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Lloyd Cole’s new single The Over Under is taken from Lloyd’s sensational new album Guesswork, which was released in July… After the release of Guesswork in late July, Lloyd Cole approached respected contemporary…
Making Kraftwerk: Autobahn
In 1974, Kraftwerk created an electronic epic – Autobahn, an album which saw man and machine working in perfect harmony. It was a pivotal step forward for contemporary music –…
Review: UNKLE – The Road Part II: Lost Highway
Mo’Wax founder James Lavelle’s back again with a cameo-laden sequel to 2017’s similarly cameo-laden fifth studio album, except this time it’s double the length, leading one to wonder, since it’s…
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…
Reissue Review: Spear of Destiny – The Albums 1983-85
William Blake famously observed that the fool who persists in his folly shall become wise. Pouting peroxide post-punk Kirk Brandon represented a pretty stiff challenge to that weighty maxim. Brandon’s…
Review Round-Up: New Releases & Reissues – Issue 53
New Albums Collard – Unholy While Collard isn’t the new Prince, Prince would have likely applauded him. The 24-year-old’s debut is laced with strikingly atmospheric soul and hip-hop, with the…
Reissue Review: Blancmange – The Blanc Tapes
Never viewed as A-listers, Blancmange rarely feature in lists of the crème de la crème of 1980s electropop pioneers alongside sacred trailblazers such as New Order, The Human League and…
Reissue Review: Various Artists – C87
Originally released as a mail order cassette by NME in May 1986, C86 was, for better or worse, to spawn a whole movement of alternately twee and shambling indie guitar…
Reissue Review: Primal Scream – Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll
“You can’t sing, you can’t play, you look awful,” a sneering A&R man told a hapless bunch of pop hopefuls on the other side of his desk in a fondly-remembered…