Um. Yeah. Quite. A bit late, but this blog being down for most of Sunday (I pressed nothing! Honest) coupled with it being a bit sunny and me being a bit lazy has meant that this is now so late, it’s almost qualifying as being early for the next one. So, as it’s a bit [...]
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I’d love to know why May is such a mad one for new records. Maybe it’s a budgetary year thingy or something, in the same way that all the roads round here suddenly need resurfacing, digging and repainting (not necessarily in that order) around this time of year. Maybe May is traditionally a big month [...]
I am not a calm man. I tend to wander through life in a general state of being so highly-strung that it’s a constant bafflement to modern science that when I speak, it’s not at a frequency that only cats can hear. It’s OK though, as not only am I fairly comfortable (well, resigned) in [...]
Cor, It’s like waiting for a bus isn’t it? This last couple of weeks has been especially busy release-wise, it’s all I can do to keep up… This is yet another of those pre-release streams, a concept that is proving to be rather handy this week as it means that I’m not sat here on [...]
Anyone passing through these parts at the moment as yet unaccustomed to my streams of semi-consciousness drivel might be forgiven for thinking that I have a bit of a thing about pre-release plays. The last post, the next post and indeed this one are all being done based on pre-release listens. Where this one [...]
Pre-release streams are a bit of a temptation-wringing affair for me – one waits months for a highly-anticipated record to come out, and one week before it’s due to hit stores and mailboxes across the world, there it is in 1s and 0s, which can change the effect of the eventual three-dimensional arrival from “Yes, [...]
And now, a quick advertorial. I don’t usually (ever? Can’t be bothered checking) do this sort of thing, and it’s not even Mother’s Day in this corner of the Empire where I’m typing this, but the band in question are very well-regarded by this blog and the cause is a grand one… EDIT: And [...]
The month of May is proving to be a rather expensive one. Not only does it seem to contain the birthdays of almost everyone I seem to know or am related to but there are also some spectacular works of music out this month, which is leaving me somewhat stony broke, but happy. I have [...]
There’s a word I’d like to get out of the way before starting this thing properly. Orcadian is a word that has appeared in probably every single press mention of delightful folk-popsters Erland and the Carnival, and definitely in at least one that I’ve done on here (albums reviewed hither and thither). It’s a word included not [...]
It’s very rare that I’m upset at the passing of an artist/musician or anyone involved in the music biz. Sad yes, but not upset – probably because in the business that they are in, it’s not uncommon for those who go before what is perceived to be ‘their time’ to have been somewhat complicit in [...]
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