Recent Highlights: Q4 2025
Just before you sign off for the festive break here’s a collection of D2C highlights across the Ochre platform during the last quarter of the year, including; Various black Friday sales, Babyshambles, Oasis, Gary Numan , Sunn O))) , Severance: Season Two, Shygirl, Ecco2k, The 1975, FKA Twigs and Jim Legxacy
Black Friday and Winter Sales
This time of year is always popular for clients setting up Black Friday or Winter sales. Many different types of offers are supported on Ochre stores including strike through sales across catalogues, percentage off promo codes, free shipping, unique voucher codes and more.
We saw a number of great offers across label and catalogue stores from the likes of Anjuna, Chrysalis, !K7, Matador, Mexican Summer, PIAS, XL and more. As well as many creative artist store offers!
Babyshambles
Babyshambles’ iconic debut album Down In Albion has been remastered and reissued to mark its 20th Anniversary. Accompanying the album’s original 16 tracks, the anniversary edition includes five carefully chosen songs from the band’s archives, with several getting their first official release.
The band launched a new D2C store with many innovative products. On the music side this included two formats, a deluxe cream vinyl and a limited edition blue vinyl that came with unique one-of-a-kind hand drawn artwork by Peter Doherty.
Non-music items included handmade 'Journals Of Albion' Notebook with a personal dedication hand written by Peter, a handmade ornamental dog, lyric sheets for each song, t-shirts, tote bag and a lapel pin!
Oasis
What a year Oasis have had!
In the last few months they celebrated the anniversary of Wonderwall with a timed drop of an exclusive t-shirt available to order for just 90minutes, creating an exciting moment for lucky fans!
The band also put on sale a limited edition (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? 7” Singles Box Set - a replica of the highly collectible original 1996 CD cigarette style box.
And to celebrate the end of a groundbreaking tour, a super limited Oasis x LPFF jersey, specially designed by Lovers FC dropped. With all proceeds going to the London Playing Fields Foundation, helping to protect and power the community grounds where it all starts.
Gary Numan: 45X15 - The Singles Collection 1978-1983
For years, Gary Numan fans have been asking for a singles collection, and Beggars truly delivered. A stunning bespoke box set was released, containing 15 singles from 1978-1983 celebrating the works of Gary Numan.
Each on translucent colored vinyl, the singles are boxed in a glorious bespoke, white vinyl wrapped DJ case, complete with laser foiled details, chrome corner caps, latch and handle.
An extensive 64-page tri-color booklet completes the set and contains front and back sleeve images, notes, recording and original release information for each single plus archival images.
The box set was limited to 2000 numbered copies worldwide, and only available D2C.
Sunn O)))
Sub Pop announced a new Sunn O))) release.
Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential is sunn O)))’s premier work and was pressed on maxi 12” medium for Sub Pop.
It consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood.
The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis.
To celebrate the moment Sub Pop also launched an exclusive t-shirt to coincide with the release.
Severance: Season Two
Mutant, in collaboration with Lakeshore Records and Fifth Season announced the premiere physical release of Theodore Shapiro’s score for Season 2 of the Emmy Award-winning Apple Original Series SEVERANCE.
“The music of Season 2 of SEVERANCE is true to what came before in Season 1, while also developing new themes, new sounds, and new variations,” says Shapiro. “The season's bold expansions into new storylines and new locations, along with the incredible filmmaking and performances, provided plenty of inspiration.”
The Deluxe Edition Vinyl features a custom printed Lumon envelope, seven double-sided character portraits, a printed inner sleeve, and exclusive in-universe ephemera,
Shygirl
Released in 2020, ALIAS marked a defining moment in Shygirl’s genre-blurring career. The project earned widespread praise, with Pitchfork calling it “a glittering light, a portal into the future” and NME describing it in a 4-star review as “a maximalist joyride beamed in from the cyber-rave dancefloors of 2080.”
5 years on, a limited splatter vinyl anniversary repress and a light pink coloured vinyl was put on pre-order via the official artist store.
Ecco2k
In November Ecco2k launched a highly customised store with an in demand drop of Cr₂ (Live) 10 Years of Crush Resist, as a 12” on Year001.
This was announced to an engaged fanbase via a link to the customised Ochre store.
The 1975
Dirty Hit launched an exclusive and limited edition Glastonbury Zine featuring photos from The 1975 headline performance from the Pyramid Stage on June 27th 2025.
Photographed by Jordan Curtis Hughes. This was available to purchase for a limited time from the label's D2C store.
FKA Twigs
Twigs dropped Eusexua as an Afterglow pink LP
The afterglow vinyl is a single LP pressed on semi transparent afterglow pink vinyl, with an unbound 18 page lyric poster.
Fans pre-ordering also got a chance to win 11 offerings over 11 days including; unreleased music, tour tickets, a meet and greet, handwritten lyric sheets, a facetime call, and more.
Jim Legxacy
Jim Legxacy announced the long-awaited LP release of his mixtape, black british music via XL Recordings D2C store.
A rapper with intensity, a vocalist with passion and a producer who harnesses nostalgia to command the future, the project is poised to earn era-defining significance.
He stands proudly but humbly at the helm of a movement; a new generation of storytellers and pioneers carving a path out of the comfort of the underground, always pushing upwards.
