Classic LPs

Dark, dreamlike and magical, Disintegration surely represents one of the Cure's finest hours. Although retaining the darkest elements of the earlie...

A record that needs little introduction, Unknown Pleasures is the 1979 debut album by post-punk Gods Joy Division. Released on the fabled Factory R...

A classic album from 1991 that still defines post rock, and has never been bettered. Although this Kentucky combo had a short lifespan, its influen...

The Cure's hefty double album from 1987 often sounds more like a compilation than a coherent whole, with musical ideas bouncing frantically back an...

The band's third album from 1979 but first without co-founder Barry Andrews. Drums and Wires was a cavalcade of Andy Partridge's neuroses and pa...

The most well known TG 'studio' album was easily the group's most subversive. Rather than continue in the obviously provocative vein the pop cultur...

Originally released in May 1982, ‘Combat Rock’ is the final album from The Clash of Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon. Featu...

On 14th December 2019, London Calling is 40 years old. Released in 1979, London Calling came at the tail-end of punk as we had known it and was rel...

On July 18th, 1980, Joy Division released Closer; a game-changing album in the long history of post-punk, and one of only two albums recorded by th...

Before they honed their patented blend of dark melodies and gothic textures, the Cure made catchy, if angular, pop-punk. Maybe it was youthful exub...

For a band that's known worldwide as the premier purveyors of goth-rock gloom and doom (though hardly incapable of sparkling pop gems), it's no sma...

Single LP reissue with all 15 songs. The first 1980s versions didn’t include Dear God and after it was a hit, Mermaid Smiled was dropped on some...

Juju is regarded as one of the Banshees’ greatest albums and has the tour de force singles Spellbound and Arabian Knights. Their previous release, ...

The Banshees’ third studio album landed in summer 1980 and introduced two new members ‘Budgie’ on drums and ‘McGeoch’ on guitar. Kaleidoscope would...

'seventeen seconds' was everything the title suggested. intense. dense. bleak. it is not an album for the faint at heart. the addition of perennial...

Newly cut from masters by Jason Mitchell at LOUD mastering and pressed on 200 gram super-heavyweight vinyl. “I wanted it to sound like hearing John...

Few debut albums ever arrived so nearly perfectly formed; that In The Flat Field practically single-handedly invented what remains for many as the ...

Joy Division compilation Substance, first released in 1988, fills in the missing pieces of the band's history with four non-album singles (Transmis...

The musical transition that seemed to have just begun with Fear of Music came to fruition on Talking Heads' fourth album, Remain in Light. "I Zimbr...

Originally released in 1982, English Settlement is a watershed work for XTC that provides a valuable link between the band they had been (caustic, ...

The 1980 release Black Sea represents the last stand of the punchy, angular new wave that had won XTC strong critical and college radio support....

Killing Joke – the classic debut album featuring such key tracks as ‘Requiem’, ‘Wardance’ & ‘The Wait’ (covered by Metallica in 1987). The gate...

Long-awaited vinyl reissue of the 1999 debut from Kathleen Hanna’s post-Bikini Kill project. It’s a stunning record; an album that invents day-glo ...

Until 1978, Blondie was perceived mostly as a '60s-referencing, British-invasion-meets-girl-groups band. With veteran producer Mike Chapman at the ...