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ON THE RECORD RADAR The vinyl renaissance continues in 2024, heralding a symphony of excitement! We're outlining the fresh grooves (literal and aural) both confirmed and rumoured to be finding a spot on our turntables this year, so join us as we anticipate the needle-drops that'll launch some awesome new vinyl adventures (and have the potential to become favoured titles in your collection). Words Zoë Radas

The musical cosmos is set to explode with star power this year! Korn are apparently brewing a molten metal cauldron to follow up 2022’s lauded Requiem , and we’ll also reportedly be gifted a third album from Mermaid Barbie, AKA Dua Lipa , which follows RUMOUR HAS IT... breaking singles she’s cooked up over the last couple of years to set the scene ablaze with her sophomore effort, the follow up to 2018’s Invasion of Privacy. The label manager of electronic duo Justice , Pedro Winter, revealed on French radio several months ago that the band are planning to release their “comeback” album this year, their first record since 2016’s Woman. We’ve also heard whispers that symphonic metal lords Nightwish are planning to drop a new opus – which takes their sound into a “heavier direction” – early this year. On the home front, enigmatic pop maestro Sia is scheduled to twist the twin flames of sound and emotion into her tenth album; it’s entitled Reasonable Woman and is set to arrive sometime in Autumn. And as for our favourite busker-turned-superstar, Tones and I ? Having flung open the doors with 2021’s Welcome to the Madhouse, word is Tones’s “very different” (according to the lady herself) second record is on its way this year. 2020’s belter Future Nostalgia (and its sister record, Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition of 2021). On the rap front, Cardi B will allegedly be collecting all of those internet

T aylor Swift's bestie Jack Antonoff revives his beloved band Bleachers for their self-titled fourth album, due out early March and promising guest vocalist riches (and coming

the original 1977 Star Wars film, for you Lucas buffs). Signed vinyl copies are available, some in JB AU-exclusive blue and purple. Universal and Mercury are gearing up to re-press 11 of Metallica 's albums on

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in to land on JB AU-exclusive white vinyl), inluding the already-announced Lana Del Rey. Also in the early autumn batch is esoteric art rock Englishmen Everything Everything and their conceptual album Mountainhead , whose narrative revolves around “a society forever building an immense mountain at the cost of living in the resulting giant hole."

some seriously juicy coloured discs: look

out for Ride the Lightning on ‘electric blue’ vinyl and Kill 'Em All on ‘jump

Meanwhile, Jebediah 's 12-year hiatus gets a kick in the pants with the arrival of the Perth alt rockers' sixth album like a harpoon in the heart. Titled Oiks, it's coming in

in the fire engine’ red next month, Master of Puppets on ‘battery brick’ vinyl in April, with ...And Justice For All on ‘Dyers green’ vinyl and The Black Album on ‘some blacker marbled’ vinyl slated for mid-year. Jump onto the JB site to see the full range in the pipeline. Jimmy and William Reid, the brotherly songwriting pair behind Scottish alt-rock act The Jesus and Mary Chain , are gifting us more of their telepathic, controlled chaos in Glasgow Eyes in early March, while the end of that month will bring us the 13th album from beloved country-rock star Sheryl Crow , entitled Evolution.

April on JB AU-exclusive translucent red vinyl. National treasure Peter Garrett will set the Oils aside for his second solo album – the follow-up to 2016's A Version of Now – titled The True North , which arrives mid-March.

Around the same time we're due to get Lenny Kravitz 's Bahamas recorded 12th album Blue Electric Light , led by last year's single TK421 (a reference to

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