“In Utero’s apparent meta-design was to bury the Nirvana brand so deep in angst and recriminations that it would suffocate under the weight of everyone’s collapsed expectations.”
Best songs of 2017 #37 The xx – Lips
Released on the Young Turks label.
Best songs of 2017 #38 Father John Misty – A Bigger Paper Bag
Released on the Sub-Pop label.
Best songs of 2017 #39 Jonwayne – Human Condition
Released on The Order Company
Best songs of 2017 #40 – Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: Wasteland
From the album Modern Ruin, out now on International Death Cult. Picture credit: Punktastic. I do not own the rights…
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
“Whilst White Lies and Delphic liked to cloister all their synth pop yearnings in po-faced home counties Gothery, The Vaccines want to fuck to forget us.”
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
“As kick drums start to pound the senses and the walls close in, you realise that you left whatever you perceived as your reality (to be) someway up or down the rabbit hole. “
Stereophonics – Word Gets Around review
“Kelly Jones character sketch obsession with the real is almost classicist and always relevant, never more so than on opener A Thousand Trees.”
The Weeknd – Thursday
“Tesfaye has previously cameo’d as a kind of Stringer Bell character, a despicable thug-misognyst with an unspecified higher intellectual calling that demands redemption.”
The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy
“Gradually light begins to separate from black night; Land Of The Bloody Unknown picks the bones from an ethereal banjo, whilst Hunger Song is a piece of strident hoe-down on which the eight piece remind us that cowboys didn’t just come from Montana.”
The Voice Of Unreason 