Elbow’s ‘Leaders of the Free World’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

September 7, 2025 Justin Chadwick

Elbow Leaders of the Free World Turns 20

A musical love letter to Elbow’s Manchester stomping grounds, their third album reflects a band relieved to be back home amidst the solace to be found there within their familiar haunts.

PREVIEW: 17 New Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2017

January 5, 2017 Albumism Staff

With 2016 now behind us, check out a sampling of the forthcoming new long players we can’t wait to drop the needle on in 2017.

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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.

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