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Always quit while you’re ahead, they say, and Wild Beasts were doing pretty much that when they called last orders late in 2017. There will be some who argue they…
Janice – Fallin’ Up review
Sweden’s Janice Kavander recently stated that: “I don’t make super commercial music”. That claim is open for debate, and may surprise her major label advocates, especially since she’s apparently been…
Bahamas – Earthtones review
Don’t be fooled by Afie Jurvanen. While the wittily rhymed Show Me Naomi may begin with producer (and Feist manager) Robbie Lackritz’s studio chatter – “Think how I feel having…
De Lux – More Disco Songs About Love review
When De Lux’s debut, Voyage, was released in 2014, Classic Pop’s own Paul Lester pointed out elsewhere that, though it shared qualities with Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, it would…
Alexander O’Neal – Hearsay30 review
Questions, questions, questions… Is this celebration of 80s soul legend O’Neal’s second album a reissue or re-recording? Did the 1987 version seriously go three times platinum in Britain? And why…
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac review
This is a reissue of the band’s 1975 second eponymous album, their first to feature the duo Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. It signalled the end of Fleetwood Mac the…
Rhye – Blood review
As the soothing sounds of Rhye’s second album float past, plenty of comparisons come to mind. Take The xx, whose disdain for unnecessary ornamentation can be heard in Blood’s comforting,…
Craig David – The Time Is Now review
Remember when, a decade ago, Craig David was the punchline to a joke on a Channel Four TV show? You may need a reminder: the programme’s title came from David’s…
Go Kart Mozart – Mozart’s Mini-Mart review
“I do not think of myself as a musician, more like a painter working away in total isolation, unknown and without success.” Thus run the liner notes to the fourth…
Minnie Riperton – Perfect Angel review
Minnie Riperton was a progenitor of what might be termed “hippie soul”… jazzy, psych-inflected, woozy, loose in terms of structure. And Perfect Angel (1974) was her finest moment. The former…