Reissue of the Week

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

Reissue Of The Week: Wolf Eyes V/A – Difficult Messages

A compilation dredged together from a series of private press recordings of the core Wolf Eyes crew collaborating with friends is the perfect weird prism through which to examine the lockdown period we've just been through, says Daryl Worthington

Zelig In Fun Fur: David Bowie’s Divine Symmetry

As sterling new boxset Divine Symmetry gives new twists to old favourites from Hunky Dory, Matthew Lindsay looks back to find Bowie at the juncture between one-hit-wonder and era-defining superstar

Reissue Of The Week: 2manydjs’ As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2

2manyDJs might have pushed indie fans towards club music with Radio Soulwax in 2002, but as Manu Ekanayake remembers, it also helped the era’s house and techno heads overcome their antipathy towards guitars

The Seasons Wheel: Jude Rogers On The Watersons’ Frost And Fire

As The Watersons' 1965 classic Frost And Fire receives a new reissue, Jude Rogers examines the band's unabashed and unpretentious approach to folk music

Reissue Of The Week: Three Albums By Dickie Landry

The reissue of three albums by Dickie Landry vary wildly in their concepts and aesthetics, yet share glimpses of a singular vision; they are the perfect introduction to one of the overlooked jazz greats, says Antonio Poscic

Reissue Of The Week: Monster Magnet’s Test Patterns Vol. 1

With the first of God Unknown's 'Test Patterns' series featuring Monster Magnet's sprawling psychedelic masterpiece 'Tab' in two different forms, JR Moores revisits the band's imperious first phase

A Sticky Sense of Fun and Daring: Ride’s 4 EPs

As Ride reissue their first four EPs, Richard Foster revisits his first-hand experience of the band’s glorious first phase, and assesses how the records stand up three decades later

Love Never Dies: The Beatles’ Revolver Revisited

On the release of a lavish new remaster of The Beatles' landmark 1966 album, Matthew Lindsay explores the era's climate of hyper-accelerating pop, the kitchen sink realism at the record's heart, and its long-lasting influence on everything from glam rock to hip hop

Reissue Of The Week: Celtic Frost’s Dance Macabre

John Doran surveys a luxurious new boxset of Celtic Frost's mid-80s peak, and finds one of the most extraordinarily prolific and innovative bands of that decade

Reissue Of The Week: Kylie Minogue’s Impossible Princess

Impossible Princess is the most personal, spiky and surprising chapter of Kylie Minogue’s career, says Nick Levine, as the unfairly maligned record receives a new reissue to mark its 25th anniversary

Reissue Of The Week: Dexys’ Too-Rye-Ay, As It Should Have Sounded

As Kevin Rowland delivers a reworked version of Dexys Midnight Runners’ 1982 megahit Too-Rye-Ay, Siobhán Kane surveys a wonky pop masterpiece, and examines whether an album is ever truly ‘finished’

Reissue Of The Week: The Cure’s Wish

A new reissue of The Cure’s Wish offers a glimpse into how Robert Smith and co reacted to, adapted to, and in some ways allowed themselves to be shaped by the explosion of early-90s American alt rock

Reissue Of The Week: Dead Kennedy’s Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

It is a surprise that Dead Kennedy’s Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetable has aged so well, says Darran Anderson, as he reviews Cherry Red’s new reissue of the band’s debut album

Reissue Of The Week: Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari’s Grounation

As Soul Jazz launch a deluxe reissue to mark 50 years of this Count Ossie classic, Neil Kulkarni explores an imaginative, forward-thinking and post-modern fusion of the ancient and modern

Reissue Of The Week: Elsewhere VXIII

Though this ravishing compilation of rhythms, drones and folk tales draws lines across myriad cultures, Neil Kulkarni hears in it a sense of glorious confusion rather than straightforward commonality. This record is not reassuring, he says, but revolutionary