Not for the first time, the Manic Street Preachers offer a window onto pop sanity.
St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home review
It’s hard to escape the notion that Annie Clark recently has been from a media perspective heading towards the Del…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #63 The Breeders – Cannonball
Released : 1993 There was not a more 90’s job dismissal than receiving your notice by fax; email wasn’t for…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #64 Shack – Comedy
Released : 1999 I mean, where to start. If a hundred millionth of the reverent vibe expended on fellow Liverpudlians…
Introducing…Oya Paya
As coming together stories go, the three members of Oya Paya have a good one; bassist Saam Jafarzadeh and drummer…
The Chills – Scatterbrain review
Music is a brutal game, never more than in the last year or so for reasons in the northern hemisphere…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #65 My Bloody Valentine – only shallow
Released : 1991 Great works of art are still finished. The Sistine Chapel ceiling took Michaelangelo four years, but he…
Will Stratton – The Changing Wilderness review
If folk was one of the original forms of storytelling, some of it’s charachter was leeched away in the last…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #66 Mobb Deep – Shook Ones, Pt. II
Released : 1995 One of the reasons why rap was becoming big business was that it conferred experiences on the…
Squid – Bright Green Field review
If you’re of the belief that not very much of anything makes sense any more, then the art of the…