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Spotlighting the impact of cultural landmarks
You can call it post hardcore if you like or you can refer to it as an essential corner stone of first wave emo; Noel Gardner just wants to celebrate an essential underground album seeing the light of day for the first time in a quarter of a century
Recently there has been much ado about Dark Side Of The Moon, but significantly less fuss made about The Final Cut. David Bennun examines how we got from one to the other in a single decade and how the current split at the heard of Pink Floyd represents the divide between crank leftism and centrist Dadism
Richard Foster considers Marvin The Paranoid Android, the charnel house-like plays of Jacobean England and the owl of Athena (and speaks to Will Sergeant) while writing about Echo & The Bunnymen's oft-misunderstood third long player
30 years on, Matthew Barton explores how Erotica changed the game for mainstream pop stars, an album that traded Madonna’s imperial pop for deep bass, vinyl crackles, chilly house and spoken word
40 years since the first album was released on CD, Daryl Worthington pays tribute to the unique experimental potential of the format, explores how it changed the parameters of the album itself, and wonders why it’s still not thought of as fondly as cassettes and LPs
To create the future, you have to imagine the future. You have to take that potential and extend its possibilities – sonically, mechanically, literally – through time. Jude Rogers speaks to co-producer Pete Bellotte and a host of famous fans about one of the all time great singles
Prolific? GBV’s Robert Pollard has more side-projects than most other long-running bands have releases. As Propeller turns 30, Sean Kitching talks to Pollard and past band member, Tobin Sprout, about the album where it all starting falling into place