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In the months ahead, we will see what impact the state of suspended animation that defined 2020 has had upon the release schedule of 2021. This column expects an even greater surge in deluxe reissues given the relative ease of production. News has already started to emerge, however, about delays in the manufacturing and release process thanks to the glistening sunlit uplands of Brexit.
With increased delivery times from certain EU plants, many labels are switching to the limited options closer to home and this is leading to sizeable lead times for established plants like
While artists are rightfully wary of reductive phrases like âlockdown albumâ, the extenuating circumstances of recent times helped Tindersticks get their 13th album, Distractions, over the line.
âI think the confinement provided an opportunity for something that was already happening,â singer Stuart Staples says. âI found myself in the studio at the end of March with all this time I didnât expect to have. It gave us a purpose and a way of losing myself in weird times.â
Tindersticks members are variously scattered throughout Europe â in France, Germany, England and Belgium. Which makes convening to record an album a considerable logistical challenge, even at the best of pre-pandemic times. âJust to actually get people in the same room was very stressful,â Staples recalls. âBorders were closing and people had to leave to get back to their homes. When we finished it, I was exhausted because it wasnât just about making m
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine First Season
Original air dates: January – June 1993
Executive Producers: Rick Berman & Michael Piller
Station log: For the first time, there was a
Star Trek show that couldn’t be described with those fateful words, “These are the voyages of the starship
Enterprise.” With the debut of “Emissary” in January 1993, the definition of
Star Trek changed forever.
DS9, beyond the obvious fact that this was the first
Trek TV show not set on a ship named
Enterprise, indeed the first to take place in a (somewhat) static location. It was also the first
Trek show with a black commanding officer and a female first officer, and the only