Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Khanate’s Things Viral

At the beginning of the millennium, Khanate created a twisted and challenging new form of sonic torment. Dan Franklin revisits the band’s reissued back catalogue and explores the harrowing context of their existence. CW: contains graphic discussion of torture and war crimes

Earthly Delights: Unpacking Donovan’s A Gift From A Flower To A Garden Boxset

As the state51 Conspiracy reissue Donovan's double-album box set on mono vinyl, Ben Graham looks back at the artist's most ambitious statement and finds a post-psychedelic message that's still relevant today

Reissue Of The Week: Dorothy Carter’s Waillee Waillee

Dorothy Carter was a master zither/ dulcimer/ psaltery player and her 1978 private press album Waillee Waillee is that rarest of things: an actual holy grail record in the making. Words by Jude Rogers

Reissue Of The Week: Ellen O’s Sparrows And Doves

This reissue of the 2014 debut album by Ellen O, says Irina Shtreis, celebrates the life of the late dream wave artist, and reminds us there is much more to her story than the tragedy of her death. C/W: this article contains discussion of suicide

Reissues Of The Week: Outkast’s Aquemini & Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

As their third and fifth LPs get coloured-vinyl 20th and 25th anniversary reissues, Angus Batey examines the elastic nature of Big Boi and Andre's unusual partnership

Reissue Of The Week – Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

Thirty years since it was released, Earth’s debut album is being reissued alongside a clutch of reimaginings of its tracks. Dan Franklin finds an inscrutable record that still haunts heavy music’s imagination

Reissue Of The Week: Therapy?’s Semi-Detached

Forget OK Computer, says JR Moores, Therapy?'s fourth major label album, Semi-Detached, which is finally getting a standard vinyl release, tells us more about the late 90s and beyond

Reissue Of The Week: Pale Saints’ In Ribbons

Pale Saints' In Ribbons was a tantalising snapshot what could have been but can be celebrated today for being a dream pop, psychedelic masterpiece, says Jonathan Thornton

Surface Level Best: The Darkness’ Permission To Land… Again

On the release of a 20th anniversary boxset celebrating The Darkness' extravagant debut album, Patrick Clarke explores a band who married daftness and dedication, found a brilliance in the superficial, and for whom flamboyance was inherent, not an affectation

Reissue Of The Week: Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense

What do we forget when we remember Stop Making Sense? As the reissue of Talking Heads’ seminal concert film hits the screens, Keith Kahn-Harris reminds us of how much stranger and more interesting the band were before it

Reissue Of The Week: Slapp Happy’s Sort Of (50th Anniversary)

Slapp Happy's progressive influence straddled both sides of the punk rock interregnum, says Fergal Kinney reviewing a 50th anniversary reissue of Sort Of, and their influence can be felt as much in Faust as in Black Country, New Road

Reissue Of The Week: A.R. Kane’s A.R. Kive

As A.R. Kane's burst of late 1980s output is released as a new box set, Jonathan Thornton explores how Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala's embrace of science fiction was crucial to their sound

Creative Freedom And Unbridled Joy: Beastie Boys’ Hello Nasty 25 Years On

By the time they made their fifth LP, the Beastie Boys were the band every other band wanted to be, Angus Batey says, as a reissued box set marks the album's 25th anniversary

Reissue Of The Week: Tom Waits’ Island Trilogy

Darran Anderson salutes a master of ceremonies in a rubbish dump world, the Tom Waits who reimagined himself on the glorious trilogy of Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Frank's Wild Years

Reissue Of The Week: Les Rallizes Denudes’ CITTA 93

A narrative is forming around Les Rallizes Denudes that perhaps some of their haunting strength has sprung from the lo-fi quality of their bootlegs. Cal Cashin spends time with the new crystal clear official release of CITTA '93 and finds their sublime avalanche of sound just as addictive as ever

Reissue Of The Week: Love Songs With Chris & Cosey

As Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti continue their series of vinyl reissues, Luke Turner argues that the intimacy of their shared creativity powered a run of albums that perfectly combined pop, tough electro and ambient textures. Chris & Cosey archival pic from 1984, credit Birra.

