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Import-only vinyl LP pressing of the 1994 sophomore album from the British Trip Hop outfit. The follow-up to their innovative 1991 debut album, Blue Lines, Protection solidified the band's place in British Electronic music history. With guest vocals provided by diverse artists like Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) and Tricky, Protection remains a benchmark in Trip Hop, Electronic, Chill and Dance music. For the second time in a row, Massive Attack raised the bar and their contemporaries could only hide their faces in shame. EMI.

The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, Dummy was made at the same time as a short film noir called "To Kill a Dead Man," and the same approach--gloomy, tormented, and wildly melodramatic--permeates the album. "Sour Times" (the hit in which Gibbons cries, again and again, "Nobody loves me, it's true") and the more cryptic "Glory Box" are the linchpins of the album, defining its sound: dark flashes of old soul and film music, dehumanized electronic bleeps, Gibbons emoting like she's consumed by shame, and a bass-and-beat pulse derived from the slow bump and grind of the Bristol scene that spawned Barrow's old collaborators, Massive Attack. --Douglas Wolk

After rocking the suburbs with the infectious and persistent "Da Funk" (with its amusingly pointless Spike Jonze video), Gallic pranksters Daft Punk unleashed Homework, an album that combined everything good about house music with everything bad about French pop and changed the face of dance music in the process. The sound of production duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem is a raw and dirty collage of cheap drum machines (wired for maximum swing) welded to endless filtered loops and embellished with everything from guitars to talk-box vocals. The beats are lifted straight from the Chicago House textbook, but the simple bass lines and catchy hooks make a listenable pop song from what would normally be a stripped-down DJ tool. Uncompromising yet totally accessible. --Matthew Corwine

Take a Picture blends Margo's infectious and highly intelligent songcraft with her absolutely unique voice -- equal parts girl group innocence and seductive torch. One of the most endearing and delicious soft rock records from its era, here's an impeccable Sundazed vinyl reissue of this '68 masterpiece, direct from the original masters.

180 gram remastered LP reissue of the Free Design's 1970 album adds 2 previously unreleased bonus jingles recorded for a Chapstick commercial - 'For The Love Of Your Lips' (outtake 1 & 2). Light In The Attic. 2005.

180 gram remastered LP reissue of the Free Design's beautiful, ultra-rare final album, recorded in 1972 on Ambrotype. Light In The Attic. 2005.

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Temporary People is the seventh full-length studio album from singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Joseph Arthur, and the second with his band The Lonely Astronauts. The album is co-produced with Kenny Siegal, who previously worked with Joseph on his 2006 album Nuclear Daydream.

The flying fingers of steel guitar virtuoso Buddy Emmons' unspooling blazing lines that nobody had ever heard before -- made him an obvious choice for Grand Ole Opry's national spotlight and to tour in the bands of country icons Ernest Tubb, Ray Price, Little Jimmy Dickens and Roger Miller. But this one-time child prodigy from Mishawaka, Ind., who'd picked up the instrument at the age of 6, was always looking beyond the Nashville skyline to play in settings that would stretch his prodigious talent to the max. In 1963, Emmons conquered his musical Everest by hooking up with tenor sax man Jerome Richardson, pianist Bobby Scott, bassist Art Davis and drummer Charlie Persip to cut a landmark jazz album that opened a lot of eyes and added steel guitar to the jazzman's ever-expanding arsenal. In restoring this rare classic to vinyl, Steel Guitar Jazz has been cut from the original Mercury Records stereo masters-- and it sounds positively devastating! One of our absolute all-time faves!