Posts tagged indie rewind

Follow ups to successful albums where the primary ingredient was humour are few and far between. Humour is a transient thing and can fall out …

For all the hype around the band, in retrospect Suede’s self titled debut album was pretty damn ordinary, with only a few decent singles to …

With the Two Johns having forged an enduring career releasing a series of albums that appeal to socially awkward types who perhaps spend just a …

As an example of the Tribute Album sub-genre, it’s fair to say that Step Right Up is easily one of the best.

I still remember the level of disappointment I experienced when I first heard Blueberry Boat. Fiery Furnaces debut, Gallowsbird’s Bark, is for my money, one …

While concept albums about cricket may not be the most obvious career move, The Duckworth Lewis Method seemed to be just the project that The …

It is one of the less talked about pages of late 80s indie lore that the budget was so tight when Cud recorded their debut …

Good old Travis. Good old sensible Travis. For a while they had a reputation for doing exactly what you expected of them. So honest, so …

Sometimes you hear a band and you go, ‘Yep, that’s for me’. It was like that when I heard Who Killed the Zutons? for the …

In retrospect Pulp were a band that burned brightly and became hugely important to a generation, but whose work remains oddly preserved in a sort …