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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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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
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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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Disclosure Scotland, and how the Government uses it to extort the public.
The only sound excuse that anyone can offer for ruling is that by doing so he avoids being ruled by people inferior in talents to himself – Plato. Quoting others is often pompous, and definitely pathetic. The primarily intention is … Continue reading
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Tagged £55m for the current PVG system? WTF!?, Bob Dylan, Cowardly managers, Croyden with an 'e', Disclosure Scotland, Evidently Chickentown, Gil Scott-Heron, Government con, Gross Misconduct, Ian Huntley, Is it spent?, John Cooper Clarke, Kiddy porn, Life is unfair - either kill yourself or get even, Malcolm Tucker, NuLabour Whitehall, Plato had a nice beard, Powerpoint presentations, PVG scheme, Rip off, Sacked!, Scott Walker, Snide bastards
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Song Of The Day – Jesse by Scott Walker
From the album ‘The Drift’ (2006)
Essential Listening: The Basic Channel EPs
So, I’ve been binging on Basic Channel stuff for the last month. And yeah, at some point, a renaissance of material this good is inevitable. So a better question is this – how did I get here? Well, the seed … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambient, Augustus Pablo, Basic Channel, Demdike Stare, Dub, Essential Listening, Floating Points, House, James Murphy, Joe Gibbs, Johnny Clarke, LCD Soundsystem, Lee Scratch Perry, Luke Haines, Lyot rmx EP, Mark Ernestus, Maurizio, Moritz von Oswald, Octagon/Octaedre EP, Phylyps Trak EP, Phylyps Trak II EP, Q-Loop EP, Q1.1 EP, Quadrant EP, Radiance EP, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Round One to Round Five, Scott Walker, Techno
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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