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Shilpa Ray
Is Last Year's Savage [ Northern Spy Records / CD - released 15/May/2015 ] With Last Year's Savage (maybe a nod to Leonard Cohen maybe a nod to Barrence Whitfield) Shilpa Ray has taken the pain and dark funk of earlier sounds and made explicit the sublimity that was always there just below the surface. The conversation has... |
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Sunny Day Real Estate
LP2 (Double LP) [ Sub Pop Records / 2 LP - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Released on LP for the first time in years, LP2 has been remastered from the original tapes and includes 2 bonus tracks. Delivering on the promise Sunny Day Real Estate showed on their 1994 debut Diary, the following year's LP2 (a.k.a. The Pink... |
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Torres
Sprinter [ Partisan Records / CD - released 22/May/2015 ] Torres knows the darkness. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter otherwise known as Mackenzie Scott escaped the confines of her churning mind in order to find herself by recording Sprinter in the market town of Bridport in Dorset, England with... |
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Various Artists / Jon Savage
Jon Savage's 1967 The Year Pop Divided [ Ace Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2017 ] Now typified as the year of flower power, 1967 was the year the 60s divided. During those 12 months, the revenues from LP sales in Britain finally overtook those from 45s. It's also the year when the British singles charts suddenly revealed a vacuum... |
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Various
The Daisy Age [ Ace Records / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] It wasn't really a movement, barely even a moment, but the Daisy Age was an ethos that permeated pop, R&B, and hip hop at the turn of the 90s. Playfulness and good humour were central to De La Soul's 1989 debut album, "3 Feet High And Rising", which... |
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Various
In The Light Of Time: UK Post-Rock and Leftfield Pop 1992-1998 [ Ace Records / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] In the early 90s, a number of bands exploring the daring side of guitar rock and pop started to emerge in the UK. Most were new, some included members of 80s groups looking for new directions. They were supported by established independent labels... |
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Various
In The Light Of Time: UK Post-Rock and Leftfield Pop 1992-1998 (2 LP [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] In the early 90s, a number of bands exploring the daring side of guitar rock and pop started to emerge in the UK. Most were new, some included members of 80s groups looking for new directions. They were supported by established independent labels... |
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Various Artists
American Baroque - Chamber Pop And Beyond 1967 - 1971 [ Ace Records / CD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] The heyday of American baroque pop - or chamber pop - ran from 1966 to the turn of the seventies. It used string quartets, harpsichords and woodwinds to create a summer-into-autumn melancholy that was quite new, and quite far removed from rock'n'roll... |
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Various Artists
American Baroque - Chamber Pop And Beyond 1967 - 1971 (Double LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 31/Jan/2025 ] The heyday of American baroque pop - or chamber pop - ran from 1966 to the turn of the seventies. It used string quartets, harpsichords and woodwinds to create a summer-into-autumn melancholy that was quite new, and quite far removed from rock'n'roll... |
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Various Artists
Bob Stanley presents Chip Shop Pop: The Sound of Denmark Street 1970-1975 [ Ace Records / CD - released 25/Jul/2025 ] At the turn of the 70s, songwriters like Tony Macaulay ('Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes'), Cook and Greenaway ('Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart'), Lynsey De Paul and Barry Blue ('Storm In A Teacup') and John Carter ('Beach Baby') were bossing... |
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Various Artists
Jon Savage's The Secret Public: How The LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culture 1955-1979 [ Ace Records / 2 CD - released 31/May/2024 ] Homosexuality has been a part of post-war popular music since its very inception. Until the early 70s, however, it wasn't talked about openly in that world: it was coded, hidden, secret. This of course mirrored society - during the 50s and 60s, the... |
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Various Artists
She's Got The PowerFemale Power Pop, Punk & Garage [ Ace / Big Beat Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] SHE'S GOT THE POWER! is the follow-up to our "Girls Go Power Pop!" collection of female-fronted bands from the 80s and 90s, and the sisterly companion to "Come On Let's Go!" and "Rockets Of Love!", our two volumes of male Power Pop. The term Power... |
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Various Artists, On-U Sound
Pay It All Back Vol. 7 [ On-U Sound Records / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] 18 track showcase of new Adrian Sherwood productions featuring previews of several forthcoming On-U releases, unique mixes, deep cuts, and unreleased tracks from Roots Manuva, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Coldcut, Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart's Magic Band),... |
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Andrew Bird
Break it Yourself [ Mom and Pop Records / CD - released 15/Mar/2012 ] Andrew Bird, the quirky-clever pop maven, classically trained violinist and masterful whistler presents his seventh album. |
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Andrew Bird
Break it Yourself (LP) [ Mom and Pop Records / LP - released 12/Mar/2012 ] |
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Chad VanGaalen
Infiniheart [ Sub Pop Records / CD - released 23/Aug/2005 ] This is VanGaalen's highly rated "indie rock" debut recording. |
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Iggy Pop
Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection 1977-2009 (4CD) [ Shock Records / 4 CD - released 11/Jul/2011 ] A 4-CD set of newly re-mastered bootleg concert recordings by Iggy - featuring the best of concerts recorded over four decades and from venues all over the world. |
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Iggy Pop
Soldier [ Buddha Records / CD ] |
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Rickie Lee Jones
Pop Pop [ Geffen Records / CD - released 10/Sep/1991 ] This European imported disc is Rickie's 1991 album that features an eclectic selection of cover songs - from the standard "Bye Bye Blackbird" to the fiery Jimi Hendrix number "Up From The Skies". |
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Altın Gün
Gece [ Glitterbeat Records / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Following their hotly tipped 2018 debut album "On" - Altın Gün returns with an exhilarating second album. "Gece" firmly establishes the band as essential interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy and as a leading voice in the emergent global... |