The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You gets a lustrous respray for its 40th birthday
The Rolling Stones' first release since Charlie Watts’ departure spectacularly reboots the 1981 out-takes classic Tattoo You
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Sixx AM show musical insight but lack consistency on curiously named Hits
Sixx AM's Hits - a misleading title for decent compilation from Nikki Sixx's other band
The Replacements are reliably raucous on 100-track expansion of debut album
The deluxe edition of The Replacements' debut album Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash is, if not ‘the’, certainly ‘a’ motherlode
The Pineapple Thief continue to captivate on Nothing But The Truth
Post-proggers The Pineapple Thief's Nothing But The Truth captures livestreamed lockdown shows on a range of formats
Dream Theater exhaust their armoury on A View From The Top Of The World
A View From The Top Of The World is the 15th studio album by veteran prog metallurgists Dream Theater
Biffy Clyro's The Myth Of Happily Ever After: glorious, instantly recognisable weirdness
Lockdown experimentation from ever-inventive Scottish trio Biffy Clyro takes on a life of its own on The Myth Of Happily Ever After
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Album Of The Week Club review
Todd Rundgren's genius for FM power-pop had made him a star, but Todd Rundgren's Utopia was an adventure in full-blown cosmic freakology
Judas Priest's quest to build a metal monster documented on 50 Heavy Metal Years Of Music
Judas Priest celebrate their half-century with 50 Heavy Metal Years Of Music: a career-spanning metal blow-out
50 years of The Beatles' Let It Be improved via panoramic expansion
The final Beatles album Let It Be, peered at from yet another angle, reveals a new perspective
David Crosby's If Only I Could Remember My Name: still triumphant, 50 years on
2-CD reissue of David Crosby's 1971 debut solo album If Only I Could Remember My Name featuring bonus out-takes, extra tracks, alternative versions
Santana's Blessings And Miracles: successfully continuing the search for singers
Santana's back with Blessings And Miracles and he’s brought some new friends with him. And Rob Thomas
Tom Morello continues to break the rules on The Atlas Underground Fire
The Atlas Underground Fire finds Rage Against The Machine man Tom Morello and all-star collaborators pushing the ‘pop’ button
Alcatrazz showcase classic metallic fire and fury on V
V proves that Alcatrazz still have it after all these years
Genesis: A Trick Of The Tail - Album Of The Week Club review
Peter Gabriel departs, Phil Collins steps up to the mic, and it's almost business as usual for Genesis on A Trick Of The Tail
The Record Company branch out on Play Loud with mixed results
Bluesy Californians’ The Record Company try to broaden their appeal on third album Play Loud
Wayward Sons step up a level on Even Up The Score
Toby Jepson's Wayward Sons come of age on album number three, Even Up The Score
Status Quo: Hello! - Album Of The Week Club review
After consolidating the sound of the Frantic Four on 1972's Piledriver, Status Quo stuck with a winning formula on the following year's Hello!
Mark Knopfler does it gently on The Studio Albums 1996-2007
Dire Straits mainman Mark Knopfler's steady-going box set showcases the value of underplaying
Ministry's fifteenth album Moral Hygiene provides a few surprise twists
Ministry's Al Jourgensen, industrial metal’s favourite deviant, is back with the Trump-inspired Moral Hygiene
