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It had been so long (22 years in fact) that no-one really believed it would ever happen , myself included , but suddenly last week Kevin S...

So there I was bemoaning the handful of outsize CDs I own which necessitate a sub-optimal use of rack space, little realising that my nex...

By my calculations we haven't done an album of the day post since my shockingly unimaginative choice of Rumours back in May 2009, so y...

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. I know, it's not very "out there". But it's interesting to come back to something dulled by over...

Greendale by Neil Young & Crazy Horse. File this one under spooky coincidences. I was singing along with the final track on this album, ...

I've just noticed I haven't done a proper one of these since the end of 2007, so I thought I'd better rectify the situation, pro...

Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth. A slight break with tradition here, in that it's not an album that I've been moved to write about...

Elastica by Elastica. A lot of things are great at the time, but a bit shit and/or embarrassing when viewed with the benefit of sober hindsi...

Desire by Bob Dylan. A bit of an anomaly in the Dylan canon, this, for a number of reasons. Most of the songs were co-written (unusually for...

A veritable mountain of washing-up to be done today, plus a stew to cook, so I had a bit of time to fill, hence three - count 'em! - alb...

The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips. A bit of a parallel with my earlier Grateful Dead review here: band renowned for herculean drug int...

Era Vulgaris by Queens Of The Stone Age. I reckon Josh Homme is a pretty smart bloke. In music as in other things, dumb isn't much fun...

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams. Yes, it's an American country album. Run screaming from the room if you wish at this p...

Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins. Would it surprise you to learn that Sharon Osbourne 's finest moment is not her Botox-ed judgmental...

Live At Massey Hall 1971 by Neil Young. Part of the massive series of reissues from Young 's archives, this is the second album releas...

Liege And Lief by Fairport Convention. I don't care what you say, there's a shockingly limited range of subjects which are made the...

The Wall by Pink Floyd. This review will be in the form of a few seemingly unconnected random observations. Here goes: Pink Floyd are brack...

Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. In theory it sounds great to have a whole bunch of independent singer-songwriters in your band; ...

Beyond by Dinosaur Jr. Well, this is a pleasant surprise. The original line-up of Dinosaur Jr. last played together on an album in 1988...

Crosstalk: The Best Of Moby Grape . The 1960s is almost certainly the most minutely examined and documented decade in popular music history,...