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U.S. Girls ★★★★ Scratch It 4AD. CD/DL/LP ...

It’s worth remembering that The Cure’s previous remix album, 1990’s Mixed Up, was made as a palette cleanser after the intense gloom of Disintegration, acting essentially as a bit of froth to get some

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The Dead Daisies Lookin’ For Trouble SPV ...

This trio of Los Angeles musicians fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with the sounds of 60s surf music – though their sound has more in common with Latin folk music than Dick Dale. We join them to talk about their debut album, fibreglass guitars and tropical psychedelia

Deep inside his London studio, BRIAN ENO is busy bringing “playful” experimental strategies to the studio graft – as his new collaborative albums with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe attest. But, over pastries, an uncharacteristically digressive Eno finds time to discuss Scott Walker’s voice, communal living with Harmonia, mid-‘60s ‘happenings’ and his deep enthusiasm to create anew. “I’m sorry to be so shamelessly enthusiastic about my work,” he tells Tom Pinnock