THIS was hardly meant to be a memorial to Gravenhurst, the stage name for performer Nick Talbot. But his sad death last month has unfortunately made the already planned re-issues of three of his Warp records a monument to his work.

Packaged with a collection of demos and previously unheard tracks - under the collective name of Offerings - the set also includes the reissued Flashlight Seasons and Black Holes In The Sand. Talbot had a cult following, and preferred to poke around some of the more interesting aspects of the human condition and the trio of LPs prove a fitting epitaph.

Few people could do introspective melancholy like Gravenhurst – a soft vocal often unpinned by beautiful guitar, combining to produce a sound that, paradoxically, could be both dark and uplifting at the same time. At their most basic, they were simply beautiful songs. The real tragedy about his death, at the young age of just 37, was that his music was attracting ever greater attention.