While followers of the sound will have no difficulty playing spot-the-influence, adorable turn out gleamingly
memorable fare in the bittersweet Sunshine Smile, and the yearning I'll Be Your Saint, and the mournful A To Fade In. They work up a ...
Technically, Candylion isn't the first solo album by Super Furry Animals' frontman Gruff Rhys, but
it's his first to be sung in English. More importantly, it has the form and feel of a pop album, which 2005's Yr Atal Genhedlaeth ...
Definitely Maybe begins with a statement of aspiration, as Liam Gallagher sneers that tonight, I'm
a rock & roll star -- the words of a bedsit dreamer hoping he'd break out of those four walls and find something greater. Maybe ...
Jarvis Cocker and a revolving lineup of Pulp members had been making indie-rock records for
ten years before finally getting it right with the humorous ode to lost virginity, 1994's Do You Remember the First Time? Suitably encouraged, Cocker went ...
Debut albums rarely come as ambitious as the Manic Street Preachers' Generation Terrorists. Released in
England as a double album (it was trimmed to the length of a single record in America), the album teemed with slogans, political rhetoric, and ...
Martin Newell -- working on this particular project with Martin Chapman and Paul Ripley-Thomas --
really began to hit his stride on this tape, which was filled to the gills with fetching melodies and odd, evocative lyrics, like Syd Barrett ...
Taking their turn at the decks, Glaswegian rockers Franz Ferdinand curate a guitar-friendly Late Night
Tales mix full of psych, funk, garage, disco, Northern soul, Krautrock, and R. Stevie Moore covering the Beatles. As is the tradition with the popular ...
The soundtrack to the edgy Tarantino-esque British film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels consists
largely of vintage punk rock (the Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog), R&B (James Brown's The Boss and The Payback), and reggae (Junior Murvin's Police ...