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"As a transitional record, More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary": Talking Heads' second album, expanded
By David Quantick published
Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food takes the existential blankness of European art-rock and filters it through a uniquely American lens

Wang Chung’s Jack Hues reinvented himself by revisiting Robert Wyatt, Radiohead and Talk Talk
By Jo Kendall published
Decades after playing to 80,000 people a night with Wang Chung, the Canterbury artist went wild on Epigonal Quark, with help from Syd Arthur and others

Fifty-one years on, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper finds the old band in majestic form
By Ian Fortnam published
The Alice Cooper group's first full studio album together since 1974’s Muscle Of Love is a convincing recreation of an old landscape

When Haken doubled down on ambition with Virus
By Phil Weller published
Secretly the second part of previous album Vector, their 2020 release featured more collaborative writing, more influences, and revealed more details about their Cockroach King character

Rock icon, reality TV star, national treasure: Every Ozzy Osbourne solo album ranked
By Paul Elliott published
A guide to the recorded solo work of the late Prince Of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne

When Julian Cope entered the prog-pop world of Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators and Love
By Ben Myers published
After leaving The Teardrop Explodes, he was on a mission – but on seeing him wearing nothing but a turtle shell on the cover of Fried, the world needed some convincing

This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
By Matt Mills published
Hesitating Lights, the second album by Swedish noise-makers Floating, pairs post-punk riffs with extreme metal aggression to amazing, disorienting effect

Keith Richards goes solo on Talk Is Cheap
By Classic Rock Magazine published
The polar opposite to Mick Jagger’s synthesised solo clatter, Keith Richards' Talk Is Cheap brimmed with soul
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