Serendipity. At the point of being dropped by Atlantic after 1990’s Lovey sank without trace, Evan Dando had dissolved The … More
Category: Reissues
ABC – The Lexicon of Love Live review
Martin Fry admits ABC knew exactly what they were doing when recording the Lexicon of Love in 1982. Speaking to … More
Inspiral Carpets – The Complete Singles review
The recent closure of Oldham’s Coliseum Theatre after almost 140 years and the imminent opening of a second twenty thousand … More
Let’s Go Round Again – 2022’s Best Reissues
Albums are served back up to a weary public these days on the flimsiest of premises, but here’s some which … More
Idles Brutalism – Por cinco años
Being honest, nobody had ever really heard of them, although Idles had been fermenting in Bristol one way or another … More
Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil reissue review
From Georgia, the (then) quartet Black Lips seemed to rise without a trace; despite Good Bad Not Evil being their … More
Voice of the Beehive – Let It Bee Reissue Review
It’s not a pub quiz question that gets asked very regularly, but the answer to “What happened to Woody Woodgate … More
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Special Edition review
Hearing things is something label execs do. They like to hear hits, they like to hear radio-friendliness and they like … More
Shakespears Sister – Hormonally Yours (30th anniversary edition) review
1992 was one of those years where whether you were dancing at five am in a field or getting tinnitus … More
Wire – Not About To Die review
The idea of the bootleg is one lost to the mid-late 20th century, so quickly for context it was the … More