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Marc Burrows

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Hot Chip

Freakout/Release

Perennial miserablists still finding reasons to strut it funky
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Erasure

Day-Glo (Based On A True Story)

An extensive re-working of 2020’s *The Neon* becomes an entirely new album, showcasing the 35-year-old synth pop group at their strangest and most experimental

Black Sky Thinking

Glasto Reminded Me How I Hate People, But Not As Much As I Hate Myself

Marc Burrows would have had a lovely time at Glastonbury were it not for the tens of thousands of other people and their flags and the reminder that snobbery often comes from self-loathing
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Gary Numan

Intruder

Numan Prime returns with his nineteenth album, a reliably impressive package, finds Marc Burrows
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Ed Dowie

The Obvious I

Ed Dowie's The Obvious I is nothing if not impeccably tasteful, finds Marc Burrows
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The Anchoress

The Art Of Losing

With guest vocals from James Dean Bradfield (and drumming from Sterling Campbell, it's nonetheless Catherine Anne Davies's own production skills that make her second Anchoress album so special, finds Marc Burrows
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Smashing Pumpkins

Cyr

Billy Corgan continues to be at once unstoppable force and immovable object, once more giving Smashing Pumpkins fans exactly what they didn't want – but perhaps what they did need
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Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

Various

A tribute album, loving assembled by Hal Wilner, proves a patchy affair enlivened by highlights from Nick Cave and Kesha, finds Marc Burrows
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Deftones

Ohms

Deftones are back with a record of raw, concentrated Deftonage, finds Marc Burrows
News

INTERVIEW: Brix Smith Start

Brix Smith Start opens up about the passing of Mark E Smith and the upcoming second album from her band the Extricated
A Quietus Interview

Confessional Mode: An Interview With The Anchoress

“It's like flashing your tits at someone. You’re not really exposing yourself, you're trying to scare them off. That's a weird metaphor, isn’t it?” Marc Burrows speaks to The Anchoress
News

LIVE REPORT: Bis

Marc Burrows reports from London's the Lexington

Reviews

The Smashing Pumpkins

Monuments To An Elegy

News

LIVE REPORT: Smashing Pumpkins

Marc Burrows heads down to Koko in London where Billy Corgan et al. are joined by Marilyn Manson
Baker's Dozen

Critic’s Round-Up: Mark Kermode’s Favourite Albums

The film critic, television presenter and skiffle bassist sets aside his DVD stack to talk top records with Marc Burrows
Books

Doing The Job Properly – An Interview With Mark Kermode

Marc Burrows speaks to the pre-eminent film critic about not making other peoples decisions, why film-makers don't make good friends, and his recent book Hatchet Job
Reviews

Good Tidings & Bad Religion: 2013’s Christmas Albums Reviewed

Marc Burrows listens to one million seasonal releases so you don't have to
A Quietus Interview

The Story Of Akim & Teddy Vann’s ‘Santa Claus Is A Black Man’

Forty years since the release of Akim & the Teddy Vann Production Company's 'Santa Claus Is A Black Man', Marc Burrows speaks to Akim about her father's work to empower and provide positive imagery for young black people in the US
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Haim

Days Are Gone

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Nirvana

In Utero (Reissue)

A Quietus Interview

Dog Soldiers: New Model Army Interviewed

At the weekend veteran alternative rock band NMA scored their first hit album in 20 years. Marc Burrows talks to Justin Sullivan, frontman of the perennial outsiders
Baker's Dozen

Anger Through Grace: Nicky Wire’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of their eleventh LP Rewind The Film, the Manic Street Preachers man scours his record collection for the list to end all lists
Reviews

Smashing Pumpkins

The Aeroplane Flies High (Box Set Reissue)

Track-by-Track

Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire Reviews Rewind The Film

Manic Street Preachers' bassist and propagandist-in-chief Nicky Wire takes Marc Burrows through their new album track by track. Photographs courtesy of Alex Lake
News

LIVE REPORT: She Makes War

Marc Burrows is in attendance as Laura Kidd headlines her travelling club night in solo guise
News

LIVE REPORT: Sound City Players

Dave Grohl's Sound City Players supergroup comes to London for a night of ROCK by MEN and their MAN friends of ROCK. It's a bit meh, says Marc Burrows
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Marianne Faithfull

Broken English (reissue)

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The Smashing Pumpkins

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (reissue)

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Manic Street Preachers

Generation Terrorists (reissue)

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The Lovely Eggs

Wildlife

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Darren Hayman And The Long Parliament

The Violence

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Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra

Theatre Is Evil

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