Music
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While we’d be the first to admit that our reviews are a little over the top at times, no hyperbole is possible in describing how great Wire’s debut 1977 album, Pink Flag, is. One of the...read more
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The Numero Group, the great label known for their excellence in discovering wonderful and little-known soul, gives similar treatment to West Coast female folk in the early 1970s. The music here is ...read more
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A collection of this nature can only exist in hindsight. ‘Gospel Funk’ is a genre in the same way that deep soul or acid folk is, created by collectors and enthusiasts as a way to defin...read more
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What makes the Eccentric Soul series such joyous affairs is not just the sheer greatness of the music but the wonderful sense of discovery, the realization that soul music was not just the province...read more
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One line-drive into the gap after another for the champs over at the Numero Group. Amid their unending soul, gospel and R&B excavations they uncover a true left-field odyssey-oddity that was ne...read more
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Back in the white-bread 1950s, world music was considered too raw to place before the record buying public in unadulterated form. Add some strings, some white people, call it exotica, and then mayb...read more
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The recorded output of one of Boston’s best bands — ever! — gets the reissue treatment for the third time, but hey, whatever it takes to make sure every last one of you comes to o...read more
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Galaxie 500‘s second album is where the rubber really hit the road, or to borrow from Blake, where their innocence melded with their experience. Dean Wareham’s trembling falsetto gains ...read more
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The third and final studio record from Galaxie 500 is the weakest of the three, and yet still so essential. Inner-band tension led to a more glacial vibe in the songs, which are highlighted by the ...read more
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The meaning of the title has little to do with the genre of jazz: This
album compiles the early recordings of the eventual founders of
Tout-Puissant OK Jazz, one of the two most popular Congole...read more
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This wild set is from the excellent Dust-to-Digital label — and in a just world, we shouldn't have to tell you anything more! Alas... The righteous Reverend Johnny L. Jones, who still hits his Atla...read more
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Another instant classic from the Dust-to-Digital label, Baby, How Can It Be? neatly arranges three discs of old-time country-blues and hot jazz into romantically themed segments: love, lust and con...read more
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Another month, another compilation of cool '60s/'70s African music. Yawn... HEY!!! Do not sleep on this one! Analog Africa, one of a few unimpeachably fantastic labels dedicated to such pursuits, b...read more
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For those of us who don't live in Memphis, this is a very necessary reissue: the first album by then-teenage Jay Reatard and his band Reatards, with two subsequent cassette releases tacked on to ma...read more
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The past decade has seen an explosion in both the quantity and quality of '70s African-music reissues, and among the specialists in this field, a few match but none surpass the Analog Africa label....read more
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Chances are good these legends from the tiny west African nation of Benin didn't call their 1973 debut The 1st Album -- can you imagine the cajones that would've taken? Then again...wow, this recor...read more
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Original badass Jim Ford had just one studio album released during his lifetime, but 1969's Harlan County is so good it cemented him as a legend (it didn't hurt that his songs have been covered by ...read more
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Back in the spring, here's what we said about Kurt Vile's Smoke Rings for My Halo:
"His second Matador
album is—well, let's not say 'mature,' but it is a definitively refined
version of the affe...read more
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Followers of the past several years worth of African-music reissues have likely noticed the way that certain Caribbean sounds had manifested around the continent during the 1970s (Congolese rumba, ...read more
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The latest from the Numero Group turns up 25 alternate worlds in which unknown artists like Jerry Townes and Voices are stars, bona fide Bandstand-rocking stars. The two Chicago labels on display h...read more
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So you say you’ve never heard of Moss Icon? That’s
okay -- until I got their recent release, which is a Complete Discography of their output, I hadn’t
either. Now having heard this killer band's en...read more
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