Posts Tagged Trip-Hop
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August 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 523
Massive Attack, Mezzanine (1998) I remember seeing the video for Teardrop – and stopping in my tracks. It was a Saturday morning, it was peak-era for MTV and the whole integration of music/videos for me; you watched music TV, you took it in, it was how you found out about new stuff. I was probably […]Archive
March 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Royksopp’s Melody A.M. and their Late Night Tales: Late Night Driving Favourites
I forgot all about Royksopp. I loved their debut, Melody A.M. – I was working in a music store at the time and new music was arriving, daily. (Obviously). It was a good time to be working in music retail – for a start there were still customers. And though, very swiftly, the various taglines […]Archive
March 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
HÆLOS: Full Circle
HÆLOS Full Circle Matador Get ready to be told, elsewhere that HÆLOS sound like the xx, when, if they even do, it’s the xx of the awful and dreary lightning-does-strike-once second-album, not that lush debut. Actually, HÆLOS – awful font and stylised lettering and all – sounds like a throwback to 90s trip-hop – there […]Archive
April 25, 2012 by Simon Sweetman