concept album Archives - Desperate Living

Einstürzende Neubauten return after a four-year gap with an impressive collection of songs based on improvisations from their last tour.

A suitably excessive collection of recordings from the very height of progressive rock’s ambition and pomposity.

A variety of guest performers and a bigger variety of musical styles do not make for a cohesive album.

Looking back at Toyah’s magnificent 1981 breakthrough album and its dystopian, rebellious sci-fi concepts.

As a new generation discovers Kate Bush, your editor looks back on his own discovery of and obsession with Britain’s most singular rock star.

An oddball collection of easy listening show tunes inspired by the children’s TV favourites of the early 1970s.

Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 masterpiece transformed into a work of video art starring Jane Birkin.

The oddly endearing and enduring belief that Paul McCartney was killed at the start of 1967 and replaced with a lookalike.

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