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Echoes of the past – including sounds from a past so obscure, you might have missed it the first time around! Once again, the magazine really digs deep into the world of 60s soul and rock – and features articles on Four Of A Kind, The Impacts, Sammy Strain, and The Socialites – with plenty of information on their obscure singles too! And Nay Nassar also presents a great selection of rare singles – more than a few you probably don't have in your crates at home.

The excellent R&B issue of Wax Poetics – with split covers featuring generation defining artists – with Barry White or Gil-Scott Heron on the front and D'Angelo or Erykah Badu on the back! Inside #42 are great features on all of the above, plus pieces on a far reaching roster of R&B, soul, funk & hip hop indebted artists from around the world – Bilal, The Bamboos, Kings Go Forth, Melvin Bliss, Spree Williams and others. The essential Record Rundown section digs deep as always, and this issue also has the Studio Rundown, An Oral History Of The Wah Wah Pedal and much more!

An eye-grabbing cover, and plenty to grab you inside, too – some great features Cymande, London's Kiss FM, UK Record Stores, Keith Mansfield, Carroll Thompson, Sticky, Mala, and hip UK labels – more than enough different slices of the British underground to get you packing up and taking the next plane east! Shook does a really great job of carrying the torch that used to burn brightly for Straight No Chaser – that unique British blend of jazz, funk, soul, world, hip hop, and more – summed up here in succinct writing, beautiful images, and even some nice record reviews and ads for new releases, too!