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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 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 37 – Ma$e, “Welcome Back”
Ma$e, Welcome Back 2004 Mase. He was the new protégé after Biggie bought it. And back when Puff Daddy was blowing smoke up other people’s arses, not just his own. Mase hit in big with Harlem World and with his guest appearances in the late 1990s. Then he went soft. Welcome Back was his “comeback” […]Archive
September 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Roger and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours
Roger and Brian Eno Mixing Colours Deutsche Grammophon The brothers have worked together over the years but this is their first full album as a duo. Both have worked extensively in ambient, even easy listening spaces – older brother Brian is better known of course but Roger has been prolific in recent years particularly; the […]Archive
September 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets: Live At The Roundhouse
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets Live At The Roundhouse BMG A couple of years back I read about Nick Mason’s new group – Saucerful of Secrets. He was tackling the pre-Dark Side Pink Floyd, the Syd Barrett years and some of the early years of when Roger Waters started to steer the ship. Essentially the […]Archive
September 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Backlash 2020: DVD
Backlash 2020 Madman WWE As a fairweather fan – at best – these days, I was intrigued to catch up with Backlash on DVD not so much for the greatest hyperbole of all time (“The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever”) more for the fact that this was my first wrestling-watching experience in the Covid-era.Archive
September 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies: Halloween – Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies Halloween: Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sacred Bones John Carpenter’s original score for the original Halloween movie is what saved it – the low-budget movie which is legendary now for its kickstarting of a new strain of horror films and for its pioneering indie film spirit was […]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 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Newton Brothers: Dr Sleep [OST]
The Newton Brothers Dr Sleep (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music I’ve yet to read the book, but I probably will since I’m gearing up to dive deep back into the world of Stephen King – but I saw the film and liked the film, particularly given it had a lot to live up to, […]Archive
September 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Yusuf / Cat Stevens: Tea For The Tillerman2
Yusuf / Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman2 A&M My dad once told me his theory that if you started off with not quite the greatest voice you could retain it. It was too hard, he reckoned, to forever hit high notes and if you were nasally, in particular, you could make that a gift […]Archive
September 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman