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, [...]
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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 [...]
Never let it be said that I have anything against collaborative records. Quite the opposite, in fact: there are loads of things knocking about in here (especially recently, where the trend has really taken off) where like-minded souls have wandered slightly off their contractually obliged pathways to make an album or two with friends and [...]
Is it just me who, when a rather anticipated new record is waiting for me when I get home on day, doesn’t play it for ages? No idea why I do this: maybe it’s a worry that expectations may not be met; perhaps it’s just been a bad week when I might not want to [...]
Sometimes, the hardest part of writing up one of these things is knowing where and how to start. Like this one for example. I’ve had a dull week at work where nothing much has happened except for me getting a movable-type rubber stamp which I have been duly abusing for days on end (my personal [...]
A bit of a slight revisit this one, as thanks to the joys of preordering I’d been enjoying the downloaded tracks for a short while beforehand (and enjoying to the extent that I’d included this among my favourites of 2011). Thanks to the arrival of the 2xCD package that arrived yesterday as well as the [...]
With a new one on the horizon (which would have been here if I’d got it together enough to go to the shops today, but alas, it was a bit nippy), it felt right to give this one a go. Oddly, despite this record being one of the very biggest reasons for me to be [...]
The other night’s Old Grey Whistle Test-a-thon on the ludicrously-endangered BBC4 was a lovely throwback to those rare nights where a very young me got to stay up very late to watch this strange programme. Lots of beards, lots of Whispering Bob Harris, and lots of music that simply didn’t get played anywhere during hours [...]
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