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March 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 142
Kermit Schafer, Pardon My Blooper! (1954) It’s credited to Kermit Schafer – an American TV and radio writer and producer. But that doesn’t concern me at all. This silly, dated, embarrassing, unfunny collection of bloopers is on vinyl. It comes from the 1950s. Many of the moments wouldn’t even raise a dry smile, let alone […]Archive
March 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Dirty Projectors: Windows Open [EP]
Dirty Projectors Windows Open [EP] Domino Recording Co. / Domino Recording Co. Ltd. Dirty Projectors was always the cult-like home for Dave Longstreth and his musical ideas. He’s been written about in the #MeToo era as a near musical slave-driver and far worse. He had a very public breakup with one of the band’s best […]Archive
March 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Murry Wilson & Snow: The Break Away EP
Murry Wilson & Snow The Break Away EP Omnivore Recordings Murry Wilson shares the prize with Joe Jackson (father of the Jackson 5, not the super singer/songwriter) as one of the world’s worst Professional Fathers – these manager/Svengali types that invented the cliché of channeling their own rage through their sons (and daughters) and being […]Archive
March 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Tricky: 20, 20 (ep)
Tricky 20, 20 (ep) False Idols Tricky is one of the most distinctive, idiosyncratic voices in modern music across the last quarter century. You hear in every release how he’s taken from – and given to – the worlds of hip-hop, trap, grime, electro, pop and so many hybrid genres and then out into the […]Archive
March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Susanne Sundfør: Self Portrait Original Soundtrack [EP]
Susanne Sundfør Self Portrait Original Soundtrack [EP] Bella Union Susanne Sundfør’s latest release is the soundtrack to a documentary film about the anorexic photographer Lene Marie Fossen. The film sounds compelling, the movie’s trim album score will take you part of the way there. Over simple, evocative piano pieces – some with slight choral undertones […]Archive
March 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Myele Manzanza: A Love Requited – The Remixes EP
Myele Manzanza A Love Requited – The Remixes EP First World Records Maybe there’s something in the fact that Myele Manzanza is a drummer – I mean first and foremost (he’s a DJ, producer, beatmaker, bandleader…) – but there’s just something, outside of an accessibility, that lends his tunes to being remixed. So much so […]Archive
March 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 155
Mike Post, Television Theme Songs (1982) I feel like I learned about Mike Post from school – not that there were any of his songs to ‘sing’ (or his TV themes, rather) but his classic Hill Street Blues Theme was a staple of piano lessons. Ah! I’ve got it. We did sing one of his […]Archive
March 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges: Texas Sun (ep)
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges Texas Sun (ep) Dead Oceans This is one of those welcome collaborations where we get a nice “next step” from both artists involved. I haven’t been able to care about Leon Bridges at all (in fact I was sure I was the only one). The one redeeming feature of his sound […]Archive
March 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Tenderlonious: Think Twice (ep)
Tenderlonious Think Twice (ep) 22a Music / 22a Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne released a killer record last year called Hard Rain and he followed it up with this EP – another oblique Bob Dylan reference… Flautist, saxophonist, bandleader turned label-owner, beatmaker and producer, Tenderlonious has parked his future-jazz 22archestra to the side and now seems more […]Archive
February 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Tedeschi Trucks Band: High & Mighty (ep)
Tedeschi Trucks Band High & Mighty (ep) Fantasy I’ve said it before – but here goes again: The decision for Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks to meet and marry, and then to marry their music together making a supergroup they co-lead has been good for all. The fans win. I liked what Trucks was about […]Archive
February 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman