If psych-pop with a twist is your bag, baby, this compilation is definitely where it's...
Overall, you know exactly what you're getting with Ms Twain, and for her fans this is...
...no arguments - Blondie were, in modern parlance, the bomb.
International issue for the Norwegian nu-jazzer's 1998 EP.
The platinum-coated Cowboy returns to the kind of songs that made him a household...
These girls have enough self-belief and chutzpah to ride out any storm. Make no...
...it still sounds like one of the most vital and important reasons to love rock 'n'...
All Gallic cool mixed with naïve whimsy. A bit like Francoise Hardy in the 25th century.
Nashville has a way of chewing up talent and spitting it out and sometimes we have to...
Business as usual for the former Night Tripper, then. But business that's most welcome...
Tommy's vague plotline of childhood trauma, spiritual chicanery and redemption to this...
Above all, the seeming ease with which Burch delivers these epistles of familial...
The real joy to be found in a hand-tooled album like this is imagining what its...
...if any artists are tempted to attempt an album of other peoples songs, they should...
Slow, elegaic and unhurried, it settles like summer dust on the ears and never once...
Country Blues as parched and mysterious as the desert landscape which inhabits these...
...this is a world of night thoughts and bitter recriminations. But don't fool...
Mellotron solos! Lyrics about women selling tea! Scary chord changes! Folk music...
But underneath all the colours and textures of country, Philly soul and new wave...
Long may they go their own way...
Difficult second album time for Dan Berridge's lushly cinematic sampladelia.
Isn't this just a souped-up MTV-style 'Unplugged' session in wolf's clothing?
Gabriel remains a songsmith who speaks from the heart and never fails to move. Ten...
Bolan, for all of his mercenary fame-seeking and shameless bandwagon-jumping was a...
The Fleur De Lys' cover of the Who's 'Circles' (featuring a young Gordon Haskell on...
...he reminds us why we loved him in the first place: the undeniable gift with a...
Again and again, Beck's words reflect the cynicism born of betrayal and longing...
To not have these nuggets of purest pop within reach (in case of emergency) should be...
Already veterans of the London psychedelic scene, their determination to be the best...
So much here goes beyond mere R 'n' B. These are archetypes.
...Leige And Lief was in no way their best work. These three reissues are undoubtedly...
...Joni Mitchell remains almost unimpeachable with a legacy as amazing as this...
When The Roses Bloom Again proves that old Peely was right on the money. Let those...
'Modern Times' is the exception that proves Bob's recent assertion that most modern...
The title comes from a haiku...repeated at intervals throughout...What occurs in...
Another blow against those who equate country with stultifying conservatism.
Maybe it takes a foreigner to get to the dark heart of much of our indigenous music,...
Before you know it you've played it five times in a row and have started scouring the...
strangely intense and, simultaneously, so laid-back as to be almost horizontal...
...the trio moved to an alternative universe where Yellow Submarine was everyone's...
...'Harry Irene' is the most touching song about lesbian restaurant owners ever recorded.
The smoothest Geordie in the world dusts off the tuxedo one more time. His best album...
Tony Visconti returns to the fold to sharpen things up.
Their greatest moment? When Daltrey screams at the end of ''Won't Get Fooled Again''?...
It's incredible that someone who, these days, is undoubtedly more superannuated than...
...it's all here - the legendary, and the legendarily bad. Just take your time...
Over 40 years on, David Jones still seems to have the ability to surprise. Just look...
Alt country is no longer their playground; they make Wilco music and it's much, much...
Beginners may well be scared by the intricacies and oddly emotionless explorations...
...relax, the Mael brothers have been doing tongue-in-cheek pop with an IQ for long...
