Ziggy Stardust wrote the blueprint for David Bowie's hard-rocking glam, and Aladdin Sane essentially follows
the pattern, for both better and worse. A lighter affair than Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane is actually a stranger album than its predecessor, buoyed by ...
Following two critically-acclaimed limited edition studio albums, prog-rock quintet Mew finally allow audiences outside their
native Denmark to hear their mesmerising blend of crunching guitars, lush operatic production and Jonas Bjerre's stunning girlish vocals, with their first major label release. ...
Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of Station to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David
Bowie's past, Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided ...
Wolf Parade/Sunset Rubdown showrunner Spencer Krug's fourth studio outing under the Moonface moniker and second
go-around with Finnish Krautrock enthusiasts Siinai, My Best Human Face dials back on the wintry, ballad-heavy melodrama of 2012's Heartbreaking Bravery in favor of a ...
I'd like to invite you for just a little while/To a place I used to
go when I was only 17, Dave Hartley sings near the beginning of his second Nightlands album, and that sense of nostalgia pervades the rest ...
Stage was David Bowie's second live double album, documenting his supporting tour for Heroes. Supported
by a band that featured guitarists Adrian Belew and Carlos Alomar, Bowie doesn't recast his earlier work in a new light -- the songs from ...
Taking the detached plastic soul of Young Americans to an elegant, robotic extreme, Station to
Station is a transitional album that creates its own distinctive style. Abandoning any pretense of being a soulman, yet keeping rhythmic elements of soul, David ...
David Bowie had dropped hints during the Diamond Dogs tour that he was moving toward
R&B, but the full-blown blue-eyed soul of Young Americans came as a shock. Surrounding himself with first-rate sessionmen, Bowie comes up with a set of ...