Mansun-The dead flowers reject (2024 reissue) 29/3/24

the much-awaited 21st-anniversary remaster of their experimental top 10 album, 'six'.'the dead flowers reject', the alter-ego album to 'six', was recorded at the same time as an alternative, more linear & marginally less jaggedly eccentric selection of songs as insurance should the label reject the other. the mansun frontman & songwriter paul draper, described the album: "the dead flowers reject could be thought of as the fourth mansun album... i think the record [had it come out] would probably have been my favourite mansun album: it's the closest to how we played live".