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 Lee Adcock

First Impression: Pete Astor – Spilt Milk (Fortuna POP! / Slumberland)

First Impression: Pete Astor – Spilt Milk (Fortuna POP! / Slumberland)

Oftentimes, when I’m given a list of albums I could review, I’ll pick some names that I’ve never heard before. Now, in a legit music blog like Drowned In Sound, I have to pretend that I know something about the artist, and thus drudge up some “research” listening. But I figure, first impressions count when […]

 Lee Adcock

Withered Hand – New Gods (Fortuna POP!/Slumberland)

Withered Hand – New Gods (Fortuna POP!/Slumberland)

Withered Hand excels where Beck flops simply by being himself - which, let's face it, is a difficult thing to be in a studio sometimes.

Phew. So lots and lots has happened between here and Xiu Xiu (th-thump, th-thump), and my private ledger of reviews to write has been swelling as subtly as my belly while I attended to other crucial real-life affairs. And meanwhile the parade of faces and sounds marches on and on – Perfect Pussy, in particular, […]

 Lee Adcock

Beck – Morning Phase (Fonograf/Capitol)

Beck – Morning Phase (Fonograf/Capitol)

Damn it, Beck. It’s not that I – or anyone else at Collapse Board, for that matter – hate successful white guys with guitars. We’re just hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t bore us to tears or drive us nuts with their banal male sexuality. Nor is it true that there’s no place for sentimental […]

 Lucy

The Withered Hand Christmas Special

The best Christmas songs will get you joining impromptu choirs and crying into your eggnog.

 Lucy

An almost completely random collection of things I’ve loved so far in 2011

Yup, my heart is yours, you Scots, ‘unfaithful servants of filthy, fucking language’, as Mr Withered Hand says.