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Reissue Of The Week: Pete Shelley’s Homosapien

Of course Pete Shelley's 'Homosapien' was radically queer when it came to politics, but don't forget how queer it sounded as well, says Toby Manning
Anniversary

In Through the Out Door: Prince’s Around The World In A Day at 40

Four decades since its release, Toby Manning revisits how Prince's oft-overlooked seventh album dared to draw on 60s psychedelia at the height of 80s hippyphobia – producing the most countercultural sounding work of his career
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Reissue of the Week: Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra

Toby Manning tracks the glorious transit of Tangerine Dream across 1974, from the rural to the urban, from out of space then down to earth
Anniversary

Something They’ll Never Have: Why Hatful of Hollow is The Smiths’ Best Album

Despite not being a proper album, Hatful Of Hollow possesses a freshness and immediacy that was lost elsewhere in The Smiths’ discography, argues Toby Manning on the record’s 40th anniversary
Anniversary

A Deadhead Sticker on a Cadillac: Don Henley’s ‘The Boys Of Summer’ at 40

Don Henley’s melancholy, uncanny ‘The Boys of Summer’ might be the ultimate song of the 1980s, says Toby Manning, as he takes a deep dive into the track four decades on
Anniversary

Welcome To The Pleasuredome: Frankie Goes To Hollywood and the Queering of the 1980s

On the fortieth anniversary of Welcome To The Pleasuredome, Toby Manning explores how Frankie Goes To Hollywood's debut was the album that owned 1984, thanks to its ability to inhabit the liminal space between the queer margins and the straight mainstream
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Reissue Of The Week: Mark Lanegan’s Bubblegum

Bubblegum is a great rock record that said important things about pop, says Toby Manning
Anniversary

How To Sell A Contradiction: Sade’s Diamond Life & Sophisti-Pop 40 Years On

Unlike 80s pop’s synthetic bombast, says Toby Manning, some of the era’s best music was defined by a sophisticated smoothness whose ambivalence captured the period’s contradictions

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