Art rockers go full on Madchester with ode to removing negativity (And old St.Nick) from your life. Read a review…
Best Albums of 2021 #3 Bicep – Isles
It’s ok for you to write a lockdown album in a bedroom on your guitar, what if your professional life…
50 Best Songs of 2021 #9 Gruff Rhys – Can’t Carry On
Making pop this sublime is becoming a lost art. Here was yet more evidence that the (Former?) Super Furry Animals…
Best Albums of 2021 #4 The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Fatherhood has left an indelible mark on Adam Granduciel, shaping The War On Drugs most human and best album to…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #9 Boards of Canada – Aquarius
Released : 1998 Latterly revealed as brothers, reclusive Scottish producers Marcus Eoin and Mike Sandison’s retro-futurist ambience had already been…
50 Best Songs of 2021 #10 Manic Street Preachers – Orwellian
James Dean Bradfield composes new material on upright piano, rediscovers inner ABBA whilst railing against big tech. Pick of their…
Best Albums of 2021 #5 Dave – We’re All Alone In This Together
You wouldn’t get much in the ends for using an expression like tour de force, but with We’re All Alone…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #10 Pulp – Common People
Released : 1995 Nobody would’ve guessed that Britpop’s anthem – and it was a movement of anthems, make no mistake…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #11 Metallica – Enter Sandman
Released : 1991 It was a little hard to get your head around at first. Metallica, one of the four…
100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #12 Wu-Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck
Released : 1993 History gets re-written. Some have it that the emergence of weed and Kung-Fu obsessives the Wu-Tang Clan…