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Barry Ryan The Albums 1969-1975 **** Cherry Red GLAM 5 BOX 201 (5CD) Ode To A Roadie: a memoir of Ryan gigs? Barry Ryan's vertiginous 1968 No 2 hit Eloise [...]

Half a century after its original release, Faust's debut album still sounds thrillingly unstable and insurrectionary. As an authoritative new box set compiles the band's output between 1971 and 1974, [...]

Stackridge The Man In The Bowler Hat **** Esoteric ECLEC 22838 (2CD) British rockers' ambitious third The lazy and somewhat wayward bracketing of Stackridge as a prog group arguably did [...]

As a new series of Can live recordings is launched, Oregano Rathbone talks to Irmin Schmidt about the influential German band's high-risk, high-reward strategy of spontaneous collective composition. 'You use [...]

It is tacitly accepted that A Whiter Shade Of Pale bent the Zeitgeist to its will in 1967, in that highest of high summers; wafting from open windows and clothes [...]

Crabby Appleton Go Back: The Anthology **** Grapefruit QCRSEGG 135 D (2CD) Hardcore power-pop pioneers collected With the Singer-songwriter smarts of former Millennium mainstay Michael Fennelly in their pocket, Crabby [...]

March Of The Flower Children: The American Sounds Of 1967 ***** Grapefruit CRSEGBOX134 (3CD) Petal gurus Every so often, you'll stumble across a compilation in which the track listing, sequencing, [...]

VARIOUS ARTISTS Autonomy--The Productions of Martin Rushent **** Ace CDT0P1636 (CD) Celebrating Human League and Stranglers producer Producer Martin Rushent excelled at flooding his recordings with light. Autonomy compiles 19 [...]

Ornette Coleman Ornette Live At Prince Street **** Flying Dutchman HIQLP116 (LP) The artist formerly ensconced at Prince Over the course of six years, freejazz firebrand Ornette Coleman based himself [...]

The original Nirvana were the intersection where pop, psych and orch arrangements kissed and made up. Mamman Patrick Campbell-Lyons revisits the late 60s with a rapt Oregano Rathbone In Britain, [...]

In common with most other infatuated Scott Walker disciples of my generation, I place the blame firmly at Julian Cope's door, with loving thanks. The 1981 Cope-assembled compilation, Fire Escape [...]

This month: Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin For reasons that barely need explaining, Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin's plans to stage a concert last year celebrating their 40th anniversary as [...]

Fleur De Lys Circles; The Ultimate Fleur De Lys **** Add Jazz VAINS 102 (CD, 2LP) Psychedelic rock outfit's brief blossoming Pulverising freakbeat pioneers before anyone knew that's what it [...]

Robin Miller Beelines **** Foxstar FOX 2021-8 (CD) Scottish folkster creates a buzz The woods are encouragingly full of people who love the strong and resonant fingerstyle guitar playing of [...]

Eins Und Zwei Und Drei Und Vier Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1980-86 **** Bureau B BB 381 (CD/2LP) German synth experiments from the 80s This terrific compilation salutes the technology that [...]

Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory **** Craft Recordings 1884021 (LP) Cosmo, not kosmische Who to believe? Received wisdom has it that Creedence Clearwater Revival were regarded disdainfully by acid-head musos [...]

Modern Nature Annual **** Bella Union BELLA 1038 V (LP) Tact, naturally This is a fine thing: a seventrack mini album, which, by gently prodding at the corners of its [...]

Black Sabbath: Magic, Myth & Mayhem Greg Healey **** Newhaven, 12.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781912587292, 196 pages Catechism for an occult following Whether you're a Black Sabbath ingenue or a [...]

Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks !Spangled! **** Nonesuch 0075597923803 (CD/LP) A banner notification At this special time, when surrendering to abject despair feels like our best hope, !Spangled! is [...]

Louise Connell Squall Echo Rale **** 9th Story NSRREV 005 (CD/2LP) Rale works: a striking new talent Previously trading as Reviereme, Scottish singer/ songwriter Louise Connell has reverted to her [...]

Patto And That's Jazz **** Beyond Before BB115 (CD/DVD) Good golly, we miss Ollie This 1973 live set won't rival A Walk Across The Rooftops for pin-drop fidelity, but that's [...]

Keith Mansfield Vivid Underscores **** Be With BEWITH 092 (LP) Contempo **** Be With BEWITH 093 (LP) Outstanding reissues from soundscape don These Keith Mansfield vinyl reissues, originally released on [...]

Beautiful People If 60s Were 90s **** Gonzo Multimedia Gonzobox 29 (3CD/DVD, 2LP) A slight return for retro-rave mash-up Originally issued BOMB in 1993, If 60s Were 90s astutely joined [...]

Black Sabbath Vol 4 Super Deluxe Box Set ***** BMG 4050538644449 (5LP, 4CD) By the time Black Sabbath released Vol 4 in 1972, the lividity of their signature sound seemed [...]

Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (Expanded Edition) **** Warp Records/Duophonic ESP Disks DUHFDL 02 R (2CD/3LP) Mars Audiac Quintet (Expanded Edition) **** Warp Records/Duophonic ESP Disks DUHFDL 05 R [...]

