Asylums' Genetic Cabaret: forceful without getting furious
Asylums build up a head of steam for third album Genetic Cabaret with producer Steve Albini
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Absolute Beginners Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: fully restored and still suave
First full CD reissue for Bowie-powered retro-jazz mix-tape musical Absolute Beginners
U.D.O. And Das Musikkorps Der Bundeswehr: We Are One album review
Former Accept vocalist Udo Dirkschneider hooks up with the concert band of the German armed forces on We Are One. Of course he does.
Be-Bop Deluxe's Axe Victim box set is lavish and charmingly overblown
Lavish reissue for Bill Nelson and Be-Bop Deluxe's ambitious art-glam debut Axe Victim
Joy Division's Closer: foreboding, painful, and still wreathed in shadow
Joy Division's Closer: as the NME commented with wry understatement: “[This album] cannot have been easy to record”
Massive Wagons' House Of Noise: joyful, silly, and stuffed with memorable songs
Lancaster rockers Massive Wagons unleash the decibels with studio album number five, House Of Noise
Kansas: The Absence of Presence - both pomp and rock in full effect
Latter-day Kansas are still able to surprise on 16th album The Absence of Presence
Bush's The Kingdom: ambitious, confident, passionate
British radio-rock stalwarts Bush let their guard down on album number eight, The Kingdom
The Blinders' Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath: the claustrophobic sound of our times
Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath by The Blinders is the definitive dark rock diatribe for lockdown Britain
Pretenders: Hate For Sale - Chrissie Hynde’s fire is undimmed
Still great Pretenders on 11th studio album Hate For Sale
Fleetwood Mac: Tusk - Album Of The Week Club review
Some albums are so big that the follow-up can only be a disappointment. Did Tusk suffer this fate, or is gold concealed within?
Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead: inventive songs of doom and desperation
Grateful Dead's change-of-direction album Workingman's Dead celebrated with a 50th anniversary edition including a full live show
Enuff Z'Nuff's Brainwashed Generation - a band flying high again
Brainwashed Generation is the fifteenth album from hair-power-pop veterans Enuff Z'Nuff
The Jayhawks' XOXO - a triumph for democracy
Americana veterans The Jayhawks triumph on committee-generated eleventh album XOXO
The Residents' Metal, Meat & Bone - tricky, bewildering, and irritating
The eyeballs have it on The Residents' tribute to possibly imaginary bluesman Alvin ‘Dyin’ Dog’ Snow, Metal, Meat & Bone
Black Sabbath: Never Say Die! - Album Of The Week Club review
Black Sabbath's Never Say Die! arrived as the band's original line-up began to disintegrate. History has not been kind, but will our reviewers find more to enjoy?
Paul Weller's On Sunset: a musical magpie, refusing to stagnate
Songs from the Twilight Zone provide intrigue on Paul Weller's 15th solo album On Sunset
Sparks' new album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip refines and amplifies their weirdness
Veteran avant-glam baroque-pop duo Sparks continue their autumnal resurgence on 24th album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
U.K. - U.K. Album Of The Week Club review
The world's first prog supergroup conjures up challenging jazz fusion, fail to set world alight
