Released: 2006 Music is always at it’s best when it’s unashamedly borrowing from something. By the middle of the decade … 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 #83 Modjo Lady – Hear Me Tonight
Released: 2000 It’s hard to countenance now and for many it must seem like a fantasy, but there was a … More
Inspiral Carpets – The Complete Singles review
The recent closure of Oldham’s Coliseum Theatre after almost 140 years and the imminent opening of a second twenty thousand … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #84 Fountains of Wayne – Hackensack
Released: 2003 Most people’s recall for Fountains of Wayne will be through Stacy’s Mom, a big dumb hit with a … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #85 Ladytron – Seventeen
Released: 2002 The more things change, truly the more things stay the same. The release of Ladytron’s seventh album Time’s … More
Steve Mason – Brothers & Sisters review
It always seems a little awkward to refer to Steve Mason as “..the former singer in the Beta Band“, but … More
Death Valley Girls – Islands In The Sky review
Released in 2020, the relative success of Death Valley Girls Under The Spell of Joy was tempered by the on/off … More
Dry Cleaning – Swampy EP review
For those critics who sneered at Dry Cleaning, ridiculing them as parody, the quartet’s last album Stumpwork was a rebuttal … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #86 I Am Kloot – The Same Deep Water As Me
Released: 2003 One of the best places to find yourself is when you’re sat on a pavement. In this case … More
March 2023’s New Music Playlist
Get the playlist here. Updated 14.03.23 Enjoy more, from Hot Chip, Christine & The Queens, Nation of Language, Angel Olsen, … More
The Voice Of Unreason 