
Cherry-picked cuts from the catalogue of He Who Carries Death In His Pouch.

Bogotá quintet delivers fiery electro-Cumbia contortions with hidden depths.

Canadian turntablist goes to meet the devil down by the crossroads.

After eight years out, the Blues Explosion slip their bellbottoms back on.

Danish trio bravely, and masterfully, embraces darker themes and moods for album four.

Ex-Company Flow rapper’s radical, mind-scrambling fourth solo album.

Rediscovered concert recording from the king of afrobeat.

Bruised jazz, Boho hip hop and soulful poetics from singular Seattlites.

Saturnian jazz godhead leaves Earth’s orbit.

Stray tracks from slacker-savant singer-songwriter.

The Beasties’ seventh LP is catnip for fans of their classic early-90s output.

It remains, 17 years on, a great place to get lost for a while.

Laconic, guitar-heavy masterpiece from Dinosaur Jr.’s second-wind.

Two-disc retrospective of scabrous No Wave figure’s searing jazz-punk contortions.

Winning melodies, vivid choruses, memorable hooks and lyrics to make your heart hiccup.

Career retrospective for enduring R&B legend, available as no-filler disc or four-CD set.

Former Faith No More frontman interprets Italian pop hits from the 50s and 60s.

Queen of soul delivers second chapter of her proposed New Amerykah trilogy.

British psychedelic evergreen remains on playfully brilliant form.

Idiosyncratic chamber-folk pixie takes brilliant left-turn.

Belated but welcome UK release for BtS’s late-period return to form.

The funk-rockers’ best album for two decades.

Dark, troubled and brilliant funk from kaleidoscopic soul-rock legends.

2008 performance from the late extra-terrestrial jazz legend’s loyal sidemen.

Nirvana’s triumphant final UK performance finally released as a live album.

The vaudevillian nuttiness of their debut set hasn’t diminished over the decades.

One-third of futurist hip hop cartel Sa-Ra Creative Partners goes solo, brilliantly.

Primal grunge landmark once again available on vinyl.

Seattle grunge pioneers’ first full-length, back on purple plastic.

Like some obscure 70s rock LP discovered by chance in a charity shop.

Q-Tip’s previously-shelved, finally-released second album proves an undiscovered gem.

This lovingly-sequenced collection is the perfect introduction to their twilight world.

While no seismic shift in direction, Popular Songs does find Yo La Tengo on peak form.