Brock is remarkably adept at capturing how manic depression feels and moves.

The 1993 Waco siege that ended in the deaths of 76 members of the Branch Davidian sect is one of the strangest and most tragic events in contemporary American religious history, and it tends to be talked about in terms of either lurid true-crime drama or the brutality of a massacre perpetrated by trigger-happy troops ecstatic to get their hands-on …

The ease of relating to so many of the feelings of isolation and heartbreak expressed within are huge parts of why Left and Leaving has endured as a career-defining work.

JJ72 contains one of the most impressive first halves of any album released in the first year of the new century.

Kid A in 2000 was as cold and angular as its cover art. Kid A in 2020 is a far easier listen.

The Blue Trees can be acknowledged as a more mature work, one that speaks to a band's ability to change and grow.

By the fifth Loud Family LP, noise subsides into nuance.

While clearly battered by the machinery of the music industry, the spark that burns through all of Johnson’s work remains with us, as clearly articulated in NakedSelf as in any of The The’s albums and now as vital as it ever was.

Coldplay would never again record an album quite as humble and charming as Parachutes.

Maiden would have had a coup just coming up with a killer album after a dismal decade of diminished returns. Instead, they were the first sign of metal’s phoenix-like rebirth.