What if this all a Soma dream? Hazel English spent her youth writing poetry before coming across Guy Debord’s Situationist … 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 80’s #70 Japan – Ghosts
Released : 1982 By the early months of the new decade the Musicians Union had seen enough: worried by the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #60 N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
. Dr Dre’s ‘You are about to witness the power of street knowledge’ was the most ominous first line of … More
The 1975 – Notes on a Conditional Form review
There’s no escaping the fate of the modern star, a moral compromise that means tacit acceptance of being equally hated … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #61 Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding
Released: 1982 Confined to a wheelchair following an accident in 1973, former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt made for an … More
Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But I Dare Not Fall Asleep review
Obaro Ejimiwe has been singing about disconnection from people, places and politics more or less since his debut album Peanut … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #62 Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Geno
Released : 1980 Not for the first time in this decade the fallout from punk created a new and vibrant, … More
Jono McCleery releases lockdown recorded EP “Keep A Memory”
A locked down Jono McCleery talks to The Voice of Unreason about his fantastic, home recorded new EP, Keep A Memory.
Metronomy – The English Riviera review
Another edition of the lock down retro series, this time it’s back to 2011 for Metronomy’s peerless update of classic British pop, The English Riviera.
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #63 Fugazi – Waiting Room
Released : 1988 “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off”. Minor Threat’s dissolution in … More
The Voice Of Unreason 