Jai Paul Album Review In a world of quick fixes, overnight sensations and near instant gratification, it’s been a rare pleasure to have been drip fed Jai Paul’s fascinating fractured funk. That is until now, because...
Category - Albums
I hate silence. It scares me and makes me restless. I find it uncomfortable to be alone with my thoughts, not because of the nature of my thoughts, but because they bounce around like electrons, busy, without direction, endlessly...
Here are my 2012 albums of the year: 1. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan 2. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange 3. AU – Both Lights 4. Darren Hayman and The Long Parliament – The Violence 5. DiiV...
Best Albums 2011 1. Bill Callahan – Apocalypse 2. Bon Iver – Bon Iver 3. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact 4. tUnE-YaRds – whokill 5. Zun Zun Egui – Katang 6. The Antlers – Burst Apart 7. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring...
I like bands with silly names. Better still if they actually turn out to be good. The American label Afternoon Records has a penchant for the ridiculously monikered, having several superalitive acts on their roster. My two...
I am a bargain-hunter, blighted by the need to pay the lowest possible price for anything I desire. It is a burden. On the unfortunate flipside of my affliction, I also have an irrepressible compulsion to buy anything simply...
So another year is sliding to an end, like a canvas shoe desperately pawing for friction on black-iced pavements and here it is, the albums, artists and shows I’ve enjoyed throughout 2010. Happy New Year, folks. Best Albums...
Best of the Year Blog 2009 Well, it’s 2010. How about it. Arctic winds, bad skin, black ice, hangovers, snow, chapped lips, a pot belly that shows no signs of diminishing, more snow, and it’s only day ten. Now add to that an...
French anti-folk surrealists GaBle´ are back in typically playful mood with new mini-LP I’m Ok. Touted as a response to Daniel Johnston’s Hi, How Are You?, it’s a genre-blurring mix of the folktronica of Tunng, the...
Drag City Recordings Having ditched the Smog moniker for 2007’s Woke On A Whaleheart, Bill Callahan emerged more ambitious, eager to try out new textures. Although Whaleheart was a slightly disappointing progression when...