BEULAH – If We Can Land A Man On The Moon Then Why Can’t I Win Your Heart? ESSEX GREEN – Primrose These two are about as good as indiepop gets these days, which naturally means they have to overcome an overriding sense of cosiness,[…]
I was originally going to say that if you think turntablism is essentially modern fretwankery (Tom?) then you won’t like this, but I now realise that this is a simplistic argument – more than half of the track is taken up by the emceeing […]
The English psychedelic tradition I love isn’t the overdone bastardisation of the 70s, it’s the more simple, clear and expressive sound of the late 60s. Not really Nick Drake (something less deeply personal than his work), and certainly n[…]
Please be aware that, while I genuinely like some Tull stuff, I certainly don’t rate them particularly highly in the great scheme of things (their version of “The Dambusters March” is literally unlistenable). I’m well aware t[…]
Jethro Tull. Simply writing the words here feels like entering some kind of permanently culturally forbidden territory, a hidden world that we are told permanently not to enter. It was punk that did it, of course. The conscious “EnglishnessR[…]
It is 1962. The town of Swindon. Not quite as modern as large parts of it have come to look (it didn’t receive ITV until April 1965, nearly a decade after London) but you can be instantly fooled otherwise, so aligned is the place to the new aff[…]
EMINEM – “Kim” (MP3) Eminem is conceivably the most commercially lucrative purveyor of the consciously, proudly ugly in pop music ever. This track could conceivably be to him what “Hippopotamomus” was to Nick Currie &[…]
THE BLUE MEN – “I Hear A New World” GEOFF GODDARD – “Sky Men” GLENDA COLLINS – “It’s Hard To Believe It” (all in RealAudio from here) As I may have written somewhere else on Freaky Trigger, […]
EMINEM – Our House, Green and Gold, The Showdown (all MP3) The thing I like best about Eminem is (cue universal amazement that I can say such a thing) the fact that he’s true to himself. He could very easily pretend that he has the insta[…]
DEAD PREZ – “I’m An African”; “Behind Enemy Lines”; “Be Healthy” (From the Let’s Get Free CD) Tom was right to identify the harsh, stripped-down, drone-based “Hip Hop” as one of the fe[…]