Various - Peru Bravo: Funk, Soul & Psych from Peru‰۪s Radical DecadeUK based record label Tigers Milk Records once again team up with Strut Records to release their long anticipated second compilation album, Peru Bravo: Funk, Soul & Psych from Perus radical decade. Peru Bravo tells the whirlwind story of a culture in flux. During the late 60s and early 70s, Lima boasted dozens of young bands full of ideas, spontaneous and unfazed by the instability in Peru. Featuring alternative heroes Traffic Sound and Laghonia

White Light/White Heat is easily the least accessible of The Velvet Underground's studio albums

As noted by Pitchfork in a recent "Rising" feature: "Viet Cong do many things

Martin Newell reflected upon the almost two decades of hard work and musical activity which had led him to this point

his stark vocal and guitar cast by Boyd against simple

on red vinyl

if not literally

‰ÛÏPreviously we didn‰۪t know what we wanted to say or how to say it and would use stories and direct references to help us get to a place we could feel secure

here ya go

(Don't miss MacKaye's vicious double-tracked vocals

‰Û÷Taiga‰۪ is at once challenging and accessible and is undeniably branded with what Nika terms a ‰ÛÏpiercing ambition

The album was recorded at Sonic Ranch outside of El Paso

Loz Williams & Alex Silva (Holy Bible) with mixing from Craig Silvey