Browsing Posts tagged Pop

Yeah, I know I’m either slightly late or incredibly early with this, but it’s fairly pertinent to be a-writing about this EP in the middle of January, but for one thing there is a large supermarket chain (who, incidentally, started selling chocolate Easter Bunnies on Boxing Day and who are now taking orders for 2013 [...]

When I first started to do these weekend asides around this time two years ago, I had this particular record in mind.  Grand Procrastinator that I am though, I never got round to doing anything about it and it wasn’t until last week that I remembered what I was going to do. In the previous [...]

We in Great Britain are rubbish at weather to a ridiculous degree.  One of the most boring and temperate climates in the world, and the country goes into meltdown at the first sign of anything slightly different.  I use the term “meltdown” in its loosest sense of course, as that would imply that something would [...]

The first record of 2012 is here at last!  Well, the first one I’ve got round to buying, anyway.  I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while after buying their (his?) debut EP on a whim at the end of last summer and really enjoying its baffling stylistic multi-direction, each song suggesting a [...]

I do like singles.  Honestly.  It’s just that they’re an absolute sod for me to go on about on here due to the nature of how I do things around here, which is basically Put record on Type Stop when record finishes Check spelling (not necessarily in 100% of cases) Check sense made (this one [...]

This one should really be entitled “what I dun on me Summer Holidays”, given that this album is released in the aftermath of one of the strangest and most involving marketing campaigns that I can remember.  Eschewing the usual “hello, buy my new thing” standard method of selling stuff, Thomas Morgan Dolby Robertson assembled a [...]

Nirvana – Nevermind

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Well, everyone else is doing it.   This isn’t the first time I’ve done something on a record that’s twenty years old, and such is the amount of stuff from that period that shaped the way that I listen to music even now, it probably won’t be the last.  Where this one is largely unique [...]

Band names are curious things.  They can define a group’s soul, sound and attitude without even having to play a note.  Chosen wisely, they can draw people to shows and records by sheer virtue of an awesome or mysterious moniker. Or they can pick a really rubbish name like The Beatles and become the biggest [...]

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 [...]

Jonny – S/T

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First things first: this is three and a half quid on iTunes.  This alone, for thirteen tracks and forty minutes of good-natured and off-kilter indie-pop, is a steal.   Which isn’t the only reason why I bought it.  I bought it partly because Teenage Fanclub’s Shadows was a huge highlight of last year, this project [...]