The Kinks’ first three albums were typical early 60s makeweights, subsidiary to the singles. Though Ray’s wish to make Face To Face more cohesive through linking sound effects was mostly ...

Village Green is also The Kinks’ first fully realized concept album, a format the band would use both wisely and recklessly in the years to come. Soon after Village Green‘s release ...

They were the founding fathers of riff rock. Later, they’d become obsessed with album-long artistic statements. But in 1967, The Kinks delivered an LP with an identity all its own, one that ...

The concept album which followed ... Once again, those serial innovators The Kinks had got there first, in a way which half a century hasn’t dated. Instead, our attitudes have caught up.