Music Reviews

Talk Talk - Natural Order 1982 - 1991

Talk Talk - Natural Order 1982 - 1991

An alternative history of the post-rock pioneers...

Aaron Neville - My True Story

Aaron Neville - My True Story

New Orleans soul prince revisits his doo-wop youth. Keith Richards and Don Was co-produce...

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English: Deluxe Edition

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English: Deluxe Edition

33 and a third-year anniversary edition of the cathartic classic...

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

The psychedelic warlords' live masterpiece reissued...

The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F: Definitive Edition

The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F: Definitive Edition

Here’s no mud in your ear! The Johnny Thunders gang’s epochal 1977 album restored (yet again),...

Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio OST

Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio OST

In British pop history the feature film often marks the fatal moment of imperial overreach of a...

Aztec Camera - reissues

Aztec Camera - reissues

Postcards from paradise...

Sufjan Stevens - Silver And Gold: Songs For Christmas Vols. 6 - 10

Sufjan Stevens - Silver And Gold: Songs For Christmas Vols. 6 - 10

A provocative musical advent calendar...

Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters

Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters

The two sides of Scott-Heron - his early work collected in all its trailblazing glory...

Graham Parker And The Rumour - Three Chords Good

Graham Parker And The Rumour - Three Chords Good

Reunited band rides a wave of serendipity in a surprising, deeply satisfying return...

The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

Deluxe treatment for one of punk’s most rough-and-ready albums...

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age

Favourite songs from the Roxy man's past, played by jazz vets and cut in crackly mono...

Blur - Parklive

Blur - Parklive

Sound and vision live bonanza; improved audio is the icing on the Hyde Park memorial cake...

Joni Mitchell - The Studio Albums 1968 - 1979

Joni Mitchell - The Studio Albums 1968 - 1979

From Laurel Canyon to jazz-rock's far outposts - the suffragette of sensuality's stunning first...

The Beach Boys - Live In Concert

The Beach Boys - Live In Concert

The 50th Anniversary Tour captured on film...

Scott Walker - Bish Bosch

Scott Walker - Bish Bosch

Tubax! Zercon! Ceausescu! Walker’s meta-textual journey continues...

The House Of Love - The House Of Love

The House Of Love - The House Of Love

Guy Chadwick’s fractious gang’s debut, now expanded – and at times, truly exhilarating...

Cockney Rebel - Cavaliers

Cockney Rebel - Cavaliers

4CD triumph for art-pop’s ‘Cocky Rabble’...

X-TG - Desertshore: The Final Report

X-TG - Desertshore: The Final Report

Radically reworking a Nico album, Throbbing Gristle leave Genesis behind...

Iris Dement - Sing The Delta

Iris Dement - Sing The Delta

Bringing it all back home: Arkansas dazzler's first original music in 16 years...

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Editor's Letter

Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...