A beginner’s guide to gothic electro-pop overlords Depeche Mode – including profile, discography and playlist.
An introduction to Manchester’s alternative-rock trio Doves, featuring profile, discography and playlist.
To mark 25 years since the release of ‘Debut’, we present a newcomer’s guide to Björk, featuring discography and playlist.
On the 40th anniversary of her debut album ‘The Kick Inside’, we take a whistle-stop tour of Kate Bush’s compelling and varied discography.
Ten years after the release of their final album ‘Icky Thump’, we look at the discography and legacy of The White Stripes.
A guide to PJ Harvey’s studio albums.
For his fans, the late Elliott Smith’s albums are like close friends, comforting and familiar as they reflect back their own anguish.
by Ed Biggs With their debut studio album marking its 20th anniversary of its release in May 2016, it is well beyond time that the Super Furry Animals were recognised as the geniuses they are. With the exception of the globe-conquering success of Radiohead, the Furries are the most original and consistently inventive British indie group of the last quarter of a century. Arguably the last great Creation Records band and
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by Ed Biggs Few bands from the indie explosion in Britain during the 1980s were, and remain, as iconic and impenetrably mysterious as Cocteau Twins. Formed in Grangemouth in Scotland in the early 1980s, the three-piece of singer Liz Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bassist Will Heggie (replaced by Simon Raymonde in 1983) sounded quite unlike anything else on the indie scene during the fertile ‘80s, and the curious magic they
by Ed Biggs Having recently passed twin milestones – the release of their thirteenth studio album Super and the 30th anniversary of their first, Please – it seems like the ideal time to take stock of the Pet Shop Boys’ career and their impact on pop music. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have adapted to keep themselves on or ahead of the curve for three decades, and still retain that sense
