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Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Inside the US singer-songwriter’s path from early DIY explorations to modern country-folk force

How Eno-supervised jams and a playful tale of obsessive relationships yielded the Manchester veterans’ biggest hit to date. Just don’t wear those dresses on American TV!

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS