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Dios

Cali pop from Beach Boys' hometown

Blank Veneration

Four-CD box set of bolshy Ozpunks' three late-'70s albums and unreleased Live In London set from late '77, plus numerous outtakes, B-sides and EP tracks

Blondie – Singles Box Set

Pop art taken to logical extreme

Slapp Happy – Henry Cow

Reissue of unlikely 1974 alliance between would-be art-pop stars and Marxist Canterbury art-rockers

The Residents

Originally recorded in 1971, The Residents' debut The Warner Bros Album was rejected and has remained unreleased until now. Its first outing is as a remix LP, and it's fabulous. Prime early-era Residents, it's an idiosyncratic assault on contemporary music (The Beatles, Dylan) and society using chaotic avant jazz/rock/classical weaponry. To hear this already deconstructed music fed through the mincer of contemporary electronica only makes it even more confusing, disorienting, beguiling and downright delightful.

Rachel Goswell – Waves Are Universal

Debut solo album from Mojave 3 and ex-Slowdive singer/guitarist

The Black Keys – Rubber Factory

Fiery follow-up to 2003's acclaimed Thickfreakness

Screen Play

Two-disc legends packages with a DVD thrown in

Near The Knuckle

Sixties power-poppers inspired, aided and abetted by The Beatles

In The Name Of The Lawn

Three-CD reissue of 1968 masterwork. Includes mono and stereo mixes, bonus singles and B-sides, plus obscurities previously only available on the long-deleted The Great Lost Kinks Album
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