Singer songwriter gets deported, writes album about it, loses father, then records even better album only to release it in the middle of a global pandemic. Thows away rabbit’s foot.
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #65 Celtic Frost – Into The Crypts of Rays
Released : 1984 People often refer to the exportation of soccer violence to the rest of the world as the…
100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #66 EPMD – Strictly Business
Released: 1988 EPMD – short for Errick and Parrish Making Dollars – may have ridden the rap “Craze” as the…
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #67 Joe Smooth – Promised Land
Released : 1987 (US) They were only there if you looked for them, but there were some discernible straight lines…
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #68 Fine Young Cannibals – Funny How Love Is
Released : 1985 Following on from the disintegration of The Beat, in search of a new singer Andy Cox and…
Other Lives – For Their Love review
Portland based trio create baroque folk minor classic: must hear album for fans of The National and Fleet Foxes.
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #69 Primal Scream – Velocity Girl
Released : 1986 There were fewer more pronounced transformations in rock than the one which teleported Primal Scream from the…
Pet Shop Boys – Actually review
The retro series continues with The Pet Shop Boys essays about love and capitalism, Actually.
Introducing May’s New Music Playlist – Updated 17.05.20
Words are boring. Just take me straight to the list. An update so huge, it’s just easier to say this…
April’s Best Albums
Album of the Month : Hamilton Leithauser – The Loves of Your Life (Read about it here). Also great …