Idlewild 100 Broken Windows, 2000, Food Records

Track List

1.    Little Discourage
2.    I Don't Have the Map
3.    These Wooden Ideas
4.    Roseability
5.    Idea Track
6.    Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)
7.    Listen to What You've Got
8.    Actually It's Darkness
...

Muse Showbiz, 1999, Mushroom Records

Track List

1. Sunburn
2. Muscle Museum
3. Fillip
4. Falling Down
5. Cave
6. Showbiz
7. Unintended
8. Uno
9. Sober
10. Escape
11. Overdue
12. Hate This and I'll Love You

Formed in Devon in 1994, three-piece stadium filling art roc...

Catatonia International Velvet, 1998, Blanco y Negro Records

Track List

1. Mulder and Scully

2. Game On

3. I Am the Mob

4. Road Rage

5. Johnny Come Lately

6. Goldfish and Paracetamol

7. International Velvet

8. Why I Can't Stand One Night Stands

9. Part o...

Radiohead, OK Computer, 1997, Parlophone

Track List

1. Airbag

2. Paranoid Android

3. Subterranean Homesick Alien

4. Exit Music (For a Film)

5. Let Down

6. Karma Police

7. Fitter Happier

8. Electioneering

9. Climbing Up the Walls

10. No Surprises

11. Lu...

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...