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Concrète Dschungel: Einstürzende Neubauten’s Kollaps At 45
Neubauten's uncompromising debut album ‘Kollaps’ is 45 years old. Jeremy Allen explores the bombed-out terrain of their West Berlin and wonders if, despite the penurious conditions, it was easier to...
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Under Wraps: John Frankenheimer’s Seconds turns 60
Wayne Gooderham salutes the shocking horror film that has influenced relatively many while being seen by relatively few In the early winter of 1967 Brian Wilson took a break from the fraught sessions...
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Public Enemy’s Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black Revisited 35 years on
Public Enemy's fourth album is often overlooked but it's a true killer, says Angus Batey When the greatness of Public Enemy is discussed – which is often, for the band were, and indeed still are, one...
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Real Wild Man: Iggy Pop’s Blah Blah Blah at 40
Hitting its 40th anniversary, Julian Marszalek reckons that not only is Iggy Pop’s seventh solo record the most misunderstood of all of his LPs, but that it also happens to be David Bowie’s best album...
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His Last Major Stand: Songs In The Key Of Life Turns 50
David Stubbs unpicks Stevie Wonder's transition from a technological pioneer to a musically conservative finger wagger of the highest order, and wonders just what might have been Ten years ago this...
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Carrying the Fire: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Tradition of Apocalypse
Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel was published 20 years ago. Auden Alsop revisits it and considers the inheritance of assured destruction and how this intersects with parenthood We all know that the...
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“Me and You, We Are Not the Same.” Gallows’ Orchestra of Wolves at 20
With their explosive debut album Gallows became the unlikely band to match Sex Pistols' "breach in the pop milieu", but it came with a hefty price tag. Words: Robert Davidson In his 1989 book...
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35 Years On: A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory Revisited
Angus Batey revisits the history and lasting legacy of A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory There's a wonderful moment in Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Michael...
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Food For Thought: Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor at 20
Lupe Fiasco's fabulous first LP was a debut for the ages.... but how come they don't make 'em like this any more? Angus Batey asks As loyal subscribers will know – and if you're not one already,...
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An English Western: The BBC’s Gangsters turns 50
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of a groundbreaking TV series on immigration set in Birmingham. John Quin revisits and ponders its relevance to the current moment Just like before – as Karen...
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No Longer Lost: David Sylvian’s Gone to Earth at 40
Both soothing and unsettling, David Sylvian's much-overlooked second solo album is as much a forerunner of post rock as more celebrated work by Talk Talk, argues Toby Manning, as he returns to the...
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Undisputed Winners? The Roots’ Game Theory at 20
It was their greatest work to date, but when Game Theory floundered, it left The Roots staring down the barrel. Twenty years later, this masterpiece stands revealed as a pivotal turning point, says...
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Around The Bend: Pearl Jam’s No Code Turns 30
JR Moores looks back three decades and finds it was No Code that provided grunge's Kid A moment, not In Utero A massive fan of massive bands, the radio disc jockey Zane Lowe once tried to draw a...
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Revisiting Blur’s Leisure, 35 Years On
Leisure was released 35 years ago today, and Jim Keoghan argues that in its marrying the sounds of northern and southern indie of the time, Blur's debut is an underrated LP Derided, unloved and...
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Haunted By Time: Iron Maiden’s Wasted Years & Somewhere In Time Revisited
Jamie Stephenson revisits a crucial turning point 40 years ago, marking the moment when the Irons stopped simply writing songs about history and became a band haunted by time itself Released 40 years...
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The Offensive Friend – Huey Lewis and the News’ Fore! at 40
Tariq Goddard returns to the scene of a teenage crime four decades on and recognises that "terrible music can transcend our understanding just as surely as great music can" If everything is forgotten...
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Having the time of your life: ABBA’s Dancing Queen at 50
Ian Wade revisits the brilliance of 'Dancing Queen' and discovers a single which future-proofed ABBA It’s taken as read that ABBA have always been colossal. The perception is that they were completely...
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Innocence and Experience: Lisa Left Eye Lopes’ Supernova Turns 25
It was supposed to be the moment where the most misunderstood woman in pop got to explain herself and empower her audience: but the release was cancelled and within months she was dead. Angus Batey...
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The Importance of Ma: Spirited Away at 25
Rory Kiberd extols the virtues of space contained within Hayao Miyazaki's teeming but brilliant anime about childhood & maturation Including a spoiler warning for Spirited Away would be farcical....
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Food For Thought: An A To Z Guide To Melvins’ Stag
To celebrate the 30th birthday of Melvins' bonkers eighth album, JR Moores presents a users' manual to what the hell was going on A is for Atlantic Records 1996's Stag remains one of the weirdest...
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