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Also Spinning Kurt Cobain Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings Somewhere between rubber-necking a fatal car accident and genuinely grasping for the answer to ‘why?’ lies this 31-track ‘soundtrack’ to the recent doco on grunge’s enigmatic Godfather.

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Certainly no party starter, we’re instead meditating on the creative aspects to the mischievous noodler. Between demos and mere ideas are snippets of Cobain’s fascination with editing sound on his four-track; it's an exhaustive, sad, funny and ultimately fascinating insight into his creative process and a flittering peek into a rarely celebrated sense of humour ( Beans ). Wow, an album where Cobain tracks can make you laugh? Who’d have thunk it! Chris Murray

Hopetoun Brown Burning Fuse

Tomorrow People Bass & Bassinets Summer’s nearly here so if you’re looking for a new homegrown soundtrack for this season’s barbies, then you can’t go wrong with the sophomore set from this Wellington reggae collective. Tomorrow’s People are at their best on old school jams like Writings On The Wall – which features guest Fran Kora – but the soulful Pacific grooves of songs like Carry On and Chance Go By will please fans of the poppier end of the reggae spectrum. Let’s hope this Summer turns out as sunny as Bass & Bassinets . John Ferguson Roots Manuva Bleeds

Imagine a New Orleans street brass band in which a bass clarinet player and a trumpeter are so lost in the music that they fail to notice that have taken a wrong turn and are now separated from the rest of their fellow musicians. But when they do belatedly realise

what’s happened, they play on regardless, this time marching to their own tune... That kind of gives you an indication of where Hopetoun Brown – aka the Supergroove horn section of Nick Atkinson and Tim Stewart – are coming from. Their stripped back tunes takes in everything from blues and jazz to pop, with Atkinson’s clarinet effectively providing the chugging rhythms, with Stewart weighing on vocals and assorted brass instruments. On tracks like Dirty Shame , The Demanding Blues and Road Runner Rocks , the weaving, call-and-response horn lines and tin-can percussion recall the junkyard vaudevillia of TomWaits, while Knitted Into My Bones and Blind see the duo click into a smokier, bluesier groove. Elsewhere, Sorry You’re Sick is a catchy slice of finger-clicking pop, while the instrumental The Melter gives the duo the opportunity to showcase their jazz chops. If this is the new sound of busking, then Burning Fuse is well worth dipping into your wallet for. John Ferguson

He may now be one of the elder statesmen of British hip hop, but Roots Manuva has never one to coast. His sixth album show him as willing as ever to embrace new sonic soundscapes, whether it be the Four Tet produced jitter of the Facety 2:11 or the murky beats of One Thing , one of a number of collaborations with Switch. Standout track, though, is the lovely Don’t Breath Out , which floats by on the back of a sample of Barry White’s Honey Please, Can't Ya See . John Ferguson

This much loved addition to the UK Annual family, reflects the very best that the year had to offer.

A 3CD offering that takes the listener on a beautiful

Saving the best to last, described as the biggest tracks of the year at the Hed Kandi events across the globe.

journey whilst they relax and unwind.

Ministry of Sound UK - 3CD Sets UK Annual 2016 | Perfectly Chilled | Hedkandi 2016

AUGUST 2015 JB Hi-Fi www.jbhifi.co.nz Distributed by Southbound Distribution | www.southbound.co.nz

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