January 25, 2020

26 January Session 62: Public Image Ltd – ‘First Issue’

After the Sex Pistols imploded in early ’78, John Lydon wasted absolutely no time in building a new group, putting out this debut album at the end of that year. Freed of the more ‘commercial’ tendencies of the Pistols and Malcolm McLaren, PiL looked to detonate the already extensive clichés of the punk scene, folding […]
January 25, 2020January 25, 2020

23 February Session 63: Boards of Canada – ‘Geogaddi’

The mysterious Boards of Canada created a critically acclaimed cult album with their 1998 debut Music Has the Right to Children on Warp Records. So four years later, expectations were high. Luckily Geogaddi more than lived up to the hype. Themes including cults and the occult, numerology and satanism are intertwined, buried and revealed under […]
January 25, 2020January 25, 2020

22 March Session 64: Adam and the Ants – ‘Dirk Wears White Sox’

Untainted by the music industry, the debut album is often unique in an artist’s repertoire. Unpolished, impassioned, and powered by raw energy, that’s definitely the case for Dirk Wears White Sox. Forget the commercial successes that followed soon after – this is stark, angular and brittle, occupying the sweet spot between post-punk and new-wave, and […]
January 25, 2020January 25, 2020

19 April Session 65: Nirvana – ‘Bleach’

This may not be the album (or even the line-up) that many people think of when it comes to Nirvana, but Bleach presents Cobain at his most raw and primal, before the expectations and pressures of global stardom sunk their claws in. Direct, rough-edged, and even sloppy, its the sound of a band on the […]
January 25, 2020January 25, 2020

17 May Session 66: Joy Division – ‘Closer’

Released just two months after the suicide of Ian Curtis, Closer is draped in tragedy, and almost impossible to evaluate without contemplating that event. A quantum leap from Unknown Pleasures, this is an album with every contributor – producer included – at the top of their game. Experimental and gripping, Closer is a true masterpiece.

November 17, 2019January 25, 2020

Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Scream

October 20, 2019January 25, 2020

Hole: Live Through This

September 8, 2019September 24, 2019

Kate Bush: The Dreaming

May 19, 2019May 19, 2019

Can: Tago Mago

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019

Prince: Prince

March 17, 2019April 9, 2019

The Stranglers: Black and White

February 17, 2019March 5, 2019

King Crimson: Red

December 16, 2018March 5, 2019

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman’s Call

November 11, 2018March 5, 2019

John Foxx: Metamatic

October 28, 2018March 5, 2019

Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump

September 16, 2018March 5, 2019

The Fall: Live at the Witch Trials

June 24, 2018March 5, 2019

Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On