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The bulky compilation box set I’m looking forward to

Annie Zaleski

Sure, any self-respecting Anglophile already owns most of the tracks appearing on Rhino’s four-CD homage to everything British, The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium—after all, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Pulp and Suede are required listening for Brit-pop fiends. But The Brit Box contains enough forgotten gems and bizarre curve-balls—Blur’s “Tracy Jacks” over the seminal cheeseball techno of “Girls & Boys”?—to make the set feel like a beloved mix tape you haven’t listened to in years. Plus, the concise history lesson on shoegazing (Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, Lush and Chapterhouse are represented, among others) makes the set indispensable, especially in light of the genre’s burgeoning resurgence.

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