Albums of the year: 2005Preface That’s right, 2005. I’m posting this list due to a combination of factors. The first is simple indolence; I have had this list pretty much prepared since February but, as it was unfinished, held off due to some reviews getting lost and others having not yet been written. Summer monthsContinue reading
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Don’t start me talking… Quality blog Sweeping The Nation is in the middle of ‘Songs To Learn And Sing’, a very admirable project in which every day of this month sees a single recommended to the readers of the blog. The remit was along the lines of ‘singles you think everyone should hear’ and, asContinue reading
sunnO))) & Boris – Altar (2006): Initial thoughts I received, and listened to, this new album last night. Inspired by the music I heard, here is what I jotted down, in an obsessed frenzy: The sound on the last track was immense. Too considered, and sophisticated, to merit the term ‘chaotic’, it was nevertheless aContinue reading
Live Review: My Morning Jacket, 23rd August 2006
Manchester Academy 2. Support: Richard Swift. So I finally went to another gig. It had been a while since I was last in Manchester, so I enjoyed the return to the Cornerhouse* café (I love that place, and there is nowhere that good in Leeds. Fact); brought back memories of my university days, when IContinue reading “Live Review: My Morning Jacket, 23rd August 2006”
