2022 has been a good year for music and as always I’m truly thankful for all of those musicians putting themselves out there and finding new and glorious ways to express themselves. In no particular order, here’s my...
Category - Albums
1. Damien Jurado – The Horizon Laughed 2. Eric Chenaux – Slowly Paradise 3. R.Seiliog – Megadose 4. The Golden Dregs – Lafayette 5. Connan Mockasin – Jassbusters 6. Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit...
My round-up of the best albums to be released in 2017. Best 30 Albums of 2017 1. The Dirty Projectors – The Dirty Projectors 2. Richard Dawson – Peasant 3. Jonwayne – Rap Album Two Rap Album...
When it comes to setting the mood for a night of romantic nudge-nudge wink-winking and general boudoir canoodling, music can play a vital role. Get it right and you’ll be singing in perfect harmony. Get it wrong and you’re...
1. Frank Ocean – Blonde 2. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial 3. Trust Fund – We have always lived in The Harolds <a href=” have always lived in The Harolds by Trust Fund</a> 4...
1. Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again Inhabiting a hazy other-world, this shape-shifting retro folk has the ability to transport you in the same way that Astral Weeks did decades earlier. 2. Port St. Willow...
The following are a selection of the EPs, mini-albums and mixes that impressed in 2014. L.D.C.N – Summer Rain “L.D.C.N’s electronic soundscapes are subtly woven from found sounds and samples. Louie is a cyber...
2014 has been a strange year for music. I can’t quite put my finger on what it was precisely about the last 12 months that I found strange. In the main, I struggled to connect with many of the albums. There...
Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Words Tom Spooner Thom Yorke has just released an album. By ‘just’ I mean within the last few hours. It is available here as a BitTorrent download and costs just £3.68. It...
Stereocilia – Murmurations A murmuration is a “low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.” It can also refer to a murmuration of starlings...