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MUSIC 6-10 The Music Room chats with Vera Blue, Sorry and more 12-13 Cover feature: Arctic Monkeys 14 AlbumTales: Olivia Newton-John’s Greatest Hits (1977) 16 STACK Record Club 20-21 Album reviews 22 This month at JB MOVIES & TV 26 Take 5 28 Where the Crawdads Sing 30 The Black Phone 32 Halloween Horrors 33 Yellowstone 34 New from Imprint Films 36 Out this month 38 New on 4K UHD LIFE TECH 42 What’s our Tech Nightmare for October? Find out here 44-60 Looking for a wearable? You’ll need our comprehensive guide then! 62-64 Get the skinny on massage guns 66 Grab the right earbuds for your workout 70 Memories in an instant 72 Catch it right with an action camera 74-76 Reach for the sky with a drone 78 What’s new GAMING FLIP MAG AND READ FROM BACK 4 Take 5/Game Changers! 6 FIFA 23 8 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 10 PGA Tour 2K23 12 Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope 14 STACK Recommends 16 Out this month 18 Accessorise Now 19 Fast Forward/Q5

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Buckle up for a belting month of tech and entertainment releases in October, a month that sees the return of Sheffield’s finest, Arctic Monkeys, and Australia’s folk-electropop phenom, Vera Blue. Yellowstone , one of the best TV series in current circulation, is back and we’ve handpicked some quality horror flicks to make your annual Halloween marathon a proper fright night. Health, wellbeing and taking your cameras out and about is our focus in tech this month, while sports giant FIFA 23 takes out our games cover, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope also keeping the gamers occupied. Paul Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Founder Nic Short Editor-in-Chief Paul Jones Film & TV Editor Scott Hocking Music Editor Zoë Radas Games & Online Editor Amy Flower Creative Director Gary Siewert Movies Consultant Kerrie Taylor Games Consultant Sachi Fernando Music Consultant Mike Glynn

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“We’ve got lots of big, ‘80s, anthemic synth moments that all happen in the same place,” she says, “[and] they were supposed to happen in that place because that's a moment of just pure ‘feel’. Those are moments where it’s like a dance. I picture myself feeling that emotion, and dancing, and having that chaotic emotion exploding.” Beats were similarly about

Mercurial by Vera Blue is out Oct 28 via Island.

feel; see Everything Is Wonderful , in which the throbbing bass drum becomes so reverbed, crunched and layered that it actually wobbles a little out of time, and adds to this sensation of marching towards a slow and turbulent inevitablilty. The title is, of course, sarcastic – or rather, self-deluded.

That's amoment of just pure 'feel'... it's like a dance

“Yeah, 100 per-cent,” Pavey nods. “The song is about being in a really dark place of depression and anxiety, and not knowing how to cope or how to move forward. So when we were making that song I was like,’This doesn’t have to be a single. This can just be whatever we want it to be.’ “We had multiple different rhythms happening at the same time; it makes it sound industrial – quite ugly sounds. It was blending weirdly, but I love that because that was exactly how I was feeling at the time. It was not a nice feeling. I didn’t know where to go or how to cope with it. “There’s a moment in that song that I really love, where we set the microphone up and we had a section of the song on loop, and I just sang whatever I was feeling at the moment. And a lot of it was vocal wailing. I had a Janis Joplin kind of moment, which was really fun! We put all the vocal parts together, then turned up certain parts that would give us goosebumps, and turned down other parts. And it just sounded like this colossal group of voices that were all people screaming in pain… So yeah, that song? It hits me.” Another beautiful moment of form matching emotion comes in Heart Still Works , in which Pavey’s melody on the lines “Sensations I don’t recognise/ Explosions of colour and light” leaps up and down in a lilting, unexpected rhythm.”In that moment, in that song, you’re experiencing these sensations of falling in love that are brand new,” Pavey explains. “So I wanted something that was a bit fluttery and a bit ‘breathless’…”

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W hen Celia Pavey describes her out this month – she homes in on one word. “Colourful,” she offers, with a sparkling smile. It’s been five years since Pavey’s debut Perennial , a critically acclaimed collection which explored the cyclical nature of relationships in three discrete sections. In comparison to its predecessor, Mercurial has been crafted with the stage in mind; it’s changeable and volatile like its namesake, full of thick bass and synths, and imbued with an urgent spirit. upcoming live shows to promote her second album – titled Mercurial , and

Sinking her fingers right into the lifeblood of her craft - even when the experience unearthed some of her most agonising and complex emotions - was central to Celia Pavey's journey towards her second album as Vera Blue.We spoke to the singer songwriter about the gleaming, candid and ultimately remarkable Mercurial. Words Zoë Radas

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Sorry, L - R: Louis O'Bryen, Asha Lorenz, Marco Pini, Lincoln Barrett, Campbell Baum.

