Ghost Stories – Coldplay
The album opens the sea. Always in my head floats in like a half-formed memory colored in delicate pulses and see-through echoes
Bad News – Moon Martin
The first bars of Bad News have a strangely magnetic quality. Sharp, clipped guitar strokes that sound like they've been cut right from the asphalt
The Velvet Underground – Kings of the underground
Under the din of British incursions and Californian melodies in the mid-60s, a band came out from the dark basements of New York
Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears
The synth glides almost weightless, nearly carried on the breath of a dream. Published in 1985 on Songs from the Big Chair
Control
Anton Corbijn's Control unravels in subdued greys and cigarette smoke, draped in late 1970s England's quiet weight
Holding Back The Years – Simply Red
Holding Back the Years has a subtle, unsaid ache. Carried by Mick Hucknall's voice, which appears to hover somewhere between reflection and surrender
Rod Stewart – Hair, heart and hits
With football in his veins and a harmonica in his pocket, he developed in Highgate. Rod Stewart, the son of a Scottish master builder raised in London
China Girl – David Bowie
Far from the glossy brilliance of her 1983 rebirth, China Girl started life. First penned in Berlin in 1977 during Bowie's collaboration with Iggy Pop
Top 10 rock band drummers of all time
In rock music, the drummer is often the unsung hero, the engine behind the noise. While frontmen grab the mic and guitarists bend the spotlight, it’s the drummer who holds it all together, or tears it apart when needed. Here’s our pick of the 10
1901 – Phoenix
Early in 2009, when 1901 showed up, it felt as though someone had captured the sense of a rooftop summer and sent it revolving via a synthesizer