A luminous guitar duo from Tomo Katsurada (ex-Kikagaku Moyo) and Dutch musician Jonny Nash. Psychedelic, lightly distorted guitars soak into damp, breathy vocals — sometimes sweet as dream pop, sometimes like ambient folk in morning mist, the two guitars entwining until their edges blur. Essential if you loved Nash's Once Was Ours Forever.
If you love Sonic Youth, Radiohead or Swans, you cannot skip post-punk pioneers This Heat. Fusing tape collage, prog and live improvisation, their self-titled debut became a blueprint for post-rock, math-rock and experimental electronics. This 50th-anniversary reissue on the members' own This Heat Records is remastered from original analog tapes at 24bit/96kHz, pressed on 180g vinyl with the same Pantone spot-colour printing as the 1979 first edition.