The Marble Index/Desertshore (reissues, 1968, ’70)
DOMINO
REISSUE OF THE MONTH
10/10
8/10
AT once terminally forbidding and inexhaustibly alluring, Nico’s belongs among those ultra-modernist works that stand aside from their art without regard for the consequences. Like James Joyce’s or Picasso’s , it seems destined to offer an eternal challenge even to those who choose to fall under its obscure spell. This latest reissue, coupled with , its successor/sibling, demonstrates that five and a half decades have failed to dent a vital component of its greatness: an obstinate refusal to explain itself or to succumb to the pattern whereby the avant-garde is absorbed and neutralised by the mainstream. There may never come a time when will not be