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

Ned Raggett looks back twenty years to an album of "urban sound with seaside and seasonal reveries that aren’t quite that, a burst of activity that could also be a last gasp"

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25 Years On: XTC’s Oranges & Lemons Revisited

Oranges & Lemons was the beginning of the end for XTC in 1989, says Nick Reed, but was it worth it?

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

Eli Lee casts her mind back to 1994 and the release of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Pavement's most commercial moment

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

Angus Batey reappraises The Fugees' much maligned debut album 'Blunted On Reality', 25 years on.

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So Beautifully Bright: New Order’s Technique 30 Years On

Ned Raggett recalls his first encounter with the "massive achievement" that was Technique three decades after its release

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No Time To Be 21? The Creeping Bent Organisation 20 Years On

Ahead of it's Glasgow gig tonight featuring Lloyd Cole and the Leopards and The Jazzateers, Neil Cooper celebrates the renowned Scottish indie label on its 21st birthday

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Driving Circles: Hips And Makers By Kristin Hersh 25 Years On

25 years after falling for its translucent charm, John Freeman looks back at the career-defining debut solo album from the Throwing Muses’ frontwoman

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A Never-Ending Story: Documentary Series The World At War, 40 Years On

As landmark documentary series The World At War reaches 40 years old, Luke Turner writes that its unflinching, honest account of the years 1939-1945 has lost none of its power and relevance

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Shock Headed Peters’ Fear Engine II: Almost As If It Had Never Happened

Joe Banks looks back at an iconoclastic statement by a much overlooked band and speaks to David Knight and Karl Blake

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Desert Rock Redux: Thin White Rope’s In The Spanish Cave 30 Years On

Joe Banks wonders about the reputation of Sacremento's heavy and psychedelic Thin White Rope

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Rise Above Records Turns 25: From Electric Wizard To Iron Man

The Cathedral/Napalm Death man looks back at a quarter century of doom and esoteric metal

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End Of An Era – Ice Cube’s Lethal Injection 20 Years On

Angus Batey looks back to a time when hip hop's power to shock an entire society was crumbling

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The Uncanny Valley: Enya’s Watermark Revisited, 25 Years On

A quarter-century since the release of Enya's hit album Watermark, Luke Turner professes his entirely non-ironic love for a beguilingly strange mainstream record that sent his musical tastes along uncanny paths

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Sex Music For Gargoyles: Soft Cell’s The Art Of Falling Apart

Three decades after its release, Matthew Lindsay writes an in-depth exploration of Soft Cell's The Art Of Falling Apart, featuring interview contributions from Marc Almond and Dave Ball

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20 Years On: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Revisited

Simon Price looks back at how the many-headed Staten Island collective brought the motherfucking ruckus

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Control Slips Away: My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything Revisited

My Bloody Valentine's debut album Isn't Anything was always overshadowed by the expensive Loveless. Now, a quarter of a century after its release, Ned Raggett explores the sound of a band in flux

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20 Years On: Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle Revisited

Angus Batey looks hard at Snoop's now-canonised debut and questions some of its seriously problematic aspects that continue to be ignored by critics and audiences

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Hit By Hit: 40 Years Of Now That’s What I Call Music

Ian Wade traces the history of the monolithic Now compilation series, now about to enter its fifth decade

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20 Years On: Souls Of Mischief’s 93 ‘Til Infinity Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at Souls Of Mischief - the hip hop phenomenon that never was

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30 Years On: The House Of Love’s Debut Album Revisited

Ned Raggett revisits The House Of Love's debut and finds an album that's aged beautifully

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A Storm In Heaven: Verve’s Debut Album 25 Years On

Joe Clay laments the 25-year-old version of the Verve who hadn't yet fallen under the spell of Noel Gallagher...

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30 Years On: Cocteau Twins’ Head Over Heels Revisited

Julian Marszalek looks back three decades at the Cocteau Twins' second album and finds a band transcending their influences

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Out There: Flying Saucer Attack’s Debut LP, 20 Years On

Nick Talbot of Gravenhust celebrates the Bristolian lo-fi brilliance of early Flying Saucer Attack

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30 Years On: Life’s Too Good By The Sugarcubes

"Cheer up goth!" says Emily Mackay as she revisits The Sugarcubes' good taste-defying debut

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30 Years On: Soul Mining By The The Revisited

Joseph Burnett looks back to The The's debut proper and finds one of the greatest albums of the 80s

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A Circus Of Colour & Light: Mercury Rev’s Boces 25 Years On

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A Criminal Record? Synchronicity By The Police 30 Years On

Julian Marszalek may have fond memories of being a pre-teen fan of The Police but as an adult he has slightly colder feelings about their farewell album

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20 Years On: The Boo Radleys’ Giant Steps Revisited

Charlie Frame revisits the magpie indie psychedelic album that first blew his mind two decades ago

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An Eye For An Eye: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Tender Prey Revisited

Twenty five years after its release, John Freeman looks back at an album - created amid chaos - that would become the making of The Bad Seeds.

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Moving On: Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Tristan Bath puts on Tom Waits' watershed album from 1983 and raises a Mickey's Big Mouth to the singer... and his wife, Kathleen Brennan

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The Beast Inside: The Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen, 20 Years On

Pondering Mad Men and and the writing of Angela Carter, David McKenna goes back to the release of The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen in 1993

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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

So Beautifully Bright: New Order’s Technique 30 Years On

No Time To Be 21? The Creeping Bent Organisation 20 Years On

Driving Circles: Hips And Makers By Kristin Hersh 25 Years On

A Never-Ending Story: Documentary Series The World At War, 40 Years On

Shock Headed Peters’ Fear Engine II: Almost As If It Had Never Happened

Desert Rock Redux: Thin White Rope’s In The Spanish Cave 30 Years On

Rise Above Records Turns 25: From Electric Wizard To Iron Man

End Of An Era – Ice Cube’s Lethal Injection 20 Years On

The Uncanny Valley: Enya’s Watermark Revisited, 25 Years On

Sex Music For Gargoyles: Soft Cell’s The Art Of Falling Apart

20 Years On: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Revisited

Control Slips Away: My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything Revisited

20 Years On: Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle Revisited

Hit By Hit: 40 Years Of Now That’s What I Call Music

20 Years On: Souls Of Mischief’s 93 ‘Til Infinity Revisited

30 Years On: The House Of Love’s Debut Album Revisited

A Storm In Heaven: Verve’s Debut Album 25 Years On

30 Years On: Cocteau Twins’ Head Over Heels Revisited

Out There: Flying Saucer Attack’s Debut LP, 20 Years On

30 Years On: Life’s Too Good By The Sugarcubes

30 Years On: Soul Mining By The The Revisited

A Circus Of Colour & Light: Mercury Rev’s Boces 25 Years On

A Criminal Record? Synchronicity By The Police 30 Years On

20 Years On: The Boo Radleys’ Giant Steps Revisited

An Eye For An Eye: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Tender Prey Revisited

Moving On: Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones Revisited

The Beast Inside: The Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen, 20 Years On

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