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William Orbit: The Painter (Warner Records) ***

Ezra Furman: All Of Us Flames (Bella Union) ****

Julia Jacklin: Pre Pleasure (Transgressive Records) ****

Back in the early Eighties, Altered Images led the Scotpop charge on to Top

of the Pops and beyond, with charismatic frontwoman Clare Grogan as the

poster girl for the Sound of Young Scotland. Unlike some of the bands who
came in their wake, from Texas to Del Amitri, the original line-up were

unable to stay the course but left behind some of the most engaging songs in

the canon.

Thirty years later Grogan reformed Altered Images with an all female line-

up as a going live concern, but it took the second national lockdown for the
seeds of a new album, the first in almost 40 years, to sprout as Grogan and