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Review: This 2024 edition of Lament by Ultravox is a comprehensive, end-all-others 7CD + DVD deluxe edition expander including a (you won't believe) 72 tracks, with a newly remastered version of the album alongside a fresh 1980s-style extended remix. The seventh studio album by British new wave pioneers, Lament marked the final appearance of original drummer Warren Cann until the band's reunion in 2012 with Brilliant. But despite the name and the grievous context, the album was hardly lachrymose in sound, and it achieved much commercial success, owing to a prosperous prior experience with producers Conny Plank and George Martin, who drove its lush Chrysalis synthpop sound. Aforementioned remixes include contributions from Moby, Steve Wilson, Blank & Jones, and Midge Ure, while a newly mixed full concert recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in 1984 comes stapled in at the end. Mastered and cut by Phil Kinrade and Barry Grint at Air Mastering, London.

Review: Toronto-based artist Meg Remy, who performs as U.S. Girls and has been releasing music with 4AD since 2015, is one of the most acclaimed artists to emerge from the Canadian city's eclectic underground scene. And whilst the Illinois-raised artist's previous studio album - Bless This Mess - was heavily inspired by electronic pop, this time around Remy has embraced Americana, having clobbered together a band of Nashville musicians to record. And you know what? It's utterly spellbinding. Among the highlights is the lead single, 'Bookend', where she sounds like Dusty Springfield. That the emotions here are so palpable is perhaps testament to it being an ode to a dear friend of hers: the 12 minute ballad, co-written with the Edwin de Goeji, is dedicated to Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, from whom life was taken too soon. RIP.