Miscellaneous

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Beatles - “Rubber Soul”, the album that saw the Beatles grow up

The reissue of the classic 1965 Beatles album is out: we take the opportunity to dig deeper into a pivotal chapter in the history of the Fab Four

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Supertramp - Crime Of The Century, Supertramp's Perfect Crime

On the occasion of the reissue, we tell the story of the record with which the Hodgson-Davies duo's band rose again on a remote English farm, giving birth to 8 perfect songs

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Gruppo D'Alternativa - Ipotesi, the Canterbury-style gamble of the Milanese prog band

The story of the sole, "cursed" LP by the Milanese band. A concept album with Canterbury-scene shades, one of the best-kept secrets of Italian prog

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The Chameleons – "Strange Times," an Emotional Black Hole Disguised as a Post-Punk Masterpiece

The album featuring "Swamp Thing" and other gems, steeped in nostalgia for a lost innocence and shaped by the awareness of having to inhabit "strange times"

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Paolo Benvegnù – Piccoli Fragilissimi Film, the Burnt Frames of Benvegnù

The Milanese artist's masterpiece. A genuine clinical treatise on human vulnerability, standing as one of the absolute peaks of Italian singer-songwriting in the new millennium.

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Eels - Eels – Beautiful Freak, bittersweet ballads for irresistible little monsters

The fairy-tale debut of an oddball singer-songwriter and his band

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Nirvana - Bleach, the storm of Kurt Cobain & co. crashes down on Seattle

The band led by Kurt Cobain's historic debut. More than a generational manifesto, a report on suburban alienation translated into tectonic frequencies

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Richard Ashcroft - “Human Conditions”, symphonies for lost souls

The soul mysticism and solitude of the Verve's former frontman, a post-britpop long-distance runner, in his ambitious 2002 album. Between introspection, rage and secular spirituality

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Verve - A Northern Soul, the Verve's fragile balance

Richard Ashcroft and his bandmates reach their second album at the most complicated moment of their short career. The result is a work poised between crisis and rebirth, decisive in the path that would lead to the triumph of "Urban Hymns"

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Car Seat Headrest - “Teens Of Denial: Joe’s Story”: Will Toledo rewrites his classic ten years on

Ten years on, Will Toledo reinterprets one of his masterpieces through a new perspective

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Portraits Of Past - Portraits Of Past: the existentialist essence of screamo

A journey inside the only LP by one of screamo's pioneering bands, the most intensely existentialist variant of hardcore

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Alcalà Norte - Alcalà Norte – Post-punk y vida de barrio

A Madrid-style revisiting of post-punk in the Spanish band's cult work

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Sensations' Fix - Fragments of Light, the embryonic sunset of the Florentine space-prog outfit

In the underbelly of Italian prog, a band captivated by the era's kraut-rock trends, poised between the meditative calm of Popol Vuh, the dreamlike energy of Neu! and the nocturnal atmospheres of Tangerine Dream

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Francesco De Gregori - Bufalo Bill, 50 years of the Prince's American diary

As controversy rages over the Prince's latest statements, we'd rather revisit one of his masterpieces, which has just turned fifty

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Nick Cave – Let Love In, the Bad Seeds of Love

The album that made the Australian songwriter a global star, thanks to a handful of desperate songs about love and death.

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Oasis - Definitely Maybe – The birth of the Britpop idols' myth

The story of the record that launched Oasis right into the heart of Nineties Cool Britannia

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Dedalus - Dedalus, the flame sparked by Piedmontese jazz-rock

The timeless jazz-rock of Pinerolo's own Dedalus, a manifesto of an era

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Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept, the hatched egg of the British goth queen

The British artist, composer and performer delivers one of her most accomplished pop-rock experiments, crossing every boundary

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Cristina - Sleep It Off, the manifesto of the no wave diva

Cristina Monet-Palaci, no wave's mysterious New York diva, in her personal manifesto

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Michael Jackson - Off The Wall, dancing to take flight

The story of the record that turned the Jackson Five's (and later The Jacksons') brilliant frontman into a world-class artist

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Virginia Astley - Hope In A Darkened Heart, the annihilation of the ego

The British author takes on an ambitious work that resembles a self-administered psychoanalysis session

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Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe, the vapor cloud that intrigued the web

The producer Ramona Andra Xavier's "one shot" record, which became a vaporwave cult classic

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Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), the non-musician's rock kaleidoscope

The "non-musician" refines his idea of musical multiculturalism, leaving its mark on the future of rock

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Afterhours - Germi, the musical contagion of Manuel Agnelli and co.

Agnelli & co.'s breakthrough for Italian-language rock, a watershed moment in the Italian alternative scene of the '90s