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Spotlighting the impact of cultural landmarks

My Pretty Poison: Revisiting Shakespears Sister’s Sacred Heart

Lesley Chow turns the clock back thirty years to study the power dynamic between Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit on the Shakespears Sister debut album

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The Las Vegas Story: Kid Congo Powers Of The Gun Club Interviewed

Crunch master Julian Marszalek speaks to Kid Congo Powers about the 30th anniversary of The Las Vegas Story

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OutKast and Southernplaya- listicadillacmuzik Revisited

Often dismissed by Andre and Big themselves as a misstep, Angus Batey looks for (and finds) much worth in the OutKast debut

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An Open Wound: Swans’ Cop Revisited

Catharsis was just another word for sonic dismemberment, says Ned Raggett about this 1984 noise rock album from Swans

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Frank Black’s Teenager Of The Year Revisited

Jeremy Allen looks back to what just might be the high-water mark of Frank Black's entire career...

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Going The Whole Hog: The Cult’s Sonic Temple Revisited

Val Siebert looks back a three decades to when Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy were staging a fight back with their biggest selling album to date

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The Stradivarius Of The Synthesiser: Fifty Years Of The Moog

Fifty years since the introduction of Bob Moog's first modular synthesiser, Robert Barry explores the history of this revolutionary instrument, and discusses its legacy with Bernie Krause and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp

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Once In A Lifetime: On Land And In The Sea By Cardiacs Revisited

Nick Reed looks back a quarter of a century to one of the shining pinnacles in the back catalogue of Cardiacs

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Disorientating Eclecticism: Neneh Cherry’s Raw Like Sushi Revisited

Lesley Chow celebrates an album with an epic vision of the future balanced with a taste for the cheap, sordid and perverse

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His Catastrophic Plan: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Let Love In

Val Siebert looks back to the Bad Seeds album that had it all...

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So Much More Than Anything: The Cure’s Disintegration 30 Years On

John Freeman looks back at The Cure's masterpiece - 72 minutes of magnificent self-flagellation, fuelled by Robert Smith's fear of entering his fourth decade.

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An Exceedingly Female Space: Hole’s Live Through This Revisited

25 years since its release, Amy Pettifer examines a classic album, in part driven by the conflicts between its riot grrl roots and its mainstream feminist agenda, and in part (unwittingly) driven by tragedy

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A British Disaster: Blur’s Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s

Taylor Parkes marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blur's Parklife by exploring the album in the context of the huge changes wrought on British life in the mid to late 90s by Britpop, Blair and the death of Princess Diana. Chips photo by David Moats

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First Contact: Meet The Residents 45 Years On

Sean Kitching looks back 45 years to The Residents' debut and finds a record just as beguiling now as it was on release and asks, what makes it so weird?

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Boss Tunes: Pulp’s His ‘N’ Hers 25 Years On

Our man in Orange County Ned Raggett once more offers the American perspective; this time on the album that signposted Pulp's ascendency to the outsider pop throne

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Back Down Memory Lane: Illmatic By Nas Revisited

Illmatic is one of the greatest albums recorded, in any genre. Angus Batey examines where it came from, what influence it wielded and what effect it had on Nas' career

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Call To Arms: Hoodoo Gurus’ Stoneage Romeos, 30 Years On

Thirty years since discovering the band through John Peel's show, Julian Marszalek sings the praises of the debut album by Australia's Hoodoo Gurus, "an essential tonic for the pressures of an uncaring world"

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After The Deluge: Henry Cow’s Unrest Revisited

Sean Kitching speaks to Chris Cutler for a very personal appreciation of Henry Cow's Unrest album and has some recommendations to make for further listening

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What Quaere Fellows: Queen II Revisited

"Everywhere your ears look" says Dan Ross of Queen's second glorious release, "there's a sound they can't explain..."

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Hang On! Pussy Galore Revisit Dial M for Motherfucker

Nick Hutchings talks to Jon Spencer, Julia Cafritz, Bob Bert, Neil Hagerty and Kurt Wolf about the twenty fifth anniversary of Dial M For Motherfucker

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The Start Of The End: Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven Revisited

Dan Franklin turns the clock back twenty years to this turning point Pantera album

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The Frantic Four: Status Quo Remember Piledriver

Val Siebert talks to all of the classic line up of Status Quo about the 1972 album that set them on the road to long lasting fame

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Two Way Alchemy: Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral Revisited

Val Siebert revisits an album that sounds even more like the future 20 years later. Audio and video NSFW

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A Game Of Two Halves: Gang Starr’s Hard To Earn Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at Primo and Guru's harder, stripped back fourth album

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A Nail In The Coffin: Soundgarden’s Superunknown Revisited

Val Siebert looks back 20 years to a band's attempts to shrug off the grunge tag

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Lingering Memory: Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works II, 25 Years On

Two and a half decades since the release of Aphex Twin's second collection of Ambient Works, Ned Raggett revisits an album whose enigmatic internal logic remains as intriguing and beguiling as ever

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40 Years On: “Arrogant Pricks” Steely Dan’s Pretzel Logic Revisited

Four decades since the release of Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic, Val Siebert casts an eye backward and praises the work of a band at the top of their game

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20 Years Later: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of St Theresa

The fall of Communism, John Peel and absinthe: some of the ingredients behind Ecstasy Of St Theresa's Free-D (Original Soundtrack), the first album made by a Czech act for a Western label after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Wyndham Wallace sets the story free

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My Pretty Poison: Revisiting Shakespears Sister’s Sacred Heart

The Las Vegas Story: Kid Congo Powers Of The Gun Club Interviewed

OutKast and Southernplaya- listicadillacmuzik Revisited

An Open Wound: Swans’ Cop Revisited

Frank Black’s Teenager Of The Year Revisited

Going The Whole Hog: The Cult’s Sonic Temple Revisited

The Stradivarius Of The Synthesiser: Fifty Years Of The Moog

Once In A Lifetime: On Land And In The Sea By Cardiacs Revisited

Disorientating Eclecticism: Neneh Cherry’s Raw Like Sushi Revisited

His Catastrophic Plan: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Let Love In

So Much More Than Anything: The Cure’s Disintegration 30 Years On

An Exceedingly Female Space: Hole’s Live Through This Revisited

A British Disaster: Blur’s Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s

First Contact: Meet The Residents 45 Years On

Boss Tunes: Pulp’s His ‘N’ Hers 25 Years On

Back Down Memory Lane: Illmatic By Nas Revisited

Call To Arms: Hoodoo Gurus’ Stoneage Romeos, 30 Years On

After The Deluge: Henry Cow’s Unrest Revisited

What Quaere Fellows: Queen II Revisited

Hang On! Pussy Galore Revisit Dial M for Motherfucker

The Start Of The End: Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven Revisited

The Frantic Four: Status Quo Remember Piledriver

Two Way Alchemy: Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral Revisited

A Game Of Two Halves: Gang Starr’s Hard To Earn Revisited

A Nail In The Coffin: Soundgarden’s Superunknown Revisited

Lingering Memory: Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works II, 25 Years On

40 Years On: “Arrogant Pricks” Steely Dan’s Pretzel Logic Revisited

20 Years Later: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of St Theresa

A Deliberate Rejection Of Beauty? Disco Inferno’s D.I. Go Pop

25 Years On: XTC’s Oranges & Lemons Revisited

“Pavement Really Weren’t Trying”: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Revisited

Up To The Challenge: The Fugees’ Blunted On Reality 25 Years On

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Magic Moments: Michael Head’s Baker’s Dozen

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