The Recoup

SINCE 2013: Books and books and books and books and occasionally other things

Joseph Kyle

  • This twofer offers up the best of the best from Dave & Sugar, who may be obscure now, but in their time were quite successful in making an enjoyable blend of country and pop. Read more

  • British progressive group Quiet World took a bold step and released a conceptual record for its debut album. The Road was a gamble that didn’t pay off; this reissue, however, shows that there was more to the story, and serves as a cautionary tale about being too audacious too soon in one’s career. Read more

  • British progressive group Quiet World took a bold step and released a conceptual record for its debut album. The Road was a gamble that didn’t pay off; this reissue, however, shows that there was more to the story, and serves as a cautionary tale about being too audacious too soon in one’s career. Read more

  • Taken from the SoulMusic Records release, Standing Right Here: The Anthology (The Buddha and Epic Years). Read more

  • Zager & Evans came out of nowhere with a smash single that offered up an eerily prophetic vision of the dystopian future-and then they went right back into oblivion. This collection compiles most of their recorded work–mostly lovely baroque pop songs by a band with a stylistic identity problem. Read more

  • Zager & Evans came out of nowhere with a smash single that offered up an eerily prophetic vision of the dystopian future-and then they went right back into oblivion. This collection compiles most of their recorded work–mostly lovely baroque pop songs by a band with a stylistic identity problem. Read more

  • Taken from the UMe release, My Generation: Super Deluxe Edition. Read more

  • This reissue of the sole album by Columbus-based shoegazers The Emerald Down sends us back to our nascent zine-scribbler days, because, hey, what we said then is still true now–only thing that’s changed is that Scream The Sound is now lauded as a classic American shoegaze record. Read more

  • This reissue of the sole album by Columbus-based shoegazers The Emerald Down sends us back to our nascent zine-scribbler days, because, hey, what we said then is still true now–only thing that’s changed is that Scream The Sound is now lauded as a classic American shoegaze record. Read more

  • Yoko Ono’s proper solo debut album, released in 1970 alongside John Lennon’s proper solo debut album, is a stunning work of experimental rock and roll, where pure emotion blends nicely with rock and roll groove and intense, uncompromising emotion. Read more