Features tagged with classic album

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The mysterious circumstances surrounding Jeff Buckley's death meant his sole studio album was always likely to become a cult favourite. However, in the twenty years since its release, its influence and beauty show that it's one of the finest albums of its generation.

It's twenty years since Portishead released one of the most inventive, atmospheric and beguiling albums of recent times. Here, Luiza Lodder takes us back, track by track.

In the early '80s, Shoes looked like they could have had it all. Here's the story of the album that nearly propelled them to greatness, 1981's Tongue Twister.

As The Flaming Lips classic turns 15, Andrew Ciraulo looks back on what makes The Soft Bulletin a truly essential album.

Spiderland, the 1991 landmark release from Louisville, Kentucky quartet Slint, is reissued as an extended boxset with a feature length documentary. 

Bad pressings, infighting, drug addiction - a tale of "what could have been" from the nearly-men of punk.

For its 20th anniversary, Joe Marvilli looks back at Nine Inch Nails' defining masterpiece, an exploration of self-destruction and crafting chaos into melodies. 

An album that paved the way for punk a full decade in advance? Here's a story that deserves to be told.

Following our recap on Velvet Underground & Nico earlier in the week, Angel Aguilar takes up the tale of perhaps the best-loved solo work from the Velvets alumnus himself.