The Prodigy, The Fat of the Land, 1997, XL Recordings

Track List

1. Smack My Bitch Up

2. Breathe

3. Diesel Power

4. Funky Shit

5. Serial Thrilla

6. Mindfields

7. Narayan

8. Firestarter

9. Climbatize

10. Fuel My Fire

After last week, I’m not quite read...

Last month we enjoyed checking out Japanese artist Ayane Yamazaki's EP Life. If you enjoyed it too, you'll be pleased to hear that she has just released an English language version of one of our favourites from the EP, "Kitchen

Song". It's just as chilled, languid and i...

Portishead, Portishead, 1997, Go Discs

Track List

1. Cowboys

2. All Mine

3. Undenied

4. Half Day Closing

5. Over

6. Humming

7. Mourning Air

8. Seven Months

9. Only You

10. Elysium

11. Western Eyes

Trip hop pioneers Portishead come from Bristol and na...

The Verve, Urban Hymns, 1997, Hut Records

Track List

1. Bitter Sweet Symphony      

2. Sonnet           

3. The Rolling People

4. The Drugs Don't Work...

Suede, Coming Up, 1996, Nude Records

Track List

1. Trash

2. Filmstar

3. Lazy

4. By the Sea

5. She

6. Beautiful Ones

7. Starcrazy

8. Picnic by the Motorway

9. The Chemistry Between Us

10. Saturday Night

Suede (known in the US as “The London Suede” foll...

Placebo, Placebo, 1996, Virgin Records

Track List

1. Come Home

2. Teenage Angst

3. Bionic

4. 36 Degrees

5. Hang on to Your IQ

6. Nancy Boy

7. I Know

8. Bruise Pristine

9. Lady of the Flowers

10. Swallow

Formed in London in 1994, this was Placebo’s sel...

Kula Shaker, K, 1996, Columbia

Track List

1. Hey Dude

2. Knight on the Town

3. Temple of Everlasting Light

4. Govinda

5. Smart Dogs

6. Magic Theatre

7. Into the Deep

8. Sleeping Jiva

9. Tattva

10. Grateful When You're Dead/Jerry Was There

11. 303

12. ...

Advance Review - Ayane Yamazaki, LIFE, October 30, 2019

Now for something completely different. Ayane Yamazaki is a fresh Japanese talent. Having become the youngest performer ever at the Fuji Rock Festival at the age of 17, the now 20 year old releases her first album...

Skunk Anansie, Stoosh, 1996, One Little Indian Records

Track List

1.    Yes It's Fucking Political
2.    All I Want
3.    She's My Heroine
4.    Infidelity (Only You)
5.    Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
6.    Twisted (Everyday Hurts)
7.    We Love Your Apathy
8....

(Photo Credit - Karis Raeburn)

Man The Lifeboats know how to have a good time. Launching their new album at The Water Rats in Kings Cross (famously the site of The Pogues’ first gig, the first London performance by Oasis and “a very nice little venue”*) They not only ha...

Ash, 1977, 1996, Infectious Records

Track List

1. Lose Control

2. Goldfinger

3. Girl from Mars

4. I'd Give You Anything

5. Gone the Dream

6. Kung Fu

7. Oh Yeah

8. Let It Flow

9. Innocent Smile

10. Angel Interceptor

11. Lost in You

12. Darkside Lightsi...

Oasis (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? 1995, Creation Records

Track List

1. Hello

2. Roll With It

3. Wonderwall

4. Don't Look Back in Anger

5. Hey Now

6. The Swamp Song — Excerpt 1

7. Some Might Say

8. Cast No Shadow

9. She's Electric

10. Morning Glory

    ...

Pulp, Different Class 1995, Island Records

Track List

1. Mis-Shapes

2. Pencil Skirt

3. Common People

4. I Spy

5. Disco 2000

6. Live Bed Show

7. Something Changed

8. Sorted for E's & Wizz

9. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E

10. Underwear

11. Monday Mor...

Supergrass, I Should Coco 1995, Parlophone

Track List

1. I'd Like to Know

2. Caught by the Fuzz

3. Mansize Rooster

4. Alright

5. Lose It

6. Lenny

7. Strange Ones

8. Sitting Up Straight

9. She's So Loose

10. We're Not Supposed To

11. Time

12. Sofa (of...