Anywhere But Here by Sorry is out Oct 7, including on transparent bottle green vinyl, via Domino.

Agitation and anxiety flutter through the second LP from notoriously genre-chowing North London act Sorry, but you'll also experience a distinct cleansing of the brain by its close.We put some questions to the indie-rock duo turned-five-piece's co-singer-songwriter Louis O'Bryen, all about the impressive Anywhere But Here . Words Zoë Radas LOUIS O ' BRYEN SORRY

Stevens’ WildWorld (though he sings “nice friends”).Were you deliberately reflecting on that song’s wholesome sort of style? Urmmm, no, not really! I think that was a happy coincidence. A few people have mentioned that song and compared it to Wild World … Cat Stevens is great. I get a real patronus feel from this deer we see in some of the album’s visual art.What does it mean to you? The deer is reference to the line, “You said I always look like a deer in the headlights", and I think that image is quite reflective of the song itself. Asha does all the artwork, and so it always correlates to the music.

Sorry co-vocalist and co-songwriter Asha Lorenz, who co founded the band with Louis O'Bryen. Image captured by Iris Luz.

You've described this album’s version of London – as opposed to [2020 debut album] 925 ’s – as a more ”haggard” place, which is so evocative because you usually hear ‘haggard’ to describe a person. Do you feel as if London cycles

There are some awesomely dissonant parts that pop up across the album. Do you think there’s always a distinct line between harmony and discord?

That’s important to us: we want the music, videos and artwork... to all come from the same place, and correlate. There are heaps of curious sounds and effects on the album, but the most unexpected was your use of horns ( Willow Tree, I Miss the Fool , muted trumpets in Step ).They fit so beautifully.What do you like about how they change the feel of a track? Sometimes stuff like that happens quite naturally. For Step , our bassist Campbell Baum was in the studio with us and had his saxophone, so we just decided to lay some down for that song, and [it] ended up working really well. Sometimes you need to throw sh-t at the wall and see what sticks...

I think dissonance in music is important to us. That give-and

through personalities or tempers or what have you? I think as you grow older your view of life, people and the city around you changes... We were younger when we made 925 and had

take feeling when you go from dissonance to the resolve is very potent. I think when I listen to music, that’s the stuff that draws me in

Sometimes you need to throw sh-t at the wall and see what sticks

most. So, that’s just what comes out naturally when we write music; if we don’t think about it too much, that’s the stuff our brains produce. I don’t think there’s a line between discordance and harmony. I think they’re playing off each other. There’s a line in Key to the City which goes “Hope you make a lot of rich friends out there”, which sounds like a line in Cat

a more innocent, kind of tongue-in-cheek way of speaking about stuff. Anywhere But Here feels a bit more sincere and face-on; there’s not much crypticness in the album. It

wears its heart on its sleeve. So if 925 was innocent and youthful, Anywhere But Here is a bit older and more self-aware.

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BEYONCÉ'S DISCO-LICKED 'RENAISSANCE ' GETS DELUXE VINYL TREATM ENT every

RENAISSANCE by Beyonc é is out in deluxe vinyl edition Oct 21 via Sony. It includes 2x 180gm vinyl LPs, a 36-page booklet, and a folded collectible 24" x 36" poster (one of three randomised images), in a hard slipcase.

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A cross 16 invigorating tracks, Beyoncé‘s first album since 2016’s Lemonade is a cornucopia of ideas: dangerously droning synth bass which cracks into R’n’B ’90s realness, reggaeton drums which slip into lithe Afrobeat, bewitching harmonies aplenty, and the pop superstar’s

Cuff It ’s disco-funk (replete with squidges of electric guitar) sees horns dip and duck around a beautifully swerving melody. Church Girl is absolutely not churchy at all,

references to making a lover wait are about cocaine addicts’ weekend obsession, and the references to getting high, literal. Virgo’s Groove and Plastic Off the Sofa deliver gorgeously sensual disco-soul, while Move (featuring Grace Jones, if you please, alongside Nigerian vocalist Tems) knits so many neat ideas throughout its Afrobeat rhythms it’s impossible not to scud away on its groove. The album finishes with two of its strongest tracks. Pure/Honey is ballroom-breaking, destined to soundtrack spindips and duckwalks

though it revolves around the Clark Sisters’ God-praising Center of Thy Will – Bey prefers to skip the pews in favour of shaking her thang (and her “pretty, tig ol’ bitties”) at the club. In a similiarly cheeky ruse, America Has a Problem suggests the problem is in fact Beyoncé’s bad-ssery – though some have speculated her

Model, singer songwriter and actress Grace Jones, who appears on track Move. Image by Lawrence Watson.

persistently enthralling voice; Renaissance pays homage to the history of Black music while concurrently finding reinvention and escape. Cozy takes us through the beauty of each colour on the Pride flag (including an adorable reference to Beyoncé‘s own daughter, with “Blue like the soul I crowned”) in a mega percussive parade. On Alien Superstar , Bey messes with who is who

