Latest articles by David Quantick
The Confuser is the twenty-fifth post-Soft Boys waxing from alt. stalwart Robyn Hitchcock
In 1977 David Bowie helped create four albums and found redemption. Not a bad year
The bottom of the Abbey Road barrel approaches
A collection of live, studio and demo tracks and an almost-album from John Lennon’s political New York City years
Buying guide A guide to former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' best albums – picked from the Floyd recordings he dominated and his solo career
Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food takes the existential blankness of European art-rock and filters it through a uniquely American lens
Buying guide A true songwriter's songwriter, Ian Hunter has improved with age, racking up critically acclaimed albums well into his ninth decade - and these are his best
A vein of melancholy runs through Manic Street Preachers' 15th album Critical Thinking
National treasure Joan Armatrading maintains forward momentum
Celebrating 50 years of Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry as solo artist
Undervalued pioneers The Yardbirds rock the corporation on 90-track collection
Pub rock elder statesman Nick Lowe gets gnarly
The Sex Beatles' defining moment, expanded
1971’s Broken Barricades was Procol Harum's last with guitarist Robin Trower. Despite – or perhaps because of - this, it’s one of their most guitar-led
Dire Straits mainman Mark Knopfler delivers one of his best solo records
Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and Stone Roses guitarist John Squire combine on an album that's derivative but hugely enjoyable
Paul McCartney's mega-selling third post-Beatles album Band On The Run gets thoroughly de-belled and de-whistled
Mott The Hoople's David Bowie produced 1972 classic receives the now traditional 50th Anniversary remastered makeover (with bonus tracks)
The Roger Earl-led line-up of Foghat get back to the blues on 18th studio album Sonic Mojo
Van Morrison takes ownership of an archipelago’s worth of his desert island discs on covers album Accentuate The Positive
Roger Waters has rerecorded The Dark Side Of The Moon. Because there was so much wrong with the original
One of Britain's great songwriters Ian Hunter delivers a shining example of his craft on new solo album Defiance Part 1
With The Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd invented something new: stadium rock that was very loud but somehow very sensitive
