Brant Bjork's Bougainvillea Suite: the sweet spot where The Doors and Iron Butterfly meet
Son of the desert Brant Bjork goes back in time on the sweet-smelling Bougainvillea Suite
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The Beatles Revolver Special Edition: so good, divorce papers will be filed if this isn't in certain stockings this Christmas
Can Giles Martin work his magic on Revolver's four-track recordings? Yes, he can.
Architects add power-glam polish to their arsenal on The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
Chart-topping metalcore monsters Architects return with extra arena-sized swagger on The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
Pearl Jam: Vs. - Album Of The Week Club review
Working with producer Brendan O’Brien for the first time, Pearl Jam's Vs. has a ferocity and bite which leaves the more stately Ten in the dust
Newtown Neurotics still want to kick the Tories out on Cognitive Dissidents
Harlow political punk perennials the Newtown Neurotics battle on against the odds with new album Cognitive Dissidents
Hugh Cornwell: Moments Of Madness album review
Stranglers founder Hugh Cornwell plays all the instruments himself on 10th solo album Moments Of Madness
Goat's Oh Death: bending the world into wild, ritualistic shapes
Secretive Swedes Goat summon up more strangeness on fourth album Oh Death
Black Space Riders: laser-blasting stoner rock warriors widen their remit
Black Space Riders get real gone for a change on seventh album We Have Been Here Before
O.R.k pitch gentle dexterity against bludgeon on the beautiful Screamnasium
Screamnasium is the fourth album from Anglo-Italian proggers O.R.k
Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxymore: an album that asks more questions than it offers answers
Oxymore: team-up project between Jean-Michel Jarre and the late Pierre Henry offers mixed results
Ugly Kid Joe do everything and do it well on fifth album Rad Wings Of Destiny
Are Ugly Kid Joe metallers, hard rockers, country balladeers or a covers band, or all of the above?
Simple Minds's Direction Of The Heart: elder statesmen with nothing left to prove
Veteran Scot-rock stadium flouncers Simple Minds continue their autumnal purple patch with Direction Of The Heart
The Libertines' expanded Up The Bracket is an 85-headed reminder of their greatness
Lavishly expanded 20th-anniversary edition of The Libertines' first album Up The Bracket
The Doors: Other Voices - Album Of The Week Club review
When Jim Morrison died in Paris, the other three members of The Doors completed the sessions they'd started, and the Jim-less Other Voices emerged just three months later
David Longdon's Door One: a poignant reminder of a great talent in full, unfettered flight
Door One is a sophisticated, beautifully realised posthumous solo album from Big Big Train frontman David Longdon
Gun's The Calton Songs: a rum affair indeed
Scots rockers Gun re-record some of their hits on The Calton Songs, with varied results
Corky Laing: still hard rockin' after 50 years
The sleighride rolls on as Corky Laing calls upon Michael Monroe, Ian Hunter and more for Finnish Sessions album
A cultural artefact from Yugoslavia's communist past for the Zappa-ophiles
Cunningly constructed from shows in Yugoslavia, Zappa '75: Zagreb / Ljubljana features less than pristine sound and two drum solos
Orianthi falls short on album that feels uneven and unfinished
Orianthi's strangely short album Rock Candy needs more killer, less filler
