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THE FUGS – TENDERNESS JUNCTION/IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND, HONEST

Underground, overground: two subversive major label salvos from New York’s folk-punk-poets. Of their time, sure, but still worth yours...

WIRE – RED BARKED TREE

Subversion, great tunes and swelling guitars: art-rock theorists return to the source material...

127 HOURS

Danny Boyle follows Slumdog with another rather unexpected masterpiece...

THE DECEMBERISTS – THE KING IS DEAD

Uplifting, melodic sixth is the Portland, Oregon conceptualists’ most immediate work...

THE KING’S SPEECH

Witty heritage drama charts George IV’s rise to the throne...

HANK WILLIAMS – THE COMPLETE MOTHER’S BEST COLLECTION… PLUS

Self-raising sand! Staggering 16-disc time capsule, featuring 72 complete radio shows, all sponsored by the local flour mill...

LAMBCHOP – NIXON & IS A WOMAN DELUXE EDITIONS

One lush masterpiece, and its inscrutable follow-up, reissued with extras...

THE TRIP

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s B-road movie. Delightfully daft but poignant, too...

SUN CITY GIRLS – FUNERAL MARIACHI

Their final album, but a great introduction to a world of esoteric, hallucinatory music...

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – DAMN THE TORPEDOES

Their breakthrough: platinum-coated rock’n’roll...
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