Roadside Relics: America's Abandoned Automobiles

Relics is an early Pink Floyd compilation album, originally released in mid-1971. Despite being the second in a total of six Pink Floyd compilations, Relics is highly-regarded among Floyd fans, who remember it nostalgically as the only compilation for many years (and, arguably, still) to properly highlight Pink Floyd's early strengths. Relics takes a fairly democratic approach to Pink Floyd's earliest releases, featuring ten tracks from the band's first five singles and first three albums, as well as one previously unreleased track.

Glasgow three-piece Errors return with mini-album New Relics. Signed to compatriots Mogwai’s label Rock Action Records, this is another spin on the squelch-synth electro-disco carousel. Although the rotation of a carousel is perhaps too simplistic of a comparison for Errors’ choice of track structure. New Relics lacks the immediate draw of their previous release Have Some Faith in Magic, instead providing a more expansive journey into an alternative, futuristic anti-reality, blurring the edges of the everyday. It’s an album that offers more with each play, rewarding the listener with the chance to submerge themselves further into the tie-dye vortex…