Helmet’s risk did not require a reward. Art does not seek an end; it is a process. The legacy of ‘Betty’ is simple: brand-named music is death.
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Sounds both honeyed and harsh, Lush’s second studio album found the band fashioning a world of their own, separate from the abstract influences of their influential 4AD counterparts, Cocteau Twins.
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While their 1981 debut did not augur the stadium tours or multi-platinum LPs to come, it nevertheless offers little pieces of the band they would become.
Read moreNew Order’s ‘Brotherhood’ Turns 35 | Anniversary Retrospective
So much more than the glorious “Bizarre Love Triangle,” New Order’s fourth studio album presents the band at the peak of their electro-rock hybrid powers.
Read moreWeezer’s ‘Pinkerton’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
Just as Brian Eno once suggested about The Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut LP, 'Pinkerton' made everyone who bought a copy want to start a band.
Read moreNirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective
The band’s second studio album made us question everything before it, everything during it and everything after it.
Read moreTool’s ‘Ænima’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
Fifteen perfect songs in one lifetime few bands accomplish. Fifteen perfect songs, intricately connected in the Nine Circles of Hell they illuminate, Tool accomplished with their second album in 1996.
Read moreR.E.M.’s ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’ Turns 25 | Anniversary Retrospective
Largely overlooked in the wake of ‘Out of Time,' ‘Automatic for the People' and ‘Monster,' R.E.M.’s terrific tenth LP remains one of their strongest ever.
Read morePearl Jam’s Debut Album ‘Ten’ Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective
A search for identity somewhere lost between Mother Love Bone’s demise and Eddie Vedder’s surfing daydreams, ‘Ten’ is gorgeous & boundless.
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