It’s a strange thing, scribbling about music. Translating sound into words in the hope that the person at the other end can vaguely translate it back again in their own minds is akin to typing out a recipe in one language, babelfishing it into another, and then getting someone to translate it back again with [...]
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And now, back to where I was. Which is furiously catching up with things from the past two weeks before things from the next two weeks swamp me completely. Fortunately, a couple of these treats arrived in the form of pre-release/pre-order downloads that mean that instead of being two weeks late with this (and hopefully [...]
Ooh, sometime back in the early 1990s, I was at a Festival (either Reading or Phoenix, can’t remember which), and I was looking forward to seeing a band play that I’d never heard of but were going to have the legend that was Ginger Baker play with them. I was understandably Very Looking Forward To [...]
The first time I heard Om was via Sup Pop’s 20th anniversary 2008/2009 Singles Club collection, with Gebel Barkal. It remains the most-played of the dozen singles released in that set, although curiously (a split single with Six Organs Of Admittance aside) I’d never looked at getting hold of any of their albums. I suppose this [...]
I type this with a vague feeling of regret, which is a feeling I commonly associate with the Afghan Whigs. Back in the 1990s, there were seemingly always flyers posted about the place announcing that the band were once more rolling through town, and every time this happened I never went to see them, [...]
Pre-release streams are a bit of a temptation-wringing affair for me – one waits months for a highly-anticipated record to come out, and one week before it’s due to hit stores and mailboxes across the world, there it is in 1s and 0s, which can change the effect of the eventual three-dimensional arrival from “Yes, [...]
The month of May is proving to be a rather expensive one. Not only does it seem to contain the birthdays of almost everyone I seem to know or am related to but there are also some spectacular works of music out this month, which is leaving me somewhat stony broke, but happy. I have [...]
Approaching this one was a strange experience. I had bought their previous album Fever on the strength of their co-vocalist Rachel Fannan’s stunning work on that year’s UNKLE album, and was introduced to a band and record that absolutely floored me. And now Rachel’s not part of Sleepy Sun any more, departing suddenly and pointedly towards [...]
“…everyone has a soundtrack whether they know/like it or not…” In amongst all the new stuff going on (including those which so far sit unopened in front of me), I’d been neglecting those little – and not so little – gems which is more than a tiny bit remiss of me as it was [...]
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