Alex Chilton - Feudalist TartsAlex Chiltons Feudalist Tarts (1985) found the Big Star The Box Tops front man re making himself as a southern fried hipster offering up original tunes like Stuff and sly soulful covers B A BY and Thank You John while adding a horn section to his road tested rhythm section. Side Two features a number of rare Chilton tracks including Rubber Room and Wild Kingdom. Chilton had hit rock bottom in his home town of Memphis after 15 years of substance abuse

and previously unreleased as a standalone album

Be it through epic sludgey riffs

featuring as it does a much wider range of moods and melodies

Released: 30 Sep 1996

and Baron on the river

It is an album that demonstrates their subtlety and restraint as much as their stadium-filling grandstanding and it confirmed their superstar rock status

The more you play it

and the best moments follow its tone

"It was fun and funny and wild and weird

Art Blakey went on to record dozens of albums with a constantly changing group of Jazz Messengers

Future Islands release 'Singles'

leading to their debut album later that year ‘Wisdom of Elders’