Jamaican American drag icon Moi Renee, in a still from a 1992 live performance of her banger Miss Honey; the track is sampled in RENAISSANCE 's penultimate cut PURE/HONEY

the world over; it even samples late NYC drag performer Moi Renee’s 1992 single Miss Honey . Final track Summer Renaissance reminds us how important disco-pop queen Donna Summer is to Bey’s music, sampling (and interpolating) the icon’s 1977 track I Feel Love while our girl

(“Eyes on you when you perform, eyes on I when I put on”), also including a remarkable

announces her own ballroom category entitled “BEY”.

sample of speech from the founder of the National Black Theatre, Barbra Ann Teer: “We dress a certain way. We walk a certain way. We talk a certain way. We paint a certain way. We make love a certain way… All of these things we do in a different, unique, specific way that is personally ours.”

Teeming with the power of community, rebirth, escape and a light-up dancefloor, Renaissance

encompasses all the things the singular word can mean... and you better stand back when you crack it open.

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MONKEY BUSINESS

In an interview conducted during the recording of Arctic Monkeys' seventh album The Car , frontman AlexTurner lets a few kittens peek out of the bag in revealing the motivation, momentum and meaning behind the Sheffield act's entrancing new material. Words Zoë Radas

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Los Angeles home, the musician returned to his six-stringed companion to draft The Car 's melodic motifs. “There are a couple [of songs] that were written on the guitar,” he says. “I can’t really say that about the previous record. "I think there are things on this record you can draw a line from those older Monkeys records," he adds, though the most manifest of these connections was less about the music itself, and more about the man's anxiety or anticipation around the music. “I’ll be honest… I feel like every time we’ve done a record – certainly for the last ten years – there’s been a period where it felt like it's not going to make sense,” he says. Seven BRIT Awards, an Ivor Novello and a Mercury Prize will attest that the Monkeys always did and continue to make perfect sense, but Turner is loath to spend his time looking dreamy-eyed into the past. "Sometimes during [tour] rehearsals, we play some of the old songs, and then I am occasionally persuaded to look back on how young we once were with a twinkle in my eye," he smiles. "But I try not to get carried away with it.” on howyoung we oncewere with a twinkle inmyeye Sometimes [I] look back

Images of La Frette Studios, Paris. Credit: lafrettestudios.com

F ifteen minutes outside of Paris, in the little town of La-Frette-sur-Seine, through a disorderly tangle of dappled trees and mossy vines, is the 19th century mansion which houses La Frette Studios. While its haunting exterior might suggest Miss Havisham’s spectre hovers nearby, the

manor’s stately, rococo-plastered rooms thrum with life – and with music. It was here four years ago that singer songwriter Alex Turner and his band Arctic Monkeys recorded their sixth consecutive UK number one album Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino , and it’s where they returned earlier this year to record parts of this month’s follow-up, the comparatively simply-titled The Car . Sophisticated, moody and sometimes blithe – with easy-like-a-Sunday-morning

mysteriously fromTurner's perspective, as if still half-hidden in the ivy crawling over La Frette’s façade: “It feels to me… there is some kind of big production going on in the background,” Turner muses. “I’m not entirely 100 per cent sure what it is. There is something being created… and that perhaps allows us to explore ideas. There’s the feel like we’re preparing something.

kit, syncopated piano chords and Turner's voice stretching luxuriously into its rich, vibrato flow – The Car is the Sheffield act’s seventh album, and Turner describes it as distinct from its predecessor in the groove of process. “There’s a feel, on that last record,” he ponders. “[It’s] a feeling of experimentation or

“Which, of course, we know we are: we’re making the record,” he concedes. “But I wouldn’t say [ The Car ] is about making a record.” La Frette Studio wasn’t the only

[ The Car is] not an experiment. It's natural

character returning to the AM fam for this bewitching opus. Lassooing producer James Ford into the fray was a no-brainer, says Turner: “I don’t know who else could get me out of this mess at this point,” he says of his The Last Shadow Puppets bandmate (who has previously worked with Gorillaz, Foals, and Florence + the Machine). There was another (less sentient) presence integral to sessions even earlier in the The Car 's creation: the guitar. While the entirety of Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino was famously written by Turner on a Steinway Vertegrand piano at his

something. [This album is] not an experiment. It’s natural. And I think that comes across.” That the process was more organic seems to make it more difficult to describe; Turner struggles to pinpoint how The Car 's parlour rock panache unfolded. “I can’t tell you how… I got there, exactly,” he says. “It could have been as simple as a piece of equipment [that] led us there. There are less occasions where we are showing each other a song and saying, ‘Let’s try doing a song like this’… this record is less time spent with any references. “Of course, they’re still there,” he admits, though he won’t name names. He’s even reticent to identify books or films he absorbed during the LP's writing, though he does mention reading late crime-fiction writer Raymond Chandler... then clarifies that the seminal novelist did not influence the album's material. The Car ’s themes emerge similarly

Arctic Monkeys on the grounds of La Frette Studios, during the recording of Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino (2018) Credit: Zackery Michael

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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN GREATEST HITS (40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) In AlbumTales, Bryget Chrisfield hits you with some juicy nuggets of wisdom surrounding classic icons and their records. This month it’s the newly-remastered collection of hits from the late jewel of Oz, Olivia Newton-John.

