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  Insouciante. Ragged but tight freewheeling sound. Belair Lip Bombs second record;  Again.  Start again. Attitude and carefree ways. New wa...

  When I was a boy my brothers, sisters and I used to go down to my Grandparents in Dorchester during the school holidays., My sister drew p...

  You get the sense from the title that you going to get read to from a diary of a troubled relationship. That's what happens, .Likeable...

  A chord pattern that lulls you into the idea that you might be listening t the new Silver Jews record. Until you remember. Never fear. Lea...

   What d'you mean the Lavender Who? Get with the beat baggy. I've written about these guys on here before. Back in 2018 when the wo...

                                                     'Want to sing you a Pavement song....' While the world apparently holds its bre...

  I was never much one for Nineties dancefloor culture. The drugs don't work for me and I never fancied the idea of dancing in strobe li...

  I like a record that takes you somewhere . This one carries me to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Imagine yourself there in the 1950...

  Rather inspired. Norwich Art Punk. Very Yeah Yeah Yeahs, But you can't have too many of them.

 

 It's Thursday. So naturally it's Wednesday Knudsen. His album Atrium . A wad of atmospheric ambient space. Like the orchestra warmi...

                                                        'We are rough around the edges.Almost finished prototypes.' Miles Davis famo...

  Sinuous

  Ryan Adams is no longer the bright young thing, It's a long time since Gold when he appeared to be Gram, Bryan Adams and Elton reborn....

                                                            The pubs and the bars will be open soon. But I'm so happy here.' Great r...

  Michelle Zanner of Japanese Breakfast is the consumate modern artist. Bestselling author and social commentator. Friend of the stars. Brou...

  Geese from New York City, There work has been recommended to me twice in recent days by sources I trust and now I'm enjoying their lat...

  Primordial Chaos. Too much cheap cider. I loves me a record that's willing to take a punt. The New Eves are barking but certainly will...

  A vortex of black symphonic metal and distortion.  

  This record has a particular personal emotional resonance for me. Forty years ago was my first year at university, That year is and always...

  Bullying is Back ! Haven'r you heard. Big time !. I've just listened to Salman Rushdie talking about going into Act Five of the Pl...

 I'm at the Sven Wunder Wunder Bar at day break. Listening to Daybreak . Wunder is actually Swedish musician Joel Daniel  This is his fi...

  My universe increasingly resembles a screensaver of vanishing icecaps. The world receding before my eyes.Yesterday an old school friend wr...

  New Order always make me think of a stately family house. Just off the Sheen Road in Richmond. An a garden with overhanging elms and oaks ...

  Twenty years and it feels like a different world. A different mindset. Indie Landfill. It's somebody's youth but in a lot of ways ...

  It's December and we're closing in in the inevitable with MF Tomlinson's Die To Wake Up From a Dream a languid album in the sl...

  'There's a heat in the pavement... my mercury's raising...... don't know if it's love or if it's ovulation..the mi...

 

  Did nothing for me so I shan't write about it.

  In the last couple of years I have been working mostly from home. It feels like early retirement in many senses. I have a lot more space a...

  Desire On Ice , Tav Falco. The kind of album the likes of Bobby Gillespie would bust a gut to make a gest appearance on and compare their ...

  'We are cocooned and protected by the silence. Find ourselves marooned. Not in islands but in houses.' . Saturday's the day fo...

  'Walking down the street. Kicking cans....' This is a record that immediately makes you feel cooler than you will ever actually be...

  I rather enjoyed this. Iyr of Vancouver. Sheer. Dylan, Reed J, Mascis  and Jim Carroll delivery. Krautrock  and Hard Rock in addition to N...

  We approach December I have the year Review Issue of Uncut Magazine n front of me, Their album of the month is an Argentinian record by Ju...

  Back from a holiday weekend in Dublin with an important, irreplaceable friend of my lifetime. The Westmoreland album  I Got The Feeling In...

  One of the great Rock & Roll band names and one of the great Rock & Roll records, Five band members, five songwriters. A finger on...

  It's Friday evening, I have jacket potatoes warming up in the oven. I couldn't thnk of anything much better to do than listen to T...

  Songs For Nothing by Olan Monk . Just what you need on a grim Friday afternoon in November. With the rain and winds buffeting my windows a...

  Adrian Crowley. An Irish singer songwriter in the vein of Leonard Cohen. Scott Walker. Jacques Brel. Old school. Chamber songs with lots o...

  Jens Lekman is an accidental wedding singer, And a great Post Millennial artist.

  Felt to me like an update of Paris Texas. Quite amiable.  

  Starbuck, AKA Darren Jones is back on the deck of the Peqod, AKA It Starts With a Birthstone. Scouring the waves as the porpoises skip a...

   ' The time to rise has been engaged' . Yeah I know it's an old R.E.M. lyric but they're much on my mind lately. Hey I...

  I'm listening to the first two songs of Waiting For the Sun Hello I Love You and Love Street again and again. I like The Doors. They ...

  Somewhat frenetic and irritating, 

  Swept away. I came in last night rather than staying at my local at half time in the frozen wastes of a wintry Newcastle evening rather st...

  Only Dust Remains  the new Blackxwash record is a caude for great celebration. A deeply intense and angst full album like a great episode ...

  This came up on my list and I looked for the record. I looked on Facebook and saw songs from it posted everywhere and saw that Jimmy had p...

  The key to your relationship with The Darkness probably depended on how you felt about the musical genre they aped and whether you found t...