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October 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 39

Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass (2020) Well, 2020 has thrown up some strange curveballs but I didn’t figure it would be the year I finally owned a Lana Del Rey record. I won’t go too much into it but I guess it all started late last year when I heard her […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 20/20, Album, Audible, Audiobook, LA Who Am I To Love You, Lana Del Rey, LP, Poems, Poetry, Reading, Record, Spoken Word, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 39, Vinyl ·

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August 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: August 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… In […]
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August 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lana Del Rey: Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass [Audiobook Edition]

Lana Del Rey Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass [Audiobook Edition] Audible I’m new to Lana Del Rey appreciation. I wasn’t ever a fan. Until I heard – and heard again (and could not shake) her most recent album, the brilliant Norman Fucking Rockwell! That happened. I was late to the party, but enthusiastic about […]
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July 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! Polydor Records In the past I have not liked the music of Lana Del Rey. And I have cracked open that walnut with a sledgehammer. In reviews of both Ultraviolence and Honeymoon I was near-apoplectic, like I was the only one that really got it – the fraud of […]
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November 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Jesca Hoop: STONECHILD

Jesca Hoop STONECHILD Memphis Industries Jesca Hoop’s previous record – Memories Are Now – was her gold-standard; it moved her from the one-to-watch list to the one-to-listen-to pile. And in my case it was the one-to-listen-to-on-repeat pile. One of the best albums of 2017 for me. By quite a way. It was a perfect study […]
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May 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Britta Phillips: Luck Or Magic

Britta Phillips Luck Or Magic Double Feature For the last two decades Britta Phillips has partnered with Dean Wareham to provide a great range of music across the “dream-pop” spectrum, first as half of Luna, and then as the duo Dean & Britta. There they mixed covers and originals and worked on commissioned soundtracks for […]
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June 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence

Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence Interscope Here’s the second full-lengther from Lana Del Rey. She still cannot sing and this album is somehow both better and worse than her debut. Now, I loathed Born To Die, everything about it, the unimaginative song-settings, trite lyrics, faked back-story, phoned-in delivery, the cloying, anxious, hopeful-to-deceive narcissism of it all. […]
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