Best New Reissues: Talking Heads, Viktor Vaughn, Bonobo, Cecil Tayl, Anthony Williams and Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros.
Vaudeville Villain, qu’est-ce que c’est?
Best New Reissues: Neil Young, Lush, Gibraltar Drakus, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals and Eccentric Northern Soul.
Dreamy guitars, bikutsi beats, rib-tickling dub and other magic from the vaults.
Best New Reissues: Wilco, RIDE, Black Dog Productions, Lee Morgan, Duke Pearson and The Fall.
Warm country Wilco, big-riff Ride, a couple of tone poets and other excellent reissues.
Best New Reissues: Air Miami, Cannonball Adderley, Mr. Scruff, Mal Waldron, Donald Byrd, Jim Sullivan, Thad Jones and Neil Young.
Some riffs, weird disco, beautiful meditations and other highly recommended reissues. Hello, Friends.4AD have brought an absolute treasure out of the vaults this week with Air Miami’s Me Me Me....
Best New Reissues: Nina Simone, Ornette Coleman, Mort Garson, Lonnie Smith, Ike Quebec and Lounge Exotica!
Lots of Jazz modes, synthesiser bleeps and some highly intoxicating Exotica…
Best New Reissues: Codeine, Idris Muhammad, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Ramona Lisa and Studio One 007; Licensed to Ska!
Kiss Kiss, bang bang; we’re talking slowcore through spiritual jazz.
Best New Reissues: Gal Costa, The Endless Coloured Ways, Gwenno, Beverly Glenn Copeland, Sonny Clark, Hank Mobley and Karen Dalton.
More compelling voices and Kevin Gray-mastered must-haves.
Best New Reissues: Lewis Taylor, Fairpoint Convention, King Geedorah, Six Finger Satellite, Ayako Shinozaki and Serge Gainsbourg.
The lost, re-found, early Fairport and Serge’s other masterpiece.
Best New Reissues: Arthur Russell, Fela Kuti, Billie Holiday, Still Corners, Jim White and Pop Psychédélique.
Experimental sonic floats, blazing Afro funk and forty-five years of French Psychedelic Pop.
Best New Reissues: Little Simz, Roger Bekono, The Leroy Vinnegar Sextet, Madlib, Dr. John and Augustus Pablo.
Bikutsi bangers, warped jazz and psychedelic bayou amongst other things…
Best New Reissues: Dorothy Ashby, Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, Roy Ayers, Matt Berry and Delta Swamp Rock.
Easing into another big record shop week with some new-not-new dazzlers.
Best New Reissues: Cranes, Tom Waits, Ayalew Mesfin, Donald Byrd and McCoy Tyner.
All killer, no filler and all new-not-new.
Discover slightly longer reads with an anthology of our favourite ‘Sunday Classic’ albums.
NOVEMBER
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Our November Record of the Month is Nobody Loves You More, the first full-length album from cult musician and legit cultural icon, Kim Deal.
FEATURE
The La’s - The La’s
One of the best eponymous albums ever. One of the finest debut albums ever. One of the most genuinely timeless albums ever.
SEPTEMBER
Kit Sebastian - New Internationale
The sound of early Autumn 2024 is very much the swirling and evocative combination of Anatolian rock and vintage global grooves…
FEATURE
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The iconic second LP from A Tribe Called Quest. An absolute classic of murky beats, hazy samples and bubbling lyrical flows.