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German Krautrock progenitors Can can be a trip to get into, and I will admit I haven’t fully gotten the trick to it. But their influence and importance is undeniable, and I can definitely enjoy their 1972 album Ege Bamyasi, and its most accessible moment – and probably the band’s overall – is a great, […]
Stepping back a bit from my John McGeoch worship-angle of discussing Siouxsie & The Banshees, music portal Louder has posted an extensive retrospective of the band’s career originally published in the January 2021 issue of Classic Rock magazine. I’ve recently been appreciating the other portions of their catalog, particularly the post-McGeoch records; John Carruthers and […]
Maybe I spent so much time invested in Warpaint leading up to the release of their debut album The Fool back in October 2010 – I saw them four times in the six months prior, loved Exquisite Corpse to death – that when it came out and I wasn’t bowled over, I lost interest. As […]
Everyone loves a list! Discogs has assembled a somewhat predictable but well-annotated list of their desert island post-punk albums. Most I know well, some I mean to make better acquaintance of. All are worth at least a listen or two. And let’s not get into the omissions… 11 Essential Post-Punk and Revival Albums @ Discogs
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Books can be written about the mythology around the creation of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless – and at least one has – but while it’s easy to think of a record as singular and otherworldly as emerging from some extra-dimensional wormhole, it was in fact recorded with conventional audio technology in the late ’80s/early ’90s […]
It’s probably a sign of aging when one’s favourite song from Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1984 opus Ocean Rain transitions from the dramatic and brooding “Killing Moon” to the elegant and elegiac title track. I’m not saying I’m there now, but I’m not saying I’m not. There’s enough love in my heart for both tracks. […]
