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Reissue CDs Weekly: Ólafur Arnalds
The ‘Broadchurch’-soundtracking Icelander’s first album ‘Eulogy For Evolution’ gets a makeoverWe’ve been here before. Not to exactly the same territory, but to a neighbouring space in the same time...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: FJ McMahon
Post-Vietnam deliberations on 1969’s remarkable ‘Spirit of the Golden Juice’Once heard, 1969’s Spirit of the Golden Juice is not forgotten. F. J. McMahon’s sole album is imbued with the heavy air of...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Take What You Need - UK Covers of Bob Dylan Songs 1964-69
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: TAKE WHAT YOU NEED - UK COVERS OF BOB DYLAN SONGS 1964-69 Enlightening compilation chronicling mixed-bag approach to tackling the songs of BobEnlightening compilation chronicling...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Ducks Deluxe
The pub rocker's albums resurface to raise questions about whether 1977 was the year of punkThat this year is the 40th anniversary of 1977, the year punk rock went mainstream, shouldn’t obscure the pub...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Motörhead
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: MOTÖRHEAD Smart 40th-anniversary edition of Lemmy and co’s timeless debut albumSmart 40th-anniversary edition of Lemmy and co’s timeless debut albumImmediately before recording...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: PP Arnold
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: PP ARNOLD A first-time outing for Bee Gees and Eric Clapton-assisted recordings by the soul-gospel powerhouseA first-time outing for Bee Gees and Eric Clapton-assisted recordings by...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Residents
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE RESIDENTS '80 Aching Orphans': the ultimate entry point into the eyeball-headed musical nonconformists'80 Aching Orphans': the ultimate entry point into the eyeball-headed...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The sprawling ‘Fanfare’ is the career-spanning box set the prog-rock giants deserve Committed fans of Emerson, Lake & Palmer are spoiled for choice when they need to feed their passion for prog...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Paul Major’s Feel the Music
Astonishing collection of “blow-dried hair psychedelia” and musical moments of “bleak clarity”Dave Porter has a question. He wants to know where clouds go. “After they pass by, are they just like...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Serge Gainsbourg & Jean-Claude Vannier
The lost soundtrack music to ‘Les Chemins de Katmandou’ hits the shops with a bangIn terms of cinema history, 1969’s Les Chemins de Katmandou is a footnote. Directed by André Cayatte, whose most...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Moody Blues
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE MOODY BLUES ‘Days of Future Passed’ given 50-year makeoverThe majestic ‘Days of Future Passed’ is given a 50th-anniversary makeoverIn early 1965, Birmingham’s The Moody Blues...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Phil Seymour
Illuminating yet frustrating best-of dedicated to the ‘Prince of Power Pop’“Precious to me” is a high-carat gold nugget. A guitar-pop song with cascading, lush Everly Brothers harmonies drawing on The...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Jam
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE JAM Warts-and-all box set dedicated to Rick Buckler, Bruce Foxton and Paul Weller’s 1977Warts-and-all box set dedicated to Rick Buckler, Bruce Foxton and Paul Weller’s 1977In...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Rolling Stones
REISSUE CDS WEEKLY: THE ROLLING STONES Aural makeover diminishes ‘On Air’, a significant collection of Jagger and Co’s Sixties BBC sessionsAural makeover diminishes ‘On Air’, a significant collection...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Pentangle
Bonus-stuffed complete-works box set dedicated to Britain’s important musical boundary pushersA nineteen-minute adaptation of “Jack Orion” took up the whole of Side Two of Cruel Sister, Pentangle’s...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Volume 6
Consummate obscurities package will satisfy anyone into soulThe title Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Volume 6 suggests this 24-track compilation might be a rag-bag; a collection of random musical...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Beatles
‘Happy Christmas Beatle People!’: finally, a legal reissue of The Fabs’ seasonal fan club recordsThe official reissue of The Beatles’ Christmas records is a major event. Since Live at the BBC was...
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Reissue CD of the Year: Lal & Mike Waterson
The singer-songwriter masterpiece ‘Bright Phoebus’ finally gets the treatment it deservesIn 1972, just 2000 copies of Bright Phoebus were pressed. Half were off-centre and unplayable. This year, the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: To the Outside of Everything
British post-punk gets the box set treatmentNow that the 40th anniversaries of 1976 and 1977 as the years which birthed punk rock have themselves become history, surveyors of rock’s rich tapestry will...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Butterfly Child
Twenty-five years on, the matchless ‘Onomatopoeia’ still sounds out of timeThe critic Simon Reynolds characterised Butterfly Child’s debut album Onomatopoeia as the sound of “vitrified everglades in...
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