I have to say that the real Mercury Prize shortlist this year is a bit of a disappointment this year in the respect that it’s a bit on the vanilla side. Thankfully this means that everyone can get all in a strop about *their* faves not getting a mention, and this is the real spirit [...]
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Hooray, past the halfway point! Sort of, anyway – the top ten will be a lot more in-depth as befitting something or other, as tradition dictates. Anyway, the futility of this sort of thing has become apparent today as there are things not on this list because they only arrived today, have yet to [...]
As a musical genre, the dreamy and ghostly music dubbed by the press as shoegaze never really got off to much of a start in the 1990s. Probably most notable for that fateful day in Reading when Chapterhouse appeared higher on a bill than Nirvana, it was swiftly crushed between the arrival of Grunge and [...]
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