I don’t even know what to make of this. But I stand corrected. In my last post, I suggested rock music (though still occasionally very good) didn’t really have anything new to say. I was wrong. Take “Come on Down”, a track by Zeal and Ardor, which seems to pretty much be a gentleman byContinue reading “Zeal and Ardor – Devil Is Fine”
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Algiers – The Underside of Power
Stay calm, throughsilver; just write. Write, without proclaiming your need to do so. Just write about the album you told Dunc to buy, without having heard it yourself. That was a good recommendation: you just knew it was exactly what he needed to get on this trip to the UK. You can name this articleContinue reading “Algiers – The Underside of Power”
Harold and Maude
Hal Ashby (1971) I’ve been on this seventies movie kick of late. I don’t know why: I just tend to obsess about certain things at certain times, and make them “projects”. I see very few of these projects through to completion, and write about fewer still. But that’s the context. Even though it was fetedContinue reading “Harold and Maude”
Interval time
I may or may not have mentioned that I aim to catch up on my evidently not-missed albums of the year lists. Because compulsion dictates a tag-based view make chronological sense, I shan’t cheat and start with the albums of 2016. I’m going to cast my mind back to those halcyon days of 2011 andContinue reading “Interval time”
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