Album

Up, up and away! Epic art-rock set from outsider heroes...

The breakthrough fourth album, reissued with a trove of demos...In 1986, REM’s elevation to umpty-million-selling ubiquity, dominant influence and stadium marquees appeared other than inevitable. The Georgia quartet had released, in breakneck succession, two critically adored albums (1983’s Murmur, 1984’s Reckoning) and a third (1985’s Fables Of The Reconstruction) which was a much more expansive but nonetheless nervy and flawed record.

Former Blasters man, back with more roughshod blues anthems for a lost California...

Punk bluesman’s songs of hard toil in the Iowa soil...

Arthur Lee’s 1973 hard-rock/ funk opus, finally out from the shadows...

This is a reaping song! Eight years on from Soul Journey, Welch and David Rawlings return with another timeless country classic...

Guided by Richard Hawley, The Twang remains, majestically, The Thang...

‘Folk’ prodigy steps outside the cabin, and engages with the world. Widescreen, intimate and glorious...

Revisiting Farmer Neil’s hard-hollerin’ country collective, as the Archives rummage reaches that difficult decade, the 1980s...

Harsh words, softly spoken: the gospel according to Paul...