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Shut up! You don't understand it!
Kevin Rowland's long atonement for the 2 Tone tour
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Pulp - More
More sarky but optimistic northern singalongs about the unlikely redemptive power of love
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To meet you in the falling rain...
Paul finds a new direction at the end of the world
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Cathedral swoopings
The honeyed, potent swoon of the Cocteau Twins
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Rich conceptual orrery
A review of the Magnetic Fields reissued 69 Love Songs, and a Q&A with Stephin Merritt
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The last days of disco
Pet Shops Boys in the rock and roll years
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Scary monsters
Dry Cleaning explain how art and humour are our best defence from techbro supercreeps
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Magic and loss
The irresistible reappearance of My Bloody Valentine
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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