One of the most rubbish things about compact discs is their frankly boring anonymity. With records, they could come in a multitude of colours, shapes and styles to brighten up any turntable. With CDs, it’s a uniform silver where any artwork to separate it from the herd is buries within the apparatus of the CD [...]
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This week’s venture into the world of Various Artists is a new album, recorded as tribute to an old album. Graham Nash’s Songs for Beginners was his first solo outing and as fine a chronicle of the time as any. Released in 1971 and at a time when Nash was at a fairly low ebb [...]
A slightly unwieldy concept, this – given that the World Cup begins next week, there’s every chance that this will be the only one of these done for about a month… Still, it’s a lovely day, I’m out in the garden and quite frankly my attention span today isn’t geared towards listening to a whole [...]
This strange collection of psych & garage tunes, curated and mixed by Messrs. Machin and Ford will be inextricably linked with a great four days spent on the sound coast alongside two women I first met on the internet (in of course the most wholesome possible manner), a terribly sad-looking tribute to the Clown Prince [...]
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