Miles Davis - Bitches BrewMiles marries Betty, gets the funk and this is the end result: Along with "Kind Of Blue", but coming from a completely different angle, "Bitches Brew" is probably Davis' most celebrated work. Recorded in three days in August of 1969 and often heralded as the first shot fired in the fusion movement, "Bitches Brew" melds jazz with rock, and as an essential part of any psyche prog head's record collection as jazz fans. Davis had already spearheaded two

Whether their muse lies in 60s sci-fi soundtracks

Nation of Ulysses' first full-length album

call(ed) home

From its deadpan sleeve to the peculiar choice of structuring the album with three live versions of the horrific Slug Bait and four of the more straightforward Maggot Death

Truth itself

if not literally

the homegrown and the foreign

marvelling at how much comes from so little: just a voice and a guitar or two

creating a more unsettling sense of tension than if the songs were given the usual heavy rock instrumentation

Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats

collecting all the now-out-of print sides that totally work amazingly well together when placed back-to-back-to-back as an album

Doug Easley took care of the digital mastering