As much as the big rap game appears largely to have creatively stalled, those content to work on it’s underground … 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 00’s #21 P J Harvey – This Is Love
Released: 2001 Much was said about Britpop’s reductive laddishness, about how it’s trade offs and compromises were usually focussed on … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #22 Manic Street Preachers – Your Love Alone is Not Enough
Released: 2007 The process of losing and finding your mojo doesn’t come with any sort of handbook: of course it … More
King Creosote – I Des review
We all have choices, even if the ones which get presented seem like they might not be none at all; … More
Beirut – Hadsel review
As many of our horizons have narrowed in the last few years, Zac Condon’s search for new inspiration has kept … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #23 The Beta Band – Squares
Released: 2001 I have a memory I’m unable to substantiate, that The Beta Band performed on the long lost music … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #24 Radiohead – Everything In It’s Right Place
Released: 2000 It’s (polluted) water long gone under the bridge now, but hell, if there was one record – a … More
David Holmes – Blind on A Galloping Horse review
In late 20th century Britain being a rebel meant a few different things; the country’s miners went on strike for … More
Bar Italia – The Twits review
It’s worth mentioning that Bar Italia are made up of Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, Sam Fenton and Nina Cristante, largely because … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #25 Rammstein – Feuer frei!
Released: 2002 Sometimes – rarely – there’s just too much back story to put into a few hundred words. In … More
The Voice Of Unreason 