Garageland, by Nicolas Ungemuth, covers the golden stretch of 1964 to 1968, when garage, in all its raw simplicity, reigned the airwaves. The impressive breadth of musicians featured include proto-punks like The Sonics and The Troggs, pop/folk stars like Sandie Shaw and Donovan, psychedelics like The Seeds, mod faces like Rod Stewart and odd ephemera like the Monks. Andrew Loog Oldham provides a preface, but since the whole book is in French, I wouldn’t know how good it is. But the pictures are lush and the paper smells good. Here are some of my highlights: