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Music for Motherlovers
— Two compilation CDs for your mother because you forgot to buy here flowers. Umm… You might not want to show her that video, though. Mothering Sunday Music 1. Tim Hardin – “Reason to Believe” 2. Hank...
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Kelvox1 – Grazed Red & Father Murphy – Anyway, Your Children Will Deny It...
Father Murphy – Anyway, Your Children Will Deny It You may recall the enthusiasm this here blog expressed for Kelvox1′s Grazed Red when it emerged as a free download release last year. (You may also...
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connect_icut –“Blonde Sound Forever” (CSAF) Video
Another slab of degraded digital detritus from connect_icut. This one is from an upcoming album called Blonde Sound. Watch this space for more details.
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Jon Savage on My Bloody Valentine (1991)
My Bloody Valentine will save us all “Unlike most modern pop, they offer not a palliative but an aural solution to contemporary problems. Both in their constitution – two women and two men – and their...
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Woebot –“Rave Bum” (Hollow Earth) Video
From the frankly astonishing new album Hallo, available on CD or as a digital download.
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Mix CDs Deleted
Following a copyright complaint made by the IFPI in London in regards to The Acid Folk Vol. 2, all of the mix CDs posted on this here blog have now been deleted. Also, to be on the safe side, all...
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Albums of the Year 2012
This here blog isn’t dead, just sleeping. Maybe. In any case, the temptation to indulge in an end-of-year wrap-up post was just too great to resist. Actually getting around writing the post or even...
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connect_icut – Coping with Rejection (CSAF) download
— Available June 10th 2013 as a free FLAC or 320kbps MP3 download from the CSAF Digital Store. Remixes of tracks by Muchuu, Antipop Consortium and Loscil, which never really got used elsewhere, for one...
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Albums of the Year 2013
— I’m going to keep it short this year for four reasons: (i) Promoting the new connect_icut album is time consuming, particularly when it’s just become available on vinyl and CD; (ii) most of the picks...
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connect_icut – Crows & Kittiwakes Wheel & Come Again (Rev. Lab./Aagoo) LP/CD
— The new connect_icut album – Crows & Kittiwakes Wheel & Come Again – is now available on LP (with deluxe eight-page booklet) and CD. The most intense and cosmic expression of the connect_icut...
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connect_icut – Small Town by the Sea (Aagoo) 2×12″/CD/DL
Small Town by the Sea (Aagoo, 2014), is simultaneously connect_icut’s most accessible and most ambitious album. It’s the first to feature a truly solid rhythmic underpinning (aka beats) but it also...
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Albums of the Year 2014
If you’re at all concerned about the place of music in our culture, 2014 was a terrible year. If you’re just looking for some awesome shit to listen to, it was a fantastic year. Who can keep up? This...
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Albums of the Year 2015
A year of surprises and a year of puzzles. Where did that Dr. Yen Lo album come from? Why didn’t the Holly Herndon and King Midas Sound albums deliver on their promise? How to explain the appeal of...
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Albums of the Year 2016
Well, 2016 was a right pile of shit, wasn’t it? Luckily, there was some fucking great music released, to relieve the pain just a little. Some of it might even be… important? This here blog has long...
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Albums of the Year 2017
Clearly, the less said about 2017, the better. The world is falling apart and it’s hard to remember a time when music seemed less central to the culture in general. And yet, music—though...
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Albums of the Year 2018
Somehow, 2018 managed to be an even more execrable 12 months than 2017. It was also a slightly odd period for music, insofar as a few (though certainly not all) of the most exciting releases seemed to...
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