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Cherry-picked cuts from the catalogue of He Who Carries Death In His Pouch.
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Bogotá quintet delivers fiery electro-Cumbia contortions with hidden depths.
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Canadian turntablist goes to meet the devil down by the crossroads.
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After eight years out, the Blues Explosion slip their bellbottoms back on.
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Danish trio bravely, and masterfully, embraces darker themes and moods for album four.
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Ex-Company Flow rapper’s radical, mind-scrambling fourth solo album.
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Rediscovered concert recording from the king of afrobeat.
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Bruised jazz, Boho hip hop and soulful poetics from singular Seattlites.
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Saturnian jazz godhead leaves Earth’s orbit.
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Stray tracks from slacker-savant singer-songwriter.
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The Beasties’ seventh LP is catnip for fans of their classic early-90s output.
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It remains, 17 years on, a great place to get lost for a while.
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Laconic, guitar-heavy masterpiece from Dinosaur Jr.’s second-wind.
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Two-disc retrospective of scabrous No Wave figure’s searing jazz-punk contortions.
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Winning melodies, vivid choruses, memorable hooks and lyrics to make your heart hiccup.
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Career retrospective for enduring R&B legend, available as no-filler disc or four-CD set.
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Former Faith No More frontman interprets Italian pop hits from the 50s and 60s.
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Queen of soul delivers second chapter of her proposed New Amerykah trilogy.
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British psychedelic evergreen remains on playfully brilliant form.
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Idiosyncratic chamber-folk pixie takes brilliant left-turn.
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Belated but welcome UK release for BtS’s late-period return to form.
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The funk-rockers’ best album for two decades.
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Dark, troubled and brilliant funk from kaleidoscopic soul-rock legends.
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2008 performance from the late extra-terrestrial jazz legend’s loyal sidemen.
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Nirvana’s triumphant final UK performance finally released as a live album.
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The vaudevillian nuttiness of their debut set hasn’t diminished over the decades.
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One-third of futurist hip hop cartel Sa-Ra Creative Partners goes solo, brilliantly.
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Primal grunge landmark once again available on vinyl.
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Seattle grunge pioneers’ first full-length, back on purple plastic.
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Like some obscure 70s rock LP discovered by chance in a charity shop.
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Q-Tip’s previously-shelved, finally-released second album proves an undiscovered gem.
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This lovingly-sequenced collection is the perfect introduction to their twilight world.
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While no seismic shift in direction, Popular Songs does find Yo La Tengo on peak form.