Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory With the Fungi Ensemble (ATO Records/ [PIAS] Australia)
A few weeks back, a plastic jar of gobstoppers arrived at the record store with all the usual promo parcels. Came with some rich, velvety-colored storybook banners which even the resident graphic designed doffed his (non-existent) hat to. Spot color inks, he said. Now, we’ve gone over this a hundred times – I’m still a […]
The return of Everett True | 58. Marianne Faithfull
I’m going to preface this entry with a comment someone left on something I wrote about The Drones a while back. Yeah, I like the Drones but their songs depict the world as a cold, uncaring, violent place and people associate that with authenticity. One review says Gareth Liddiard, “tells it like it is.” But […]
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?
The Definitive List | The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time, Part 6
Authority is All That Matters in music criticism, especially when it comes to creating Lists
Song of the day – 462: Willis Earl Beal
It’s soul music and it’s sorcery and it’s subtle
The Bastards Of Fate – Who’s A Fuzzy Buddy (This Will Be Our Summer)
Keep your ears tuned to the small towns. The future of music is living in South Dakota.
Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery (Hot Charity/XL)
There’s a righteousness at the heart of these songs, a riveting freedom that makes Contemporary Indie — cute, smug, obvious, self-obsessed, eager to please — seem hilariously and stupidly irrelevant.
Song of the day – 450: Bruce Springsteen (+ bonus album review)
It’s a thin between sounding authentic and sounding like you’re writing the music for a future Levi’s advert.
The soundtrack to the inside of my head over the last year | Alex Gillies
Maybe, just maybe, I’m not the only one in this world with these fears and desires … and that’s what makes music so special.