Music

The Australian five-piece show that home is where the heart is on a sun-dappled second album of exhilarating melodic guitar pop.

The National’s textured melancholia found a bigger audience in 2010 as their fourth album elevated the band to alt-rock’s top table. With an expanded 10th-anniversary reissue about to hit the shelves, we salute the slow-burn majesty of High Violet.

The musical polymath demonstrates that there’s much more to Blake Mills than being one of the hottest producers in Los Angeles.

Nearly half a century on, this stark final album from the ill-starred troubadour remains a fascinating enigma.

British megastars end to their ‘Music For Cars’ era with a diverse and unfocussed opus.

20 years ago, three Mancunians coming down from a stalled dance-music career crafted a downbeat album in a windowless room that sparked a vital new direction for guitar music.

Grammy-winning guitar star overcomes adversity on mature and expansive seventh studio album.

Our series on underrated and classic guitar albums continues with the The Black Keys man’s superb debut solo that is both of those things and more besides.

Former Screaming Trees frontman reflects on his own mortality with companion album to his turbulent memoir.

Interpol’s dark-hearted indie-rock classic pulsates with great basslines and guitar interplay, here’s why you should give it a spin.