Automatic for the People by R.E.M. (1992)
I have always and will always object to the lumping together of R.E.M. and the Smiths. Yes, both bands purveyed […]
Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits (1985)
The number of world-bestriding rock bands generated by declining post-industrial British cities in the latter third of the 20th century
Constellations for the Lonely by the Doves (2025)
Rock music is a strange, unsettling cultural artefact in 2025. The majority of new rock albums are by bands whose
Significant Other by Limp Bizkit (2001)
The 90s were a cartoon decade, temporarily unmoored from the dramatic solemnity of human history. The Cold War had been
Lost in the Dream by the War on Drugs (2014)
Rock was still staggering along in 2014, but anybody could’ve taken its pitiful mortally wounded carcass out back and put