Articles by Everett True

Everett True started life as The Legend!, publishing the fanzine of that name and contributing to NME. Subsequently he wrote for some years for Melody Maker, for whom he wrote seminal pieces about Nirvana and others. He was the co-founder with photographer Steve Gullick of Careless Talk Costs Lives, a deliberately short-lived publication designed to be the antidote to the established UK music magazines.

Articles by: Everett True

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"Be Here Now is beautiful, understated and unabashedly spiritual - a stark contrast to its bloated Oasis counterpart": George Harrison's lovely Living In The Material World, revisited

By Everett True published 15 November 24

Gem-studded yet often overlooked album from ex-Beatle George Harrison, now with added extras

"An emotional blast carefully packed into tight, angular arrangements": The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is focused, unsettling and damn near indispensable

By Everett True published 10 November 24

Art rock icons’ explosive "tightly wound" punk-era debut, now with juicy extras

"He sings like a man possessed, his expression undiminished by the ravages of time": Peter Perrett returns with what might just be his best-ever album

By Everett True published 1 November 24

Only Ones singer Peter Perrett follows 2017's I Wanna Go With Dignity with an album of helpless romance and everyday reality

"Arguably the greatest singer of his generation": Mark Lanegan rarely sounded as soulful as he did on Bubblegum

By Everett True published 23 August 24

A wonderful treat as the late Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album Bubblegum is expanded to mark its 20th anniversary

Dreams really do come true: Every Electric Light Orchestra album ranked, from worst to best

By Paul Elliott published 7 August 24

Jeff Lynne's vision for ELO was more ambitious than most of his peers – but which of his grand ideas hit home the hardest?

"Continuing to sound just as fresh as they did when the band first formed 40 years ago": Buffalo Tom maintain their haunted, bluesy groove on Jump Rope

By Everett True published 31 May 24

Album number 10, and still loving mid-America rock

"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best

By Everett True published 29 March 24

The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

"A record full of sprawling guitar solos, textual acoustics and steady drums": J Mascis finds new ways to express himself on What Do We Do Now

By Everett True published 2 February 24

What Do We Do Now is beautiful, as we've come to expect from the Dinosaur Jr mainman

"The overall effect is hypnotic, mesmeric – a musical montage that has no start or end point": Neil Young's Before And After

By Everett True published 10 December 23

Before And After finds Neil Young turning acoustic re-recordings of some of his past songs into a single music montage

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"The listener can hear distinct traces of what's to come in this dense magical melee": Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother (Special Edition)

By Everett True published 9 December 23

One of Pink Floyd's least favourite Pink Floyd albums now comes with rare Japanese extras

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David Bowie's Aladdin Sane: still better than 99% of all other pre-'77 rock

By Everett True published 14 April 23

Aladdin Sane's fiftieth birthday celebrated via the medium of half-speed master and picture disc reissues

35 years on, Mudhoney are as feral and incisive and sarcastic as ever

By Everett True published 6 April 23

Plastic Eternity is the 11th studio album for Sub Pop’s flagship band Mudhoney

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Lemmy told us that Girlschool rocked and Lemmy was right

By Everett True published 27 January 23

This five-disc collection of Girlschool recordings is a fascinating evisceration of a trailblazing rock band

Neil Young's Harvest: 50 years on, flawlessly imperfect from beginning to end

By Everett True published 4 December 22

If you’re a Neil Young fan, you’ll want this: an expanded, 50th anniversary edition of the classic Harvest

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Hawkwind continue to wig out furiously on new live album We Are Looking In On You

By Everett True published 7 October 22

There’s no release on Hawkwind's We Are Looking In On You, no letting up on the celestial gas pedal

Paul McCartney: 50 years, three McCartney albums, one box set

By Everett True published 5 August 22

Welcoming into the world a boxed trio of eponymous solo albums from that cheery fella who was in The Beatles

The story behind Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

By Everett True published 7 January 22

From the game-changing Nevermind album, we take a look at Smells Like Teen Spirit, the incendiary single (and video) that catapulted Nirvana from virtual unknowns to superstardom

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Nirvana's Nevermind: still incendiary after all these years

By Everett True published 12 November 21

Nirvana's game-changing Nevermind, now available in a range of wallet-busting formats

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The Replacements are reliably raucous on 100-track expansion of debut album

By Everett True published 22 October 21

The deluxe edition of The Replacements' debut album Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash is, if not ‘the’, certainly ‘a’ motherlode

George Harrison's solo creative peak expanded but still charming

By Everett True published 6 August 21

All Things Must Pass shows former Beatle George Harrison really hitting his creative stride

Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith - 40th Anniversary Edition

Motorhead's No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith: one of the greatest live albums ever, now even greater

By Everett True published 25 June 21

Out now: Motorhead's No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith finds itself seriously expanded for its 40th anniversary, but there's no reduction in the levels of destruction

Dinosaur Jr's Sweep It Into Space is rampant, windswept, and classic

By Everett True published 23 April 21

Pioneering alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr revive their classic line-up for Sweep It Into Space, and it's like they've never been away

Chris Cornell: No One Sings Like You Anymore

Chris Cornell a melancholy, bittersweet listening experience on No One Sings Like You Anymore

By Everett True published 19 March 21

Chris Cornell's No One Sings Like You Anymore is a collection of covers from the late, great singer

Telescopes: Songs Of Love And Revolution

The Telescopes stay spooky and mesmeric on Songs Of Love And Revolution

By Everett True published 5 February 21

The kaleidoscopic dream-pop of The Telescopes is distilled beautifully on 12th album Songs Of Love And Revolution

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Nick Cave cuts a truly formidable figure on Idiot Prayer: Alone at Alexandra Palace

By Everett True published 20 November 20

A demonstration of the power of stripped-back simplicity on Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace

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