Uptight , all right

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

Who Is The Sky? MATADOR 8/10

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b

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The past few years have been marked by change for JOAN SHELLEY and her family – from parenthood to relocating from Louisville, Kentucky to the shores of Lake Michigan and recording sessions in Toronto with The Weather Station crew. But her graceful, heartfelt songs have never sounded better. “Living by a bay that is beautiful and blue, and the sky is big because it’s over this lake. Those big feelings, those big spaces to think in, are greater,” she tells Ana Gavrilovska. “They bring more richness to my life”