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I was genuinely surprised when I went to grab my copy of Guy Chadwick’s 1998 solo album Lazy, Soft & Slow and found that I no longer had it. I’m not sure what I was thinking – it wasn’t heavy rotation, by any means, but his sole musical output in the decade between The House […]
Going back to the Tim’s Twitter Listening Party well today, this time inspired the news of a new EP from The Horrors coming next month. Last May, whomever amongst them runs the band’s Twitter account joined Tim Burgess for a real-time listen and commentary of the band’s 2009 second album Primary Colours, which saw them […]
Even if Boston’s Mission Of Burma had stayed defunct after their initial dissolution in 1983, their place in music history would have been assured. Hell, even if they didn’t release another record after their debut 1981 EP Signals, Calls and Marches, they’d be gods. Just the opening track alone… which is what we’re looking at […]
One of my favourite musical finds of the last few years, I would classify Copenhagen’s Lowly as “dreampop”, but reluctantly so. In fact I’ve spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time trying to find the words to justify it, but the right ones elude me… kind of like finding clear meaning in a dream that’s so […]
XTC spent so much of their career as a studio-only entity, it’s easy to forget they were once a formidable live outfit. But thanks to this oft-bootlegged live performance, we have a document of the band at the peak of their on-stage powers – which happened to be right before it all came crashing down. […]
A question of “how did Nick McCabe get those insane sounds on The Verve’s A Storm In Heaven?” on a guitar discussion board I frequent inevitably turned into “Where’s Nick McCabe?”. The answer to the former is reasonably well-documented: an Alesis Quadraverb+ rackmount effects unit was the main secret sauce the utilized for his immense […]
When COVID restrictions in their hometown of Montreal were eased somewhat last Summer, Men I Trust gathered a small film crew, set up their gear in one of their garages and recorded a live set of Oncle Jazz material. The video went up on the YouTubes in July and were compiled as the front half […]
If all Brian Eno ever was release the solo records he did between 1973 and 1977 – from Here Come The Warm Jets through Before And After Science – his place in the annals of pop music would be assured. But no, he did it in between between founding Roxy Music, inventing ambient music, and […]
So I’ve been somewhat obsessed with Bernard Butler’s guitar tone since the first Suede record, and thanks to some guitar magazine interview circa then I’ve been convinced since, like, 1994 that his lead tone was the product of some esoteric and expensive ’60s Japanese fuzz pedal and spent no small amount of time over the […]
This Cure classic from 1980 was the subject of one of my first posts, but it’s a track that merits further examination. To that end, here’s a ridiculously in-depth piece at Sound On Sound from December 2004 with Mike Hedges. It covers his history with the band – he engineered their first record Three Imaginary […]
