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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
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
Essential Listening: Frank Ocean – Blond (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
Song Of The Day Special – The Purple One
There’s always a stunned reaction when someone truly famous dies unexpectedly, especially when you consider the disparity with our often blasé reaction to generic news worthy disasters that involve mass fatalities; be it plane crashes, famines or humanitarian crises during … Continue reading
Essential Listening: Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety (2013)
When Autre Ne Veut (real name Arthur Ashin) announced he was releasing a new album, set for release earlier this year, I was of course delighted. I enjoyed his self titled debut, not to mention the EP ‘Body’, and his … Continue reading