Classic LPs

Smash originally released in 1994 is a power-driven and explosive album with a palpable sense of urgency. It features the singles Come Out and Play...

While Daft Punk's second recording still focuses on the maximum accessibility that earned its debut such high marks, there's less of an obvious foc...

It's little wonder why Drake felt frustrated at the lack of commercial success his music initially gathered, considering the help he had on his deb...

The results of Nick Drake's solo sessions were as harrowing and stark as anything by Robert Johnson or Charley Patton. Enclosed in an inner world o...

Island Records presents Nick Drake's second album Bryter Layter in the Back To Black format. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road from maste...

With producer Salaam Remi returning from Frank, plus the welcome addition of Mark Ronson (fresh off successes producing for Christina Aguilera and ...

Songs from the Big Chair marks the progression towards emotional healing, a particularly bold sort of catharsis culled from Roland Orzabal and Curt...

One of the lost classics of the '60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion, and, of course, ...

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...

Pink Floyd's first UK number 1 album was released in 1970. This was the band's first recording with an orchestra, the title track 'The Atom Heart M...

Ummagumma is the fourth album (double album) by English rock band Pink Floyd,recorded 27 April and 2 May 1969 (live album) and released in 1969. Th...

From the opening swarms of "Exit Only," you can tell Steady Diet of Nothing will differ from Fugazi's earlier records. Repeater's excellence can't ...

One of the most important albums ever. It doesn't get better, angrier and original. First released in 1978 on Small Wonder Records, and later re-re...

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...

Slipknot reissue their fourth album All Hope Is Gone on orange crush coloured vinyl. Originally released in 2008, it features the tracks Psychosoci...

The one that turned three n.y.c. punks into multi-millionaires overnight and turned hip hop into a global empire. Produced by rick rubin this roc...

Along with Dr. Dre's The Chronic, the Wu-Tang Clan's debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), was one of the most influential rap albums of the '90s...

Hot on the heels of The River, his commercial breakthrough, Springsteen's decision to release the stark, demo-quality Nebraska seems downright perv...

Despite the acclaim accorded 'Born to Run' and 'Darkness on the Edge of Town', this is the album that broke Springsteen into the big leagues, thank...

Like A Virgin, originally released in 1984, was Madonna’s second studio album and with this, she quashed any theories about the ‘difficult second a...

While Cave wore his blues influence on his sleeve on his earlier solo recordings, this covers albums goes several steps further, revealing the full...

The debut studio album of American hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, originally released in October 1982 on Sugar Hill Records ...

Déjà Vu is the first album by the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. R...