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Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, February 2010

THESE BRAINY Wesleyan alums remain just as ironical about their rock star dreams than ever, despite a year in which they garnered a Grammy nod ...

Suede: Suede (Nude)

Review by Stuart Maconie, Q, May 1993

BEFORE ALL this took off, Brett Anderson, Suede's 25-year-old singer, would gloomily tick off each passing birthday as another year gone without his appearing on ...

Ace: An Ace Album

Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, June 1975

Ace: Five-A-Side (Anchor) ...

Cockney Rebel: The Psychomodo

Review by Ira Robbins, Phonograph Record, February 1975

COCKNEY REBEL is a figment of Steve Harley's semi-sane mind. ...

John Hiatt: All Of A Sudden

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1982

JOHN HIATT'S career has been hampered by unfortunate business liaisons ever since lift-off. ...

Robert Palmer: Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 31 August 1974

I ALWAYS felt more than a little sorry for Robert Palmer when he was in Vinegar Joe. ...

Queen: Innuendo (Hollywood) ***

Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 7 March 1991

ONE WAY TO CONFIRM that Queen never consisted of your typically haughty progressive-rock snobs is to consider the following: In the late Seventies, Emerson, Lake ...

Goldfrapp: Down Boy!: Goldfrapp: Black Cherry (Mute) ***

Review by Toby Manning, Q, May 2003

Sultry ambient diva gets dark electro makeover ...

Blur: Colditz A Knockout!: Blur: The Great Escape (Food)

Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995

If you thought 'Country House' meant BLUR were playing it safe, you haven't heard The Great Escape. Damon has laced his tales of commuter belt ...

Arcade Fire: Reflektor

Review by Mike Diver, Clash, 30 September 2013

ARCADE FIRE's penchant for an album-uniting concept is nothing new. 2010's multi-award-winning The Suburbs arrived informed by its makers' upbringing, at the fringes of bigger-city ...

Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Spin, July 1999

"PSYCHEDELIA" has undergone some curious convolutions since its Haight-Ashbury heyday. For the most part, though, the hallucinogens have gone, leaving a purely musical residue - ...

Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People (Columbia JC 35329)

Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 1 June 1978

NICK LOWE, the man who produces Elvis Costello and Graham Parker, is a rising deity on the English pop front. But as you might guess ...

Lou Reed: The Raven

Review by Max Bell, Uncut, February 2003

Reed shows off "heavy bear" side on two-CD tribute to 19th-century poet ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: IG and Super IG — Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA); The Stooges: The Stooges/Fun House (Elektra)

Review by Max Bell, Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 2 April 1977

Igs past and present collide in sonic fury as NICK KENT & MAX BELL once more grasp for the identity of the enIGma, quest for ...

Supergrass: Diamond Hoo Ha

Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, April 2008

Britpop alumni enter their Berlin period. Sort of. ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power (CBS 65586, £2.17) ****

Review by Ray Fox-Cumming, Disc, 9 June 1973

Iggy gives power to the people... ...

Goldie: Saturnz Return (FFRR, $16.98) ****

Review by Steffan Chirazi, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 February 1998

Goldie Takes A Dark Journey ...

The Cure: Disintegration

Review by Mat Snow, Q, May 1989

Closer To The Edge. ...

Brian Protheroe: Pinball

Review by Max Bell, NME, 4 January 1975

IF YOU LIKED the instant, stylised commercialism of 'Pinball', with its dilettante finger poppin'; then the album of that name might be just up your ...

Cockney Rebel: The Human Menagerie (EMI)

Review by Roy Carr, NME, 26 January 1974

JUDGING FROM the mass of press coverage that Cockney Rebel are currently grabbing for themselves, it would appear that their verbose frontman Steve Harley is ...