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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And I’m finally off. Like the hordes of awful Christmas adverts have already reminded us, it’s only November and yet the end of year lists are all over the place already. Then again, pretty much all of the more notable releases of 2011 are already upon us, wisely choosing to avoid the annual tat-fest that [...]
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 [...]
To be honest, I was supposed to have done this at least a couple of months ago. But such is the nature of the wider picture surrounding this release, I keep getting distracted… For his first release in many an age, eccentric and accomplished electronic boffin Thomas Dolby unsurprisingly isn’t going down the traditional route [...]
I had the best of both worlds musically as a kid. Having both an older brother and sister with different musical tastes (briefly converging around Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life) meant that I had a right old raft of stuff to choose from. My sister was more pop-minded – the 1970s Holy [...]
Due to an unnaturally short attention span this weekend, I thought it might be an idea to just go through whatever I’ve been listening to this week and pick out five random tracks I’ve especially liked for no reason other than it might kill a bit of time before Match of the Day 2 starts:
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