It’s a fractious world, and given that a Cocteau Twins reunion is only marginally less likely than a Nirvana one, … More
Author: arcticreviewsblog
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.
Highly Suspect – As Above, So Below review
What used to be a fine line between derivation, parody and the real thing is so blurred now that it … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #55 MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Released: 1969 The MC5’s guitarist Wayne Kramer summed up the challenge of putting lightning back in the bottle when talking … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #56 The Yardbirds – For Your Love
Released: 1965 Like magnets all pointing at each other, The Yardbirds played host to arguably three of the twentieth century’s … More
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (15th Anniversary Edition) review
History always lies to you. Whenever something that seemed like it was the best of times comes back as a … More
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
The Voice Of Unreason 