Michael Cera - Ruth
I have to confess I am kind of amazed by this album. There is no reason to assume that a famous actor won’t have musical skills of course, but if you’re my age it does remind you rather… (in post...
View ArticleChad VanGaalen - Where Are You?
Well this is apparently not his best album by any means – so say my Chad VanGaalen-loving friends at least. Funnily enough, though, this is actually the first of his albums I’ve actually sat down with...
View ArticleChad VanGaalen - Monster
Well this is apparently not his best album by any means – so say my Chad VanGaalen-loving friends at least. Funnily enough, though, this is actually the first of his albums I’ve actually sat down with...
View ArticleH. Hawkline - Ghouls
Well that was rather good. And the thing is, even as a non-Cate Le Bon fan (for reasons of ignorance not dislike, I hasten to add) I kind of knew I was going to love this. I saw… (in post Cate Le Bon...
View ArticleCate Le Bon - Duke
Well that was rather good. And the thing is, even as a non-Cate Le Bon fan (for reasons of ignorance not dislike, I hasten to add) I kind of knew I was going to love this. I saw… (in post Cate Le Bon...
View ArticleSonic Cathedral - Gulp 'Seasoned Sun'
The Gentle Toad? The what? Well, for a brief entente cordiale Bart of The Gentle Invasion and eagleowl and myself have been able to set aside our mutual animosity and agree to cooperate on one last...
View ArticleJonnie Common - shark
This is the first single from the new Jonnie Common album, and it’s fucking ace. The album, Trapped in Amber, is out on Halloween of this year, on vinyl or CD, and you can pre-order a copy here.… (in...
View Article808s and Greatest Hits - Tears Rolling Down
The internet pisses me off sometimes. Well not the internet, I suppose, but the constant reminder that the world is WRONG about more or less everything. It was wrong about nationhood on Thursday, and...
View Article808s and Greatest Hits - Flying Through The Midnight, Saw You
The internet pisses me off sometimes. Well not the internet, I suppose, but the constant reminder that the world is WRONG about more or less everything. It was wrong about nationhood on Thursday, and...
View ArticleDouble Double Whammy - Owen
I can’t remember who introduced me to Frankie Cosmos first, but I think it might have been Phil from PAWS. As I have said a million times before, keep an eye on your favourite bands’ social media...
View ArticleDouble Double Whammy - Frankie Cosmos :: My I Love You
I can’t remember who introduced me to Frankie Cosmos first, but I think it might have been Phil from PAWS. As I have said a million times before, keep an eye on your favourite bands’ social media...
View ArticleWater World - Cream Soda
I’ve been a while waiting to review this album, and I think part of that is a lack of access to the medium which allowed me to get so thoroughly into the band’s previous, brilliant album Water Bird.…...
View ArticleJonnie Common - crumbs
It is indeed New Jonnie Common Single Day here at Song, by Toad Records, with the second song from his belting new album Trapped in Amber now being officially set loose upon the internet. The album is...
View ArticleEaten by Television - Waterfalls
This is cracking. The email I was sent tipped a hat to Roy Orbison and Bryan Ferry, but there’s plenty of wonky lo-fi arty style to this as well. And cracking tunes. The weird juxtaposition of louche...
View ArticleNumbers Are Futile - Justice is light (and blood)
What, seriously, already? Actually, as much as Christmas being in the shops already annoys me, and as much as online List Season starting in November also annoys me, at a record label where...
View ArticlePlastic Animals - Pizarnik
What, seriously, already? Actually, as much as Christmas being in the shops already annoys me, and as much as online List Season starting in November also annoys me, at a record label where...
View ArticleThe Wytches - Burn Out The Bruise
I’ve played these guys on the podcast a couple of times already, and I’ve had the album for a while, but it seems to be one of these records where what I think of it yo-yos back and… (in post The...
View ArticleThe Wytches - Wire Frame Mattress
I’ve played these guys on the podcast a couple of times already, and I’ve had the album for a while, but it seems to be one of these records where what I think of it yo-yos back and… (in post The...
View ArticleMaston - Potemkin
Looking at the actual purchase link for this album it appears I am actually writing a review from the point of view of only having heard Side 1. Never mind. We don’t do serious analysis here anyway,...
View ArticleWAITERS - Mirror Threat
Ahh, Waiters. I was writing about Sex Hands earlier today, and that put me in mind of our first Split 12″, recorded back in the Winter of 2011 I think, and if I recall Waiters were the first… (in post...
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