1993
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A lovely cover of a wistful Paul Simon song was tempered with an ‘anti-video’ and is one of the loveliest numbers in the Everything But The Girl canon. Read more
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Frank Black’s first American solo single was a wonderful cover of an early version of a Pet Sounds number. Enjoy! Read more
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A fine moment of dark Eurodisco from one of the best imports of the early 1990s. Read more
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A dystopian daydream about the positive aspect of human captivity at the hands of benevolent aliens. Read more
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Numero Group’s Unwound campaign continues with box set number three, entitled Rat Conspiracy. This set covers the year 1993 and 1994, including the band’s proper debut album, Fake Train, and its follow-up, New Plastic Ideas, as well as a handful of singles. Though the band had already been around for three years, it wasn’t until Read more
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This number, the “bonus” song on the band’s somewhat prematurely-issued greatest hits record, Home Movies, sums up the month’s selections quite well, doesn’t it? Read more
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On some level, one might think of Special Beat as an elaborately designed package act; after all, the Portmanteau name belies the band’s relatively simple DNA: members of The Specials and The English Beat, combined to perform hits from both bands. Not surprisingly, then, that live albums are the only documents of this compelling collaborative Read more
The Recoup 