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Today's Shelf Pull: Dusty Springfield, Broadcast with a Pulse

Dusty Springfield's The Complete BBC Sessions is on the shelf today: a 2024 2LP archive where pop craft, soul instinct and broadcast nerves all behave beautifully.

Some records arrive wearing archive clothing and then proceed to make the room feel less dusty than most new things.

This is one of those.

The Complete BBC Sessions has the useful plainness of a good title. It tells you what it is. Dusty Springfield, gathered from BBC performances, spread across 2LP, with the early brightness, the soul reach, the pop discipline and the live-broadcast alertness all sitting close enough to hear the joins.

The joins are part of the pleasure.