Bob Stanley

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This week in Indie Basement: ‘The John Hughes Mixtapes’ box, reviews of new records by Healing Potpourri (produced by High Llamas), Marci and Mick Trouble, plus a Saint Etienne-curated comp of early ’90s downtempo classics.

Songwriter and musician Margo Guryan, known for her 1968 cult classic ‘Take a Picture‘, died at her Los Angeles home on November 8. She was 84.

Based around slowed-to-a-crawl millenium-era pop samples, Saint Etienne‘s 10th album is unlike any they’ve made before.

Saint Etienne’s 10th album is unlike any they’ve ever made before.

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“To me it’s about optimism, and the late nineties,“ Bob Stanley says of Saint Etienne’s 10th album, “and how memory is an unreliable narrator… I think it sounds gorgeous.”

This week: reviews of new albums by John Grant, SAULT, Lightning Bug, Justice‘s Gaspard Augé, Rose City Band (Ripley Johnson), plus the return of Absolutely Free and a new ’60s/’70s country comp curated by Saint Etienne‘s Bob Stanley.

Edited by Tessa Norton and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley, ‘Excavate!‘ is a compendium of ephemera and essays that explore tangential but essential aspects to Mark E Smith and The Fall‘s worldview.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new records from CFCF, Sorry, Ride’s Andy Bell, Silver Synthetic, and Requin Chagrin, plus a new book on The Fall.