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Reissue of the Week: Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith
Genre purism be damned – there is no surer evidence of jazz’s immortality than the enduring influence of Expansions, Lonnie Liston Smith’s ecstatic, eclectic and resolutely non-denominational call to spiritual arms, argues Stevie Chick
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Reissue of the Week: Angherr Shisspa (Revisited) by Kōenjihyakkei
Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins' lifelong love of Magma lead him to form the band Kōenjihyakkei. Warren Hatter reckons that their fourth album Angherr Shisspa is the point at which he created something that eclipsed the work of his inspiration
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Reissue of the week: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: Radio Sessions 1980-1993 by Television Personalities
Television Personalities’ mainman Dan Treacy is often seen as a kind of troubled prankster. In truth, argues Jonathan Wright, he’s an intriguing, key figure in the UK's post punk and DIY indie underground. NB: The publication of this review was delayed due to the death of David Lynch
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Reissue of the Week: Violent Femmes’ Hallowed Ground
Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin, as he re-examines its unfairly overlooked follow-up Hallowed Ground 40 years on
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Reissue of the Week: Squarepusher’s Ultravisitor
Squarepusher once said he has no recollection of making Ultravisitor, his “spectacle of beauty and of terror”. As the record is reissued as an expanded edition for its 20th anniversary, Siobhán Kane returns to the record’s ambiguous beauty
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The Lonely Street: John Cale’s Island Trilogy, 50 Years On
50 years ago, John Cale found himself at Heartbreak Hotel, producing sweet and unhinged music from its rooms. Reassessing Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, Darran Anderson explores the musician’s remarkable year-long burst of creativity for Island Records, half a century on
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Compilation Of The Week – Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor In Ndola
Kampire is universally regarded as one of East Africa's best contemporary DJs, so this compilation of pan-African pop from the 80s – featuring music that often irritated her as a child – is something of a handbrake turn. However, as Martin Guttridge-Hewitt points out, it's a glorious affair that only goes to further cement her reputation as a selector, musicologist and sonic historian
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At one of the world’s greatest festivals - Unsound in Krakow - John Doran can’t see the wood for the trees. Luckily Arturas Bumšteinas’ baroque weather machinery, the writing of Mark Fisher, GAS, Zimpel/Ziolek, a guide to the primeval forest of Europe and the unexpected arrival of some eco-protestors are all on hand to help him
