The sounds of 2013. Another CB Top 10
I can’t listen to this album unless it’s late at night or early in the morning, ’cause normal daylight doesn’t do it justice.
The Fall – Re-Mit (Cherry Red)
Re-Mit isn’t a breakthrough by anyone’s standards, but it’s something. It’s another book in the bible of The Fall.
Song of the day – 527: Go Genre Everything
The craziest, most brilliantly unafraid two songs I’ve heard from Australia all year. No, fuck Australia. Anywhere.
Clinic – Free Reign (Domino)
Like The Fall, Clinic is always different/always the same. You know what you’re going to get but you don’t know how you’re going to get it.
Song of the day – 502: The Pharmacy
It’s as if [Steve] Malkmus had spent his college years digging the groove of [Paul] McCartney’s second solo album instead of [Mark E.] Smith’s band’s fifth one.
Shrag – Canines (Fortuna Pop)
The anger hits; the sadness hurts. There’s nothing cute about this band, not anymore.
Ignorant Fantasies | Race and Class Delusions From David Thomas
The fantasy world that David Thomas inhabits reeks of privilege and conceit. Perhaps I expected a bit more intelligence, a bit more individuality, a bit more adventurousness to his thinking. Then again, he is a white middle-class American male. We can’t expect too much.
Live Review | All Tomorrow Parties curated by Jeff Mangum, Butlins, Minehead, UK, 09-11.03.12
Sometimes it’s just fine to have good old-fashioned fun at the seaside.
The sacred cows of indie music – 2: The Fall
It’s hard to criticise a band that have made an art-form out of being inconsistent
The Dismal Spectacle of The Fall at Jeff Mangum ATP, Minehead Butlins, March 2012
I am afraid of Uncle Mark. Blatantly inebriated, this pixie-faced old man roams the stage like an imperious foreman.
