The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba (Live At Hotel Yorba)**Now available on black vinyl. First 7" released by XL when they licensed the White Blood Cells album in 2001.. this was at the peak of the White Stripes furore then.. brilliant!

recorded in Amsterdam) and marks the first collaborative effort between Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius and Neu

” Henry and Margaret Davis Grimes playfully declared)

Blind Fuller & Sonny Terry Harmonica Stomp 23

trumpet player Bobby Ellis and trombonist Vin ‰Û÷Don D Junior‰۪ Gordon blowing hot across resilient rhythms built by bassie Lloyd Parks and drummer Sly Dunbar in their Gibbs guise as The Professionals with legendary engineer Errol Thompson at the controls at Joe Gibbs‰۪ studio

the collective knowledge of a bunch of psych’s keenest fanboys and the engineering skills of John Leckie… the resulting album sits somewhere in the pantheon of greatness between Evolution

marrying the cinematic

Initially a marginalised phenomenon

Available on indies-only white vinyl

and protests

Both transcendent and surprising

blending and up-ending

Sounds like nothing else right now