Classic LPs

"In an age where rock is becoming progressively more slick and studio enhanced, it's quite refreshing to see a band like White Stripes come up from...

Today's announcement comes 40 years to the week since the celebrated album was first released on August 24, 1981. Anticipation for the new editions...

Following on from the global success of ‘Abbey Road’, Apple Corps and USM are proud to present the next multi-format Beatles album reissue of ‘Let ...

Crocodiles was originally released in July 1980 and reached 17 in the UK Charts. The band rose to the fore as part of the vibrant post punk Liverpo...

Darker and more intense than Crocodiles, Echo and the Bunnymen's second album Heaven Up Here from May 1981 continues on from their debut, but the s...

Porcupine is the third studio album by the band. First released in February 1983, it became the band's highest charting release when it reached No2...

Channeling the lessons of the experimental Porcupine into more conventional and simple structural parameters, Ocean Rain emerges as Echo and the Bu...

After the muddled production and ultra-complicated song structures of ...And Justice for All, Metallica decided that they had taken the progressive...

Translated from French to mean “fool the world”, Trompe Le Monde showed the band still restless to push their sound forward. Recorded between Burba...

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 Masterplan is a compilation of Oasis B-sides and singles. Critics and fans alike claimed that the best Oasis B-sides were as strong as the best...

Black Sabbath is the eponymous debut studio album by Black Sabbath. Released in 1970, Black Sabbath's debut album is the birth of heavy metal as we...

One of the best hip hop albums ever made. Donuts is accessible without being typical or easily defined: it's hip hop without MCs; electronic music ...

Although Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor became the poster boy for industrial rock in the early 1990s, his '89 debut, Pretty Hate Machine, ...

With producer Stephen Street, the smiths created a subtly shaded and skilled album, one boasting a fuller production than before. Morrissey and Mar...

With their second proper album Meat Is Murder, the smiths began to branch out and diversify, while refining the jangling guitar pop of their debut....

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

Limited repressing of the Stone Roses 1986 classic debut album Stone Roses, on clear vinyl, released for National Album Day 2020. Released: October...

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...

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...

So, this is it; Is This It, where it all started for The Strokes. It is this. The enduring, generation-defining NYC indie debut album from The Stro...

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...