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The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is unsettling and damn near indispensable
By Everett True published
Art rock icons’ explosive "tightly wound" punk-era debut, now with juicy extras

Mountain's 1995 collection Over The Top captures the band at their most creative
By Johnny Sharp published
US blues-rock heavyweights’ best-of, reissued

Peter Hammill's Incoherence offers a unique glimpse into the febrile mind of a restless genius
By Dom Lawson published
An ambitious peak from a prog maverick revisited

Hawkwind's DoReMi FasOl LaTiDo, now more earthshattering than ever before
By Claudia Elliott published
Hawkwind's space rock classic remixed and expanded, leaves no star unturned

The Pineapple Thief up the melancholy quotient on Last To Run
By Rich Hobson published
British prog rockers The Pineapple Thief still going strong on new EP Last To Run

Ratt's best album Out Of The Cellar revived - just don't call it hair metal
By Sleazegrinder published
The ultimate Ratt'N'Roll album returns

Aphrodite’s Child are ambitious and utterly bonkers on 666 The Apocalypse Of John
By Paul Moody published
A multi-format re-release of Aphrodite's Child's progressive rock masterpiece

Primal Scream are sporadically groovy yet ultimately frustrating on Come Ahead
By Paul Whitelaw published
The Primal Scream team fail to get their rocks off with this underwhelming comeback

Massive Wagons conjure up more magic on Earth To Grace
By Rich Hobson published
Lancashire rockers Massive Wagons still going strong on album seven

The Grateful Dead accidentally invent the alt.country movement on American Beauty
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Having discovered they could harmonise, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead released what many consider to be their most user-friendly album

T.Rex's back catalogue mined again on Bolan Boogie - The Best Of T.Rex
By Claudia Elliott published
Is there room for another small piece of Marc Bolan?

Phil Manzanera's collegiate spirit evident on the sprawling box set 50 Years Of Music
By David Stubbs published
11-CD collection of Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera's solo work

Warren Haynes craft some songs of deep-pile quality on Million Voices Whisper
By Johnny Sharp published
Allmans/Gov’t Mule man Warren Haynes goes it alone again

Peter Perrett returns with what might just be his best-ever album
By Everett True published
Only Ones singer Peter Perrett follows 2017's I Wanna Go With Dignity with an album of helpless romance and everyday reality

Rosalie Cunningham's innate theatricality and clever songwriting shine on To Shoot Another Day
By Dom Lawson published
Glittering prog-psych indulgence for all

Question Everything isn't great lost Boys Wonder album, but it’s as close as we’re going to get
By Ian Fortnam published
The greatest band you never heard. Again

The Quireboys nail it again on Wardour Street
By Sleazegrinder published
Breaking news: The Quireboys finally got off the barstool long enough to make a new album
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