Weird revolution: This week at South Records

It's a slightly quieter week for brand new releases, but there's still plenty to get stuck into, alongside a steady stream of restocks, reissues and used arrivals hitting the shelves. Warren James bring together James Kirk of Orange Juice and Warren McIntyre of Starry Skies for Tales From Film City, a melodic Glasgow collaboration recorded at the legendary Film City studios and featuring appearances from Gerard Love (Teenage Fanclub), Chris Geddes (Belle and Sebastian) and more. Now-Again digs out another essential obscurity with Karl Hector & The Malcouns' Sahara Swing, a hypnotic blend of Afro-funk, Ethiopian jazz, psychedelic rock and heavyweight grooves that draws as much from Fela Kuti and Mulatu Astatke as it does James Brown and Can. Meanwhile, Butthole Surfers finally unveil After The Astronaut, the mythical late-'90s album shelved for over 25 years before label disputes left it unheard. Newly mixed by Paul Leary, it's a gloriously strange trip through electronics, acid grooves and warped psychedelic rock that fills in a fascinating missing chapter in the band's story.

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The Ventures are often remembered for surf instrumentals, but Super Psychedelics finds them fully embracing the late-'60s. Usually overlooked outside collector circles, Super Psychedelics is one of the Ventures' most adventurous records. Trading surf rock for fuzz guitars, sitars, tape effects and psychedelic production, the band rework contemporary hits while sounding surprisingly inventive throughout. A brilliant snapshot of a group reinventing themselves at the height of the psychedelic era.