100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #37 Big Country – Where The Rose Is Sown

Released : 1984 At the forefront of “Celtic rock” musical arms race with U2 and Simple Minds – all three … More

Young Knives – Barbarians review

If, as one half of Young Knives Henry Dartnell has stated about Barbarians each of their albums usually has some … More

Tricky – Fall To Pieces review

Tricky’s autobiography Hell Is Around The Corner was an archetypal bad boy made good story, as the man who found … More

Afflecks Palace – Everything Is An Attempt To Be Human EP review

The term “Nu-Madchester” isn’t newly minted; back in 2008 The Guardian were musing jokily whether to apply it to the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #39 Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Released : 1985 Telling Kate Bush’s story in three thousand words would be impossible, let alone around 300, so we … More

Doves – The Universal Want review

Blog exclusive – Doves return after a decade away with The Universal Want.

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #40 R.E.M It’s The End Of The World As We Know it (And I Feel Fine)

Released : 1987 What’s the difference between sleeping and being awake? Michael Stipe claims that It’s The End Of The … More

Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess review

The wellspring of creativity is a thing not to be defined or understood; some songwriters like to shake their fists … More

Cut Copy – Freeze/Melt review

Is there such a thing as global music any more? A decade ago it was easy to hear some artists … More

Jamie Webster – We Get By review

There are two Britains – one is the land we see when we open our curtains, a place where in … More