Album Reviews

Album reviews: Compilation album Light in the Attic & Friends is full of blues, soul and funk treats

Elsewhere, Harp’s new album brings to mind 1960s psychedelia-pop songwriters and 1970s UK prog-rock bands

Iggy Pop’s version of Betty Davis’s raw funk tune If I’m in Luck I Might Get Picked Up is a highlight on Light in the Attic & Friends

Various Artists, Light in the Attic & Friends (Light in the Attic Records) ***½

One of the best archival record labels in the US is Light in the Attic, a California-based labour of love business that has in the past 20 years reissued long out-of-print records by (sometimes) long-forgotten songwriters. The purpose, says the label founder, Matt Sullivan, is to pay tribute to the music and “seek ways in which to bring fresh perspectives, context, ...