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Clear some room in the "H" section of your record pile: here comes another enormous box set from veteran music-maker Robyn Hitchcock, this one focusing on the onetime Soft Boy's mid-1980s output with the Egyptians.

Entitled Luminous Groove, the previously mentioned box collects Hitchcock solo joints Fegmania!, Element of Light, and the live set Gotta Let This Hen Out!, coupling each with a handful of bonus cuts exclusive to the Luminous Groove collection. In addition, there's a pair of discs entitled Bad Case of History, one sporting previously unreleased studio recordings, and the other chock full of unreleased live material.

The set is due on five CDs or eight LPs August 5 from Yep Roc. And, much as they did last time, the folks at Yep Roc are already hinting at another shelf-bending forthcoming Hitchcock collection, this one centered around the man's days in the Soft Boys.

Mr. Hitchcock has a number of tour dates in Europe and North America throughout the spring and summer.

Fegmania!:

01 Egyptian Cream
02 Another Bubble
03 I'm Only You
04 My Wife and My Dead Wife
05 Goodnight I Say
06 The Man With the Lightbulb Head
07 Insect Mother
08 Strawberry Mind
09 Glass
10 The Fly
11 Heaven
12 Bells of Rhymney
13 Some Body
14 Heaven (live)
15 Pit of Souls (I-IV)
16 The Drowning Church
17 The Man With the Lightbulb Head (instrumental)
18 Lady Obvious

Element of Light:

01 If You Were a Priest
02 Winchester
03 Somewhere Apart
04 Ted, Woody, and Junior
05 The President
06 Raymond Chandler Evening
07 Bass
08 Airscape
09 Never Stop Bleeding
10 Lady Waters and the Hooded One
11 Black Crow Knows
12 The Crawling
13 The Leopard
14 Tell Me About Your Drugs
15 Sprinkling Dots
16 Upside Down Church Blues
17 Into It
18 Neck
19 Bass
20 Lady Waters Mix 1

Gotta Let This Hen Out!:

01 Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl
02 Kingdom of Love
03 Acid Bird
04 The Cars She Used to Drive
05 My Wife and My Dead Wife
06 Brenda's Iron Sledge
07 The Fly
08 Only The Stones Remain
09 Egyptian Cream
10 Leppo and the Jooves
11 America
12 Heaven
13 Listening to the Higsons
14 The Face of Death
15 If You Were a Priest
16 I'm Only You
17 Unsettled
18 Freeze

Bad Case of History:

Disc one:

01 Bad Case of History
02 In Agony of Pleasure
03 Poisonous Angel
04 Live Man Die
05 Furry Baby
06 Evil Guy
07 Hanging Out With Dad
08 Wild Mountain Thyme
09 Ivy Alone
10 I Am Not Me
11 Surfer Ghost
12 Beautiful Queen
13 Testosterone Blues
14 Zipper in My Spine
15 Lost Tribes

Disc two:

01 Child of the Universe
02 Freeze
03 Veins of the Queen
04 The Ruling Class
05 So You Think You're in Love
06 Driving Aloud
07 Wax Doll
08 Living Years
09 Eight Miles High
10 Chimes of Freedom
11 Railway Shoes
12 Arms of Love
13 The Moon Inside
14 Globe of Frogs
15 Vegetation & Dimes
16 Wafflehead
17 The Wreck of the Arthur Lee

Robyn Hitchcock:

05-30 Cheltenham, England - Wychwood Festival
05-31 Hereford, England - Wild Hare Club
06-27 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
07-04 Barcelona, Spain - Faraday Festival
07-09 Northampton, MA - The Iron Horse
07-10 Albany, NY - The Linda
07-11 Amagansett, NY - The Stephen Talkhouse
07-12 Ridgewood, NJ - The Blend
07-13 New Hope, PA - John & Peter's
07-15 Piermont, NY - The Turning Point
07-16 Piermont, NY - The Turning Point
07-17 Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
08-28 London, England - Shepherds Bush Empire *
09-12 Salisbury, England - End of the Road Festival

* with Big Star