The Sheffield act’s commercial breakthrough is one of the 90s’ smartest LPs.
Prepare to be smitten all over again, as the NYC outfit release a brilliant fourth album.
A really accomplished, affecting set that should act as a springboard for its maker.
Crunching live release from the concepts-ahoy Atlanta metal outfit.
A fine, streamlined mixtape release from the former Jurassic 5 MC and friends.
A treasure of tremendous emotional resonance and focus from the rising country singer.
An isolating experience, cutting the outside world off entirely.
A work-in-progress debut that mixes alt-folk dynamics with stirring drama.
Persevere and Halfaxa is quite the beguiling beauty.
Shiny rock hopefuls, given a break by The Killers, who aren’t quite there yet.
With Cornish’s profile at a high and awards in the bag, Who You Are is a guaranteed hit.
A promising debut EP from a British artist worth watching out for in 2011.
Dilla had a Midas touch which has reached beyond his tragically short lifetime.
A delightful debut album which tinkles and buzzes, chimes and crackles with real promise.
A fans-pleasing eighth album from Britain’s most consistently brilliant band.
A joyous collection of smile-along anthems from the Sunderland five-piece.
Vocals that soar and arrangements that shine.
Ambitious, and brilliant, fourth LP from the New York MC.
Berlin-based pianist incorporates strings on a fuller-sounding set of universal appeal.
A curious collection of techno covers from the Detroit garage-rockers.
Disappointingly staid fifth solo effort from the New Jersey singer.
Like Dinosaur Jr. meeting The Moldy Peaches in a secret cove at sundown.
The Lips’ commercial breakthrough continues to inspire today’s artists.
Phipps has created a fantastic, enveloping score, suitably dark and threatening.
Boisterous booze-along anthems, all big riffs and sweaty loins.
The better half of the band’s career, collected.
An album of fragility and ethereality to relax into whenever stress levels peak.
A soundtrack that’s a powerful piece of art in its own right.
A decent solo debut from the Gomez singer, full of acoustic charm.
Scottish quintet’s seventh studio LP forgoes fiery riffs for melodic accessibility.
Shoegaze drone-noise from Texas, done well but done several times before.
Often remarkable adventures in surreal sonics from the genre-scrambling collective.
Canadians reveal an effortlessly enjoyable debut that revels in its own weirdness.
An easy going Saturday night soundtrack with plenty of funk in its DNA.
A quiet triumph of a debut from a Manchester outfit on the rise.
One of the very finest rock albums of recent history.
Mars’ solo debut is geared for maximum appeal
The reformed Canadian duo’s sole studio album remains a belter to this day.
A disappointing exercise in contemporary RnB mediocrity.
For fans and newcomers alike, this is a very attractive package
Excellently arranged and endearingly authentic surf-rock from north Wales.
A frenzied, frayed debut – but frequent swearing limits its crossover potential.
Trey Songz is head and shoulders above many a lover-man peer.
It’s not particularly clever but it is expectedly big, and sure to make a fan’s Christmas.
A band of today sucked into a wormhole and spat out at the end of the 1970s.
The former Beatle's most famous singles collected in one place, again.
A fascinating insight into the remarkably rapid development of a genre.
Cleverness as caustic cacophony, to sweat along with rather than stroke a beard to.
Guitars that shout at the moon, drums that boom like asteroids playing bumper-cars.
London trio lets their music do all the talking, and shouting, and screaming.
