Archives, assembled from recordings and ideas exchanged between Cathy Lucas in France and Valentina Magaletti and Susumu Mukai in London. It's another brilliantly strange mix of experimental pop, electronics and improvisation, with all three swapping instruments and piecing the record together from fragments of their sessions. We've got the indies-only cream vinyl.

Elsewhere, Emily A. Sprague's Cyano is a new collection of entirely synthesized ambient music, while The Yummy Fur return with Everybody Talks About The Weather, their first new album in over 25 years. Elastica's classic 1995 debut gets a Deluxe LP reissue with rarities and B-sides, and Swervedriver's Raise gets a 35th anniversary coloured vinyl edition.

There's also The Fall's Post Script which collects nine previously unreleased later-period recordings, a new Four Tet album under his Wingdings alias, Johnny Marr's The Age Of Everything on limited red vinyl, and a new collaboration from Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth, bringing clawhammer banjo together with synths, loops, violin and pedal steel.

There’s a WhatsApp group if you want the nod on rare pressings, pre-orders and re-stocks. Only when it’s worth your time.

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Before Nevermind changed everything, Nirvana's 1989 debut Bleach was a much rawer, heavier record, recorded in Seattle with Jack Endino for just over $600. There's plenty of what came later already here, but it's buried beneath sludgy guitars, punk and the influence of bands like Melvins. About a Girl, School, Negative Creep and Blew are all highlights, and more than 35 years on it's still one of the best records to come out of the early Sub Pop era. First pressing right here. 

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