Kate Bush‘s landmark album ‘Hounds Of Love’ is 30 years old this week. To celelebrate it, we have picked one of its lesser known tracks to head the newest edition of the retro-loop, our look at those reissues, compilations, soundtracks and treasures from yester-year that have been recently brought back to our attention.

Recent film releases such as Dope, Truman Capote’s In Cool Blood, How To Change The World or The Belier family have delivered some sonic treats with tracks by the likes of Digable Planets; Quincy Jones; Canned Heat or Michel Sardou being part of their correspondent soundtracks. Elsewhere, Sony announced the purchase of Van Morrison‘s back catalogue, Nils Frahm has dusted some obscure gems curating the latest ‘Late Night Tales’ volume; Tracey Thorn compiled her solo output and Colombia’s vintage mix of local folklore, pop and African influences has been nicely put together in a Big Box Of Afrosound; plus a lot of vinyl reissues flooding our record shops this fortnight, among the most interesting ones classic records by The Gun Club; Angie Stone; The Beat Band; McCarthy…

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