Bashung ‘Play Blessures’ (Philips, 1982)

Though Hefner survive in the collective consciousness as the exemplar of an indie guitar outfit, the band deployed vintage synths and drum machines on later recordings. Which means that this, The French’s ‘Local Information’, isn’t quite the without-precedent one-off it might first appear.

The Gods of Pop work in decidedly mysterious ways.

I first came upon Vic Twenty when they supported Erasure at Leicester’s De Montford Hall in 2003 and I was prepared to be disappointed.....Of course, I was wrong.

Without any announcement at all, Alta Plana appeared in 2005 as a digital-only release and promptly disappeared.

The track titles alone sound like long-lost episodes of early 1970s ‘Doctor Who’.