The prog pioneers mix up their sound on thoughtful 1984 opus, their fourth record of a prolific decade

The House Of Love, fleetingly the great indie hope of the late 80s, were built around the unstable but initially fruitful partnership of singer-songwriter Guy Chadwick, a much-travelled former army brat already 32 when their debut came out in 1988, and the decade-younger Terry Bickers who, with a style pitched somewhere between Marr and Shields, wa…

John Sebastian’s cheery jug band troubadours started out on the Greenwich Village folk scene, but the band’s innate pop sensibilities soon found them regularly ruling the airwaves and climbing the singles chart (this collection’s title track, Do You Believe In Magic?). They spread their wings for the tougher, amped-up Summer In The City, and …

At one point in Silhouette Shadows, a track on which he trawls through numerous personal memories, Bruce Hornsby sings “Don’t know what I learned from that… maybe nothing.” It punctuates a tale of hanging out with a big-name producer while still in his teens, resisting offers of drugs, then heading home again; none the wiser, perhaps, but s…

Of all the introspective singer-songwriters to emerge in the last decade – and there’s been no shortage of young artists emanating from bedrooms with very specific, intimate confessionals – Arlo Parks perhaps seemed the least likely candidate to discover the joys of clubbing. Parks was just an 18-year-old south-west Londoner when she released…

Chris and Rich Robinson didn’t twiddle their thumbs when putting together this bubbling cauldron of rock, blues, soul and funk – A Pound Of Feathers was done and dusted in just 10 days, and benefits from both discipline and spontaneity. Guitarist Rich has spoken of a determination to return to the band’s 90s work ethic of trusting the vibe in…

Formed in Dearborn, Michigan, the Detroit suburb that has become America’s first Arab-majority city, and fronted by Lebanese-American multi-instrumentalist Moe Kazra, noise-rock quintet Prostitute channel the alienation and cultural dissonance of growing up Arab in a hostile racist society to compelling effect. Their debut album, Attempted Martyr…

Outtakes, alternate mixes and a newly remastered The Beach Boys Love You trace Brian Wilson’s idiosyncratic journey back to active duty in the mid-70s.