Gnawing Anxiety Meets Pure Propulsion: Sandwell District’s Feed Forward

Sandwell District were the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of austere techno, appearing and disappearing in a haze of bad vibes, Berlin drugs, and imperious, hard-to-find releases. Kiran Sande offers a personal insight into the reissue of their impulsive 2010 masterpiece, Feed Forward

Box Set Of The Week: EP/64’s 64

The box set captures the explosive farewell event by EP/64, in which 35 artists – spanning techno, noise, punk, jazz and more – convened for a weekend of improvised sets. It tells the story of a brilliantly strange musical project and raises intriguing questions, finds Alastair Shuttleworth

Compilation Of The Week: Rocket Recordings 25th Anniversary Launch300

Everyone is virtually insane, says Danijela Bočev; what better salve could there be, this week at least, than this compilation celebrating Rocket's 25th birthday?

Reissue Of The Week: Arthur Russell’s Picture Of Bunny Rabbit

Since his passing in 1992, the cult of Russell has almost become a micro industry, and perhaps due to the volume of releases the promise of more may be met with weary indifference, a belief that the essentials must already be among us. Picture Of Bunny Rabbit proves such concerns to be foolhardy says Eden Tizard

Reissue Of The Week: The Teardrop Explodes’s Culture Bunker 1978-82

Reissue Of The Week: Oleksandr Yurchenko’s Recordings Vol. 1

He was a prominent figure in Ukrainian underground music, but little of his music ever officially saw the light of day. Jakub Knera investigates Oleksandr Yurchenko, who created peculiar compositions on self-made instruments

Reissue Of The Week: Sisterworld By Liars

Oobah Butler looks at the magisterial run of albums by Liars – which arguably peaks with Sisterworld – and finds that rarest of things, an artistic mission completed

Reissue Of The Week: Happy Land

Joe Muggs listens to two new compilations of 'alternative' British electronic music from the mid-90s and gets transported to the Old Weird Britain of rural raves, chalk horses, burial mounds and tense stand offs with the police

Reissue Of The Week: Young Limbs Rise Again: The Story of the Batcave

Growing up loving goth music in America in the mid-80s, author Richard T. Rodríguez, had a different perspective on the movement to most. Here he looks at an extensive compilation celebrating London's notorious Batcave club

Compilation Of The Week: House Of God – Brum As Fuck

Jared Dix ponders 30 years of legendary Birmingham 'techno' club, House Of God, on the release of a celebratory box set, Brum As Fuck

Reissue Of The Week: Felt’s Gold Mine Trash & Bubblegum Perfume

From fiercely puritanical post-punk aesthetes to open-minded artistic explorers: across two career-spanning compilations, Felt present a unique interpretation of a decade they professed to despise, writes Ben Graham

Reissue Of The Week: Datblygu’s Terfysgiaith 1982 – 2022

A new anthology spanning the entire career of Datblygu reveals a band who were highly influential but who also revealed a generational and class divide among Welsh language users, says Leigh Jones

Reissue Of The Week: Movietone by Movietone

Movietone's absolute resistance to easy categorisation is what has kept them consistently hidden from view over the years. Ned Raggett looks at the new World Of Echo reissue

Reissue Of The Week: Mogwai’s Young Team & CODY

Mogwai had to build a new world, apart from the mendacity of Britpop and the high postmodern sheen of New Labour, in order to create space for gestation. Their first two albums present a brilliant journey getting underway, says Danny Wright. Homepage portrait by Andy Willshire

Reissue Of The Week: Tonic 19-01-2001 On Black Truffle

Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke appear on Black Truffle's remarkable 100th release. Stewart Smith salutes an essential independent label

“Make It Go Woomph!” New Order’s Low-Life Revisited

As New Order release a box set of their third album, John Doran wonders about the politics of old records and the politics of reissuing them