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The most comprehensive compilation of Belinda Carlisle’s singles joins an excellent overhaul of her 1989 classic album… If you’re reading this, you may well already own a Belinda Carlisle compilation.…
Review: John Power – Solo 2003 – 2008
Having recently reissued Cast’s first four albums, Demon now present a boxset of singer John Power’s three solo LPs (complete with a free signed print, memorabilia fans.) Cast first imploded…
Review: A Flock Of Seagulls – Inflight – The Extended Essentials
In 2018, the original A Flock Of Seagulls reformed for the first time since 1984 to rework their hits with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra for the album Ascension. A year…
Reissue: Echo & The Bunnymen
Significantly, this collection of 21 Echo & The Bunnymen tracks are from the very beginning of the bands existence… Such was the mutual love-in between Echo & The Bunnymen and…
Review: Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Music 3
Let’s party like it’s 1984. A first-time release on cd for the greatest now… Series comp of them all… Arriving on CD for the first time to mark its 35th…
Review: The Lightning Seeds – Jollification
A rare classic pop album from Britpop shows why, 25 years on, we need Ian Broudie more than ever… Considering its name, there weren’t exactly that many great pop acts…
Review: Bonnie Tyler – The RCA Years
Compiling Tyler’s first four albums from 1977-81, Lost In France and It’s A Heartache are the big tunes on a thoroughly-researched 4CD-set. Tyler had been singing in clubs for seven…
Reissue Review: Various Artists – Birth Of A Nation – Inevitable Records: An Independent Liverpool 1979-1986
It never attracted the acclaim or profile of a Factory or Postcard, but Inevitable Records was a valuable conduit for Liverpool indie music in the late 1970s and early 1980s.…
Reissue Review: Various Artists – Now That’s What I Call Music II
Now That’s What I Call Music I was reissued with much fanfare late last year to coincide with Now 100, but the second album in the series arguably deserves more…
Reissue Review: R.E.M. The Best Of R.E.M. – In Time 1988–2003
The finest that Athens, Georgia, has to offer deserve a definitive career-spanning Best Of. Sadly, this isn’t it… R.E.M.’s precipitous late-1980s ascent into the rock stratosphere was a charming, off-kilter…