The Smiths - Royal Command Performance, 1986Recorded at Brixton Academy 12 December 1986. And G Mex Festival Manchester 1986. VG+ VG+

” Initially conceived (but quickly ditched) as a Y2K album

The album follows this break-up amid long-term struggles with addiction and declining mental health

and backed by seminal engine room The Meters

Cruel Country

Dad took the tapes to L

providing a stage for local regulars like Hachimitsu Pie with their The Band-like ragged Americana

space rock

Well That Young Lad Steve Stapleton Was Braver Than That

Mixed from multitrack by longtime live engineer Aaron Mullan and mastered and cut by Carl Saff

written after the song’s vocalist Georgie came out of hospital following a mental health crisis

“The most unexpected

the bones decoupled and spread out