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February 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
One Song To Make You Late: A Song Like No Other
Just another day surfing the net, collecting up the ephemera, the flotsam and jetsam that gets posted and passed around, linked to and laughed over. And then, there it was, a screen-shot of an iPhone. And I had to share it. It was obviously not at all true. But you kinda wanted it to be […]Archive
January 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Bobby Gillespie presents Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
Various Artists: Bobby Gillespie Presents Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down Ace Records/Border I’m a sucker for a great artist-driven compilation/mix-tape. They’ll tell you that you can do it yourself via Spotify or almost any other platform. And you can. But the best mixtapes are the ones your friends make you – because you get to see […]Archive
January 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones
Roy Orbison One Of The Lonely Ones Universal Music Catalogue My first favourite album of 2016 and the last great release of 2015 was actually recorded – and intended – for 1969. This is no touched-up, phoned-in set of remakes, digitally reconstructed from remnants, this is an extant Roy Orbison album from 1969 – and […]Archive
August 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974
Various Artists: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974 Light In The Attic The first volume – one of Light In The Attic’s masterstrokes in the compiling/reissuing game – was the introduction of a genre that might have seemed to some like a Buzzfeed–styled click-bait headline; a fake genre you just had to hear – even […]Archive
April 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman