*cracks fingers* Right. Due to a combination of a bunch of vouchers and a rush of high-quality releases of late, I have A Backlog. And with more stuff arriving in the mail today and a lipsmacking array of goodies due over the next fortnight, I’d better get a shift on. Although I promise I won’t [...]
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I’m currently finding myself in the happy place of having far too much stuff being released in such a short space of time. There’s been a surfeit of excellent music already this year (and one probable shoo-in for Album of the Year – yes, it’s February, but the record in question is so singularly beautiful [...]
This isn’t a completely new album, as it was originally released online for free for a very limited time (no more than a day or two) back in 2009, which is when I first heard this. Thankfully, it’s now getting a full release next month via the Acid Jazz label and will no doubt attract [...]
Something that is becoming increasingly rare in today’s music industry is the Short Album. With CD capacity expanding and digital space almost limitless, artists seem hellbent on filling as much room as possible with their thoughts and ideas whether or not all of those ideas were especially good ones. It’s as if a fear has [...]
Of all things that could possibly pique my interest, this one is a bit of a shoo-in. Striking album art, a cast list (in its most literal sense, as it turns out) comprising people involved with some of my favourite records, and a history that revealed a labour of love that has stretched back for [...]
As musical trends come and go, it’s strange and somewhat sad to see a particular instrument almost vanish entirely from contemporary music. Even modern folksy types seem to shun it. So what is it about the flute that puts off pretty much every band during the past 30 years or so? Does its silvery appearance [...]
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 [...]
No doubt as a result of hammering out this blog a couple of times a week (or, as mood dictates, every other week or so. Or whenever. I should really plan these things), I’ve found myself hankering for the good old days of buying records blind. This isn’t as easy as it used to be, [...]
It’s been a strange, serendipitous last few days. I was watching political argument show Question Time on the TV last Thursday, broadcast from the lovely surroundings of the De La Warr Pavillion in the English South Coast town of Bexhill-on-Sea. It was in this venue in December 2008 that I saw a brilliant Isobel Campbell [...]
This is a bit of a turnup for the books and no mistake. Taking advantage of a cheap iTunes voucher in the local paper last week, I was left with an album’s worth of credit and no idea of what to do with it. So, trusting to luck, I rifled through a recent music mag [...]
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