Chris Isaak’s ‘Heart Shaped World’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

June 11, 2024 Grant Walters

While its unusual music biz triumph lends important context to its story, Isaak’s third album is, above all else, a superior record that eventually garnered the broader attention it so rightfully deserves.

Chris Isaak’s ‘San Francisco Days’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

April 10, 2023 Grant Walters

As a complete entity, ‘San Francisco Days’ feels more cohesive and organic than its predecessors within Isaak’s discography.

COVER YOUR TRACKS: Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” by Wolf Alice, Gemma Hayes, London Grammar & More

May 20, 2018 Albumism Staff

While cover versions seldom eclipse the originals, some of them push well beyond the realms of imitation and mediocrity, approaching greatness in their own right.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.