James Dean Bradfield composes new material on upright piano, rediscovers inner ABBA whilst railing against big tech. Pick of their … 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.
Best Albums of 2021 #5 Dave – We’re All Alone In This Together
You wouldn’t get much in the ends for using an expression like tour de force, but with We’re All Alone … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #10 Pulp – Common People
Released : 1995 Nobody would’ve guessed that Britpop’s anthem – and it was a movement of anthems, make no mistake … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #11 Metallica – Enter Sandman
Released : 1991 It was a little hard to get your head around at first. Metallica, one of the four … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #12 Wu-Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck
Released : 1993 History gets re-written. Some have it that the emergence of weed and Kung-Fu obsessives the Wu-Tang Clan … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #13 Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Released : 1998 Unless you were Oasis, Britpop’s cultural tsunami ended up provoking equal and opposite reactions – Ok Computer, … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #14 Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
Released : 1991 There is an argument that Unfinished Sympathy is too aesthetically perfect for it to be about something … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #15 Blur – Chemical World
Released : 1993 Nothing rouses the folk of this scepter’d isle more effectively than some us and them. After a … More
Best Albums of 2021 #6 The Coral – Coral Island
Hands up, the idea the The Coral could so effortlessly pull off a double concept album about a Britain long … More
The Redskins – Neither Washington Nor Moscow reissue review
Dark times. A far right ruling party who exist to defend the establishment at all costs. A leader without a … More
The Voice Of Unreason 