The headbangers in your life will be well-served this year, with Iron Maiden’s towering Senjutsu (£13.50 on CD £40 on triple vinyl) and Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories the pick of the new LPs. The CD also features two bravura duets - one between Marvin Gaye and Beverley Knight, the other featuring Jimmy Ruffin and Mica Paris. Further classics are revisited on A Symphony Of Soul (£11 on CD), which adds the strings of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to a clutch of Motown standards, including Dancing In The Street. Now reissued on double vinyl (£25), it includes Saving All My Love For You and I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Voice when it was released nine months after her death in 2012. Whitney Houston’s hits collection, I Will Always Love You, is a sumptuous package that made the most of her spectacular four-octave The Lathums also reached No 1 with How Beautiful Life Can Be, an album of sunny guitar pop that built on the Wigan band’s grassroots following (£8 on CD £23 on vinyl). Its soaring choruses drew inevitable comparisons with U2. Bono’s son Elijah Hewson shows he is a chip off the old block on It Won’t Always Be Like This, the chart-topping debut by his band Inhaler (£8 on CD £19 on vinyl). INDIE KIDSįor youngsters who might enjoy something more robust, guitar-driven rock is a good option.
Nashville star Hayley Williams’ Flowers For Vases / Descansos (£20 on CD £19.50 on vinyl) is haunting and tender, its stripped-down folk a far cry from her day job in punky pop band Paramore, while Lorde’s Solar Power (£21 on vinyl) is a testament to growing up on your own terms. singer’s social anxiety while still maintaining a warm, fuzzy glow. Teens will be drawn to Clairo’s second album, Sling (£10 on CD £24 on vinyl), which tackles the U.S.
BEDROOM POP FANSĪ wave of young, female singer-songwriters came to the fore in 2021, many writing songs in their bedroom during lockdown. One of Kylie’s guests, Jessie Ware, has also revamped her own kitchen disco album, What’s Your Pleasure? - adding new songs and club mixes (£11 on CD £29 on vinyl), while there are some booming dance-pop numbers on Abba’s Voyage, selling healthily on CD (£11) and vinyl (£26).įor those who’d rather bust a move around the Christmas tree, the new ‘guest list’ edition of Kylie’s 2020 album, Disco, features remixes and new collaborations with Olly Alexander and Gloria Gaynor. It’s out as a double CD (£10) and triple vinyl LP (£29). DISCO DEVOTEESįor those who’d rather bust a move around the Christmas tree, the new ‘guest list’ edition of Kylie’s 2020 album, Disco, features remixes and new collaborations with Olly Alexander and Gloria Gaynor.
Highlights include Start Me Up, a great example of how drummer Charlie Watts, who died in August, gave the Stones their groove. Formats include a double CD (£15), double vinyl LP (£30) and a five-disc box set on CD (£100) and vinyl (£106). Whenever The Beatles are in the house, the Stones can’t be far behind, and the band’s 1981 album Tattoo You has also been given a reboot.
The Beatles’ Let It Be album was revealed in a fresh light by Peter Jackson’s superb, if overlong, Get Back documentary, and there are gifting options aplenty if you have a Fab Four fan in your life.Īn excellent coffee table book, The Beatles: Get Back (£26.50), chronicles the same period with candid photos by Ethan Russell and Linda McCartney.