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Going Back To My Routes: Sinnoh
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— 31 Mar 2017 Tom 2 comments

This is part of a series of critical essays on the Pokémon games. This one is about Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the fourth “main series” games, and inevitably contains LOTS of spoilers for anyone who hasn’t played them.
WHAT A WELL[…]

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Datapanik In The Year Sheero
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— 8 Mar 2017 Tom 45 comments

Ed Sheeran’s absurd dominance of the singles chart is great news for him, his fans, Asylum records, and Paul Gambaccini’s agent, but it’s hard to argue it’s good news for the chart itself. It demonstrates the utter weakness of the post-stream[…]

Unheard Album Project: February 2017
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— 1 Mar 2017 Tom 1 comment

These are 27 of the 28 albums I listened to for the first time in February as part of this project. (The 28th, Joanna Newsom’s Divers, is not on Spotify: it would have been represented by “Time, As A Symptom”). The pleasure for me i[…]

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  1. Tom, thank you for such thoughtful reflections on Popular and the charts. I really enjoyed them, just as I’ve really…

  2. Congratulations on making it this far, and I'm enjoying it more than ever! And I have been reading for my…

  3. Yeah while I wanted to accentuate the positive there are some absolute horrorshows to come and Sheerangate is one of…

  4. It's great to hear that the new focus on pop's past didn't pull you too far away from the present.…

  5. Almost unbelievable achievement Tom! That many reviews, and all of them crackling with personality, opinion, taste and varying degrees of…