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  • travel in peaceTravel In Peace. Word and Image
    by Jeremy Gluck
    (Incunabula)

    You remember the 1970s and 1980s. Band appears with different, infectious single. Then a few more. Then... they develop, they change direction... and finally splinter off. Some maintain their creative imperative, releasing occasional (often astonishing) items which don't make the hit parade but... often resonate far more satisfyingly than those callow original singles. 

    It's as if the relentless click-clack-clatter of their internal engine just cannot be stopped, and they jump tracks in search of a different destination, another way home...

    Now, to change the subject completely...

  • drop out barracudas cvrDrop Out With The Barracudas Deluxe Edition – Barracudas (Lemon Records)

    Increasingly, the recording companies attempt to milk the last of the boomer dollars before retirement homes steal the last of our bank accounts.  They’ve already worked out that there's bugger all money in new recordings.  Even dependable old cash cows like KISS and The Who have made public statements to that end.

    So record companies have learnt to spew out deluxe editions of the familiar, the obscure and the criminally ignored.  And, if someone is going to put out a multi disc collection of every taped concert on Sunset Strip, well oops.  My finger slipped on the buy button before I read about the goddamn postage.