ANNETTE PEACOCK
I’M THE ONE
(FUTURE DAYS LP/CD)

Free jazz, giddy pop, eroto-funk and avant-garde electronics collide on this cult LP, originally released by RCA in 1972. With contributes from jazzer Paul Bley and Brazilian percussionists Airto Moreira and Dom Um Romao, not to mention some of the freakiest use of the Moog synthesizer you’ll ever hear, it’s the kind of risk-taking major label album that just doesn’t exist these days. TP

CLIFF MARTINEZ / VARIOUS ARTISTS
DRIVE: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
(INVADA LP)

Cliff Martinez’s soundtrack for Drive has to be one of the most over-praised creations of the past half-decade. There’s not much too it, really, beyond some pleasantly pulsating electronics – what’s unforgettable is the way director Nicolas Winding Refn and his editor use it. Had Drive been, say, a wham-bam Jasan Statham vehicle helmed by McG, you can rest assured that Martinez’s work would scarcely have been commented on. Still, the cues are good and they do stand up on their own, especially as they’re interspersed with songs by Chromatics, Kavinsky Desire and (of course) College’s ‘Real Hero’. Nice vinyl editions from, of all places, Geoff Barrow’s Invada label. TF

CODEINE
THE WHITE BIRCH
(NUMERO GROUP 2xLP+CD)

One of the biggest surprises of last year was finding out that the Numero Group, the high-end reissue imprint usually focussed on vintage soul, jazz, funk, bossa, etc, was taking on the catalogue of post-rock miserablists Codeine. The White Birch, originally released on Sub Pop in ’94, was the New Yorkers’ final album, and their most fully realised, its stark, slowcore intensity influencing legion bands who came up in its wake. TP

GUY REIBEL
GRANULATIONS-SILLAGES / FRANGES DU SIGNE
(RECOLLECTION GRM LP)

Foundational electronic music from the archive of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales (GRM) in Paris, given a new lease of life through Recollection GRM, a new imprint from Peter Rehberg’s Editions Mego. The series is already four LPs old; our favourite so far is this pairing of pieces created by Guy Reibel in ’74 and ’76. Like all the ReGRM fare, it’s presented in a beautiful, debossed sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley. TP

GARY SLOAN AND CLONE
HARMONITALK
(FINDERS KEEPERS LP)

Absolutely bonkers discovery – from Alaska, no less – by Finders Keepers. Self-released in tiny quantities in 1980 by Sloan, whose synthetically enhanced harmonica is the album’s driving force, it’s a strange, hypnotic and often very twee journey around the outskirts of prog, jazz fusion and new age synthesizer music. TF