The Röyksopp album Melody A.M. is released, featuring the singles “Epie” and “Remind Me”.
The Röyksopp album Melody A.M. is released, featuring the singles “Epie” and “Remind Me”.
Water Music releases Julee Cruise‘s third solo album The Art Of Being A Girl, her first solo project with no involvement from Angelo Badalamenti or David Lynch (though a new recording of “Falling”, the Twin Peaks theme song, is included as a hidden track).
The Paul Melancon CD Camera Obscura is released, featuring the single “Jeff Lynne”.
The Peter Gabriel album Up is released, featuring the single “The Barry Williams Show”.
Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack album Space: 1999: Year Two, a collection of highlights from composer Derek Wadsworth’s pop-and-disco-styled reinvention of the show’s sound.
BBC Music releases a CD reissue of the 1968 album BBC Radiophonic Music, featuring original works by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, primarily consisting of themes and jingles for use on radio and television.
The Ben Folds CD Ben Folds Live is released.
Squint releases Sixpence None The Richer‘s fourth album, Divine Discontent, featuring the singles “Breathe Your Name” and “Don’t Dream It’s Over”.
The Tori Amos CD Scarlet’s Walk is released, featuring the single “A Sorta Fairytale”. This is her first album on the Epic label.
Not Lame Records releases the Jellyfish rarities box set Fan Club, featuring demos, unreleased tracks and copious live tour recordings.
The posthumous George Harrison CD Brainwashed is released, almost exactly a year after the ex-Beatle’s death.
Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the movie Star Trek: Nemesis is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
The second album by New Zealand group Oceania, featuring Hinewehi Mohi, is released.
Frank Klepacki releases his first non-soundtrack solo album, Morphscape.
Stanley Myers’ soundtrack from the 1979 miniseries The Martian Chronicles is released on CD.
The fourth Afro-Celt Sound System album, Seed, is released, featuring the single “Rise Above It”.
EMI Records releases a UK-only remastered, expanded edition of the second Electric Light Orchestra album, Electric Light Orchestra II, featuring a bonus CD bearing the 1972 album’s unused work-in-progress title, The Lost Planet. The bonus disc includes numerous previously unissued songs, including demos from a session to test out prospective new lead singers before Jeff Lynne took that mantle as well, following the departure of co-founder Roy Wood. Though a remastered Electric Light Orchestra II is later issued in North America, it does not include the second disc or its contents.
The second Pete Yorn album, Day I Forgot, is released.
The first new material from the band in years, the Fleetwood Mac album, Say You Will, is released, featuring the single “Peacekeeper”.
The second Blue Man Group album, The Complex, is released, featuring the singles “The Current” and “Up To The Roof”.
The soundtrack from The Matrix Reloaded is released, featuring songs by various artists on the first CD and Don Davis’ score on the second.
The Weird Al Yankovic album, Poodle Hat, is released, featuring the singles “Ode To A Superhero” and “eBay”.
Soundtrack specialty label Film Score Monthly releases a CD with the complete scores to two 1970s science fiction cult classics, 1971’s Soylent Green (music by Fred Myrow) and 1977’s Demon Seed (music by Jerry Fielding).
Atlantic Records releases Jewel‘s fifth album, 0304, featuring the single “Stand”.
The soundtrack from the direct-to-video movie The Animatrix is released, consisting primarily of songs with a few selections of Don Davis’ instrumental score.
Having been featured on The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, Australian remixer Rob Dougan releases his debut album, Furious Angels.
The Steve Winwood solo album About Time is released via Winwood’s own newly-founded label.
Fat Wreck Chords releases Me First and the Gimme Gimmes‘ fourth album, Take A Break.
Epic Records releases the Ben Folds’ EP Speed Graphic, the first of a trio of EPs.
8-Bit Weapon releases the album Confidential at the 2003 Classic Gaming Expo.