Relics from a deadly decade “the 80s at their best amounted to a few Madonna singles and the Smiths’ solipsistic neuroses. The decade simply hasn’t weathered well”: the biggest-selling musical style internationally is club-ori[…]

From The Guardian: “She said that if the orchestra had “known more about the many movements in modern music and pop music, they certainly would not have co-operated with the Scorpions” “. Will symphony orchestras never learn?[…]

MY BLOODY VALENTINE
So why has it taken Kevin Shields so long to make a follow up to Loveless, eh? It’s not as if he doesn’t have the time, seeing as he’s gallivanting about the world lending a touch of gutted-whale noize cred to Bo[…]

THE HAPPY MONDAYS
Being a Mancunian and living the majority of my teen years during the height of “Madchester”, it would have been so easy to have actually liked The Happy Mondays. With Mark Goodier spinning a healthy diet of Madchester b[…]

TRICKY – Maxinquaye
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m the first to champion eyeshadow wearing Original Gangsta’s from the suburbs of the Stapleton region of Bristol, especially when they are lauded for doing pretty much what Massive[…]

What can you say about an album where George Fucking Harrison is the highlight? Sure, John Lennon is here, offering two plodding white blooz jams in a complete surrender to The Rock — an unwise move considering how the terminally limp Let It Be[…]

NOTE: The Fosca review below is not by me as the author-tag suggests, it’s by Jack Neale, the human dynamo who edits The Horse, to which you must now go. He writes thoughtful album reviews and high-quality film ones too, but he’s not a fu[…]

The War Against Silence 277: “Plot differences notwithstanding, this is the book that after reading Bitch, I wished Prozac Nation had been” – Glenn MacDonald reviewing Geri Halliwell’s If Only, a really excellent piece of writ[…]

And that’s your lot for the English Tape. Next up is the Bad Music issue, which I’ve gone on about plenty already (I should really shut up and get to work on marking all the stuff up). NYLPM’s contribution to this festival of badnes[…]

THE ENGLISH TAPE, SIDE 2 TRACK 12
SABRES OF PARADISE – “Wilmot” (12″ Single)
Sabres Of Paradise called a whole album Haunted Dancehall, but really they just meant this song, the grotesque truncation of which on that album mark[…]