Year 1977

Entertainers (or ACE). Led by George Jones and Tammy Wynette (who were married at the time), the association sought to “preserve the identity of country music as a separate and distinct form of entertainment,” and mostly consisted of Grand Ole Opry members. But Dolly had Livvy’s back Olivia later claimed she was unaware of this CMA backlash at the time: “I was travelling and touring, and I heard about it after,” she said. “[I] heard that Dolly [Parton] and Loretta [Lynn] had backed me up, so I had great support.” ONJ insisted on a screen test for Grease Olivia was offered the role of Sandy in Grease after

Lovely Livvy lights up our small screens As a teenager, Olivia was asked to fill in for The Tarax Show regular Lovely Anne over the Christmas hols while she took a break to go get married, which is how ‘Lovely Livvy’ got her start in TV. She had to drop out of high school in order to accept this gig on the popular children’s show, hosted by Happy Hammond. Becoming an international chart-topping crossover artist After she was championed by Sir Cliff Richard in the UK – as a regular guest on the variety show he hosted – Olivia cracked the US market thanks to her cover of Bob

If you haven’t already revisited Dame Olivia Newton-John’s sublime back catalogue in light of her recent passing, we recommend you do so sharpish. ONJ’s captivating smile, radiant beauty and girl-next-door charm perfectly matched the sound of her pure, angelic voice. Aside from setting impossibly high beauty standards for the rest of us, Livvy captured our hearts and cracked the global market, winning four Grammys and selling 100 million albums worldwide. Let’s face it: we all wanted to either date or be ONJ at some point. Australia’s sweetheart (who was actually born in Britain, her family relocating here when she was five), Olivia is most often remembered for her good-girl-gone-kinda-bad transformation while starring as Sandy in Grease . But I’m sure we can all agree that Olivia was a beacon of goodness. “I feel grateful

Olivia Newton-John and JohnTravolta in Grease (1978)

producer Allan Carr was charmed by her during a dinner party at Helen Reddy’s house. Apart from the fact that she would be a 29-year-old playing a 17-year-old, ONJ wanted a chemistry test with co star John Travolta before committing to the project ( Saturday Night Fever wasn’t out yet, so she only knew his work from Welcome Back, Kotter ). And there was sizzling on-screen chemistry, alright! So Olivia negotiated equal billing with John, and a percentage of Grease ’s royalties. Win! Dem iconic disco pants, though… In 2019, Olivia sold her most iconic look – Sandy’s black leather jacket and disco pants, worn during Grease ’s show-stopping finale – at auction, to raise funds for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre. And the founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely, bought the pants...

Dylan’s If Not for You , which topped the country chart and also hit number six on the pop chart. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, ONJ’s take on If Not for You is closer to George Harrison’s rendition than Dylan’s.

that I’ve been able to use my success to help create things that were meaningful,” she said during an interview with Karl Stefanovic. A cultural icon and fearless

Some of Nashville’s biggest names resented Olivia After Olivia won ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ at the Country Music

Association (CMA) Awards, Nashville veterans – who regarded ONJ as a pop performer – were incensed enough to break

advocate for cancer patients, ONJ always navigated life’s challenges with dignity and grace.

away from the CMA and instead form the Association of Country

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Each month we hand-pick a collection of reissues, limited editions or just straight classic long-players that deserve a place in any record collection. Words Paul Jones, Amy Flower & Zoë Radas

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was now in the rear-view mirror, and the band had to navigate mending toxic personal ruptures (and some demonic comedowns, we’re guessing). Across Tusk ’s 20 songs are diamonds from three angles: Stevie Nicks ( Sara , borne by airy and sashaying harmonies), Christine McVie (the gorgeously hazy and rippling Never Make Me Cry ) and Buckingham, who wrote eight cuts but whose commitment to weirdness shines most brightly on the album’s title track, which pounds with chanted lyrics, gypsy-squealed back-ups, found sounds (including lamb chops and a thumped Kleenex box), and the Trojan Marching Band pulling it all together. Tusk may have ‘flopped’ (if selling four million copies, hitting UK number one, and ending up certified platinum in multiple countries is a failure), but it remains a fascinating and rewarding counter to the band’s more ‘accessible’ album released just two years beforehand. TOP TRACK: Tusk FAST FACT: Tusk producer Ken Caillat once commented that Buckingham was a “maniac” during recording: “He’d freaked out in the shower and cut off all his hair with nail scissors,” he said of one incident.

