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Controversies, conflicts and commercial achievements notwithstanding, ‘Urban Hymns’ remains The Verve’s creative pinnacle twenty years on.
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The Smiths’ fourth and final studio album has made it to 35, no less the worse for wear, but no better.
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A rich, multilayered mix of sex, drugs, isolation, obsession, gloom and contemplation, ‘Music For The Masses’ found the band creating new musical vistas.
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The question “is there anybody alive out there?” is meant to be genuine, and you’re supposed to respond. Now, fifteen years later, ‘Magic’ is a clear portrait of what happens if we don’t.
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‘The Stranger’ makes us look in the mirror and examine all the nooks and crannies that the light might not touch.
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‘Bridges to Babylon’ isn't the Stones’ strongest offering, but that's not to say it's not a shimmering rose in their musical garden nevertheless.
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For Khan’s eleventh studio affair, the organic grime and loose grooves of Rufus’ primordial ‘70s work meets contemporary R&B of the 2000s.
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At times nerve raw and other times hopelessly resigned, ‘Sea Change’ is a remarkably comforting journey of endings and reflection.
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Roughly hewn and chaotically visceral in its charms (and abundant 36 tracks), ChesnuTT’s debut affair is a testament to the power of Black music.
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