White Lion: Pride - Album Of The Week Club review
What's the recipe for two million sales? A Danish singer, a genius guitarist, and a production that perhaps hasn't stood the test of time
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Whitesnake's Blues Album blurs genres but remains in the shadow of the blues
After Whitesnake albums called silver, gold, purple, red and white, David Coverdale completes a weird rainbow on The Blues Album
Mogwai's As The Love Continues treads an unlikely fine line between waft and heft
Sound sense from Mogwai on 10th album As The Love Continues
Ricky Warwick's complex soul exposed on When Life Was Hard And Fast
Black Star Riders frontman Ricky Warwick's panoramic When Life Was Hard And Fast is his seventh album under his own name
The Hold Steady's Open Door Policy finds new life beyond the burn-out
Brooklyn’s anthemic bar rockers The Hold Steady tell stories featuring a litany of beaten characters on Open Door Policy, but there's light in the darkness
Pretenders: Pretenders II - Album Of The Week Club review
Written and recorded under pressure, Pretenders II sought to continue where Pretenders I left off. But did it succeed?
Dio live albums: repackaged but still offering more Heaven than Hell
Ronnie James Dio's live albums Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City and Holy Diver Live get taken out for another spin
Black Sabbath: Vol 4 Super Deluxe Edition - sometimes, the drugs do work
Black Sabbath's Vol 4 Super Deluxe Edition: a four CD/five vinyl box containing everything except the Class A narcotics that fuelled it
Death By Unga Bunga's stellar songcraft shines on Heavy Male Insecurity
Heavy Male Insecurity is the fifth album from muscular Norwegian power-poppers Death By Unga Bunga
Nu-metal lovers rejoice! Love And Death revive memories of parachute pants on Perfectly Preserved
Love And Death's Perfectly Preserved is a polished lesson in melodic alt.metal
We Will Ride by Inglorious: breathing fresh life into an irresistible 70s rock template
Inglorious's difficult album number four We Will Ride is worth the trouble
The Pretty Reckless find brilliant new life on Death By Rock And Roll
The Pretty Reckless's Death By Rock And Roll is proof that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Drones rage hard on Our Hell Is Right Here, an album born of tribulation
Drones album number two Our Hell Is Right Here: scorchio!
Faith No More: Angel Dust - Album Of The Week Club review
Angel Dust marks the point in Faith No More's career where Mike Patton asserts authority and makes the band darker, weirder, and (perhaps) more influential than ever before
DeWolff's Wolffpack conjures up pandemic-defying feel-good rock’n’roll
On Wolffpack, Dutch rockers DeWolff party like it's 1969
Downes Braide Association's Halcyon Hymns is a welcome escape from a turbulent real world
MOR prog project Downes Braide Association gets dewy-eyed for old England on Halcyon Hymns
Walking Papers lose half a band for The Light Below with no loss of quality
The Light Below is the compelling third album from Walking Papers, the unconventional Seattle blues swingers
Transatlantic's The Absolute Universe: not one technically flawless concept album, but two
Acclaimed proggers Transatlantic go for broke on fifth album The Absolute Universe
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets overwhelm and bamboozle on Shyga! The Sunlight Mound
Worlds collide on Psychedelic Porn Crumpets' fourth album Shyga! The Sunlight Mound, in a cornucopia of multi-coloured, high-speed sound
