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Not that I’m the sort of person to rank such things but while it’s always been up there, Slowdive’s 1993 masterpiece Souvlaki can make a pretty strong claim to being my favourite record of all-time. And if anyone were to ask “why”, I’d just point them to the opening track even though being the poppiest […]
In those golden days of last Fall when the pandemic seemed to have eased up enough to allow bands to perform audience-less club shows for online consumption, a bunch of up-and-coming Toronto acts recorded a series of covers sets at the Monarch Tavern as Class Of T.O. One of those was up-and-coming psychedelic outfit Mother […]
It’s generally acknowledged that Ride broke up in 1996, just before the release of their fourth album Tarantula, and that they reunited in 2014 initially for live shows and then for a couple of excellent new records and counting. However, it’s important to note that that wasn’t the first time that Andy, Mark, Loz, and […]
Something to get you through the day. A month or so before Slowdive released their 2017 self-titled album, they played a gig at a tiny 600-capacity venue in London to preview the new material. Thankfully the gig was livestreamed and archived and is available to watch and enjoy and be reminded of:a) how great live […]
How successful are Chromatics at creating their own synthetic cinematic film noir world? A simple task like finding one of their freaking videos to post just because I feel like it became a rabbit hole into the Italians Do It Better roster, all their remixes and limited EPs, all their videos, Johnny Jewel’s favoured synthesizers […]
Belly’s debut album Star turns 28 years old today, meaning it’s been 28 years since I was tipped off to the record by a friend whose tastes normally ran to Faith No More than 4AD. But I thank him for the recommendation because Tanya Donelly and company have been one of my favourite bands for […]
30 years in the making, The Psychedelic Furs‘ Made Of Rain was one of two records locked into my 2020 year-end list when I began compiling it at the end of December. This is notable because prior to midway through the year, my Furs diet consisted of very occasional run-throughs of their All Of This […]
One of the greatest <insert term here> ever. No matter what you put in that phrase – “Songs”? “Recordings”? “Title tracks”? “Performances”? – it would be accurate. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s interlocking guitars and alternating solos are just epic and a clinic in awesome. Effusive much? Yes, but I can’t not hear that opening […]
Belfast’s Girls Names traded in fairly on-the-nose post-punk – adjectives like “mournful”, “cold”, “dirgey” could equally apply to the vocals, guitars, drums, or synths – but when it clicked it evoked the best of the genre and they were at the top of their game on their 2013 album, The New Life. Their other albums […]
To mark the 30th anniversary of The House Of Love’s self-titled debut and its four millionth re-release (this time a 5-CD set comprising the album, b-sides, demos, the John Peel Sessions already released in 2000, and an era-correct collection of live tracks), Cherry Red Records sat Guy Chadwick and Terry Bickers down on a patio […]
