The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is focused, unsettling and damn near indispensable.
Perrett sings like a man possessed on songs that manage to sound helplessly romantic and deal with everyday realities simultaneously, his expression undiminished by the ravages of time ... His best-ever album? Could well be.
Amelia is the work of a true auteur at the very height of her craft.
Buffalo Tom in their haunted, bluesy groove continue to sound just as fresh as they did when the band first formed 40 years ago.