Look, I’ll hold my hand up. How this one slipped through the Throwback Thursday net is genuinely beyond me. I think I was mowing the lawn. Whatever the excuse, on a lazy Saturday with nowhere to be, there was absolutely no way we were letting this one go by without its proper dues. Some records demand to be written about eventually, regardless of how long you’ve kept them waiting.
There are albums that capture a moment, and then there are albums that create one. Released March 12th 2001, Discovery did both. We have covered Homework in these pages before, that raw, acid-flecked debut that announced Thomas Bangalter and…




