Hangman's Beautiful Daughters: Smashed Full Of Wonder (1987/2020)

Despite a band name presumably borrowed from a legendary British folk album, this short-lived UK indie band (an early part of the British DIY C86 scene) shares little with its namesake. Instead, their two 1987 EPs, reissued last year as a single CD, offer jangly guitar pop comparable to a lot of mid-80s college radio fare, but interwoven with darker, psychedelic-tinged garage band rock. 

The music was produced by Dan Treacy of Television Personalities (who also wrote a few songs for them). Singer...