With the benefit of 20 years’ hindsight, superlatives such as Chris Martin’s Live 8 introduction (“The best song ever written,” the Coldplay frontman enthused before launching into a cover of “Bitter Sweet Symphony”) or critic Mike Gee’s insistence that “They’re no longer the question mark or the cliché, they’re the statement and the definition” no … Continue reading Essential New Music: The Verve’s “Urban Hymns 20th Anniversary Edition”