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Reissue CDs Weekly: Marianne Faithfull
'Come and Stay with Me - The UK 45s 1964-1969' collects some of British pop’s best singlesMarianne Faithfull’s recent album Negative Capability featured a new version of “As Tears go by”, the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Kreaturen Der Nacht
Engaging round-up of German post-punkThe famous names on Kreaturen Der Nacht: Deutsche Post-Punk Subkultur 1980–1984 are Christiane F., Die Haut, Malaria! and Mania D. Committed collectors of German...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Be-Bop Deluxe
Box-set edition of 1976’s ‘Sunburst Finish’ reveals Bill Nelson’s art-rockers as unexpectedly match-fit for punkAfter Be-Bop Deluxe finished recording their third album at Abbey Road, their label said...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Unusual Sounds
Library music compilation lacks the impact of the companion book of the same nameThe double album The Sound Gallery was issued in 1995. It collected British easy listening and library music tracks...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Tangerine Dream
‘The Pink Years’ collects the German Kosmische titans first four albums in a boxIn April 1973, John Peel wrote that “For my money, Tangerine Dream are the best of the Kosmische Music bands. Whenever...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Beatles
Rewritten history and revelations rub shoulders on the newly reconfigured ‘White Album’ “…all four [Beatles] worked tirelessly together in the studio, they carved out a sound and a ‘feel’ for each...
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Reissue of the Year: Carola Baer - The Story of Valerie
Collection of tracks from obscure early Nineties cassettes is 2018’s most arresting archive releaseMoments into “Maker of me”, it’s evident that The Story of Valerie is special. A circular piano figure...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jon Savage's 1968
‘The Year the World Burned’ captured in 48 tracksWithout the necessary distance, characterising last year through its pop music is a mug’s game. A gulf of 50 years would bring some perspective....
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World
Exhilarating salute to the Jewish music of London’s East EndThe title comes from a slogan used in a 1920s newspaper ad for Weinberg’s, a gramophone, record and sheet music shop in Brick Lane. Readers...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Charles Mingus
‘Jazz in Detroit’ captures the legendary bass-man with a hitherto unheard band at a 1973 showReleases dedicated to previously unisssued live recordings can be tricky. The variables at play don’t...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Third Noise Principle
Impressive four-CD set of ‘Formative North American Electronica 1975–1984’A compilation on which Philip Glass and Terry Riley rub shoulders with Controlled Bleeding and Smegma is going to be...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Rainbow Ffolly
Box set hung around the whimsical British Sixties pop gem ‘Sallies Fforth’Learning that your band’s demos are being issued as an album must be infuriating. Add to that the discovery that the deal to...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Kankyō Ongaku
Delightful and illuminating dive into Japanese ambient, environmental and new age musicOf the 20-plus names gathered on the superbly packaged Kankyō Ongaku, it’s likely that only Yellow Magic Orchestra...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Manchester - A City United In Music
Thought-provoking compendium dedicated to the northern musical powerhouseFull marks for shoehorning-in the names of city’s two major football teams into the title of Manchester - A City United In...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Eric Dolphy
'Musical Prophet': diligent reconfiguration of the 1963 recordings with Alan DouglasThe tapes from which Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions is sourced were found in a suitcase...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Sparks
Timelessness, prescience and beauty: 40th-anniversary reappearance of ‘No. 1 In Heaven’ Although American, Sparks’ initial commercial breakthrough was in the UK where their rococo art-rock chimed with...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Residents
Expanded editions of the bold ‘Eskimo’ and the provocative ‘The Commercial Album’Writing in 1980, the musician and musical theorist Chris Cutler said that “without the support and patronage of the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Where The Girls Are Volume Ten
The template-setting series of female-centric Sixties pop compilations bows outThe US music trade weekly Cashbox chose a picture of the then-hot Diana Ross & the Supremes and Temptations joint...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Rema-Rema - Fond Reflections
Belated confirmation that Marco Pirroni’s pre-Ants outfit was more than a post-punk footnoteUntil now, Rema-Rema’s only release was a 12-inch EP released in August 1980. It had hit shops after the band...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Three Day Week - When the Lights Went Out 1972-1975
Agenda-setting Saint Etienne-compiled overview of a Britain laid low by inflation, shortages and strikesThis new collection, compiled by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs of Saint Etienne, aurally delineates...
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