Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall | The Quietus

Excellent Fall reissue with lost album shows why the band were on a high, while making it clear that things couldn't last.

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Reissue of the Week: Roland Brival's Créole Gypsy

Many extraordinary works fade quietly into obscurity, only to be rediscovered years later. Roland Brival’s Créole Gypsy belongs firmly to this overlooked category, a staggering, deeply political, and intensely beautiful work of Pan-Caribbean spiritual jazz that has remained a ghost in the annals of music history since 1980. Now, rescued from obscurity and newly remastered […]

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Reissue of the Week: Prostitute's Attempted Martyr

“We’re just here in Barcelona, just panic everywhere, fear everywhere. It’s like… um… the… well, the movie. That killer, or something like that, so everybody’s afraid here and everything is closed. Well, just call me whenever you have time.” These words are presented as an unadorned voice memo in the outro of Prostitute’s ‘Judge’, and […]

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Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone's The Fist in the Face of God | The Quietus

In his novel The Third Realm, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about a fictional black metal band called Domen. The band never records and only rarely plays live – in secret, in the middle of nowhere. They create a “cacophony of the most incredible noise”. Domen song ‘And Long Was I Dead’ opens with […]

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Reissue Of The Week: Circle X’s Prehistory | The Quietus

Cal Cashin praises Circle X's Prehistory, a post punk, post rock, post-everything-else patchwork Golgotha masterpiece reissued today.

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Reissue Of The Week: Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse | The Quietus

With the benefit of two decades' hindsight, says Francis Buseko Mubanga, Hell Hath No Fury can be seen as the foundation of maturation.

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Reissue of the Week: Sex Mad by Nomeansno | The Quietus

Brian Coney celebrates the isolationism and destructiveness of the Canadian jazz punk trio Nomeansno's first essential album, Sex Mad.

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OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father's Shadow | The Quietus

Mary Chiney celebrates the soundtrack to Akinola Davies Jr.'s debut feature film, depicting a single eventful day in Lagos, during 1993.

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Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu | The Quietus

We praise Paul Weller for counterintuitively throwing down the gauntlet to fans and trusting collaborators on The Style Council's debut LP

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Reissue of the Week:  Junglist! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95  | The Quietus

The Junglist! mix of ragga, d&b and jungle remind Manu Ekanayake of an optimistic time of cultural and creative flex

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