A magnum opus of masterful, conceptual songwriting spanning a bewildering number of genres, ’69 Love Songs’ by The Magnetic Fields has not been surpassed.
The best live music coming up in Leeds this week, including SASAMI, Cosmonauts and Modern Nature.
While synthesisers had been around for a while by 1979, Gary Numan’s chilly, immersive album ‘The Pleasure Principle’ represented a Year Zero for commercially successful electronic pop.
Jeremy Nutzmann’s first proper Velvet Negroni album ‘Neon Brown’ blurs and erases the lines between genres.
An introduction to pioneering British electronica label Warp Records, to mark its 30th anniversary.
The best live music coming up in Leeds this week, including Glaswegian punk newcomers Kaputt, Chilean psychedelic wizards Föllakzoid and indie hero Edwyn Collins.
Four decades on from its release, The Slits’ scintillating debut album ‘Cut’ still blazes a trail for women in the music industry.
The best live music coming up in Leeds this week, including Cate Le Bon, Skunk Anansie and the fourth annual This Must Be The Place festival.
Portishead may not have invented ‘trip hop’, but their endlessly cool and inventive 1994 debut album ‘Dummy’ came to define it completely.
Spearheaded by the fantastic ‘Magic Of Meghan’, wry London post-punk quartet Dry Cleaning deliver an exceptional debut EP in ‘Sweet Princess’.
