Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Tough!Tough! is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1957 but not released on the Cadet label until 1966 180g vinyl reissue

hyper-creative statement recorded between 1976 and 1982

Unobstructed by walls of sonic noise

and was nominated in the second Mercury Music Prize in 1993 (won by Suede) and was in Q magazine's Top 10 Albums of 1993

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was first released in 1979 on Factory Records

recorded at Golden Ratio in Montreal

Bonus tracks on the 3xCD box set include Knew Noise by Section 25

Originally hailing from Stone Mountain

The band were meticulous in tweaking their synth sounds so they‰۪d fit seamlessly with the harp

the record is filled with inventive production and rhymes

abandoning inhibitions and jumping straight into the unknown ('Pier Party Nerves')

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