Tag Archives: Prince
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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Tagged 30th Century Man, Album of the year, Already a classic, ‘some tattooed eyelids on a facelift’, Blond/Blonde, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Channel Orange, Essential Listening, Frank Ocean, Futua Free, Ivy, Nikes, Pink and White, Pop music is alive and well - in this instance anyway, Prince, Pyramids, R'n'b, Scott Walker, Self-Control, Siegfried, Soul, Talking Heads, The perfect aesthetic for our times, The perils of over-contextualisation, Trayvon Martin, Tupac won't be found
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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: Anxiety – Autre Ne Veut (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
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Tagged Album, Anxiety, Autre Ne Veut, Janelle Monae, Lady Gaga, Prince, Roxy Music, Steve Strange, Whitney Houston
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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