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Spiritualized released their new album Everything Was Beautiful last Friday (though I’ve yet to see the regular edition vinyl in stock anywhere), and whereas the previously-released official videos kind of came across like extended commercials with the album art superimposed over random video imagery – I guess the days of dropping Jason Pierce into a […]
Anniversary thinkpieces have become one of the cornerstones of media criticism/journalism and while a lot of it is just digital noise, sometimes great records beget great writing. This is not to say that everything written about Television’s 1977 debut album Marquee Moon is brilliant – although the record itself unequivocally is – there has been […]
After years of online neglect, The House Of Love have been doing a fine job of making themselves available, if not well-known, to the internet. Besides getting all their albums added to streaming services over the last while, they’ve been putting their videos on the YouTube… even the ones that seem to have been shot […]
Roxy Music – the eponymous debut from Roxy Music turns 50 years old this year, and the occasion is being most correctly honoured with an unexpected reunion tour – see you in the cheap seats at the opening show in September – but today I’m more interested in talking about their last album, Avalon, which […]
Tonight, I’ll be seeing Mogwai for the eighth time, but the first in over five years and the first time touring behind a regular studio album in a decade. That January 2017 show was for their 2016 soundtrack Atomic, which I loved and was thrilled to hear performed front to back, but it’s a different […]
Given that she is basically the patron saint of much of what this site is about, I’d be remiss to not give ink to the return of Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser to the world of recorded music. Her new project Sun’s Signature is a collaboration with partner and percussionist Damon Reece, whose own resume […]
Chapterhouse have never seemed to have the best timing. Despite being key players in the “Scene That Celebrates Itself”, history has relegated them to also-ran status. Perhaps that’s because after representing a danceable bridge between shoegaze and baggy on their 1991 debut Whirlpool, they pivoted further into dance and psychedelia with 1993’s Blood Music, but […]
I’ve no shame in admitting that I only became a proper Psychedelic Furs fan with 2020’s Made Of Rain and so while they’ve hardly been strangers to local stages since reforming in 2000, I’ve never seen them live. So count me as excited that I will be seeing them when they tour said record through […]
To mark my first show of the year last night, and the third in 28 months, here’s the vid for the title track of Yard Act’s debut album, The Overload. Yeah, that sentence was a mouthful but so are most/all of their songs, with the elevator pitch on the Leeds outfit being “a cross between […]
It’s no esoteric bit of trivia that The Cure’s Robert Smith joined Siouxsie & The Banshees in 1983, stepping in on guitar after John McGeoch left in October 1982 following a nervous breakdown just prior to the release of A Kiss In The Dreamhouse. This was the second time he joined the Banshees, having previously […]
