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The double-LP ‘French Dispatch’ soundtrack features selections from Alexandre Desplat‘s playful score, as well as tracks from Grace Jones, Ennio Morricone, Georges Delerue, and more.

Obscure ’80s UK band Magic Roundabout are finally releasing their debut album, 34 years after breaking up. “Magic Roundabout are one of those that showed so much promise,“ says Pulp’s Marc Webber. “We all had dreams. Some dreams take longer to come true.”

Magic Roundabout, who never released a record during their ’80s run, came to Third Man by way of 4AD groups Pale Saints and His Name is Alive…

1995 was the peak year for Britpop with the “Blur Vs Oasis” feud, and nearly every major player in the scene releasing an album. We ranked the 20 best.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from The Intelligence’s Lars Finberg and San Francisco’s Cindy, plus reissues from Young Marble Giants, Jarvis Cocker, and more.

JARV IS… cover The Fall’s “Big New Prinz” from a recreation of the ‘I Am Kurious Oranj’ ballet set at The Barbican’s retrospective on avant-garde choreographer Michael Clark.

Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Muse, Them Crooked Vultures, and more will also take part in the series, which raises money to help fight cancer, and one of Robert Smith’s guitars will be auctioned off…

TBS also discussed the playlist — which includes Pavement, Hum, Built to Spill, Fiona Apple, Superdrag, Metallica, Tori Amos, and more — on their new quarantine-style YouTube show…

Watch Jarvis perform songs by Black Sabbath, Survivor, The Doors, Bruce Springsteen and more.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new album from Jarvis Cocker, Protomartyr, Crack Cloud, PAINT (Pedrum of Allah Las), and Soulwax.