The old groaner relaunches as problematic 21st century protest singer
Stephen Troussé
Lambchop – This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You)
Kurt Wagner revisits his new-found digital dreamland
Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose
Dave Longstreth relaxes. A little
Johnny Marr – Call The Comet
The ex-Smith’s most powerful solo LP yet
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
Boldly affecting return from the hardest-working slacker in showbiz
David Byrne – American Utopia
Pop polymath delivers surreal state of the nation address
Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion
Goth RnB and brutalist hymns on fine fifth outing from Joan Wasser
The Durutti Column – The Guitar And Other Machines
Factory enigma’s mid-’80s gear change, now reissued with sundry EPs and live sets
Morrissey – Low in High School
Sham 69 meets David Icke! The work on an artist in blinkered decline
The Style Council vinyl remasters
The six LPs on coloured vinyl
Richard Ashcroft: “Not long into your career, you realise that it’s pretty much Spinal Tap”
The solo artist and Verve frontman answers your questions about Brian Wilson, youth clubs and the existence of God
The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
Pop history is not littered with classic triple albums. All Things Must Pass and Sandinista! are solid doubles with bonus tracks already appended. Yessongs and The Last Waltz are compendious…