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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Stellastarr – Stellastarr

    STELLABRANDSPANKINGFANTASTICSTARR, I don’t care that it maybe could be described as derivative, unimaginative, because it is all this and more, it is only unimaginative if you yourself do not imagine that you have never heard anything like it before, because you haven’t, have you? so its brilliant it works, the whole of it; the album, Read more

  • What’s going on? – Marvin Gaye

    Motown takes on the social issues of the day and wins! well, drugs, racism, violence and the war in Vietnam are no longer a problem- they’re the main inspirations for Hollywood. this is often sited as one of the best albums of all time and I’d say it was really up there. like it matters Read more

  • Kind of Blue – Miles Davis

    Sweat mother of Chist’s ma. put this album and lie back on your bed. make sure it made- the duvet and all in place, your pillows fluffed. take off you shoes and lie down. perhaps you’d like some tea, or as i prefer a jd and coke. now lie there sipping. hopefully its a Sunday Read more

  • La rue Ketanou – Y’a Des Cigales Dans La Fourmilier

    The vibrant gypsy rhythms, and hazy summer feel, the rainbow, the wonderful, the sheer positivity, there is no oppositional assertion of identity, who cares, just join in, hot summer evening, building like a head of red wine, a giant mong of bong smoke, gently creeping up and knocking your head off, and bringing you with Read more

  • Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited revisited

    A neo-post-punk Swanseaic masterpiece reviews retrospectively the paramourous longings of rock’s grandiloquent past. Dylans ovre is comprised primarily of records, although he has occasionally (most often unsuccessfully) strayed into the realms of the LP. Long admired for his popularity, here the artist finds a place in music never before inhabited, a desert hideaway of broken Read more

  • Aerial – Kate Bush

    You hold her hand in the waiting room, nervously venturing glances at the other hollow eyed denizens of this last desperate prophylactic. She squeezes your hand, nestles her head on your shoulder, achingly trusting, depressingly young. You’ve taken her out of school today and you hide that old familiar hard under the bustle of her Read more