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...
View ArticleOxymorone
‘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...
View ArticleLet’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...
View Article1537 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...
View ArticleHorsey 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...
View ArticleSci-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...
View ArticleShe’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...
View ArticleSodom 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...
View ArticleMusic 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...
View ArticleSilent 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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