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Review by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 20 June 2004
RECORDED in New York over two days in 1968, Astral Weeks still sounds like nothing before or since. Unlike other classic albums, Pet Sounds, say, ...
Elvis Costello: Almost Blue/Goodbye Cruel World/Kojak Variety
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2004
AS THE AMBITIOUS Costello reissue programme heads towards completion, the contents of the bonus discs take on a greater significance, bolstering releases that may struggle ...
Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour: Various Artists: Golden Afrique, Vol 1
Review by Charlie Gillett, Observer Music Monthly, February 2005
MOST OF THESE wonderfully atmospheric, seminal recordings were made in West Africa during the 1970s, a decade when a regime change was happening in recording ...
Ramones, The: The Ramones: Weird Tales Of The Ramones
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, August 2005
NOTHING CAN recapture the impact of how The Ramones sounded in spring 1976. Listening to it now, it sounds slow, formal, almost sedate: the Superpop ...
Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow
Review by Sylvie Simmons, The Guardian, 16 September 2005
DEVENDRA BANHART, the itinerant Texan minstrel with a base in San Francisco, has come a long way since his low-fidelity, high-word-count debut Oh Me Oh ...
Keyshia Cole, Jaguar Wright, Leela James: Old R&B New Again Again
Review by Amy Linden, The Village Voice, 12 October 2005
Three young divas make soul waters safe for middle-aged Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is Jaguar Wright: Divorcing Neo to Marry Soul Leela James: A Change Is Gonna ...
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 3 March 2006
OUT IN CYBERSPACE reunion rumours swirl with niggling persistence, but David Gilmour's perpetual half-smile masks an unyielding nature. Asked about a putative Pink Floyd re-formation ...
Plan B: Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 16 June 2006
AS EUREKA moments go, Ben Drew's was so obvious it seems perverse that he didn't think of it before. ...
Dexys Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Review by Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 11 January 2008
Fierce, raging and passionate – one of the greatest debut albums of all time. ...
Review by Carol Cooper, Village Voice, 26 February 2008
SURE, MADONNA repeatedly toyed with BDSM in her videos, but she never publicly admitted to breast and genital piercings like Miss Jackson did. So, in ...
Last Shadow Puppets, The: The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, May 2008
NOW IT ALL makes sense. Anyone who, on hearing Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare, wondered where Alex Turner had mislaid his melodies now has their ...
Housemartins, The: The Housemartins: London 0 Hull 4
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, 24 May 2009
LIKE THE all-conquering Madness during the first half of the '80s, the Housemartins pulled off the admirable trick of shoehorning well-considered social comment into the ...
Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 16 August 2009
A VETERAN at the age of 22, already on his second album (2007's Star in the Hood won him a Best Newcomer nomination at that ...
Review by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, October 2009
The latest in the Nuggets franchise documents the most fertile few years in southern Californian music history, taking in curios, weirdos, hipsters, freaks and a ...
La's, The: The La's: Callin' All
Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 10 May 2010
Shows how a lasting reputation can be founded upon one lucky strike. ...
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 2 July 2010
With a new single and album that mark a return to form and after her Glastonbury debut, Kylie is more loved than ever. ...
Roni Size and Reprazent: Roni Size: New Forms
Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, 25 October 2010
Size's celebrated Mercury winner suits home listening as well as the dancefloor. ...
Sam Cooke: Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 (ABKCO Records)
Review by Gary Pig Gold, Rock's Backpages, February 2011
MOST EVERY single time the 20th century's greatest singer-songwriters find themselves getting lionized or even litanized, it seems one towering figure is strangely, sorrowfully AWOL. ...
George Russell: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
Review by Rob Young, The Wire, May 2011
THE LYDIAN Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organisation is seldom invoked these days, but jazz composer George Russell's theoretical attempt to lift jazz up and away ...
Lady Gaga: Born This Way (Polydor) ***
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 May 2011
FIRST THINGS FIRST: that cover is simply awful, its adolescent heavy-metal imagery — "ride me, wild one!" — effectively destroying in a single stroke Lady ...
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