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Genuine treasures unearthed
Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson’s Threshold HouseBoys Choir in many ways continues the mission of latter day, lunar Coil, says Eden Tizard. This reissue demonstrates his unrelenting push forward, a life in art, a life cornered by instinct
Redskins, the Trotskyist trio from the 80s who wanted to "walk like The Clash and sing like The Supremes", are long overdue a reappraisal. With their only album Neither Washington Nor Moscow...getting the deluxe treatment, Simon Price salutes them
Visitors From The Galaxy was a landmark in Yugoslav-Czech cinema and it featured a groundbreaking soundtrack as well. Danijela Bočev enjoys a recently remixed version of its OST and wonders what it says about the future
Fifty years ago, a 27-year-old pastor and a youth choir on Chicago's South Side recorded an album of gospel soul which crossed lines and provoked scepticism. Newly reissued as part of a major box set of Barrett's work, Like A Ship is more than a holy grail record and continues to move in mysterious ways, uplifting even the most ardent of non-believers, says Amar Patel
Van Der Graaf Generator may have been early figureheads of the progressive scene, but their love of noise and chaos marks them out as one of the UK’s greatest avant rock bands. Joe Banks dives deep into their classic era boxset and picks out some key tracks.
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