Chrome cover
Released

Catherine Wheel’s followup to Ferment was, in certain ways, almost a retread of that album, with the combination of shoegaze-adjacent guitar overload and a clear appreciation of classic rock’s own 70s sonic explorations still in effect. But there was enough going on to make Chrome feel like an elaboration rather than a continuation: lead single “Crank” had a quicker kick to it than their breakthrough “Black Metallic,” not to mention arresting moments of vocal overdubs from Rob Dickinson, while songs like the wrenching “Pain” and the skybound “Ursa Major Space Station” were beautiful constructions.

Ned Raggett

Recommended by

Suggestions
Feathers cover

Feathers

Dead Meadow
Year Zero cover

Year Zero

Nine Inch Nails
Lived to Tell cover

Lived to Tell

Eleventh Dream Day
Peggy Suicide cover

Peggy Suicide

Julian Cope
Gargoyle cover

Gargoyle

Mark Lanegan Band
Geek the Girl cover

Geek the Girl

Lisa Germano
Wake Up! cover

Wake Up!

The Boo Radleys
Stereo Musicale cover

Stereo Musicale

Blind Mr. Jones