Reviews

Unheralded Chicago-based tunesmith comes of age

Fast-rising blues-rock duo release debut LP after tour with Primal Scream

Northern rock alliance have Love on their minds

Budget-priced samplers of clubland's hot new microscene

Also released this month...

Handy two-CD career retrospective of ill-starred singer who happened in Monterey

Not especially distinguished albums reissued

Double whammy from Seattle's multi-faceted finest

Dark secrets exposed in intense three-hander

Koyaanisqatsi is arguably the best stoner movie of all time, although Godfrey Reggio probably didn't realise that in '83. Aerial photography of forests, animals; etc, sweeps across to expansive time-lapse shots of factory complexes and nuclear power plants. The big country's poeticised and exposed to Philip Glass' insistent score. Powaqqatsi, the '88 sequel, explored Third World exploitation, but the original's the must-see.