Various - Bob Stanley And Pete Wiggs Present English WeatherThe latest project from two thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and deluxe double LP of English music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s. Most of it is not an easy listen, but its always interesting, melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches. While America may have licked its wounds at the turn of the seventies by turning to singer songwriters, purveyors of homilies like teach your

including Glenn Branca and future members of Sonic Youth

time has been kind in my opinion and I think these songs are as good now or better than they ever were

Definitely Maybe helped to spur a revitalisation in British pop music in the 1990s

The band saying of the new sound

Robin Crutchfield (keyboards) and Ikue Mori (drums)

' 'Porcupine' and 'Ocean Rain

as it sweeps to a climax

girl group pop and the kind of laid back torch song crooning favoured by the mafioso of old

a heavily weird

On Scientific

Blue Swede

The exquisitely eclectic nature of Soothing Music For Stray Cats garnered a dedicated following of admirers across the world and a rich supply of superlatives from the music press