Nutter popstar given heave-ho by label, or as the BBC will have it “Mariah’s ‘£35m golden handshake’”. Well, poor love she’s had a rough time of it over the last fifteen years, what with single handed inventing dan[…]

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[…]

In an attempt to help Tom out in his quest towards a Top Ten List I present that ever unreliable staple – The NME’s version. In this modern age of the NME not knowing who its constituency is, it is odd how old fashioned their Top 50 album[…]

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[…]