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March 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Alargo: Obscura

Alargo Obscura Rattle Both Kingsley Spargo (tuba, trumpet, vocals, pūmoana) and Alan Brown (keyboards, iPads) have a background as solo artists and band collaborators as sidemen; both have worked in improvised and prepared music and so here, as Alargo, they combine their talents and create a heady swamp of improvised music – one take live […]
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March 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

OST: A Good Score Is One of The First Things I’ll Always Notice About A Film

The music is almost always the first thing I notice about a film. It wasn’t always this way, and I can’t quite remember when it changed – obviously there are so many iconic themes we instantly think of from Star Wars and Jaws to ET and anything by Ennio Morricone, everything Quentin Tarantino chooses – […]
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February 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Joshua Moshier: The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)

Joshua Moshier The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Lakeshore Records I’m really enjoying the TV series The Shrink Next Door which tells the stranger-than-fiction true tale of a psychiatrist who manipulates his patient into friendship and hoodwinks him out of dollars and pads his own status. Everything about it is enjoyable – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Apple, Comedy, Dark, Drama, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Joshua Moshier, Joshua Moshier: The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack), Lakeshore Records, Paul Rudd, Score, Soundtrack, The Shrink Next Door, The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack), TV, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Will Ferrell ·

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February 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Super-Spreadin’ The News…

It was a couple of weeks ago and it was late on a Friday night, I dashed out a new poem. I write a poem most days. Sometimes I write two or three. You’ll know from reading here, if you check in with any regularity that I pretty much post something every day – okay, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Coronavirus, Covid, Covid-19, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Parliament, Poem, Poetry, Protest, Start Super-Spreadin’ The News…, Super-Spreadin’ The News…, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 25, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

King Woman: Celestial Blues

King Woman Celestial Blues Relapse Kristina Esfandiari seems to leap at music in a way similar to Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes, Bosnian Rainbows). Also, in a similar fashion, Esfandiari has made music under many monikers (Miserable, NGHTCRWLR and Dalmatian) skipping across genres (hip-hop to metal) but always infusing them with punk’s energy and hardcore’s […]
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February 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Time Casts Its Spell: When Silver Springs Became The Secret Weapon It Had Always Threatened To Be

Stevie Nicks is told that her song Silver Springs won’t make the cut. The band is making Rumours which – we all know now – does pretty well. She leaves it in the vault for 20 years, takes it out, dusts it off, decides it’s time to bring it to life. She runs it by […]
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February 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

The Redemption of Rocket Queen

I loved Appetite for Destruction, right from first listen, such a visceral thrill. It was naughty as…well, naughty-as-fuck. We were probably too young to be listening to it but the unwritten, unspoken agreement seemed to be that if we didn’t copy the language – at least at home, anyway – it would be allowed. You […]
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February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Finding Delmore: Only In Dreams

Delmore Schwartz was an American poet, short story writer and scholar. His most famous story is In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. It was first published in 1937 and became the title for Schwartz’ first book. That was published a year later, he was 25. The story has been widely anthologised and is a classic piece of […]
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February 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

“Sounds Good” Turns 1: My Substack Newsletter Has Been Going For One Year

“Sounds Good!” on Substack is one. A year of writing and sending out newsletters. If you’re signed up and following you might remember that as recently as two weeks ago I shared all the Friday playlists in one go – 50 weeks of A Little Something For The Weekend playlists. I called that that anniversary […]
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February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Freddy Krueger Is White Male Privilege

With Freddy Krueger, it was the finger knives that hooked us, if you’ll pardon that obvious pun. We were so into Freddy – a horror ghoul with no heart and soul of his own – he’d rip open that garish red and green jersey to show you the swirling souls he stole. Quite how they […]
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February 20, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Horrorfying: Overdosing On Horror Films To Cure The Frights

When I was a kid a rather stupid movie had a deep impact on me. It’s called Alligator. It’s from about 1980 – and I reckon we saw it a couple of years after that, we didn’t have a VCR any time early, it was always a trip across town to my auntie’s house and […]
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February 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Walking In Memphis: Man, It Sounds Good Tonight!

Marc Cohn singing Walking in Memphis is something I always believed in. And any time I hear it I can remember the first time I heard it – it didn’t really fit in with anything else I was listening to, or with much on the radio at the time; used to see it on the […]
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