Also out this week:
Valerie June might be taking a trip into the dark woodland of the night but she's brandishing a golden beacon lit with joyous, Spector-esque, 60s soul-pop to guide the way. 45 years in the game and The Ex are still setting the standard - delivering a record that is inventive, fresh, lyrically daring, and bolstered with a boisterous energy that bands half their age ought to be envious of. Absolutely seething with justifiable rage, this vitriolic indigenous American punk gallop from Dead Pioneers comes complete with witty barbs on its acerbic tongue, and Julian Cope is burrowing further into Sherwood Forest, lassoing six-stringed balladry, motorik rhythms, and basslines that could make the Black Ark weep.
We've found The Monochrome Set's Lost Weekend, there's an Instant Garden with Dr Robert & Matt Deighton in it, Jimmy Page is back at The Greek, Nell Smith is Anxious, Pale Jay are in the Celestial Suite, and it's dirty luck for The Mars Volta
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