Although they'd been around for more than a decade Into the labyrinth became and still is the best selling album by the Dead can dance.A mill ion seller in the US  ;it was also the best&nbs p;selling album of label  4ad (who also had the pixies& nbsp;on their roster). Into&nb sp;the labyrinth crystalised t he blend of folk from&nbs p;around the world, that  now sits so comfortably o n many a film score.  ;Lisa Gerrard has gone to see much acclaim for her film scores for the likes of Gladiator...

Emerging from the shoegazing scene in Britain in the early 1990's, Giant Steps was indeed a massive leap forward from the band and out of the scene that created it. While maintaining high levels of noise and feedback, these were draped around the lightest and loveliest of pop tunes such...

Around 1993 vinyl sales had reached their nadir. Sales had plummeted as cassettes and now CDs had surpassed in sales and seemingly noone was buying records anymore. Apart from DJs and some weird class of being called an audiophile. Island recognised all of the above. In what looks like a cost...

1994 was the year of yob rock. Oasis and Blur were heading both the music charts and the front pages of newspapers, broadsheet and red top. A small review in Uncut talked about the Divine Comedy's Promenade and while ginving it a good but not brilliant rating made it sound...

The Hothouse Flowers, from Ireland, made their name in the late 80's with two great upbeat, bluesy, folk-rock(if that isn't a contradiction) albums called People and Home. Songs from the rain followed after an absence of three years and was the least commercially successful of these albums. The flowers had...