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Clash writers pick out their favourites... "Here comes the sun," George Harrison once wrote; "It's been a long cold lonely winter..." For music fans, this latest lockdown has perhaps bit hardest of all. Starting just before Christmas, it's kept us separated from family and friends, and pinned our lives down away from the places that bring us joy. Places like record shops. Much more than just money-making ventures, record shops are community hubs, a place for fans to gather, geek out, and emerge penniless clutching slabs of vinyl. With the country beginning to open up, m...

One of the least creative things you can be is a National Institution. Sure, it’s nice to be loved, but where is the space to manoeuvre? Fans – and there’s a lot of them – come to expect your trademark, and arrive at gigs demanding something they recognise, as opposed to something that will surprise them. The past decade, however, has seen Tom Jones balance his role as a National Institution with some of the most gutsy and raw performances of his career. Working closely with producer Ethan Johns, he tapped into the gospel, country, blues, and soul influences that first f...

Clash 118. Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie is the ultimate iconoclast, someone whose catalogue moves from punk rebellion to rave euphoria, a continual act of renewal and regeneration. Refusing to make the same record twice, his latest project finds Bobby - in his words - attempting to “put the pain back into music”. Constructed alongside Savages' singer and renowned solo artist Jehnny Beth, new album 'Utopian Ashes' dips into his country, blues, and soul influences, producing stark poetry of existence on the fringes. Opening up to Clash, Bobby Gillespie talks about his working clas...

Whither goest thou, Greta Van Fleet, into the inky night? The Michigan band are often the subject of derision, yet for all the negative reviews, slightly cruel memes, and the endless, endless Hobbit comparisons still they survive, and still they thrive. Album No. 2 is bigger, broader, and heavier than before, the work of a group of musicians who long ago swore to an idea, and certainly don’t see any sense in backing down now that the stadiums are set to re-open. Said idea – and it’s admittedly preposterous – is that twin-bedfellows punk and synth pop never happened, and the clock r...