This month the cover stars are Pink Floyd, and the story takes place during 1974-5: welcome to The Making Of Wish You Were Here. It’s a gripping yarn, told beautifully by RC writer Stevie Chick. The recording sessions were fraught, the atmosphere charged as the band dealt with a visitation at their studio from their past. But the results were arg…
It is fascinating to think that Paul Weller has been a solo artist for 33 years; his time in The Jam and The Style Council that preceded it scraped a mighty 11 years together. At 22, Paul Weller was Going Underground; at 33, he’d fallen off the radar for the only time in his career; at 44 he was searching for new directions; at 55 he was producin…
Glasgow indie-pop collective Camera Obscura’s first album in 11 years is poignant, heartfelt and infectiously captivating, even without its personal backstory. Two years after the release of their previous record, 2013’s Desire Lines, the band’s keyboard player Carey Lander died tragically young, and the resulting decade-plus has clearly been…
Initially pitched in some quarters as harbingers of yet another glam-rock revival, Hicksville NY’s Lemon Twigs, centred around the fraternal duo of former child actors Brian and Michael D’Addario, turned out to be something subtly different: shamelessly nostalgic purveyors of sun-dappled 70s AM radio pop, with a gorgeously gooey, ice-creamy pro…
None of the 10 solo studio albums Mark Knopfler’s made have equalled the impact former band Dire Straits made in their 80s heyday, a period in which his band were one of the biggest selling acts on the planet. Yet still he stubbornly ploughs his furrow – and while One Deep River is unlikely to make many new converts, it will more than satisfy h…
