There are a couple of things that generally herald The Great British Summer. Mostly, it’s the phrase “Since Records Began”, although it’s generally a mixed bag as to which record is going to be broken during any given year. Early days yet as it’s only May, but “moodiest” seems to be an early contender. Not [...]
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It is of little surprise to anyone who has breezed through these pages before that I’m rather partial to the Cover Version. Reasons for my love of this particular form of expression are many and have no doubt been mentioned before – a new slant on old favourites, a previously unseen roadmap/blueprint from much-appreciated artists, [...]
Growing older. It’s something we hate doing, but it’s also something that we wished would happen to other people not so lucky to have done so. It’s also an unnecessarily scary procedure compared to, say, puberty – at least back then we had pamphlets and sympathetic teachers and doctors to tell us what was going on. [...]
In a list I did on LastFM at the arse-end of last year, I did one of those customary ‘Best Of…’ lists. In second place (just behind the Soulsavers’ Broken), was Matthew Ryan’s heartbreakingly wonderful Dear Lover – an album stripped down to the very barest of emotion performed and produced almost completely by Matthew [...]
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