After the slightly disappointing comeback that was 1997's Andromeda Heights, Prefab Sprout's new album shows Paddy McAloon back on top form. The Newcastle singer-songwriter's great skill is to take ...

Paddy McAloon is hooting with laughter. “That’s the best question I’ve had in this entire round of interviews,” he says cheerily. “It’s so flattering and appalling at the same time.” Did you know with ...

In 1992, Prefab Sprout leader Paddy McAloon envisioned an album about God and his manifestation through music and love. He never got around to recording it with his bandmates, but this lush, ...

Aside from releasing acclaimed albums such as 2015’s self-titled and last year’s The Future And The Past, Natalie Prass has proven herself adept at adapting other people’s music — mainly via the Side ...

Paddy McAloon remembers it all too well: 23 January 2006, when the maverick genius behind Prefab Sprout was last able to sing his own songs. So how, asks Craig McLean, has he managed to create a new ...

Prefab Sprout have announced vinyl reissues of three studio albums and one compilation. New pressings of their 1984 debut Swoon, 1988’s commercial breakthrough From Langley Park to Memphis, 1990’s ...

Since debuting in 1982 with the dreamy single “Lions In My Own Garden,” English singer-songwriter Paddy McAloon and his band Prefab Sprout have distinguished themselves from their UK contemporaries by ...