** U.K. duo Goldfrapp‘s 2005 album Supernature will be reborn this fall in a 20th anniversary edition loaded with remixes, rarities and unreleased live radio session recordings. The set is due Nov. 21 from Mute/BMG and is led by a new remix of “You Never Know” by Goldfrapp’s Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory. Remixes by Richard X, Sun’s Signature (Cocteau Twins‘ Liz Fraser and Massive Attack/Spiritualized collaborator Damon Reece), DFA and the Flaming Lips.
Supernature was Goldfrapp’s worldwide breakthrough following two prior studio albums and debuted at No. 2 on the U.K. charts. It spawned four hit singles there, including “Ooh La La,” which reached No. 4. The group has largely been on hiatus since 2022 while working on solo projects.
** Ahead of a milestone birthday of its own, the Rolling Stones‘ chart-topping 1976 album Black and Blue has been refurbished for a Super Deluxe Boxed Set edition coming Nov. 14 from Interscope/UMe. The group’s 13th studio effort, it marked the transition from lead guitarist Mick Taylor to eventual replacement Ronnie Wood, with axemen Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins, Jeff Beck and Robert A. Johnson lending a hand in the studio as well.
Black and Blue is best known for songs such as “Fool To Cry,” “Hot Stuff” and “Memory Motel.” It’s expanded here with the unreleased Mick Jagger/Keith Richards original “I Love Ladies,” a cover of Shirley & Company’s “Shame, Shame, Shame” and four instrumental jams with the aforementioned guest guitarists. The package is rounded out by a 1976 concert at London’s Earl’s Court and a previously unreleased TV broadcast of another show from that year at Les Abattoirs in Paris. A new video for “Shame, Shame, Shame” directed by Camille Boumans premieres tomorrow (Sept. 25).
** After touring together in 2019, singer/songwriter Tyler Ramsey and My Morning Jacket guitarist Carl Broemel have teamed for their first album, Celestun, which will be out Jan. 15 on their own Duo Quest imprint. The project is described as a “predominantly instrumental song cycle recorded almost entirely on acoustic guitars,” the first fruit of which can be heard via the title track and “Nevermind.”
“We just mesh together in a way that I can’t even really explain,” says Ramsey. “I feel like there’s some magical connection between our two things. It just makes me smile and satisfies some itch as far as things that I would like to hear on the music that I write. I think he feels the same way about what I do. When I put a part to one of his songs, we both have this feeling like that was exactly what was missing.”
Ramsey and Broemel will perform together Jan. 23 at the Folk Alliance International Conference in New Orleans, with additional shows to be announced.
