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Springtime In A Small Town

From Rickshaw With Love

The Bruck Stops Here

A 10-disc box set focusing on the modern master of dumb-but-fun action flicks

The Fall—Perverted By Language – Bis

The Fall are here brilliantly captured in their early-'80s heyday. First released on video in 1983, this is an amateurish but energetic send-up of pop promos, with Mark E Smith on hilarious form, whether skulking around an empty football ground, miming into a beer can on the video for "Kicker Conspiracy", or dancing like a basket case for "Eat Y'Self Fitter".

Minor Mishaps

Danish director Annette K Olesen's acutely observed tragicomedy about a morose widower (Jørgen Kill) struggling to cope with the sudden death of his wife and the messy sex lives of his grown-up children. Semi-improvised and shot docu-drama style, Minor Mishaps is another slight but engaging addition to Denmark's healthy school of bleakly comic post-Dogme realism.

The Mooney Suzuki – Electric Sweat

Jack Black's favourite band reignite garage rock's flame on second LP

Deana Carter – I’m Just A Girl

Something is stirring in country music.

Help The New Aged

Deathless proto-ambient dinosaur that punk could not kill returns for 21st-century remake

Kim Wilson – Lookin’ For Trouble

Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman keeps it bluesy

The Sea And Cake – Glass

Part-new album, part-remix project from post-rock supergroup

Spacemen 3 – Forged Prescriptions

Ten years ago, as Sonic Boom's new sleevenotes attest, he and Jason Pierce were "making hypno-monotony" and smoking a lot of grass. Spacemen 3 were a cult on the brink of brimming over, which soon happened with the spin-off of Pierce's Spiritualized. Their penultimate LP as a pairing was The Perfect Prescription, here stretched to a double with the addition of various demos and unreleased sessions. In two modes, hippie-trance riffery and hushed faux-religious reverence, it's love-it-or-hate it puritan-rock. The drugs, clearly, worked for them.
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