The Recoup

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

Rhino

  • For their third album, rockers The Cars decided to experiment with their sound and get in tune with what their contemporaries were doing. It didn’t quite work out, and Panorama quickly fell between the cracks. This reissue shows that while the album might not be in the same league as the albums that came before… Read more

  • Pantera’s fourth major-label album, 1996’s The Great Southern Trendkill, was the band’s most aggressive, most intense album; twenty years later, it has lost none of its potency. Yet in retrospect, it feels like it should have been the band’s final statement, the high note that should have been used to bring the increasingly unhappy and… Read more

  • Pantera’s fourth major-label album, 1996’s The Great Southern Trendkill, was the band’s most aggressive, most intense album; twenty years later, it has lost none of its potency. Yet in retrospect, it feels like it should have been the band’s final statement, the high note that should have been used to bring the increasingly unhappy and… Read more

  • Part three of our examination of the albums that made 2016 notable. Read more

  • Brian Wilson’s debut solo album came twenty-seven years into his career, at the time a feat no one expected from the forty-five year old drug casualty. It’s a flawed record but not without its charm. Read more

  • Brian Wilson’s debut solo album came twenty-seven years into his career, at the time a feat no one expected from the forty-five year old drug casualty. It’s a flawed record but not without its charm. Read more

  • Faith No More’s first two records with Mike Patton as vocalist provide an excellent glimpse of a pretty good band morphing into something much greater. Read more

  • Faith No More’s first two records with Mike Patton as vocalist provide an excellent glimpse of a pretty good band morphing into something much greater. Read more

  • Fifteen years after its release, French duo AIR’s superb score to Sofia Coppola’s debut film The Virgin Suicides sees a welcome reissue. It hasn’t aged a bit. Read more

  • Fifteen years after its release, French duo AIR’s superb score to Sofia Coppola’s debut film The Virgin Suicides sees a welcome reissue. It hasn’t aged a bit. Read more