Unintentional Canada Special! Not sure how this happened, but there you go. From that lovely bit at the top of America, it’s always a pleasant surprise to hear music from Canada as it always seems to be that teensy bit different to anything that anyone else is doing at the time. Maybe it’s the way [...]
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Like the tens of thousands who once claimed to have been in attendance at the 100 Club’s legendary Sex Pistols performance, the current trend for pretending to have been well into the Vaselines before they originally split up would, if all claims were correct, sales of their debut album on release would have been stratospheric. [...]
Ah, the mighty Mancold. Destroyer of civilisations, leveller of even the strongest male constitution, and sole reason for Chicken Noodle Soup sales and low-quality daytime TV. But obviously we don’t like going on about it, preferring instead to suffer in silence with only the occasional feeble-voiced request for a cup of tea and to be [...]
This month’s blind buy is an absolute gem. Having decided to pick this album, I did a quick rummage and bought the Smoke Fairies’ Frozen Heart EP and loved it so much I bought their other two available singles as soon as it had finished. The title track of the EP is as good an [...]
Videogame soundtracks fall into many categories, and it’s probably fair to say that this one doesn’t fall into any of them. The game itself was odd enough, becoming a cult favourite for its unrelenting quirky and occasionally downright bizarre take on traditional formats and plotlines, and being on a tiny independent label but backed by [...]
Warning! The following entry concerns a band so uniquely English in its outlook, pop-culture referencing and love of a good pun that it will prove to be almost impenetrable to anyone from beyond these shores. It also helps if you watched a lot of TV in the mid-1980s to ‘get’ all the mentions of the [...]
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