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November 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: November 2020
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… For […]Archive
August 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Black Marble: I Must Be Living Twice (ep)
Black Marble I Must Be Living Twice (ep) Sacred Bones Records From the Sacred Bones stable comes Black Marble, the band-name/project-moniker for indie synth-pop musician Chris Stewart. He’s an American enthralled by the sound of the 1980s UK scenes – not just synth-pop, also R’n’B, goth, post-punk. And on this brilliantly titled EP of cover […]Archive
August 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ben Lee: Quarter Century Classix
Ben Lee Quarter Century Classix New West Records I’ve always wanted to like Ben Lee more than I think I actually do. And I’ll always give an album of cover-versions an extra chance. So I’m an all-day sucker right here when Ben Lee decides to release a collection of his favourite indie-pop songs that are […]Archive
June 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Rickie Lee Jones: Kicks
Rickie Lee Jones Kicks THE OTHER SIDE OF DESIRE I love Rickie Lee Jones so much – and yet I always play catch-up, let a few years slide by and have an album or two (or three) to catch up with. I’ve just got to this – her fourth album of covers. Anyone else and […]Archive
January 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Weezer: Weezer (The Teal Album)
Weezer Weezer (The Teal Album) Crush Music/Atlantic That Weezer has survived to make a dozen albums simply means they’ve recorded nine or ten albums more than necessary. Any of you getting raged and ready to defend Maladroit or Make Believe or to say any of the other self-titled/colour albums should be saved due to a single song like Pork and Beans or whatever, […]Archive
April 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 11 – Five Favourite Cover Versions
Many years back – a decade ago at least, I reckon, the editor of the then-Real Groove magazine asked me to compile a list of five favourite cover versions; he never ended up using it but wrote back to tell me he thought my list was weird but cool. I liked that. You hardly ever […]Archive
June 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman