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