And now, a quick advertorial. I don’t usually (ever? Can’t be bothered checking) do this sort of thing, and it’s not even Mother’s Day in this corner of the Empire where I’m typing this, but the band in question are very well-regarded by this blog and the cause is a grand one… EDIT: And [...]
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It’s time to dig out the commemorative teatowels and give the posh spoons a bit of a buffing, as Sunday Whatever’s Silver Jubilee is upon us! Or upon me, at least. Anyway, hooray for a series that I just do to keep my typing fingers occupied at times when I generally can’t be bothered typing, [...]
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 [...]
One of the plus sides to this new-fangled digital approach to music distribution is that artists or labels aren’t necessarily tied down to traditional release dates. That many still do is probably a nod to tradition and habit more than anything else, as chart-bothering doesn’t seem as exciting as it used to be; overhyped drivel [...]
It’s not unfair to say that I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while, as the band who came up with one of my joint-favourite albums of the year roll into town. I’d seen frontman Jeff Klein play a few times both as travelling member of the Twilight Singers and Gutter Twins and [...]
And so to the first Number 1. I’m quite happy that there are two of these, as it probably goes to show that one person trying to compile and number a list of favourite things is a bit futile – because to be honest, every record I’ve written about this year whether as part of [...]
It seems a bit curious that there were loads of quality tribute albums released in the early nineties featuring acts from the Sub Pop roster and their peers dedicated to bands who had influenced their respective career paths, yet now we are one generation on from this, and these artists remain largely without tribute albums [...]
It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster of a week, which makes it all the more important to enjoy what little downtime I’ve been afforded of late. Which reminds me, I’ve completely forgotten to book my travel to and from the Capital for the week after next… The brain has almost completely capitulated for the [...]
It’s not unfair to say that I have been very excited about the release of this album. From the first announcement of the band’s inception by way of Jeff Klein’s bifurcation of his Let’s Be Enemies solo project, through the tease of the occasional (and familiar) song title dripfed to the masses and dropping of [...]
It’s probably the fact that I got about half an hour’s sleep last night due to the weather (un-Mancunianly hot for the most part, interrupted for a couple of hours by all of June’s rainfall tipping down in one go, followed by more heat and an incessant car alarm that sonically resembled an amplified guinea [...]
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