This month…

London’s post-punk seismographers pick up more weird vibrations on their third album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Cold War Steve.

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

RARITIES! RECORD SHOPS! CRATEDIGGERS ASSEMBLE!

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

It was 1965 with bells on, the year the singles charts got wilder, heavier, druggier. Twelve months of traumas, transgressions and transvestism, experiments and explosions. How 20 revolutionary platters from 1966 revealed "the secrets of space and time". "Intensity was the keynote," says JON SAVAGE.