Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

byJeremy Allen
September 10, 2020

When Pete Shelley died in December 2018, a universal acknowledgement of just how much we’d lost soon followed.

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The French ‘Local Information’ (Too Pure, 2003)

byMark Brend

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.

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Peter Gabriel ‘Birdy’ (Charisma, 1985)

byNeil Mason

When they first came out, I was slightly too young to appreciate Peter Gabriel’s four, self-titled solo albums that spanned 1977-1982, but ‘Birdy’, his first film soundtrack, really caught my attention.

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Big Yoga Muffin ‘Wherever You Go, There You Are’ (Echo, 2000)

byNeil Mason

You’d say that Big Yoga Muffin took the biscuit when it came to daft names, but saying that sort of thing only leads to further unnecessary confectionery puns

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Mike Batt ‘Zero Zero’ (Epic, 1982)

byBob Fischer

“Long, long ago, far into the distant future and after the seventh war, there is a civilisation called System 605. Where the diseases of love and emotion no longer exist to complicate our busy lives…”

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Merz ‘Merz’ (Epic, 1999)

byNeil Mason

Back in the olden days, many music journalists had a nice sideline penning biogs, frothy one-pagers extolling the virtues of a major label’s next big thing. The money was more than you’d earn writing a cover feature, so understandably competition was fierce.

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