Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)Continuing the twisted pop explorations ofHere Come the Warm Jets, Eno's follow up album,Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), is more subdued and cerebral, and a bit darker when he does cut loose, but it's no less thrilling once the music reveals itself. It's a loose concept album about espionage, the Chinese Communist revolution, and dream associations, with the more stream of consciousness lyrics beginning to resemble the sorts of random connections

Deb Googe's minimalist groove ethic and Steve Shelley's in-the-pocket swing dynamism

Combining punk abandon and tightly-coiled dance music has always been bonded into the band's DNA

please sit back

Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven) and Buck himself

Weasel Walter's mastering job is more of an act of terrorism than anything else but it perfectly captures the intensity of seeing them live in

åÊflashes of raw emotion and a cement chip of punk attitudeåÊpropel these songs directly to your dome and downåÊthe brain stem

Ty Segall is the sum of his songs‰Ûä‰ÛÓ‰Ûäand about getting the free

a lullaby-like howler that dwells on "the fact that being yourself can be uncomfortable and even potentially dangerous at times

the sheer power of their songwriting casts away any gloom

Scant details were known: just a series of possibly apocryphal stories about a sports car-driving Canadian with a model on his arm and a habit of skipping town when there were bills to be paid

mixing folk

Captured Tracks are pleased to present "Living With Victoria Grey" on vinyl for the first time as part of the final installment of the Cleaners from Venus collection