In!

Lloyd Cole's body of work (in the aggregate) is so good,
that every new release is worth the investment - even before hearing any of it.

Here's the first sample -- "Violins":

As do I.

Occurs to me that I’m missing a few, Ashtrays, Broken Record, 1D, Selected Studies
Need to catch up

EarMusic is playing games with this release in the USA. This is the original pre-order link that was up, which still shows a release date of this coming Friday, July 26th:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P7DY7CG/?tag=imwan-20

However, now there's have a newer link at a different URL, also listed as coming out this Friday, but currently priced a couple of dollars lower:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SC8227Y/?tag=imwan-20

The first, older link matches the UK import. The second, newer (and cheaper) link is unique to the USA, so I suspect that second link is the "correct" one, and I've updated the link in the first post of our thread accordingly.

So the best approach would probably be to cancel previous pre-orders and then re-order from this link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SC8227Y/?tag=imwan-20

(Although the previous pre-order link will likely ship out as well.)

Another sample. Good stuff.

and THIS from amazon.com earlier today:
"Due to a lack of availability, we will not be able to obtain the following item from your order. We've canceled the item and apologize for the inconvenience."

this is a new release! WTF!

If I didn't know better, I'd think it was Erasure.

I'm sorry the order has gotten all messed up for you, Alan.

This is just guesswork (sorry), but I'm wondering if EarMusic never actually got a domestic USA release out the door, and whatever is out there is actually an imported pressing.

This was the first pre-order link, which currently shows as in-stock by third party sellers only:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P7DY7CG/?tag=imwan-20

This was the newer, supposedly correct link, which currently shows as "ships in 2 to 4 weeks":

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SC8227Y/?tag=imwan-20

Maybe that will eventually show up, maybe not. But the import CD is most definitely in stock at Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07P7DY7CG/?tag=imwan-21

THANKS, LINDA!
i'll put together a small order for amazon.co.uk - haven't ordered from them since December.
if I can't find a few items - my partner and I will be in London and Leeds this autumn - that works too.

For anyWAN who'd like to take a shot at this, the domestic release CD of Guesswork is now showing as "in stock" at Amazon USA:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SC8227Y/?tag=imwan-20