It’s been over 20 years since the loose-knit collective Lamchop released Nixon, a work which brought the dappled alt. country…
Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend review
Speaking in the run up to the release of Wolf Alice’s third album, singer Ellie Rowsell gave some insight as…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #60 Orbital – Chime
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Night Beats – Outlaw R&B review
The backstory to Outlaw R&B reads like a passage from some dystopian novel: an recent emigre to Los Angeles from…
June 2021’s New Music Playlist – Updated 12.06.21
Enough with the spiel. Give me the music. Time to hit the back garden. Remind your neighbours know how cool…
Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods review
Aliens. Environmental disaster. People out to get you. Sources of material for the concept album – an idea which on…
May 2021’s Best Albums
Album of the Month St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home Read about it here. Listen to it here. Also good… Will…
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Released : 1995 Weed smoke, cable TV, Kung Fu..and chess. Some of the Wu-Tang Clan’s trappings were archetypal, but GZA’s…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #61 The Stone Roses – Love Spreads
Released : 1994 You can’t always get what you want want, but for a few minutes everybody did. Labeling any…
May 2021’s Best New Music
Not for the first time, the Manic Street Preachers offer a window onto pop sanity.