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April 2021

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April 30
- Jon Anderson - Animation album review
- Pink Floyd repackage the past once more on Live At Knebworth 1990
- Gojira - Fortitude album review
- Gary Moore's unreleased blues find a home on How Blue Can You Get
- Mick Fleetwood & Friends triumphantly fail to descend into chaos and catastrophe
- Royal Blood find disco glitter amidst darkness and paranoia on Typhoons
- Electric Boys fail to provide the expected good times on Ups!de Down
- Turn Up That Dial is the euphoric sound of Dropkick Murphys' future parties
- Touch's comeback album Tomorrow Never Comes will exhaust your supply of air keyboards
April 29
- Capra’s In Transmission serves up metallic punk exhilaration with attitude to spare
April 27
- Thunder: Backstreet Symphony - Album Of The Week Club review
April 26
- Tetrarch’s Unstable is the nu metal album 2021 needs
- Gojira’s Fortitude is metal for the masses – and all the better for it
- Evile’s Hell Unleashed: rebooted Brit thrashers blast away the cobwebs
April 24
- The Who Sell Out: newly expanded and now a veritable capsule in pop/rock time
- Peter Frampton remembers his guitar on Frampton Forgets The Words
April 23
- Osibisa - New Dawn review
- Field Music - Flat White Moon review
- The Mars Volta test rock's limits on La Realidad De Los Suenos
- Dumpstaphunk's Where Do We Go From Here is determined and timely
- Steve Cropper's Fire It Up is timeless, spine-tingling and funky
- Motorhead are a well-oiled machine on Louder Than Noise... Live In Berlin
- John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, one of rock's rawest albums, dissected over six CDs
- Dinosaur Jr's Sweep It Into Space is rampant, windswept, and classic
- Spiritualized set a course for the sublime on Lazer Guided Melodies
- Osibisa's New Dawn is pleasurable, infectious and colourised
April 21
- Bongzilla fire up a stoner doom epic with new album Weedsconsin. Warning - may contain drugs
April 20
- Bodom After Midnight’s Paint The Sky With Blood EP is the farewell Alexi Laiho deserves
April 19
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: By The Way - Album Of The Week Club review
April 16
- Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3 Review
- Motorpsycho set the dials to ‘rocking’ on Kingdom Of Oblivion
- The Vintage Caravan wield immense, primal riffs on the aptly titled Monuments
- Jethro Tull embraced the zeitgeist on A. How does it stack up 40 years on?
- Finding Wildflowers is a mellow snapshot of a maturing Tom Petty
- Greta Van Fleet come into their own during The Battle At Garden's Gate
April 15
- Devil Sold His Soul’s new album Loss is a cinematic triumph over turmoil
April 13
- While She Sleeps’ Sleeps Society is a beacon of hope in troubled times
- Audio-Technica AT-LP3 review
- Pro-Ject Essential III review
- Bonnie Raitt: Nick Of Time - Album Of The Week Club review
April 12
- Cannibal Corpse’s Violence Unimagined: death metal legends gouge out a new classic
- Rega Planar 1 review
April 9
- Robert Calvert - The Last Starfighter review
- Geoff Tate gives the fans what they want on Sweet Oblivion' Relentless
- Cheap Trick's In Another World is one of their best albums yet
- Tough It Out Live is proof that FM are still the finest AOR band the UK has ever produced
- The Underfall Yard by Big Big Train: burnished and soulful
- The Treatment double down on boogie-metal basics on Waiting For Good Luck
April 8
- Sex, death, isolation and art-rock weirdness? Årabrot’s Norwegian Gothic has them covered
April 6
- Blaze Bayley’s War Within Me: British metal’s great survivor brings the thunder
April 5
- Elf: Carolina County Ball - Album Of The Week Club review
April 2
- Clive Mitten - Suite Cryptique: Recomposing Twelfth Night review
- Kitten Pyramid's Koozy!! finds beauty in the gradual pain of human existence