The album The Get Gos Action Hour! by Paul Melançon and the New Insecurities is released on Bandcamp.com. 
The album The Get Gos Action Hour! by Paul Melançon and the New Insecurities is released on Bandcamp.com.
Label Logic releases Threesome, Volume 1 by The Lickerish Quartet, a trio of former members of Jellyfish, kicking off a crowd-funded trilogy of power pop EP releases.
Ace Records releases Bob Stanley presents ’76 In The Shade, a compilation album assembled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley, representing his musical memories of British radio in the summer of 1976. The album includes songs by Jefferson Starship, 10cc, Cliff Richard, and Smokey Robinson.
Label Logic releases Threesome, Volume 2 by The Lickerish Quartet, a trio of former members of Jellyfish, continuing the band’s crowd-funded trilogy of power pop EP releases.
British Stereo Collective releases Mystery Fields, its debut album of vintage synthesizer instrumentals in the style of early ’80s BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Warner Music New Zealand releases the debut Forenzics album, Shades and Echoes, featuring former members of Split Enz (including lead singer Tim Finn) and other musicians creating new songs often using short sections of older Split Enz songs as springboards.
Cleopatra Records releases the album Space Force by Todd Rundgren, consisting of all-star collaborations with artists with whom Rundgren had not previously worked.
Dog Triumph Records releases the album Profound Mysteries III by Röyksopp, featuring collaborations with Alison Goldfrapp, Susanne Sundfør, Pixx, and Jamie Irrepressible.
American Laundromat Records releases the Juliana Hatfield single I’m Alive / When I Was A Boy, an pair of covers accompanying the album Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO.
American Laundromat Records releases Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO, an album of covers spanning the entire career of Electric Light Orchestra.
Deutsche Grammophon releases the album Echoes: Ancient & Modern by famed producer Trevor Horn (Buggles, Art Of Noise, Yes), an all-star album of covers of mostly ’80s hits, with a few past connections to Horn’s career.
RealWorld Records releases i/o, the tenth solo album by Peter Gabriel, a double album with different mixes – the “bright-side” and “dark-side” mixes – of each song, many of which have already debuted on YouTube throughout the year.
The British Stereo Collective / Federation collaborative EP Marked To Kill is released via Bandcamp, with lyrics (and a video) connecting the song to the BBC space opera Blake’s 7. The release of the single both digitally and on vinyl benefits charity.