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Nick Drake: Pink Moon

Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 25 March 1972

ISLAND APPEARED to have forgotten about Nick Drake until he ambled into the offices one day and presented them with this album. No one knew ...

Nick Drake: Bryter Later

Review by Andrew Means, Melody Maker, 13 March 1971

THIS IS A particularly difficult album to come to any firm conclusion on. For one thing the reaction it produced depends very much on the ...

Nick Drake: Bryter Layter

Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 13 March 1971

I GET THE FEELING that only a Joe Boyd-Paul Harris alliance could have produced such a superb album as this. And once again a great ...

Unthanks, The: The Unthanks: Last

Review by Ben Myers, The Quietus, 23 March 2011

FOLK MUSIC GETS A HARD RAP in the UK. In the US it's different. Far from being the subject of derision, the long standing American ...

John Martyn: Piece By Piece

Review by Len Brown, NME, 8 March 1986

ONLY A HEARTLESS bastard would knock old John. I mean. 20 years of love-drugged poetry, dedicated to ideal earth mothers, cossetted in an Arcadian atmosphere ...

Hot Chip: Coming on Strong (Astralwerks)

Review by Will Hermes, Spin, January 2006

TIMMY THOMAS' 1972 beat-boxdriven hit 'Why Can't We Live Together?' is a paradigm of how machine rhythms can make the human voice sound simultaneously stalwart ...

10, 000 Maniacs: 10,000 Maniacs: The Wishing Chair (Elektra)

Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 27 March 1986

LEST 10,000 Maniacs be mistaken for members of the SoHo establishment, check your map: the sextet's home base, Jamestown, New York, is roughly the same ...

Elliott Smith: Roman Candle, Elliott Smith, Either/Or

Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, March 2005

First three from masterful songwriter who committed suicide in 2003. ...

Tanita Tikaram: The Sweet Keeper

Review by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 27 January 1990

THE CONNECTION between pop stars and new towns in the Eighties – someone should have done a thesis on it. We had Depeche Mode in ...

Julian Cope: Saint Julian (Island)

Review by Len Brown, NME, 7 March 1987

THERE HAVE been four Saint Julians. One, Julian of Toledo, persecuted the Jews; Julian the Hospitaller murdered his mum and dad by mistake; and three, ...

Kelley Stoltz: Below The Branches

Review by Bob Mehr, MOJO, March 2006

Third LP and second consecutive corker from Bay Area-based cosmic troubadour. ...

Laura Marling: Semper Femina

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 1 March 2017

THERE'S A MOMENT, almost exactly midway through her sixth album, when Laura Marling asks herself, "Lately I'm wondering if all my pondering is taking up ...

Snow Patrol: Fallen Empires

Review by Jon Young, Spin, 10 January 2012

COOLER THAN COLDPLAY but less provocative than R.E.M., the Irish-Scottish modern-rock quintet Snow Patrol embrace the "bigger is better" philosophy on their sixth studio album, ...

Blur: 13

Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 5 March 1999

Down and outstanding ...

Isobel Campbell: Amorino

Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 1 February 2004

BEFORE HER AMICABLE SPLIT with Belle & Sebastian in 2002, cellist-vocalist Isobel Campbell recorded two albums with her side project, The Gentle Waves. Amorino, her ...

Lambchop: Aw C'mon/No You C'mon

Review by Toby Manning, The Word, March 2004

Twiglets! Beer! Community! The kings of country melancholia are having a party ...

DIG THIS! Fave Raves and Rabid Enthusiasms for February 2003

Review by Various Writers, Rock's Backpages, February 2003

RADIO SHOW OF THE MONTH ...

Dig This!

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, January 2004

Barney Hoskyns takes stock of 2003 – from André 3000 to Warren Zevon ...