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Song of the day – 100: Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana
The above photograph is of Andreya Triana, the singer on this most excellent and soulful slice of what they used to call trip-hop but probably has some other crap name these days like ‘ethnic groove’...
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Death Rattle – The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Oasis and the travesty of...
By Wallace Wylie I’d like to talk about The Stone Roses. In terms of the music this is no hatchet job because ultimately I regard their first album as something of a masterpiece. Maybe it was my age,...
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A new list from the NME, and some thoughts about pop-hackery
By Neil Kulkarni If you want to feel awful homicidal awful quick click here, read this, and then read the comments. It’s not the actual list that’s the problem. The list is the usual mix of shit,...
View ArticleTricky – Adrian Thaws (False Idols)
Hey. Guess how many guest vocalists Tricky enlisted for this album. Go on, guess. And no peeking. Because, let’s face it, folks: this Adrian Thaws is essentially this generation’s Nearly God, as the...
View ArticleJohn Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (Bella Union)
Some say that the job of good music is to elevate living into something more than survival. Some wish they had lived through the sixties… I wish to be living through John Grant’s career. I’d have seen...
View ArticleSOTD #708 – SPC ECO
She’s not trying to stalk him. She just doesn’t know how to say hello. He always arrives just before the first bell, dashing in to his locker by the band room. And Chelsea always slips to the water...
View ArticleDriven to Tiers: Lee Adcock’s Best-Of-So-Far List for 2016
Above: The righteous and super-smart TEEN. Photo by Hannah Whitaker. I had a very dreary introduction here when I started writing this article. It involved despair about the US, physical and mental...
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My albums. And songs. Of 2016.
I sat in a convivial pub the other night as around me convivial sorts chattered and laughed. I could barely hear a word. Every so often, the sound of what appeared to be a band tuning up threatened to...
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