Claremont Editions - Volume 4Since launching in 2020, Claremont 56s Claremont Editions series of compilations has delivered a trio of must check collections featuring a mixture of unheard gems from the label vaults and brand new, previously unreleased tracks. Label founder Paul Mudd Murphy continues with this blueprint on 2024s instalment, the fourth in total. There's naturally some genuinely headline grabbing highlights amongst the nine tracks on display, starting with opener

gigs scheduled a few weeks beforehand

with all its combinations and permutations

This one starts off with an amazing disco house track by Mark Funk

matching chanted vocals with gently-played guitar

The music is often made live and then recorded to tape where the multitrack is used "as a narrative instrument" while sound effects and dub sirens are also added

For the expanded digital package

This new vinyl remaster also includes non-album single I Get Along Without You Very Well

when the King of electro power ballads sings about the essential things in life and takes you to the place called love

their collective vast musical knowledge

180g Vinyl

The Late Night Burners guys took two of them

He also helped them to record & release their first self-titled LP in 1971