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Mogwai‘s 1999 second album Come On Die Young might not have gotten as good reviews as their debut Young Team – and it’s not my favourite of theirs either – it holds a special place in my heart as the first Mogwai record I heard, starting a devotion to their music that has waxed and […]
Sonic Cathedral, keepers and champions of all things ‘gazey, are doing something really cool to mark the 30th anniversary of the year that was a seminal one for the shoegazing scene. I could list some of those moments off, but that is the entire purpose of their mini-rolling blog which is highlighting and reminiscing about […]
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
NME premiered the new video from The Psychedelic Furs‘ 2020 album Made Of Rain yesterday. It kind of keeps with the slow rollout of everything around this record – 30 years in the making, release date delayed by three months, first video out seven months ago, but I guess that’s one of the perks of […]
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 […]
