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Emily Jones – Autumn Eye (Owltextures)

Emily Jones – Autumn Eye (Owltextures)

By Eliza Muddle Out of time in a fuzzy land both familiar and strange, gentle melodies enchant like Laudanum, cutting me free from these worldly chains.  This is musick (with a ‘k’) of the earth, her roots sprawling under spiced soil, reaching deep into the nourishing moisture of creation and invisibly, through thick air, absorbed […]

 Everett True

Your favourite three Jonathan Richman songs | a thoroughly scientific survey

Your favourite three Jonathan Richman songs | a thoroughly scientific survey

Which one could it be? ‘Roadrunner (once)’? Roadrunner (twice)’? ‘Roadrunner (live)’? Or will all the different versions split the vote? All I know is that I’m in love with rock’n’roll and I’ll be up all night. This one was so close we had to go into a second round of voting. I would explain the process, but […]

 Everett True

Your favourite three Raincoats songs | a thoroughly scientific survey

Your favourite three Raincoats songs | a thoroughly scientific survey

This was inspired by a thread on David Quantick’s Facebook page, wherein he asked friends to nominate their favourite three Wah! songs. A worthy cause, I felt. Surely it could be expanded to other great bands’ back catalogues? The obvious place to start was with The Raincoats. Here are the results, in order (just typing […]

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The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 7

The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 7

What could be more exciting than ascribing numerical value to music? I mean, really?

 Everett True

Song of the day – 588: Eros and the Eschaton

Song of the day – 588: Eros and the Eschaton

Some labels you trust. This one I do. The fellow there doesn’t contact me very often. When he does, I listen.

 Scott Creney

A.R. Kane – The Complete Singles Collection (One Little Indian)

The missing link between Robert Wyatt and Disco Inferno, A. R. Kane sounded equally at home in the club as in the bedroom, under the stars and in the studio.

 Everett True

If Donna Summer was alive in the Facebook age…

Like To Like You Baby

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“I grew up in an alternate dimension where Nirvana didn’t exist”

To this day, I still have yet to see a flying penis at church, and I doubt I ever will.

 Wallace Wylie

Death Rattle – The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Oasis and the travesty of British Alternative Rock in the 90s

Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.