The ResidentsCommercial Album****Cherry Red/New RalphNRT009(2CD)Residents: evilFirst released in 1980, Commercial Album reappears here as a 2CD 'pREServed edition' with a bonus disc of live and rehearsal material, much of it [...]

Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life In The Incredible String Band Rose Simpson **** Strange Attractor, 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781907222672, 266 pages When you find out who you are [...]

Twenty-Five Views Of Worthing Twenty-Five Views Of Worthing **** Wind Waker, no cat no (LP) A pier group for Canterbury bands Perennial support stalwarts for notables including Genesis, Supertramp, Roxy [...]

The Prats Prats Way Up High **** One Little Independent TPLP1547 (LP) Preternaturally talented Boasting an average age of 13 when they first formed in Edinburgh in 1978, The Prats [...]

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And The Legendary Tapes ***** Anti World, DVD release date tbc The real deal, the real Delia If you're anything like us, and we strongly suspect [...]

Permanent Clear Light Cosmic Comics **** Sulatron ST 20052/2005 (CD/LP) Light fantastic The second LP by Finnish psychedelicists Permanent Clear Light finds them in a benign and sun-dappled space; an [...]

This Is The Kit Off Off On **** Rough Trade RT 0148 (CD/LP) More than the sum of their parts Five albums down the line, This Is The Kit have [...]

Black Sabbath Paranoid (50th Anniversary Edition) ***** BMG BMGCAT 401 BOX (4LP/5LP) Oh God, look: Paranoid is half a century old. What alchemy is this? More to the point, if [...]

Yusuf/Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman 2 **** UMC 0888689 (CD/LP) Cat with at least two lives Re-recording classic material, as Yusuf/Cat Stevens has done here with 1970's Tea For [...]

Young Punks Sheila Rock **** Omnibus. 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781913172152, 288 pages Pogo Styx: into the punk underworld This exceptional collection of epochal photos had literally been gathering dust [...]

17 From Morden: A Path Through The Forest Of Oak Records 1964-1967 **** Top Sounds TSSCD 008 (CD/LP) Morden: a feeling Before moving to Wimbledon, RG Jones Studios made Morden [...]

Joy Division Closer ***** Rhino 0190295269456 (LP) When Closer was originally released in July 1980, two months after the devastating suicide of Ian Curtis, it felt impossible to separate the [...]

The Lounge Bar Orchestra Pilot Episodes **** Fruits de Mer/Ousewater Television Records Friends Of The Fish 35 (LP) Library returns Suspension of disbelief inevitably stands or falls on the fabulist's [...]

Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks Orange Crate Art **** Omnivore OV 373 (2CD/2LP) Parks and recreation When Orange Crate Art first surfaced in 1995, it was a scarcely believable, [...]

The Revillos Stratoplay: The Box Set **** Cherry Red CRCDBOX 79 (6CD) Revillos re-evaluated with comprehensive set As with their progenitors The Rezillos, The Revillos were an exultant, jaw-dropping, furiously [...]

Tangerine Dream: Force Majeure, The Autobiography Edgar Froese **** Eastgate Music & Arts, 69.90 Euros ISBN 9783000565250, 381 pages ... And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra If you ever feared [...]

Neil Innes How Sweet To Be An Idiot **** Grapefruit QCRSEG 073 (CD) Innestry of sound The late and very great Neil Innes' musicality was always hidden in plain sight. [...]

Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter ***** Chrysalis, cat no tbc ICD/LP) Somewhat selfishly, upon reading about Laura Marling's newfound contentment this writer began to feel a creeping concern that [...]

Arbouretum Let It All In **** Thrill Jockey Thrill 521 (CD/LP) Out of their trees Now 10 albums into a career that has seen them discreetly burrow into the hearts [...]

Various Artists: Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present The Tears Of Technology *** Ace CDCHD 1566/XXQLP2 068 (CD/2LP) As with literally every compilation masterminded by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, [...]

Hangman's Beautiful Daughters Smashed Full Of Wonder **** Optic Nerves OPT4.031 (CD/LP) Hanging matter from a C86 domain Signed in the late 80s to Dreamworld Records--an imprint co-owned and co-operated [...]

The Idle Race Schizophrenic Psychedelia **** Run Out Groove ROGV 034 (LP) Lynne seeds Was there ever a more perfect UK psych-pop group than The Idle Race? We'll answer that [...]

Nick Mason's Saucerfui Of Secrets Live At The Roundhouse ***** Sony 19075982722 (DVD+CD/BD) Nick Mason's re-emergence with Saucerfui Of Secrets, performing material exclusively mined from Pink Floyd's rich pre-DarkSide ... [...]

Jonathan Wilson Dixie Blur Bella Union BELLA 995 (CD/LP) ... Blur provides an oasis Despite a title suggesting a nightmare netherworld of Confederate flags and the right to bear arms, [...]

Bobby Conn Recovery **** Tapete TR 450 (CD/LP) Conn brio 'These are our times: I'm trying to deal with it as best as I can,' Bobby Conn remarks in his [...]