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Mostly posts about music plus random tech, football, and nonsense.
As you'd suspect, this is magnificent.
Lists! Here are my top 50 albums of the year. I love my indie and I love my pop. There’s a decent mix of both here I think and a few other genres have crept in because I’m so cool.…
There will come a day when I'll listen to songs from the forthcoming SVIIB album and manage not to cry. That day is not today. Bittersweet, but overwhelmingly beautiful.
Kim Taylor Bennett, for Noisey: Nine songs strong, their forthcoming album, SVIIB, is a slim, but supremely compelling collection, and in so many ways its completion and eventual release in February 2016 is a victory.…
From thisispolica.com, Poliça announce new album 'United Crushers': The new album builds on POLIÇA’s signature synthesizer and percussion-heavy sounds with more complex arrangements and a bigger, crisper hi-fi punch due to the new approach…
A matter of some significance.
Emma Garland for NOISEY: The hardest battle Boucher faces is the struggle to be recognised as both the public-facing pop star, Grimes, and the technical mastermind behind the scenes.…
Team Me, announcing that they're splitting after their Norwegian tour via Facebook: It is with great sadness, but also a bit of relief, we are now pulling the breaks on the Team Me train and say that’s that.…
Ryan Leas for Stereogum, in an excellent feature on Alejandra Deheza and the final School of Seven Bells album: Given Curtis’ passing, most fans probably expected there would never be another SVIIB album at all, and certainly not one this…
Not sure if 'SVIIB' is the title but it would be apt. Nothing else up on their revamped website other than this from Alejandra Deheza: Friends, Benjamin and I wrote this record during a tour break in the summer of 2012.…
Love this. Art Angels is out in less than 2 weeks and I'm looking forward to it so much. The most interesting, ambitious musician around.
Tim Jonze, forThe Guardian: So was it worth it? Ten Love Songs is one of the year’s best albums, and possibly one of the nerdiest, too.…
I saw Camera Obscura play in my local park, headlining the Village Green Festival at Chalkwell in 2009. They were fabulous. Sad news today that keyboard player Carey Lander has passed away.…
I took a few photos today around town in the midday sun to see how the iPhone 6s copes with direct autumnal sunlight. Pretty well it turns out. Pedants note - these shots are compressed for the web and not full resolution.
At the end of my 3 month trial of Apple's new streaming service (Apple Music) I've now to decide whether to commit £10 a month. I’m going to focus here on my experience of Apple Music’s implementation on desktop iTunes.…
Hannah Jane Parkinson, in a superb article for The Guardian: There were many great characters in Twin Peaks, but the Log Lady was the best, because she had no failings. Bobby treated Shelly awfully.…
I've seen a lot of New Order over the years, travelling with my friend Ed (@edfin1) who has a very deep bond with their music. When they toured in 2006 they were past their best but the shows had a sense of celebration.…
This collaboration comes from an entire TV show in 2008. Amazing scenes.
Emily Mackay, for the Guardian: You never forget your first big band breakup. Rifling through YouTube for videos with which to decorate this article, I came across a comment: “No band splitting up hurt as much as Kenickie, nowhere near.” I…