Buck Meek ★ ★★★ The Mirror 4AD. ...

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”

Various ★ ★★★ 600% Dynamite! SOUL JAZZ. CD/DL/LP ...

Wiry monochrome intensity from indie veterans fully focused on the present

The brothers Robinson recall the highs, lows and sibling spats of a 36-year recording career

IT WAS ONCE written of the Wedding Present that they are a band “whose world you either buy into fully or not at all.” Founder-frontman David Gedge takes a beat to consider this, then smiles at the id