This may be just music, but your organs will know what sorcery she’s casting here.
Pallot plays with pop convention on a fourth album featuring some standout moments.
For better or worse, welcome to the new Mumford & Sons.
Whatever the sound of his records, the punk inside Moore still lives.
If only more indie-pop had half the nous and route-one fun of A Thousand Pictures.
An artist reborn, Bush tinkers with back catalogue cuts, producing great results.
A magnificent sixth album from a band surely due to crack the mainstream.
As deep as previous R.E.M. classics, and perhaps their best post-Bill Berry LP.
They successfully hit many of rock’s sweet spots on this debut LP.
God bless unique, unfathomable, great Queen Polly.
Will last the distance longer than most base didactic slogan-pop ever has.
Their ninth album, remastered, still sounds dense, punchy, lean and surly.
A newfound machismo makes Rank a fascinating, thrilling document.
A loved-up slice of Americana from the Jayhawks co-founder.
Iggy’s most underrated album helped him get back to real life.
Forget She & Him; Jenny and Johnny are alt-pop’s hot, fun couple.
The trio’s thrashy, joyful momentum rarely lets up.
LA four-piece re-imagine 80s goth and tap into a singular slo-core style.
Ferry can only do jaded nowadays – but when it works, he drags you under with him.
The last “lost” album of the 60s receives the wide release it always deserved.
Eric Berglund’s solo debut is sleeker, darker and crazier than his Tough Alliance fare.
Bowie’s pre-Berlin Trilogy classic receives the deluxe edition treatment.
A well-crafted solo debut that, try as it might, can’t hide from its maker’s past.
Both retro- and avant-rock fans will have a feast here.
The Manchester band’s third LP shifts moods with stirring regularity.
A lopsided update of the famed 1960s Canterbury Sound.
A multi-award winner in Canada, Plaskett remains strangely under-appreciated in the UK.
As fizzy, dramatic and inventive as pop should be without losing his initial grime edge.
Distils and expands their strengths, from elegant tunes to resolutely bittersweet lyrics.
