Jess’s Preliminary Top 10 for 2003
Half-way done with the year!
(Please note that this list does not reflect the tastes or choices of NYLPM, it’s owner, or subsidiaries.)
10. !!! – “Me & Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard […]

The images in the pre-choruses — first

But now my take-out food is growing cold
And the candle’s burned a hole in the floor
And I’m still waiting for the ring of the phone

Since when do prog-metal showboats talk about take-out foo[…]

Wiley’s productions are simultaneously reaching IDM levels of abstraction while being the most dead simple physical records this side of ‘Grindin’. Nothing really happens in 8-bar productions after they make their opening statements[…]

Oh, go ahead and project — it’s not as if you can discuss royalty without discussing lineage and history. Of course, Lisa’s doing much to dissuade folks from talking about her father, and that’s to her credit. Even a casual […]

Boomkat fails in the method act with The Wreckoning. The surface has Moloko written over it, but then you scratch underneath and realize nothing’s THERE. So turn it over and revisit Flipside. (Gosh, I fell for that one, no?) That classique sing[…]

T.a.T.u-All The Things She Said and Not Gonna Get Us.
Live at the MTV Movie Awards.
For the male gaze to work, it requires men. The genius of tatu dyking out is that they are not directed to men, their gaze is to each other, their innocence is amusi[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER CLUB NIGHT
“Club Evening” to be fair. On Wednesday 25th June the Freaky Trigger Editorial Team will be DJing a pre-Glastonbury party at PARKER’S PLACE in Central London. There will be drinks offers and entry is FREE, […]

Now I’ve not heard the full album yet but from the tracks I have scavenged it sounds like ‘I Luv You’ (1) (fissionable bass blurts, demented rhythms, talent breaching its own barely-sketched limits) was a bit of a red herring. It&#8[…]

Tom’s Top Twelve
Sorry it’s been a while!
GIRLS ALOUD – “No Good Advice”
SEVERED HEADS – “Dead Eyes Opened”
BLACK EYED PEAS feat JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – “Where Is The Love”
THE RAPTURE &#8[…]

Casualties of a) the Reality-Pop arena vote and b) an ill-timed split return with more or less desperate dice-throws. Rarely has a No.2 hitmaker been considered as instant a failure as One True Voice — but then with Girls Aloud making the best […]