Album

Pete Bruntnell – Played Out

All-acoustic deconstruction of singer-songwriter's career highlights

Greasy Riders

Tasty offbeat debut from bedroom-dwelling electro-funk fanatics

Great Lake Swimmers

Exquisitely frosted debut from Toronto's Tony Dekker

Thick Pigeon

Undeservedly obscure synth duo reappraised

Bobby Charles – Last Train To Memphis

Louisiana legend hits the comeback trail

Break For The Border

Tucson's finest bring their unique compression of American musical styles to DVD with a London concert recording

Violet Indiana – Russian Doll

Second album from Robin Guthrie's post-Cocteau Twins project

The Magnetic Fields – I

The Cole Porter of the Lower East Side adrift in his own wake

Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender

Startling label debut for Bay Area singer/harpist

Jeff Beck – Beck-Ola

Originally released in September 1969, left Beck's second album read like a superstar summit meeting, but for the guitarist it was just another day at the office. He'd already replaced Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds, supported The Beatles in Paris, and appeared in Antonioni's movie Blow-Up, livening up the psychedelic club scene with some extreme axe-mangling GBH.
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