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Critic’s Picks: 16 Best Album Reissues of 2024
Here are the 16 best album reissues of 2024, according to one Billboard critic.
Love Child was once hailed by renowned rock journalist Deb Sprague in Trouser Press as “one of Gotham’s most mercurial bands, able to leap from twee pop tunes to galvanizing skronkadelic constructs in a single bound.” Never Meant to Be: 1988-1993 pulls together highlights from the group’s indelible output on Homestead Records (whose former label manager, Gerard Cosloy, released this new set on his own 12XU imprint) along with rare compilation cuts and radio appearances (including a John Peel session). Starting off on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue in the final weeks of 1975 and touching down while on her 1976 Tour of the United States, these six discs unfurl the robust creativity that transpired in and around the four albums she released during this time — 1976’s Hejira, 1977’s Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, 1979’s Mingus and 1980’s live Shadows and Light — through insightful demos, alternate takes and rough mixes. She also had an extraordinary cache of concert and live-in-the-studio material featuring collaborations with such wizardly musicians as guitarists John McLaughlin, Robben Ford and Pat Metheny, bassists Eddie Gomez, Stanley Clarke and Jaco Pastorius, keyboardists Herbie Hancock, Jan Hammer and Lyle Mays, Wayne Shorter on soprano sax and drummer Tony Williams, to name a few.
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