The punk icons’ second album might have sounded like more of the same on first listen, but this was the New Yorker’s attempt to knock off the rough edges in a reach for the mainstream.
The Last Shadow Puppets co-founder finds a new maturity in his writing on solo album number four, while leaning heavily into his love of Motown and Northern Soul.
Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine’s magnum opus invented post-punk while punk was at its height, and set the intricate, symbiotic blueprint for generations of offset-sporting guitar bands.
