A minor forest

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Antipodean jazz experimentalists find new ways to tell some epic tales

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Zen-like brilliance from the master

Definitive boxset of the '80s aesthetes

Collected Recordings 1983-1989 is released on June 29, 2015

Before the rampant egomania, before the bloated double albums, before the mass band purgings and the hagiographic documentary in which Billy Corgan, saintly in white bathrobe, sits in a hotel room writing songs about Nazi Germany and receiving a pair of fans who present him with a huge plaster model of his own head… yeah, it’s easy to forget that before all that stuff, the Smashing Pumpkins used to be a pretty great rock band.

Beck assists the Anglo-French actress