25 years ago in the autumn of ’98, The Modern Antiquarian was unleashed. A book of rocks? A book of remote heaps? Yes, for some perhaps – but for many it was a life-changer. Cope’s Notes 5 explains the precise impulses that sent the Archdrude off life’s urban highways into the nether regions of Ye Olde UK, and how he extricated himself from the Music Biz long enough to bring forth this monster tome. Devour the 6,000-word memoir and rare photos of the 48-page booklet while you spin the accompanying 40-minute CD: a dozen all-new songs and enchanting theatre pieces – catchy bastards every one of them. A garage song about the Ridgeway? You betcha. A snotty NY strut about Neolithic bull castration? Never off my turntable. Score this special 25th-anniversary package – Re-Live that feeling of wonder and discovery right here upon our own jaded islands!

Exhilarating! Dynamic! 1982 music from the Death Throes of Liverpool’s maddest band. 42 minutes of it, and nearly all previously unreleased. Instrumentals, mostly, plus fragile earworms from a very distant time. Also check out Side 2’s tumbling musical collage taken from the same 1982 recording sessions – this time, however, they are overladen with Cope’s earliest autobiographical attempts. Yes, herein are contained 1989’s Head-On reflections: spoken word delivered over a mysterious and distinctively Teardrop Explodes Post-Punk sound. Clad in appropriately intriguing packaging? U-Betcha! ‘Doesn’t feature Reward-type hits anywhere herein’!!

England Expectorates, cough splutter! A brand new album of 13 new songs from our nation’s favourite Wrong-Righter… Expectorates? “To cough or spit out phlegm,” as the dictionary defines it. Boris is gone, yet he’s not gone. We’ll be suffering his legacy for years. 13 feel-good songs for feel-bad times – this is the Archdrude at his most succinct, tripped-out, punky, blasted and beautiful. Containing his stage epic ‘Cunts Can Fuck Off’, here’s 13 keenly constructed missives to help get us through this ropey fucking situation.

Moving into what he later described as the second part of a trilogy of albums, Jehovahkill sees Julian Cope's focus shift from environmental collapse to raging against the destructiveness of mainstream religion and an attendant celebration of earlier, heathen impulses.

Rejoice rejoice, for it is time to celebrate a grand reissue from the crossroads of the Archdrude’s long careering show-business. Droolian. Unavailable for several years now, this bizarre 1990 homespun monsterpiece is finally unleashed.

Containing 4 unreleased epics from 1993 right up to the present day, this record will send you out into the Cosmos and leave you on a park bench possibly not of your own choosing.