The much-touted FT Relaunch has turned into more of a rolling project – what you’ll see there is the skeleton of the site, and we’ll be adding new articles, features, and design elements as 2002 gets going. For starters, four new ar[…]

An explanation is in order…
Freaky Trigger is a website about pop music and the people who listen to it. It’s free and independent, has no advertising, no set areas of coverage and it doesn’t even review records that often. What&#82[…]

TATTL, 3. The Dungeon Family Problem
Two artists nudge one another for positions on the lower end of any list I make – The Wu-Tang Clan and the Dungeon Family. Both late-release records by multi-member groups, neither of which I’ve had ti[…]

cantankerous jukebox: Jess’ novelty-fatigue is an illustration of why my wallowing in the mainstream this year – no, last year now, blimey – has probably been healthier than I credit. The only suggestion I’d make is that he dr[…]

Hooray! (a welcome return.)[…]

Or – “What the fuck happened to my attention span?”. 2001 was the year when I gave records less space than ever to ‘grow on me’. After spending the mid-90s learning to appreciate all kinds of out there shit, and after sp[…]

TOWARDS A TOP 10 LIST, 1: The Kylie Problem
Or, “How much account in a Top 10 albums list should you take of the fact that you like albums you just bought more than the ones you bought in January?” This is particularly acute with a pop re[…]

quicksilver shapeshifter is a great-looking new music weblog by ILM regular Mel W. Too early to make any kind of overview of what she’ll be talking about but a look at her top 50 2001 LPs will give you some idea of the range.[…]

And while I sorted out the archives, I made myself a tape![…]

Freaky Trigger Archives: before we get onto all that, though, here is a sorted-out FT Archive. There’d been snarl-ups in the archiving of some of the restored pieces, so stuff like Sterling’s Hannah Marcus review (complete with awful edit[…]