While you’re not looking

As time passes and careers fade into his­tory, musos will cap­i­talise by hav­ing a reunion tour and/or release a defin­i­tive col­lec­tion to com­mem­o­rate their glory years. My dear and ol’ time favourite The Pix­ies have hopped onto that band­wagon to col­lect their retire­ment fund again in releas­ing an unde­ni­ably in your face box set titled Mino­taur. The lim­ited edi­tion con­tains a mono­lithic two feet tall hard cover that is rem­i­nis­cent of Kubrick’s 2001 and it’s designed by A+R; curated by Vaughan Oliver; shot by Simon Lar­balestier. Need­less to say that no-one else can ever take on this task but the orig­i­nal team of Oliver and Lar­balestier. A+R is a jus­ti­fi­able choice espe­cially with their recent folio of NIN’s Ghosts, Beck’s The Infor­ma­tion and Sigur Rós’ In A Frozen Sea. To bow at this feat is to will­ingly forgo your wal­let and drown in the pool of com­mer­cial­ism with your feet in the air and head on the ground. Then again, who wouldn’t try this trick when put into their shoes.