This is the post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd album that David Gilmour should have made in the first place — one that reflects his own strengths.

With everything that’s gone on, the idea of new music — any new music — from Jethro Tull has to be greeted with unbridled jubilation.

Adrian Belew says his innovative new FLUX app will remove some of the inherent limitations that have always surrounded music making.

Life is, as this song reminds, full of strange delights — like finding Neil Young amongst pizzicato strings.

Alison Moyet’s return to a synthpop has been triumphal — a culmination of everything she began as part of Yaz.

Whatever their faults, these two Wings albums remain amiable artifacts from a moment of deep domesticity for Paul McCartney.

Elsewhere, Neil Young’s Storytone might exceed its own grasp, might try to do too much. But not this song.

A recommended entry point for anyone who came to Genesis via the MTV era hits, and is now curious about what came before.

James McMurtry has never sounded more visceral, more close up and present.

Released 35 years ago today, ‘Hydra’ showed the full breadth of what Toto could do. It’s influencing their new album, too.