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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young: The Times EP
Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]Archive
September 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Richard Thompson: Bloody Noses (ep)
Richard Thompson Bloody Noses (ep) Beeswing Richard Thompson is never less than brilliant, never less than prolific – for me if it has his name on the spine of the album it’s an instant mark of quality. But in recent years there’s been a lot of closet-cleaning and stocktaking, volumes of Acoustic “Classics” and “Rarities”, […]Archive
September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Brutalist: Michael J. Fox (ep)
Brutalist Michael J. Fox (ep) Good Manners Brutalist is the moniker for Melbourne duo John Hassell (Seekae) and Lucian Blomkamp – they’ve both made music alone and in other collaborations and the seeds for this duo were sewn when they shared the bill and bonded backstage of “nerdy” music shares – Profofiev and Arvo Part. […]Archive
September 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 53
Madonna, Papa Don’t Preach [Single] (1986) When I was a kid and Madonna burst onto the scene I thought she was fantastic – and then very quickly grew self-conscious about that; I wasn’t meant to like her. So I didn’t really pursue fandom, never bought any of the records. But the big songs were inescapable. […]Archive
September 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 54
Billy Joel, Uptown Girl [Single] (1983) I hate Billy Joel. I have always been very clear on that. Music for music teachers. And stubborn boomers too. But just recently Billy Joel seems to be getting a second round (or third round, probably) of appreciation. This has been achieved primarily through the long gap since he […]Archive
September 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Cream: Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, March 7th 1967 Sveriges Broadcast)
Cream Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, March 7th 1967 Sveriges Broadcast) Blue Cactus Cream. The great power trio. The great supergroup. British Blues Boom wunderkinds. They blazed a trail – and it can be hard to remember back what with Ginger now gone and Jack Bruce before him. And Clapton just drifting along into retirement – […]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 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Brett Naucke & Ryley Walker: I Am Aware We Do Not Save One Another Very Often (ep)
Brett Naucke & Ryley Walker I Am Aware We Do Not Save One Another Very Often 1490043 Records DK2 Brett Naucke is an experimental composer using electronics to shape and make sound paintings. Ryley Walker is one of a current crop of folk and psych-rock raised guitarists – he’s made a handful of explorative singer-songwriter […]Archive
August 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Emma-Jean Thackray: Rain Dance [EP]
Emma-Jean Thackray Rain Dance [EP] Movementt Emma-Jean Thackray is a DJ, composer, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist. She’s one of the rising stars of the new jazz – her sound is soaked in the vintage but updated via fusion world grooves and the pulse of house music. She’s a phenomenal talent and this EP is full […]Archive
August 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 79
Elvis Presley, Guitar Man [Single] (1981) I cannot explain it beyond this – certain singles I just decide I have to have them. I neither love nor hate either of these songs – and of course I am a fan of Elvis Presley but I could never go diehard there, too many weirdos and far […]Archive
August 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman