With her ninth album, Minogue tapped back into the artistic abandon of her deConstruction period, but tempered it tactfully with a chart consciousness gained from her recent experiences.
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While ‘So Natural’ wasn’t offered the same shot at the wider exposure afforded to Stansfield’s first two albums, it isn’t any less powerful—or soulful—than what came before or after it.
Read moreQ-Tip’s ‘The Renaissance’ Turns 15 | Album Anniversary
Q-Tip’s sophomore album was conceived following the engineered birth of one effort (1999’s ‘Amplified’) and the painful abortion of another (the long-delayed ‘Kamaal the Abstract’).
Read moreSophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Shoot From The Hip’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary
Ellis-Bextor’s follow-up to her breakthrough debut album ‘Read My Lips’ (2001) showcased her desire to take creative risks instead of standing in place—an admirable decision.
Read moreKim Wilde’s ‘Catch as Catch Can’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary
Wilde’s third studio affair affirmed Wilde’s commitment to employ whatever aural tools necessary to bring her musical vision into reality, naysayers and critics be damned.
Read moreMandy Moore’s ‘Coverage’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary
Clearly pulling from a place inside of herself, Moore’s reinterpretations across her third studio album are believable and draw listeners in.
Read moreThe Cardigans’ ‘Gran Turismo’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
On their fourth album, The Cardigans whipped up heavy and stormy modern rock and electronic aesthetics—a departure from the overall sweet-faced vibes of their initial records.
Read moreCulture Club’s ‘Colour By Numbers’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary
Particularly for frontman George O’Dowd, better known by his stage moniker Boy George, the quartet’s second outing was central to extending their longevity.
Read moreKirsty MacColl’s ‘Titanic Days’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
Created in the wake of her dissolved marriage to producer Steve Lillywhite, the eloquent guitar-pop of MacColl’s fourth studio album is fueled by her lyrical and vocal prowess.
Read moreA Tribe Called Quest’s ‘The Love Movement’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Celebratory, romantic and playfully boastful, Tribe’s fifth album floats on its own cool, lyrical cloud, with Q-Tip and Phife Dawg’s rhymes in peak form per usual.
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