Jethro Tull "The Chateau D’Herouville Sessions" RSD 2021 Jawbreaker was in full stride

Jawbreaker was in full stride

JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown are easy first-round picks for this category — craft-first eccentrics with singular catalogs that demand some recalibration of the ear

This 3 LP set is pressed on 180-gram vinyl

The band folded not long after their elusive full length album was finally completed in 2001

As a special bonus

Jethro Tull "The Chateau D’Herouville Sessions" RSD 2021 Jawbreaker was in full strideWhat seemed to be an ideal choice of a residential studio near Paris, turned into a nightmare. The resultant aborted recordings, wittily dubbed The Chateau D'isaster, remained unreleased for many years. This 2LP set contains the original 16 tracks mixed by Steven Wilson and a fourth side showing how a handful of recordings did get used on subsequent albums.