Other reissues out this month.
David Bowie
Released (again) to mark its 50th, on half-speed remastered black vinyl or pic disc, Dave’s first post-Ronson album (a post-Burroughs/ Orwell vision of street-wise canine dystopia) reliably shines, but another remaster? ‘This ain’t rock’n’roll. This is…’ milking it. 9/10
The Fall
The mighty Fall’s ’79 debut LP, back on black in its US-vinyl I.R.S. 10-track form, remains as acerbic and jarring as ever-ah. Though Mark E’s audible sneer predominates, Bramah and Riley’s wilful, itchy, Magic Band scratch ’n’ riff guitar and bass interplay never gets old. 7/10
UK Subs
With all due respect to the sainted Charlie Harper, these five newly clamshelled albums, now fully equipped with all the band’s heyday hits (C.I.D., Stranglehold, Tomorrow’s Girls etc) are all you really need of the street-punk exemplars’ copious ’78-’22 back catalogue. 7/10
Warhorse
With a bassist (Nick Simper) who’d been sacked by Purple, a drummer (Mac Poole) who’d turned down Zeppelin, Heepy hard rockers Warhorse lost Rick Wakeman to Yes after one demo and were dropped by Vertigo after two chart-missing albums… It’s a shit business. 6/10
Lindisfarne
Fans of vintage Lindisfarne might balk at a three-CD set covering their relatively slim ’78-79 re-formed incarnation (a couple of albums noteworthy only for sole transatlantic hit single Run For Home). Luckily, disc one documents a hit-packed ’77 Newcastle City Hall show. 7/10
Edgar Broughton Band
Wildly extemporising like an unholy progeny of Arthur Brown and Nick Cave, reliably underachieving UK underground demon magnet Broughton did an awful lot of air-filling sessions for a pre-punk Peel adrift in a post-psych hell. Four further-than-far-out discs. 6/10
GBH
Birmingham UK82 pioneers GBH’s M.O. turned many a Clash-weaned ’77 punk into
