Talking Heads open up new worlds on the genre-bending Remain In Light
In which Talking Heads seamlessly merged funk, afrobeat and early hip-hop rhythms with their more abrasive art-rock ideas
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Ringo Starr sets sail for unchartered waters on languid country album Look Up
Beatle goes country
Lambrini Girls gleefully mix subversion with humour on debut album Who Let The Dogs Out
Amyl And The Sniffers have really started something. And thank f*** for that
Julian Cope rediscovers melody on mischievous 37th solo album Friar Tuck
Sarcasm and actual tunes as one of rock’s true one-offs resurfaces
Mark Tremonti finds a way to expand his palette on The End Will Show Us How
The End Will Show Us How is the sixth album from Creed/Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti's side-project
Ethel Cain nosedives into the haunting depths of a sexually tormented and guilt-ridden mind on the dark, disquieting Perverts
"Perverts might be the twisted sonic exorcism you’ve been waiting for"
Brighton duo Lambrini Girls deliver 2025's first essential album with their debut Who Let The Dogs Out
Brighton duo Lambrini Girls deliver 2025's first essential album with their debut Who Let The Dogs Out
"If this album had been released 25 years ago, it would have been a revelation." New Tremonti record The End Will Show Us How is just about what you'd expect, but it's pretty damn good all the same
Tremonti's latest album mixes his well documented love of metal with the post-grunge and balladry he made his name with
The Halo Effect have crafted the first great melodic death metal album of 2025 with March Of The Unheard
Former In Flames men unite once more to create another blistering set of classic-sounding melodeath anthems
Asia upset the prog purists and delight their bank managers on freakishly successful debut album
Featuring members of Yes, ELP and King Crimson, Asia were billed as a prog rock supergroup but kept it concise, to enormous success
“As smart and surprising as Cardiacs themselves”: A Big Book And A Band And A Whole World Window
The idiosyncratic English art-rockers’ history is detailed in a pleasingly DIY limited-edition chunky read.
“Welcome textures… but the mix lacks coherence”: White Willow’s remaster of Storm Season
Mainman Jacob Holm-Lupo took his band in a new direction with 2004 release, but the material shows its age in latest update
The Temperance Movement don't reinvent the wheel on A Deeper Cut, but they do keep it spinning
A Deeper Cut was the last album The Temperance Movement made before parting ways with now-returned frontman Phil Campbell
Seven Impale’s City Of The Sun: 10th anniversary edition
Charting a different course from their Scandinavian contemporaries, new version of their debut album confirms they were right to record without a click track – or indeed brakes
Hawkwind’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall is much more than just another live album
Triple-disc set captures the space rock veterans’ sonic destruction at celebratory event, which shows how well their latest music sits with their early work – and inspires thoughts of music yet to come
Keel struggle for greatness on 1986 album The Final Frontier
With Gene Simmons in the production chair, Keel conjure up a small batch of decent headbangers and not much else
Still Barking is 20 CDs of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band comedy genius, but it may baffle younger folk
A weighty celebration of Monty Python-preceding trad/psych satirists
"The whole thing is still as sick as ever." Slipknot put on 2024's biggest heavy metal nostalgia party in Manchester
Slipknot celebrating their iconic debut album with a visceral - if sometimes slightly too clean - show at the Co Op Live
Iron Maiden successfully embrace synthesisers on Somewhere In Time
Released between two major metal milestones, Somewhere In Time is something of an underrated fan favourite
