Another edition of the lock down retro series, this time it’s back to 2011 for Metronomy’s peerless update of classic British pop, The English Riviera.
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #63 Fugazi – Waiting Room
Released : 1989 “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off”. Minor Threat’s dissolution in…
Beach Comber – Parting Cuts review
@Rory_Friers can normally be heard as part of Irish post rock quartet And So I Watch You From Afar, but for his sister’s wedding he went solo to come up with a collection of songs written to share some happiness with everyone.
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #64 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
Released : 1982 Anybody who ever tells you crime doesn’t pay should take some time out to speak with Joseph…
BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff review
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 create baroque folk minor classic: must hear album for fans of The National and Fleet Foxes.
