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Category Archives: Albums

Album review: Prince – Piano & A Microphone 1983

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Prince’s people have finally opened his famous Vault for the first of surely a long line of posthumous releases. But, as Piers Barber writes, this first effort – an intimate, tantalising stripped […]

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Rating all The Rolling Stones live albums

April 1, 2018by Piers Barber Leave a comment

After rapidly selling out yet another UK and Europe stadium tour, now feels as good a time as any to rule the roost over the multitude of Rolling Stones live […]

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Album review: AZD – Actress

April 27, 2017by Piers Barber Leave a comment

The charismatic Actress returns with AZD, his fifth album apparently inspired by the material of chrome and obscure outsider art. But look past the lofty theorising, advises Piers Barber, and you’ll […]

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The Music Factory’s Favourite Albums of 2016

December 28, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

2016 saw the release of some of memorable new music, including important albums that challenged conventions, reinvigorated established styles and enshrined burgeoning reputations. Here, Phil Smith and Piers Barber present a run down of the Music […]

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Classic albums: Global Communication – 76:14

September 21, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Following the release of Mark Pritchard’s mighty Under The Sun LP, Piers Barber invents a new feature in order to pen an ode to one of the pioneering producer’s finest moments to date: […]

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Album Review: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

May 30, 2016by Buster Stonham 1 Comment

After five years of waiting, we finally have a new Radiohead album to enjoy. Here’s Buster Stonham on whether it was worth all the fuss. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool (XL) After five […]

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Album review: Kowton – Utility

April 13, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Kowton’s debut full-length, the first by an individual artist on the pioneering Livity Sound label, is an unsurprisingly potent selection of pulsing techno rollers and expertly crafted DJ tools, writes […]

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Album review: Fatima Al Qadiri – Brute

March 16, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Piers Barber checks out Fatima Al Qadiri’s characteristic take on protest music and discovers a record often stunning in its relevance and condemnation of authoritarian state violence. Fatima Al Qadiri – […]

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The Music Factory’s top 20 albums of 2014: Part one – 20-11

December 27, 2014by Piers Barber Leave a comment

So then – that’s your lot for 2014. It’s been a year we’ll remember for James Rodriguez, Alex Salmond and completely futile iPhone launches, but it’s also been one that’s seen the seen […]

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The Music Factory’s top 20 albums of 2014: Part two – 10-1

December 26, 2014by Piers Barber Leave a comment

So then – that’s your lot for 2014. It’s been a year we’ll remember for James Rodriguez, Alex Salmond and pointless iPhone launches, but also one that’s seen the seen the release […]

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