FLEETWOOD MAC TUSK (1979) Envisioned by Lindsay Buckingham as an anti- Rumours , Tusk reportedly sent the musician absolutely barmy from obsessive stress (see our ‘FAST FACT’). While some listeners consider the double album’s experimental narrative as half-baked and dribbly compared to its predecessor’s comparatively trim ideas, Tusk manages to jab at, and awaken, some truly complex feelings – perhaps because the anguished break-up record ( Rumours )

ALICE IN CHAINS DIRT (1992) REMASTERED LIMITED EDITION OPAQUE YELLOW VINYL Thirty years ago, Alice in Chains' most acclaimed release landed with fury and tore through the music landscape like a firestorm. The band is often cited as a grunge progenitor, and Dirt , the band’s second album, would prove to be a pathfinder. Ravaged with internal problems from drug addiction to the black dog, the songs primarily explore vocalist Layne Staley’s personal torment with uncompromising honesty. Loud and raw, its power and anguish are palpable with songwriting and vocal duties shared between Staley and axeman Jerry Cantrell. This release features remastered audio and comes as a 2x LP set pressed in opaque yellow vinyl. It sounds as potent now as it did 30 long years ago. TOP TRACK: Would? FAST FACT: Dirt was the last

DAVID BOWIE HUNKY DORY (1971) 2015 REMASTERED VERSION

Through his near 50-year career, David Bowie was never one to be pigeonholed stylistically, and even before this, his fourth album, he’d careened from novelty song ( The Laughing Gnome ) to a timeless ode to alienation ( Space Oddity ) and beyond to the still mesmerising The Man Who Sold the World . For Hunky Dory Bowie changed tack again, moving away from the guitar as his principal writing tool to the piano. This gentler vibe is reflected from the first notes of opener Changes , an enduring classic that remains unsullied despite being used

in ads for nappies. Track two – Oh! You Pretty Things – continues Bowie’s knack for irresistible hooks, while singing of future fear. The gentle Eight Line Poem follows, before one of Bowie’s finest ever tunes in Life on Mars? – not bad for a song that started life as a parody of Sinatra’s My Way . The jaunty Kooks was dedicated to newborn son, Duncan, and precedes side one closer, the acoustic beauty Quicksand . Side two kicks off with the lilting Fill Your Heart , before a trio of American icon tributes in the cacophonous Andy Warhol, Song for Bob Dylan and Queen B-tch , the latter inspired by the Velvet Underground and, in particular, Lou Reed (whose seminal Transformer Bowie would soon co-produce). A touch of the surreal in The Bewlay Brothers closes proceedings. Initially unloved upon release, Hunky Dory has since deservedly set up home in many greatest albums of all time lists. TOP TRACK: Life on Mars? FAST FACT: Bowie’s cover pose was inspired by actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, such as Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. The shot was photographed in black and white before being recoloured.

album to feature all four original members. Bassist Mike Starr was fired during the tour to support the release,

ironically, for his escalating drug addiction.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool it Down Their first album in over nine years is an expert distillation of the band’s best gifts.

Björk Fossora Fossora sees Björk fold her signature eclectic musical style into a bold artistic excursion.

Pixies Doggerel Adding bold new orchestrated, cinematic flourishes to the visceral, high tension alt-rock they’re renowned for.

The Mars Volta The Mars Volta In their first new album in a

decade, 14 tracks bravely challenge everything you thought you knew about The Mars Volta.

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Craig David 22 22 brings you Craig David’s unique, authentically British sound - a sound that makes waves across the globe.

Big Scary Me and You Big Scary return with Me and You , with strings, guitar and harmony making another beautiful instalment.

ALVVAYS Blue Rev

Multi-platinum artist Charlie Puth releases his new album CHARLIE, featuring the hit singles Light Switch and Left and Right featuring Jung Kook of BTS.

An exquisite collection of songs that are bigger, brighter and more ambitious than anything the Toronto quintet have recorded previously.

Press Club Endless Motion Brave, energetic and expansive; Melbourne punk hurricane Press Club return with new album Endless Motion .

Dropkick Murphys featuring Woody Guthrie This Machine Still Kills Fascists Dropkick Murphys bring Woody Guthrie’s perennial jabs at life into the present, with the resulting music eerily relevant to today’s world.

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Silvia Colloca Sing Like an Italian Actress, food-lover and TV

Andrea Bocelli A Family Christmas

Lindsey Stirling Snow Waltz Award-winning pop-violinist Lindsey Stirling releases her new Christmas album featuring eight classic covers and five original tracks, but with a seasonal twist, that promises to be the perfect soundtrack for the holiday season.

