“On Kelly Watch The Stars they conjured up Earth Wind & Fire’s strutting funk and then pawed at it like clay, removing the sex and leaving the childish wander.”
Category: Classics Series
Weekender #1 – Arctic Monkeys : Favourite Worst Nightmare
All your bags are packed, you’re ready to go – right? Weekends are the time for shaking off the grind … More
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
“Acerbic screen grabs of the viscerality of millions of people’s real lives bringing the fuzz of existence in the gap between working proper and jobbing, school and ASBO’s and the feeling of being better off permanently anaesthetised into a relief so sharp it was like a one band manifesto.”
Scritti Politti – Cupid & Psyche ’85 review
“Was this merely pop as a meaningless science project with no more merit than pulling the legs off a hapless spider?”
Happy Mondays – Bummed review
“It’s the sound of drugs, work-hating lethargy, nefariousness with no direct victim and a life on the trainered hoof that required fingers in lots of dirty, dirty pies.”
The Smiths – Meat Is Murder review
“Meat is Murder was the point where cerebral met celibate and the social, political and cultural ley lines of this island nation were united under a flag of The Smiths’ convenience. At the time, most other things seemed pointless.”
Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children review
“Beats chug, disembodied voices carry, somnambulant washes rise and fall apparently in a state of drug induced hypnosis and the endless doctoring removes the root ethic of the sounds, but then renders them back into something intrinsically familiar.”
The Gun Club – Fire of Love review
Originally released 31st August 1981. Review originally published April 1st, 2007. Author’s note: The first drafts of this piece were … More
New Order – Technique
Originally released 30th January 1989. Review originally posted 29th August 2007. Of all of the Mancunian’s albums between Movement and … More
The Associates – Sulk
Originally released 14th May 1982. The original version of this review was published on April 1st, 2007. From Dundee, The … More