Nude Awakening

I know what you're thinking. Oh Lord, what's McCartney doing now? What desperate revisionism is he foisting on a Lennon-free world? Now calm down.

AC – DC

Monolithic early-years box set

Rob Smith – Up On The Downs

Solo venture from one half of acclaimed production duo

Limescale

Debut by improvisational guitar god Derek Bailey's new five-piece band

The legend behind such blaxploitation classics as Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an incalculable influence on Tarantino and Spike Lee, recorded this in 1974. Fundamentally, it's him growling over "funky grooves". A born philosopher, he opines that "A Birth Certificate Ain't Nuthin' But A Death Warrant Anyway", and, after bemoaning the fact that he'll never visit every bar in the world, claims that "between a woman's breast is the thickest thorns you can ever lay your head on". We'll look out for that, Melv. Godlike, of course.

Hares Apparent

First five albums (plus bonus tracks) by post-punk demigods

Delicate Cutters

Chinese-Maori singer-songwriter delivers album of eerie beauty

Peter Frampton – Now

Not a voicebox in sight as Comes Alive man makes low-key comeback

Nebula – Atomic Ritual

Headbanging magick from Californian stoner archetypes

Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham – L’Avventura

Luna spin-off go Lee'n'Nancy or Serge'n'Jane
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