Buddy Guy The Blues Don’t Lie New album from the Grammy winning blues legend, featuring guest appearances from Elvis Costello, James Taylor, Mavis Staples, Jason Isbell and more.

The Bocelli family release their first Christmas album of heartwarming and festive favourites.

personality Silvia releases her first album, singing and curating popular Italian favourites.

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Beth Orton Weather Alive Beth Orton’s first album in six

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Alter Bridge Pawns & Kings The latest album from Orlando, Florida rock band featuring Myles Kennedy.

Queensrÿche Digital Noise Alliance Digital Noise Alliance is Queensrÿche effortlessly moving from strength to strength: immediate and thought-provoking, quintessentially Queensrÿche.

Castle St is the brand new album from award-winning New Zealand five-piece, Six60. The album features ten new tracks including Before You Leave and Never Been Tonight and continues the exciting and anthemic next chapter for the band

years. Available on two different LP formats (Black and Clear) as well as CD, this album shows a new insight into Beth Orton the artist.

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Anthony Callea Forty Love Forty Love is an album for the fans, encapsulating the DNA of Anthony Callea.

Touring Australia in November, Ashe’s style combines enthralling lyrics and soft electronic beats to make music you break up with your boyfriend to.

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Anthony Callea FORTYLOVE Anyone for tenors? Apologies for the lame pun, but Anthony Callea has hit a winner with his eighth album, FORTYlove , which celebrates his 40th birthday (though, as he declares on the record, “age is just a number”). Eighteen years after we met him on Australian Idol , Callea’s voice still sounds fresh and powerful, capable of delivering a big ballad or a pulsating pop track. He co-wrote the 11 tracks here, and is not afraid to confront his failures and expose his vulnerability in a compelling collection that’s all about honesty, trust, resilience and survival. “After all these years,” he states in the standout track, “we are still here.” And the bonus track is a reimagined version of The Prayer , the fastest-selling single in Australian music history. Game, set, match. (Vox Records) Jeff Jenkins

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Celia Pavey released her first Vera Blue album, Perennial, five years ago. It was critically acclaimed and a Top 10 hit. The future seemed bright. But then Pavey confronted a “quarter-life crisis”, dealing with depression, anxiety and writer’s block. She digs deep to deliver her second album, managing to turn the turmoil into an intoxicating collection of electro folk. “There’s beauty underneath it all,” Pavey sings, providing us with a set of songs where we can “dance away the hurt”. It’s a tale of defiance – “Don’t tell me I’m emotional, as if you’ve never lost control,” she snaps – and a story with no end: “I take every day as progress.” Ultimately, it’s an album of acceptance. “It’s all good, everybody cries,” she notes. Or, as she puts it in Feel Better : “I hate it, I love it, I’m in it, so f-ck it.” (Island) Jeff Jenkins

Darren Hayes Homosexual Sometimes the cover of an album helps to tell the story. Darren Hayes called his first album in 11 years Homosexual . “I’m proudly lounging upon my version of a stairway to heaven,” the artist explains. “Emblazoned across me, in the brightest hot pink neon, is a word the 11-year-old me used to be terrified of. Now it’s my word. Now it means whatever I want

it to mean.” Homosexual is an album of defiance, liberation and celebration. “We’ve got to dance to remember them,” Hayes declares in All You Pretty Things , dedicated to the 49 people killed at the Pulse Nightclub in Florida in 2016: “Keep dancing the pain away.” Gloriously indulgent – 11 of the 14 tracks run for more than five minutes – Hayes is clearly no longer playing the game. Long gone are the days when he worried about what record companies and radio programmers had to say. Like Daniel Johns, he’s calling the shots on his career, crafting an album that manages to capture “teenage passion, middle-aged despair”, with hypnotic beats and provocative lyrics about love, longing, sex and identity. Twenty-one years after Savage Garden split, Darren Hayes remains one of our most vital pop artists. Homosexual is a thrilling neo nostalgic trip. And the title? “If you haven’t worked it out yet,” Hayes says, “I think it means something magical, amazing, unique and essential.” (Powdered Sugar/Ingrooves/Rocket) Jeff Jenkins

The Beatles Revolver (Anniversary Edition) Originally recorded in 1966, The Beatles' seventh studio album Revolver has been re-released as a deluxe edition with 28 early takes and three home demos. The Super Deluxe CD and vinyl collections include a 100-page hardbound book featuring Paul McCartney's foreword, with rare and previously unreleased photos. Many consider Revolver to be the most innovative albumThe Beatles ever made, and it has been described by others as one of the best albums of all time. In 1966 The Beatles were at the peak of their creative powers, as evidenced by this list of songs which includes Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, Taxman, Paperback Writer, Yellow Submarine, Tomorrow Never Knows, Got to Get You into My Life, and I'm Only Sleeping . (Apple Corps/USM) Billy Pinnell

