The Mercury Music Prize has attracted plenty of criticism in recent years for a supposed ladding-up of its shortlisting and … More
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Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
100 Greatest Songs of The Decade #50 Bibio – Phantom Brickworks III
Released: 2017 Stephen Wilkinson’s ninth studio album was an excercise in visualisation and dexterity, about seeing fragments of history, people … More
Squid – Town Centre EP review
Squid are a quintet whose members met at Brighton University and are the latest in a line of British bands … More
100 Greatest Songs of the Decade #51 Foals – A Knife In The Ocean
Released : 2015 Such is the nature of the musc industry in this decade without a name that Foals are … More
Belle & Sebastian – Days of The Bagnold Summer OST review
Days of The Bagnold Summer is a soundtrack album with a difference: based on Joff Winterhearts’ bittersweet graphic novel, the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the Decade #52 Billie Marten – Bird
Released : 2015 Without wanting to sound…odd, there’s something richly mystical about a young voice that a more trained one … More
100 Greatest Songs of the Decade #53 Fetty Wap – Trap Queen
Released : 2014 Weird how one guy’s pop is another’s poison: Trap Queen is a far slicker than it seems … More
Blood Orange – Angel’s Pulse review
Despite being lumbered with some of the most awful album artwork of 2019, it’s all too good to be stuck on a hard drive somewhere.
100 Greatest Songs of the Decade #54 (Thee) Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler
Released: 2011 Confession time: picking your favourite Oh Sees tune is a fairly arbitrary task, such is the Fall-like work … More
100 Greatest Songs of The Decade #55 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky
Released : 2013 About 18 months ago Clash Music ran a piece on Get Lucky describing it as “Daft Punk’s … More
