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December 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Best Albums I Reviewed in 2020
For all the talk of it being a shit year and one to forget there was a lot of great music. There was (probably) a lot of shit music too. I tried my best to avoid as much of that as I could but would always call it out if it crossed my path. Black […]Archive
July 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
John Scofield: Swallow Tales
John Scofield Swallow Tales ECM In John Scofield’s first trio album as a leader for the ECM label it’s to a series of reunions; Sco is back leading a trio, back with one of his favoured drummers – the great Bill Stewart – and back playing the songs of Steve Swallow (who also plays bass […]Archive
December 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Albums I Loved The Most in 2019
Here below – in chronological order only (because it’s never a competition) is a list of the albums I loved the most in 2019; the caveat being that these are albums I wrote about – and so the chronological bit refers to the order I reviewed them in. Also there’s always one or two of […]Archive
December 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: November 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… It’s […]Archive
October 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: October 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… I […]Archive
August 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: August (2) 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… This […]Archive
July 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: July 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… […]Archive
March 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: March 2018
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]Archive
January 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s Final Quarter
I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m […]Archive
December 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
My RNZ Album Reviews for 2017
For the last couple of years I’ve been turning up once a month or so and reviewing a couple of albums on RNZ’s Afternoon Show with Jesse Mulligan. A couple of times there’s been a fill-in host, but mostly it’s been me with Jesse. He’s nice to talk with about music – he seems to […]Archive
October 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman