★Epic

Ignored upon its release in 1974 and celebrated upon its reissue in 2001, Shuggie Otis' fourth and last album Inspiration Information exists out of time, a record that was of its time, but didn't belong of it; a record that was idiosyncratic but not necessarily visionary. It was psychedelic soul that was released far too late to be part of any zeitgeist and it was buried at the time. Yet no matter what David Byrne claims on the sticker - he says Shuggie's "trippy R&B jams are equal to Marvin's a…

Original European edition on Epic of the 1986 refined pop album, the last of the original line-up.

Original European edition on Epic of the 1984 refined pop album.

Original European edition with embossed sleeve of the band's transitional, with a more electronic sound, album from 1983.

Doomy and partly experimental soundtrack to a rarely seen film by The Stranglers' bass and keyboard players, released on Epic in 1984.

Two rather unique contemporary masses for mixed chorus (one plus instruments) composed in the 1950's and released on Epic's "Twentieth Century Composers Series" in 1957.