Caught Beneath The Landslide: The Other Side of Britpop & The 90s

For the uninitiated, Kevin Cummins is one of rock’s (albeit not exclusively) foremost photographers.

To anyone with a cursory knowledge of iconic imagery in music, his work will be familiar, having captured everyone from Joy Division to George Clinton.

Last year he released a book of his work which chronicled the Britpop years (While We Were Getting High) during which he was the NME’s chief photographer and now, so as to give the book the chance to shine, under his name an accompanying compilation is being released.

If you think you don’t need another Britpop compilation, think again. This is no ‘Biggest Britpop Anthems’ or anything so vulgar, but a collection of curios and lesser-heard tracks by the biggest (and not-so-biggest) bands of the 1990s.

The choices are summed up by the Oasis inclusion; it would be bizarre not to have the track which the compilation takes its name from (‘Champagne Supernova’), but rather than the over-played version from (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, here we are treated to a lesser-heard, Brendan Lynch mix of the song.

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