Nucleus - AlleycatCome for the leopard, stay for the stone cold jams. Yet another thrilling, funky prog jazzy rock fusion beauty from Ian Carrs Nucleus. Originally released on Vertigo in 1975, Alleycat was never re pressed so those original copies are now very tricky to score. Like all the Nucleus records, its aged ridiculously well and this Be With re issue, re mastered from the original analogue tapes, shows off just why this deserves to be back in press. Genius

which tackled in no uncertain terms the rise of robots and the downfall of mankind

see 2016’s improvisational document ‘No Waves’) but much of it happened purely in the moment

It wasn’t built to last

while still sounding contemporary

but Schuldiner proved once again that he could rise to any occasion

Part Five of our planned Britxotica

not to mention a bunch of Black Jazz dates

it was positively genre-creating

34 years later he even set out to right the wrong

recorded and produced in the UK in over a decade

a three-song 7-inch released in 1980

Forced Labor