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100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #76 David Holmes – Rodney Yates
Released: 1997 David Holmes wasn’t the first Irishman to make the pilgrimage from the old country to New York, but … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #77 The Cardigans – Erase/Rewind
Released : 1998 In Britain during the seventies and eighties we had a perverse collective jealousy of Sweden; some of … More
Blanketman – National Trust EP review
Written off in some quarters a few years ago – there’s even a lively and seemingly conjoined ongoing debate going … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #78 Verve – A Man Called Sun
Released : 1993 Just a few years later they would be superstars, burnouts, enemies, but in the earlier part of … More
Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark review
The Sound of old Scotland, redux.
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #79 Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye
Released : 1996 It was one of the more unlikely precepts on which to join a group, but when Jill … More
Balthazar – Sand review
They say that fear of the unknown is what causes human beings the most stress of all situations, but although … More
Kings of Leon – When You See Yourself review
These days life comes at you slow for the Followill clan. It’s not that rock n’ roll excesses are totally … More
Virginia Wing – private LIFE review
First things first, Manchester based Virginia Wing – now a trio following the addition of Christopher Duffin – know how … More