Rick Wakemans The Red Planet - a return to a prog god's halcyon days
Ground control to Major Rick, as Rick Wakeman launches himself towards The Red Planet
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UFO: The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent - Album Of The Week Club review
Singer Phil Mogg might have been listening to Bruce Springsteen, but UFO's The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent was much more than just a nod towards the boss
L.A. Witch's Play With Fire: mood music for people who haven't been taking their prescriptions
A second dose of headphone melters from cult psych weirdos L.A. Witch
Blues Pills attain post-millennial neo-hippy nirvana on Holy Moly!
Swede soul music with a pungent psych-blues kick on Blues Pills' third album Holy Moly!
Pink Floyd: Meddle - Album Of The Week Club review
Meddle is the sound of Pink Floyd distilling their psychedelic past into a scintillating future
Fantastic Negrito's Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?: brilliant music for a broken world
Funk, soul, and social justice are the orders of the day from the Cali singer-songwriter Fantastic Negrito on third album Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo’s Factory still excites in 50th birthday form
A fiftieth-anniversary vinyl edition of Creedence Clearwater Revival's American classic Cosmo's Factory, half-speed mastered
James Dean Bradfield's Even In Exile: shining a light on dark history
Even In Exile is Manics man James Dean Bradfield’s contemplative paean to Chilean activist/ artist Victor Jara
Biffy Clyro: A Celebration Of Endings might be the beginning of something
Controversial Download headliners Biffy Clyro provide lingering beauty on ninth album A Celebration Of Endings
Klaatu: Hope - Album Of The Week Club review
Accidental Beatle impersonators Klaatu attempt to ride out a global publicity storm on second album Hope
Pixies: Bossanova - a classic of rock futurism brought back from the past
Pixies' classic third album Bossanova, now available in delicious red vinyl to celebrate its 30th anniversary
Joe Bonamassa: A New Day Now - a debut album re-sung and embellished
Joe Bonamassa’s debut album revisited and remastered on A New Day Now
Deep Purple's Whoosh!: confident, mature, and superb
And still they rise. With Bob Ezrin producing again on Whoosh!, Deep Purple have fun, stretch out and shine brighter
Mother Love Bone: Apple - Album Of The Week Club review
Apple bridged the end of hair metal and the beginning of grunge, but Mother Love Bone's one album will forever be associated with tragedy rather than transformation
The Psychedelic Furs' Made Of Rain: warm, melancholy, and blessed with great songs
Return of 80s big hitters Psychedelic Furs well worth the decades wait on eighth album Made Of Rain
Thundermother's Heat Wave: not a death rattle but a battle cry
Strikingly hooky return on Heat Wave from regenerated Swedes Thundermother
Steve Howe's Love Is: masterly communication with the universe
Steve Howe's first album in nine years Love Is shimmers and glows
NWOBHM Thunder: a no-guts-no-glory tribute to NWOBHM's foot soldiers
NWOBHM Thunder is a superb three-disc celebration of British heavy metal’s last big hurrah
Dee Snider's For The Love Of Metal Live! is brash, bullish and maniacal
Dee Snider's soundtrack to single household lockdown back-garden festivals has arrived
