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Tortoise off-shoot, featuring Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Mary Hansen

Reed shows off "heavy bear" side on two-CD tribute to 19th-century poet

Black metal from Norway

It's over a decade since former actor Will Oldham took his first faltering steps in a forgotten backwater of American music. When Oldham began recording with his brother Paul in 1992 he was recovering from a nervous breakdown, staking out an area that provided a refuge for his skewed, haunted but unusually perceptive sensibility.

Proto-US hardcore from Jello Biafra and gang

Edgar Froese's Berlin electronica franchise got into gear with this 1972 double, Tangerine Dream's third album, the reissue of which highlights their decisive move away from Baader-Meinhof guitars and into gothic liturgies of mellotron and synthesized abstraction. Not that this neuters the band's still-extant freakout tendency, which grumbles up tectonically to shake the cloud-hung soundscape of cosmic foreboding. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, listen to "Birth Of Liquid Plejades"... This is how you do it, okay?

New digital version with no shortage of bonuses

Double CD compendium from Mancunian Deee-lite

'Frisco hippies who survived the '60s and still go back there for a living

Double retrospective featuring rarities/outtakes disc