Bob Stanley

This week: The Goon Sax's terrific new 'We're Not Talking'; Baxter Dury teams with Etienne de Crécy for a new LP; plus Lake Ruth, French psych band Bootchy Temple, and two new 1968 compilations curated by Saint Etienne.

This week there are box sets from The Jazz Butcher and Kitchens of Distinction, a five-disc compilation of classic UK goth, a collection of post-psych/pre-prog UK rock curated by Bob and Pete of Saint Etienne, and the reissue of the album for which the term "post-rock" was coined.

Saint Etienne are gearing up to release Home Counties, the UK trio's ninth album and first in five years...

I've been reading a lot of music books of late, spurred on by travel, TV shows being on hiatus and my realization that there were some cool new books out...