Category Archives: Reissues

SCOTT JEFFERS / TRAVELER – The Celtic Collection

August 24, 2021

Scott Jeffers Traveler 2016 American folk-rocker focuses on the green green grass of Albion and brings home a bunch of evergreen melodies. The magnetic pull of Scott Jeffers’ musical voyages was always rooted in his refusal to be parochial, and … Continue reading →

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JOHN CARTER with MARTIN BARRE – Spirit Flying Free

August 13, 2021

A New Day 1997 / Talking Elephant 2021 Folk-rock elite flock en masse to celebrate a life-long friendship in a flight of fantasy. They may have gone their own separate ways, these two Birmingham pals, one to worldwide fame as … Continue reading →

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MOURNING NOISE – Mourning Noise

July 18, 2021

Cleopatra 2021 New Jersey’s horror seekers corral their entire oeuvre for comprehensive, if eternally lo-fi, anthology. Hardcore also-rans, MOURNING NOISE were THE MISFITS disciples most famous for featuring the future SAMHAIN and DANZIG drummer Steve Zing in their ranks rather … Continue reading →

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JON ANDERSON – Animation

July 13, 2021

Polydor 1982 / Esoteric 2021 Vocal avatar of wondrous storytelling comfortably inhabits the age of plastic to sing dithyrambs to electronic digits. It may not seem like this from today’s perspective, yet “Animation” was a pivotal album in ‘s career. … Continue reading →

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PETER SKELLERN – The Complete Island & Mercury Recordings

July 8, 2021

Mint Audio 2021 Best years of one of Blighty’s best, if often forgotten, singers anthologized, contextualized and prepared for guilty-pleasure scrutiny. England may have had its fair crop of crooners, yet none of them made any splash beyond the United … Continue reading →

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