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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 #45 Vampire Weekend – A Punk
Released: 2008 Four chums from Columbia University, Vampire Weekend front man Ezra Koenig wasted no time in outlining their approach … More
100 Greatest Tracks of the 00’s #46 Editors – Munich
Released: 2005 Editors weren’t the first band to draw comparisons to Joy Division – an outfit themselves who’d been enjoying … More
The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons review
The Hives are the ultimate throwback band, recalling a showmanship and hubris which died in rock towards the end of … More
Yonaka – Welcome To My House EP review
Every day it seems like that fine line between what’s in your heart and what’s deemed acceptable blurs to the … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #47 The Duke Spirit – Cuts Across The Land
Released: 2005 There used to be an advert on British tv for a car, where the people people trying to … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #48 Bon Iver – re:stacks
Released: 2008 Ah, that American staple, the cabin in the woods. A ritual as old as the frontiersman, the purging … More
August 2023’s New Music Playlist
Update 15.08.23 Now with added rays of sunshine from Sufjan Stevens, Nation of Language, English Teacher, Hot Chip, slowdive, Turnstile, … More
Georgia – Euphoric review
Listening back to Georgia’s last album Seeking Thrills feels a little like an out of body experience; released in 2020, … More
Various Artists – Where Were You: Independent Music From Leeds (1978-1989) review
For the longest time the only way to get an American to understand where you were from if you said … More
The Voice Of Unreason 