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Review: Kim Wilde – Closer ★★★★ The pop legend’s first studio LP in seven years sees her return to a very specific time, to showcase what she’s been up to…
Review: The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
Review: The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor/Fiction) ★★★★★ Some albums need more time to surface. Now, after 16 years, The Cure are back to break your heart…
Review: Alison Moyet – Key
Review: Alison Moyet – Key (Cooking Vinyl) ★★★★☆ After seven years, and despite minimal activity since, Alison Moyet loses none of her powers as she delves into her solo past…
Album Review: Marc Almond – I’m Not Anyone
After changes in both the personal and professional life of Marc Almond, I’m Not Anyone is a welcome opportunity to take time out for reflection. Although it’s only been seven…
Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless album review
Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (Parlophone) Neil Tennant is in the form of his life as the synth-pop legends celebrate going back home with one of their most diverse albums…
Review Round-Up Issue 85: Top 6 New Releases
Pick Of The Pops – Our Issue 85 New Release Review Round-Up THE KILLERS: REBEL DIAMONDS (EMI) Announced at relatively short notice in November, by their standards The Killers’ new…
Liam Gallagher: C’mon You Know review – “surprises abound around almost every corner”
If Liam Gallagher’s first two solo studio albums were well judged examples of giving fans what they want while pushing the envelope just that little bit further each time, then…
Review: xPropaganda – The Heart Is Strange
Nearly 40 years after A Secret Wish, Propaganda’s frontwomen reunite with their producer to reclaim their rightful place among synth-pop’s finest… All that we see or seem is but a…
ABBA Voyage – New album review
ABBA VOYAGE Polydor 7/10 Do they have it in them…? Well, that was the main concern when ABBA announced they’d reconvened and were back in the studio recording songs that…
Toyah – Posh Pop review
After years of copyright wrangling, the belated reissues of her early albums has finally allowed Toyah to be reassessed. So far, Sheep Farming In Barnet and The Blue Meaning have…