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Pedalling In High Gear
I own very few records about sport, a few football singles and a Canadian punk LP about ice hockey excepted*. Weirdly it only occurred to me on Sunday while I was crammed into a seat high up in the...
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Just For The Record – 6 Of The Best
In lieu of a proper post where I blind you with my dazzling erudition, taste and excoriatingly witty wit, all the while whilst balancing random pieces of Lego on a flat object; lets have a quickie....
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Aisha, I’m Vibrating!!
I am an opinionated sort of chap when it comes to music, so here’s a bit of an anomaly, a record that I can never quite pin down or tell you exactly what I think of it. Some days Death In Vegas The...
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Keep Them Dreams Burnin’ Forever
Dream Baby Dream by Suicide is definitely bright pulsing orange, cerise, purple and bright pure white, all lit unsparingly with no refuge for any shadow. I have listened to the long version of this...
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Masocoustic
An unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make. Trent Reznor Way to go Trent, step right this way to collect your prize for the salesperson of the year 2016 for your efforts plugging...
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Fascinating Tedium
One of my real burning pet hatreds about modern life is the way in which the word journey gets misused constantly, every moron wittering on about their ‘journey’ on TV, or even in real life folks...
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Existential Spin Cycle
As a droll droog I have never really been much of a Nine Inch Nails fan. I loved whirling around to ‘Head Like A Hole’ every time it was played at student discos and I recognize that they really took...
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Silent Night, Gelignite
Oh to be a film auteur in those far off days of 1977, when you could essentially wrangle millions out of studios who were desperate to back the latest man with a gigantic vision and sod off to the...
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Music Has The Right Two Children
It is all a bit vague, fuzzy around the edges, broadly happy like a long-remembered childhood summer from the ’70s, welcome to Boards Of Canada Music Has the Right To Children. Formed by two Scottish...
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Sodom And Gomorrah, Today And Tomorra
It is the unwelcome duty of the jobbing amateur music critic to sometimes be compelled to report upon music that rather dwells upon what we in polite society term ‘unpleasant bedroom necessities‘. So...
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She’s Posing For Consumer Products Now And Then
Ruhe in Frieden Florian Schneider I knew and rather liked Kraftwerk many years before I ever even thought of writing pretentious nonsense on a blog about them ‘mining the dark seam of humanity and...
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Sci-Fried
So the first track ‘Ulysses’ kicks in sounding like the 4-minute warning*, a wall of dissonance and antagonism which bleeds out into a monstrous skyscraper-flattening stomp, above which a tune keeps...
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Horsey Takes Prawn
As a sophisticated chap and possessor of a towering intellect I always thought I should be brilliant at chess. My dad had a very nice plastic set where the pieces were based on the Bayeux tapestry and...
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1537 vs. 2016
Welcome ladies, gentlemen, all non-binary folk, owlbears, and gelatinous cubes to this, my fifth annual 1537 Awards Ceremony, which was recently voted Best-Pointless-Music-Based-Award-Ceremony by Total...
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Let’s Hear It For Frankie
Cheree, Cheree My comic book fantasy Oh, I love you Oh, baby Cheree, Cheree Shut the door, baby Oh, I love you Oh, come play with me Homework exercise*: Take the above lyrics, all fairly lovey-dovey...
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Oxymorone
‘It’s one of my fave LP’s ever, so I’ll bother you about it again some day, but 1976’s Oxygene is a straight-up wonderful album, my parents used to play it in the car at night on long journeys and it...
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Ain’t Talkin ‘Bout Lub
In the late 90’s it seemed like we got deluged with a bunch of dance and hip-hop records all built around one big sample – I always hated them because as much as I really admire a clever piece of...
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The Embryonic Frog
Listening to atmospheric music in a car at night has always been one of my favourite things, as a little kid it was how I really got into Jean Michel Jarre and latterly I’ve had memorable trips to the...
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Walt Disney, Gong, Frank Herbert
How’s this for a career arc? visuals guy for Gong and Magma, android creator, art director for EuroDisney – from Daevid Allen to Einstein to Mickey Mouse*. Enter: Bernard Szajner, born in a cave...
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The People’s Receiver
A government official approaches a promising young electronics engineer and asks him to make an easily affordable mass-produced radio, to be available in several price options with a government-backed...
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