Freya Josephine Hollick The Real World I've always found Freya's music difficult to catergorise. Vocally, she may be somewhere between Dolly Parton and Lucinda Williams. As a songwriter, her gift for exploring the extremities of the human condition knows no boundaries. And her arrangements, pedal steel, electric and acoustic guitars, strings, and honky-tonk piano are skilfully placed to accentuate the theme in each and every song – like The Real Word with its universal message (“Have you felt her sickened wind?") and the romantic What a Tender Thing (“And I will remember the sound of you breathing by my pillow"). And TomWaits or Paul Simon would've been proud had their names been associated with the writing of Spend Your Christmas with Rita , the faded-star story of a woman in charge of her destiny. One of 2022's outstanding releases. (Heart of the Rat) Billy Pinnell

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Slipknot The End, So Far Slipknot are unquestionably the most extreme music act to crack the mainstream since the turn of the millennium. Lyrics inspired by nihilism, ferocious instrument-playing, and a reputation for anarchic live performances; these are the core components in the nine-piece machine that has dominated the world of heavy metal in recent decades.

On The End, So Far , the infamous masked troupe have traded in their indiscriminate brutality for a more nuanced approach to heaviness, one which relinquishes none of the music’s weight or potency. Within this stellar tracklist you'll find prototypical ‘Slipknot’ in clamouring aural assaults like The Dying Song (Time to Sing) and The Chapeltown Rag , but there are also some unexpected gems which showcase the band experimenting in previously uncharted territory, including haunting album opener Adderall and groove-infused anthem Medicine for the Dead . The album is brought to a close with the aptly-titled Finale , drawing the curtain on another misanthropic masterpiece by the Iowa behemoth. Slipknot’s seventh full-length release may not be the beginning, but it certainly does not signal the end. If the quality of this record is anything to go by, it may indeed be a while before there is a changing of the guard in heavy music. (Roadrunner/Warner) Alexander Burgess

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Pixies Doggerel The genius of the Pixies lies in their ability to harmonise abrasive elements, owing to their pop sensibility and tongue-in-cheek disposition; that magic is replicated on the beloved Boston act's eighth album, Doggerel . Gargantuan surf rock riffs energise Vault of Heaven , while Haunted House and The Lord Has Come Back Today find their power through sensibility. Who’s More Sorry Now? is doused in country-western swagger, and You’re Such a Sadducee channels punk rock grit. In the end, title track Doggerel leaves us feeling more perplexed than when we first began, but it is a fitting end to an album whose title translates as 'a verse composed to irregular rhythm.' Pixies continue to write music that is compelling, and resolutely non-conforming, revealing a craft which sounds as vital today as it ever has done. (BMG) Alexander Burgess

Ocean Alley Low Altitude Living

The title suggests a lack of ambition, but though Ocean Alley – from Sydney’s Northern Beaches – might still have their feet squarely on the ground, they have deservedly become one of the biggest bands in the land since topping Triple J’s Hottest 100 with Confidence at the start of 2019. Their cruisy concoction of modern psychedelic rock continues on their fourth album, a beautifully crafted collection that’s super-smooth but never bland – props to producer Callum Howell. This is rock with few rough edges, but it’s a record that commands your attention from start to finish. Ocean Alley lock into a groove and don’t let go. It’s quite a trip. “Won’t be long until we touch back down,” Baden

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The 1975 Being Funny in a Foreign Language

On the 1975’s fifth record, the four-piece look to showcase a beautifully produced amalgam of their previous work. Meandering and hazy melodies, clipped guitars and wailing saxophones are all engulfed by lead singer Matty Healy’s half murmured, half-shouted lyrical work, which is – as

always – shamelessly self-reflective. The 1975’s ability to make a record feel like an accidental and free-flowing rehearsal caught on tape is firmly on display here, particularly at the back-end of the album where strings dip and wander alongside Healy’s softly ruminating vocals. It’s impossible not to remain intrigued by this band, and wonder what they’re going to deliver next. Each album has been an exercise in evolution, leaping away from their last project and into the unknown. Mature, undeniably smooth, and always creative, Being Funny in a Foreign Language is another feather in the cap of one of the most consistently creative pop acts around. (Dirty Hit) Jacqui Picone

Donegal sings. But for now, Ocean Alley are flying high. (Unified) Jeff Jenkins

Red Hot Chili Peppers Return of the Dream Canteen Just four-and-a-bit months after 12th LP Unlimited Love comes another 17 cuts from the Chili Peppers, recorded during the same sessions. Return of the Dream Canteen is “not a B-sides record” (says drummer Chad Smith), and it doesn't sound like one. While opener Tippa My Tongue embraces all the rubbery technicolour we luvvem for, it's the newly-returned John Frusciante and his supple, sensitive guitar lines which grab our attention across the rest of the tracklist, weaving their tendrils through Anthony Kiedis’ vocal. Witness the blithe and bittersweet Bella ; the minimalist, mid-paced My Cigarette with its pondering sax solo; and the crunched choruses versus sparsely glinting verses of Reach Out . The LA veterans still have a lot of soul to squeeze. (Warner) ZKR

