Browsing Posts tagged Baroque

This has come as a bit of a turn-up for the books, and no mistake.  Again, I was just browsing around – can’t even cite boredom as an excuse at the moment either as I have a stack of good and great recent records & reissues to plough through – and this did one of [...]

Yeah, I said I wasn’t going to do anything here this week due to work commitments, despite all the things that have been appearing of late that are stacking up quite happily in various two and three-dimensional forms.  Sometimes though, something comes along that simply cannot be ignored, such is the sway that it holds [...]

46 Seconds.   When Fleet Foxes first made the title track of this new album available for our eager ears to take in a couple of months ago, 46 seconds was the exact time when that song changed from being something very good turned into something utterly astounding.  Since then, it’s felt like an interminably [...]

It feels like ages since I wrote about a record from my younger days, and how certain music shaped my understanding (or otherwise) of the world around me at the time.  It’s not because of a lack of direction-changing records in my past (far from it; I have oodles), but a combination of ‘not feeling [...]

It must be an annoyance for any artist or band to have to wait several months or longer for their work to be released in certain territories (or at all).  Red Tape, waiting for some besuited thinktank to determine the most advantageous release window like some bizarre musical feng shui, or just trying to get [...]