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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2016
For progressives (a term I loathe personally, as it implies – and it most cases applies – a self-righteous monopoly on the truth) 2016 may well go down as one of the worst in recent memory; Brexit, Trump’s unfathomable election, … Continue reading
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Song Of The Day – Traction In The Rain by David Crosby
From the album ‘If I Could Only Remember My Name’ (1971)
Essential Listening: Blond – Frank Ocean (2016)
In the excellent documentary 30th Century Man, Brian Eno, clearly hamming it up a touch for the cameras, mused, with pious exasperation, that pop music’s proclivity for ingenuity had stagnated. What he was implying was more forgiving; bands often aspire … Continue reading
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Song Of The Day – Every Night by James Pants
From the album ‘James Pants’ (2011)
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