The standard ‘New & Recent Releases’ part of the on-line database will usually be quite vast, so this section of the department will deal only with the titles that we feel are worthy of extra promotion and need to be brought more specifically to your attention. Again, we do this by providing you with detailed, accurate and entertaining reviews of as many good new titles as possible, and making them available to buy in our on-line store. The selection we make will be drawn from bands and individual artists that are both known and unknown and will normally be confined to quality releases. Occasionally, just to show that we don’t just say everything is good regardless, when we feel something is bad and deserves a good panning, we’ll tell you about that too and let you make your own choices, but we won’t we wasting too much time on rubbish, when there is so much good stuff to talk about.

Please note: When we feel it necessary, we will compare the music to names that you might be more familiar with. This is done just to help point you in the right direction, but usually we differentiate between the music actually sounding like that other artist or band’s work or just being influenced by it.

Some titles will be given extended reviews with much more in-depth & detailed track-by-track information.

That version can be selected by clicking the ‘more product information’ link at the base of the first review.

‘Featured New Release’ files will remain in the CD Services on-line shop as long as we feel necessary, or for a period that has been agreed with the musicians concerned. Average ‘up’ time will be 4–6 weeks, then reviews will be archived in a ‘Reference Library’ partition in the same department, and there they will be accessible to anyone caring to browse, until such a time as they are deleted.