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