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English disease
“Morbid Symptoms” would have made a pretty good title for a Suede b-side. The best of their music still speaks to England's lingering existential hangover.
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The wild blue yonder
Joni's archives give us an opportunity to feel the jeopardy and wonder of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary solo odysseys
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The road to Hejira
Joni Mitchell's star-sailing, time-scrambling 1976 solo odyssey across America
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Magic waves
Brian Wilson, 1942–2025
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Fabulous beasts
It dawned on Marianne Faithfull that she had a far grander destiny. To find the Holy Grail? To write the Modern Prometheus? Or to engineer a shift in western consciousness?
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Suede: the insatiable ones
The mundane reality of addiction, it turns out, is not Byronic wraiths in Ghormenghast mansions but a pie-eyed Anderson plonking atonally on a cheap synth, vainly trying to compose Head Music.