Magazine

Magazine: Magic Murder and the Weather [Vinyl LP]

Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the music connoisseur's choice; frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2, Johnny Marr and MGMT. NME. Com went so far as to included Magazine in a poll as one of the most influential bands of all time. Created by frontman, Howard Devoto - who co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley - Magazine's sound focused on the double barrels of Dave Formula's swirling keyboards and John McGeoch's ahead-of-it's-time innovative guitar work, underpinned by Barry Adamson's pulsing yet deviously irregular basslines. Atop of this sat Howard Devoto's lyrics. Leading the vanguard of post-punk, their released four groundbreaking albums before disbanding. 1979's Secondhand Daylight is repressed for the first time on colored vinyl and features unseen images and new notes from band members compiled and curated by Rory Sullivan-Burke.

No Thyself is the fifth and final studio album by the band Magazine, and the first since their 2009 reformation. It was released on the Wire-Sound label on 24 October 2011, about 30 years after the release of their previous studio album, Magic, Murder and the Weather. No Thyself was full of Magazine’s trademark blend of arch art-rock, discrete funk and cinematic atmosphere still sounds. Formula’s crisp, clean production allows the band’s stunning musicianship free reign while adding the contemporary flourishes of strings and a post-Massive Attack ambience. Pressed from the 2011 recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Noko.

This is a re-worked compilation as a double LP set on vinyl for the very first time, featuring a re-jigged and updated track listing by Howard Devoto of 19 songs from the Magazine back catalogue. Rays and Hail covers the first three years of the band's existence plus the reformed years with highlight after highlight on display. It features all the essentials including Shot By Both Sides, The Light Pours Out Of Me, A Song From Under The Floorboards and more.