Classics Revisited: 35 Years of 'Doolittle'- Pixies
In April 1989, Pixies pulled their second album Doolittle right from their back pocket and offered it up to the world. The music...
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Alice Beard
Feb 94 min
Classics Revisited: 'Soul Mining' - The The
In 1983, under the guise of The The, Matt Johnson burst onto the scene with a richly ambiguous offering of pop like no other. Soul Mining...
Alice Beard
Jan 225 min
Classics Revisited: 40 Years of 'The Smiths' - The Smiths
On the 20th of February 1984, The Smiths released their first of what was to be four iconic studio albums. This debut set out with clear...
Natalie Howarth
Dec 28, 20233 min
20 Years of 'To The 5 Boroughs' - Beastie Boys
To The 5 Boroughs, Beastie Boys celebrated sixth studio album remains a seminal album in every old school hip-hop aficionado’s...
Maya Betts
Oct 29, 20235 min
Classics Revisited: 20 Years of 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress' - Belle and Sebastian
In 2003, Belle and Sebastian released their LP Dear Catastrophe Waitress, entering into a new era of self confidence. It contains the...
Jay Kirby
Oct 17, 20233 min
Classics Revisited: 10 Years of 'AM' - Arctic Monkeys
10 years since its initial release, Arctic Monkeys’ 5th full-length LP ‘AM’ remains as iconic and popular as ever, Jay Kirby reviews this...
Natalie Howarth
Oct 16, 20235 min
Classics Revisited: 30 Years of 'Midnight Marauders' - A Tribe Called Quest
A cleverly crafted album that contains both an air of laid-back coolness and dynamism, the group’s polylithic sound defined their place...
Jay Kirby
May 11, 20233 min
Classics Revisited: Lamb of God - 'As The Palaces Burn'
Jay Kirby takes a look back at As The Palaces Burn's on it's 20th anniversary. As The Palaces Burn sits in a precarious position in Lamb...
Jay Kirby
May 1, 20233 min
Classics Revisited: Opeth - 'Damnation'
It can often be difficult to describe why something moves you emotionally: how can you explain why a song makes you dance and sing, or...
Tabitha Smith
Apr 12, 20234 min
Classics Revisited: The Neighbourhood - 'I Love You'
Ten years after its release, Tabitha Smith explores I Love You. and its legacy of teen angst in indie pop music. The rise of soft grunge...
Kerenza Hudson
Apr 4, 20233 min
Classics Revisited: Bring Me The Horizon - 'Sempiternal'
The fourth studio album by the UK metal titans, Bring Me The Horizon, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Widely regarded as the...
Cameron Gibbs
Apr 1, 20236 min
Classics Revisited: The White Stripes - 'Elephant'
Cameron Gibbs takes a look back to 2003 when The White Stripes released the album that would with one song, at least, mark them as...
Mark Fannon
Mar 2, 20234 min
Classics Revisited: Pink Floyd - 'Dark Side of the Moon'
This year marks fifty years since the release of one of music's most influential and iconic albums; Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon....
Hal Hewlett
Feb 13, 20234 min
Classics Revisited: Neutral Milk Hotel – ‘In the Aeroplane Over the Sea’
Hal Hewlett explores the legacy of Neutral Milk Hotel's album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 25 years on; an album that has become...
Natalie Howarth
Feb 5, 20232 min
Classics Revisited: My Blood Valentine – ‘m b v’
Reaching its ten-year milestone on the 2nd of February, m b v is put under inspection by Natalie Howarth to see whether it stands the...
Olivia Hannant
Feb 2, 20232 min
Classics Revisited: The 1975 - 'The 1975'
After 10 years of stardom, controversy and reinvention, Olivia Hannant takes a look at what made the Manchester four-peice's debut so...
Elvy McCrudden
Nov 19, 20225 min
Classics Revisited: Modest Mouse – ‘The Lonesome Crowded West’
Elvy McCrudden explores the mark Modest Mouse has left on indie rock 25 years after the release of The Lonesome Crowded West. You don’t...
Hal Hewlett
Sep 11, 20225 min
Classics Revisited: AJJ - 'People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People in the World'
On its fifteenth anniversary, Hal Hewlett revisits AJJ's People Who Can Eat People and its lasting effect on how we perceive music, the...
Kerenza Hudson
Aug 8, 20224 min
Classics Revisited: Alice In Chains - 'Dirt'
Kerenza Hudson reviews Dirt by Alice In Chains for The Mic’s Classics Revisited series as the album approaches its 30th anniversary. With...
Caradoc Gayer
Aug 8, 20225 min
Classics Revisited: Bon Iver - 'For Emma, Forever Ago'
The Mic’s new editor-in-chief, Caradoc Gayer, dives deep into the indie canon to locate the cryptic and ongoing importance of Bon Iver’s...
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