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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2020
Are we all still alive after Christmas with your family? Is your family? Not dismembered among a morass of Turkey bones? I’ve had a stressful Christmas, which I won’t get into, suffice to say Christmas was cancelled and I’ve barely … Continue reading
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Essential Listening: Various Bandcamp Stuff
As with Discogs and Boomkat, Bandcamp looms as a potential worm hole for aficionados. Now, if you know what you’re after, you can escape quickly, and financially intact, but if you’re browsing you can easily get sucked in. Not that … Continue reading
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2019
Gotta be honest, I lacked motivation for writing this column. Normally it’s the piece I look forward to writing the most. Doing an annual music round-up is the only blogging tradition I’ve developed since I started five years ago. There … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Best Albums Of 2019, Bill Callahan, Crush, Essential Listening, Eton Alive, Fairport Convention, Fat White Family, FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Ghosteen, Imperial Flood, Loft conversion is finished!, Logos, Magdalene, Merry Christmas, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, NTS podcasts, Originals, Paranoid London, Peace out homies, PL, Prince, Richard Dawson, Serfs Up!, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, Sleaford Mods
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Essential Listening: Blowing Up The Workshop 90 by X-Altera & 95 by Death Is Not The End
In recent times the prospect of listening to a multi-hour mix has held little appeal. I mean, what if I like it? And it requires multiple listens to parse it’s elements satisfactorily. While that makes mixes similar to albums, how … Continue reading
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Tagged autoplay algorithm's can be okay sometimes, Bristol, Charlie Bones, Conceptual esotericism - whatever fella, Death is Not The End, Demdike Stare, Dingy bedroom Jungle is not a euphemism, Essential Listening, Inverted snobbery, Jungle, Mix, NTS radio, Pirate Radio, Shazaam, Support independent music in new ways, X-Altera
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2018
We survived. Well, most of us. As with my best songs of the year list, this list is restricted to ten and is in alphabetical order. However, the title of this post is somewhat disingenuous as I haven’t restricted this … Continue reading
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Tagged 1/3, 2/3, 2018, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Blood Orange, Boards Of Canada, Bon Dylan, Bootlegs, Brexit, Brian Eno, Compilation, Compro, Dance Hall Style, Deadline Paranoia, Essential Listening, Gabe Gurnsey, Horace Andy, Jeremy Corbyn is a cowardly twat, Kate Bush, Keith Richards, King Of Cowards, Leaving via a Gatwick drone, Machinedrum, Negro Swan, New Year, NTS Sessions 1-4, Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-insides, Oregon, Pet Shop Boys, Physical, Piano & A Microphone, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Prince, Reeperbahn, Reissue, Scott Walker, Skee Mask, SOPHIE, Soya milk drinking welly wearing yoghurt producing vegan types, Switched on Eugene, The Purple One, Too lazy and tired to do a bigger list, Various, Voices Of Freedom
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