Miscellaneous

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Contortions - Buy, the pure no wave madness of James Chance and co.

James Chance, one of the greatest showmen of punk-funk, in his band's unbridled debut. A cornerstone of the entire no wave movement

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Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail, 50 years of the first post-Gabriel album

The first album released by the English band after their leader's departure turns fifty, marked by a "cleaner" kind of beauty

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Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock, the expressionist madness of a punk nun

Grotesque, mad, unbridled: the godmother of German punk in one of her pivotal albums

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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads turns 30: the songs of love and death that launched Cave

The collection of "murder ballads" turns 30, the record with which the Bard of Melbourne first tasted the thrill of fame

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Ligabue - Buon compleanno Elvis o della morte e del rock

There's a thread, more noir than rouge, running through the songs and the grand narrative built by the Emilian singer-songwriter's fifth album

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David Bowie - 50 Years of Station To Station, the Thin White Duke's Via Crucis

The Thin White Duke's album turns fifty, an ideal "bridge" between his American period and his return to Europe in the Berlin of the trilogy

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Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses, the liturgies of celebrity for Gahan and co.

The album with which Basildon's former outsiders became the prophets of electropop for the masses, without denying their roots

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Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You, the self-portrait of rock's Van Gogh

The lo-fi portrait of the brilliant Californian outsider, in one of the most representative albums of his career

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Air – The Virgin Suicides, Air's Psychedelic Comeback

The French duo's memorable soundtrack for Sofia Coppola's film, already nicknamed \"The Dark Side of the Moon Safari.\"

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Move D and Benjamin Brunn - Let's Call It A Day, grammar without direction

Live-take jamming and a rejection of closed form: Moufang and Brunn's work builds a grammar with no destination, where repetition becomes contemplation

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Adriano Pappalardo - "Oh! Era ora", the hall of mirrors between Battisti, Panella and the Apulian singer

The jarring new wave experiment of 1983 that found the singer of "Ricominciamo" grappling with electronic sounds and cryptic lyrics

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Chrisma - Hibernation, the ice age of Italian new wave

After the disorienting debut "Chinese Restaurant", Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser forge a new kaleidoscope of electronic wave experiments

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Blur - 13, Albarn and co.'s breakup album

The album with which Damon Albarn and co. defied the rules of Britpop, reinventing their sound

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Propaganda - The synth-pop classic "A Secret Wish" lives again in a lavish celebration

Rediscovering the mystery of Propaganda in the most complete celebration ever dedicated to "A Secret Wish". A journey into the ZTT sound laboratory

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New Order - Technique, New Order's "nostalgia for the future"

The definitive metamorphosis of Joy Division's heirs, in which machines and technology mark out an epochal shift

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Foetus - Hole, the black hole of J.G. Thirlwell's nihilistic industrial

The depraved, nihilistic industrial liturgy of the Australian composer, at the peak of his creativity

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The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour, the purifying liturgy of ugliness

One of the sharpest and fiercest records by Mark E. Smith's band, also influenced by a trip to Iceland

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The Anniversary - Songs From The Big Chair, 40 years of the Tears For Fears classic that turned the 80s around

To mark the 40th anniversary, a reissue arrives of the English band's classic, which marked the turning point of the 80s

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Litfiba - 17 Re, the dark dream that changed the fate of Italian rock

As Litfiba announce a historic full-lineup reunion to celebrate their 40th anniversary, we look back at "17 Re", their darkest and most fascinating album

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Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, the architecture of limitation

Analog residue and jazz memory merge in the architecture of the loop: the German composer crafts a sonic rationalism built on subtraction

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Lenny Kravitz - 5, the brazen crossover that carried Kravitz into the future

The 1998 album with which the New York artist topped the charts, blending classic soul-funk with rock touches and massive injections of electronics

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Helmet - Strap It On is groove applied to noise-rock

Thanks to John Stanier's drumming, noise-rock met groove

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Joni Mitchell - Hejira, a travel diary and a life story told through folk, blues and jazz

One of North America's greatest singer-songwriters, having already given music history the landmark "Blue", recounts her life between '75 and '76

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Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, a heavy psychedelic mass

The heavy psychedelic mass of the late Sixties that became a cult classic