History always lies to you. Whenever something that seemed like it was the best of times comes back as a … 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 Song of the 60’s #57 Scott Walker – Jackie
Released: 1967 Scott Walker is another artist with a story too rich for the confines of the few hundred words … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #58 The Animals – The House of the Rising Sun
Released: 1964 There’s something quite different between the American producer-svengali and his British counterpart: compare and contrast for instance the … More
Cigarettes After Sex – X’s review
Many many years ago that so-noughties platform Facebook used to have a thing where you could set your relationship status; … More
Washed Out – Notes From A Quiet Life review
For Ernest Greene – AKA Washed Out – the titular reference to a gentler existence was sincere; having moved from … More
Joe Goddard – Harmonics review
You get by with a little help from your friends is almost the title of an old song, but on … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #59 – Pete Rodriguez – I Like It Like That
Releasd: 1967 Tastemakers didn’t always come with a thousand heavily filtered headshots and sponsorship; in the past they went by … More
100 Greatest songs of the 60’s #60 Sam & Dave – Hold On (I’m Comin’)
Released: 1966 Formulas. Recipes. Teams. All of these when making music are as important as you want them to be, … More
July 2024’s New Music Playlist – Updated
Are we having fun yet? To help out here’s a huge update, featuring new music from Primal Scream, Moses Sumney, … More
Fink – Beauty In Your Wake review
As recording locations go, few sound more idyllic than a converted chapel in a tiny Cornish village, but for Fin … More
The Voice Of Unreason 