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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reissue Of The Week: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282’s Admonishing The Bishops
One song by this cult San Francisco band had a hand in changing Dustin Krcatovich's life, sans any information about who the hell they were. He reviews a new reissue of their leanest and meanest statement almost 30 years on
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Reissue Of The Week: Lou Reed’s Words & Music, May 1965
To understand Lou Reed, we must start with the world in which he grew up, one he was always looking back to and never really wanted to entirely escape, says Darran Anderson, on the release of a set of previously unheard 1965 reel to reel demos
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The Rhythm Divine: Running Up That Hill By Kate Bush
'Running Up That Hill' may finally be at the top of the charts, some 37 years after it was first released, but how was it made, what does it mean and why has it connected so strongly with a younger generation? Matthew Lindsay has some answers
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Reissue Of The Week: Valentina Goncharova’s Ocean
It is almost criminal that Valentina Goncharova doesn't have much purchase in the general consciousness; maybe this timely reissue of her Symphony For Electric Violin And Other Instruments in 10+ Parts will change that argues Jakub Knera
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