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Album reviews: Texas| Little Boots| Barrule

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Album review: Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

The French Duo’s hotly anticipated new offering puts the soul back into dance music as Daft Punk invite an impressive guest list along to the party

Daft Punk's new album is a distillation of pops better moments of the last four decades. Picture: PA

Album review: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories

Like the ubiquitous single Get Lucky, Daft Punk’s new album is a distillation of pop’s better moments of the last four decades.

Sharleen Spiteri of Texas. Picture: Contributed

Album reviews: Delta Mainline | Texas | Barrule

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After years of rock standards and Christmas tunes, Rod Stewart is writing songs again. Picture: Contributed

Album review: Rod Stewart: Time

ROD Stewart has just enjoyed the most creatively moribund yet commercially successful decade of his career to date.

Album review: Primal Scream: More Light

BOBBY Gillespie has always talked a good game. Here, in cahoots with producer David Holmes, he throws every record he’s ever loved at the wall.

Album review: Agnetha | Eagleowl | Cristina Branco

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Album reviews: Rod Stewart | Eagleowl

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Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Album review: Primal Scream - More Light

THERE’S more light but much less of an Exile On Main Street parody here than on much of the band’s recent work, as Bobby Gillespie submerges us in his wonderful world of psychedelic paranoia.

Van Dyke Parks new album is an odd mix that manages to convey his eco-political take on Americana. Picture: Contributed

Album review: Van Dyke Parks: Songs Cycled

Brian Wilson’s collaborator on Smile doesn’t make solo albums often, and his latest is an eccentric treat with typically complex and clever wordplay

Album reviews: Noah & The Whale | Ghostpoet | Alison Moyet

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Iggy and the Stooges, whose new album comes out this week. Picture: Contributed

Album review: Iggy & the Stooges: Ready to Die

THE way The Stooges carried on in the late 1960s and early 70s, living and performing on the edge, it’s a wonder there weren’t more premature fatalities.

The cover of Wolf People's new album Fain. Picture: Contributed

Album reviews: Wolf People | Seasick Steve | Gary Burton

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Album review: Michael Buble - To Be Loved

CANADIAN crooner Michael Buble is back to his old tricks on his fourth album, To Be Loved, his first non-Christmas material since 2009’s Crazy Love.

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