Dry Cleaning Stumpwork After their triumphant 2021 debut, London post-punk poets Dry Cleaning return with Stumpwork , broadening their musical palette and the scope of their wry observations to reflect on the human condition in insightful new ways. Opening track Anna Calls from the Arctic unfolds gloriously, with a synth line expanding into dissonant guitars while a saxophone makes a brief but memorable appearance. Though songwriter Florence Shaw’s prose remains oblique, the album cleverly inserts political commentary, with Conservative Hell a thinly-veiled critique of holidays and Hot Penny Day referencing male violence and the state of finance. Closing the album with Icebergs , Shaw muses on loss as the instrumentation becomes increasingly frenzied, the band reaching their full power

Tove Lo Dirt Femme

Sorry Anywhere But Here London’s purveyors of moody indie-rock Sorry return with their second record, following their breakthrough debut 925 with more poignant heart-on-sleeve angst. Shaped by two years of lockdown, the album’s title is all too fitting, with the band's core duo of Louis O’Bryen and Asha Lorenz weaving tales of disappointment against a backdrop of despair. A sense of unease creeps to the surface of each song – driving rhythm sections make way for textured noise and sparse flourishes of horns that create an undeniable atmosphere. Lorenz’s typically despondent vocal eventually cracks on I Miss the Fool , while O’Bryen’s matter-of-fact delivery on Quit While You’re Ahead contrasts beautifully, creating the tension that makes this project so compelling. (Domino) Holly Pereira

A striking contemplation on multi-faceted femininity and how it can affect the various threads of our relationships, Tove Lo’s fifth record Dirt Femme is an eclectic work of blossoming pop contradictions. Moments of drama and slices of nostalgia-pop define a record full of earworms that takes the Swedish artist off the dirty dancefloor and places her in a more mature and reflective space. As the singer songwriter's first release from her own label Pretty Swede Records, this is an artist firmly in control of her creative direction and surely the start of another intriguing era of Tove Lo. (Pretty Swede Records) Jacqui Picone

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What‘s your all-time favourite album and why?

Kyuss, Blues for the Red Sun . Not only is it a remarkable album, it takes me back to when it soundtracked every drive I had when I first got my licence.

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Do you have a vinyl collection? If so, how did it begin, and expand?

What‘s an early, cherished music memory?

In my teens seeing Björk at the Hordern Pavilion on the Post tour. Still ranks as one of the best live gigs I've ever seen. I dont think I'll ever get over the sight of 5,500 people going nuts to a version of It's Oh So Quiet accompanied only by a dude on a piano accordion.

It started when my parents gave me their collection, complete with original pressings fromThe Beatles and Joni MItchell. I spent a crazy amount on a sound system a couple of years ago, and since then have tried to buy a vinyl every couple of weeks.

Which recent album do you currently have on repeat?

What do you enjoy most about working in music at JB?

Daddy's Home by St Vincent hasn't left my headphones since I bought it. I've also recently bought The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole on vinyl for the first time. That's been on my turntable for about two months straight.

Definitely the customers. I love the stuff I get to learn about varied music tastes.

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Brave (Disney). The fact that Merida is strong-willed, independent and wants to forge her own path outside of what is expected of her makes her so different from any other movie princess.

1 Jurassic World Dominion 2 The Lost City 3 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 4 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 5 Downton Abbey: A New Era 6 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 7 Dexter: New Blood

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8 Last Seen Alive 9 Vera: Series 11 10 Chicago Fire: Season 10

What’s one of your all-time favourite TV series, and why?

SnowWhite with the Red Hair (anime). It’s timeless. A young girl runs away and starts a new life in another country, only to fall for the prince. It’s just different because of all the obstacles they face and the fact that she wants to make something of herself by herself.

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What’s the best thing about working at JB?

The people. Coming to work knowing I work with amazing people helps, especially during COVID.

1 Jurassic World Dominion 2 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 3 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 4 The Lost City 5 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 6 Everything Everywhere All at Once 7 The Batman

What’s a movie you saw as a child that has left a lasting impression on you?

What have you been watching lately that you’d recommend?

White Christmas . It’s an oldie but a goodie. The idea of a white Christmas was fantastical to me as a child, as I’d never seen snow, and the clothes were so beautiful and glamorous.

The Royals . I was so hesitant to watch it, but I’m obsessed. It’s equal parts funny and dramatic, perfectly cast and brilliantly written. It’s a must watch for anyone’s list.

8 Uncharted 9 Dune (2021) 10 Spider-Man: No Way Home

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