Category Archives: Reviews

Siesta – Real Time – Real Time Mellifluous beats react with a flowing, trickling bassline to get into your underwear. Not a dance experience, but a more relaxed thing, insisting on dancing on that hypothalamic thing that keeps you all … Continue reading →

Tsar Bomba – Function Creep – Conelrad. Yes, you read it right, this album is available gratis from that there link. This is soundscape ambient, intense and broad, reaching from the lowest lows to the highest highs. You don’t need … Continue reading →

Lucky Man – Urban Hymns – The Verve.  Okay, so the Verve were awful, and Urban Hymns had aspirations way beyond its rather staid rock means, but this song is well constructed, solid Nineties stuff.  I like it, anyway, and … Continue reading →

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick – Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Solid rock complements silly lyrics in a wide range of languages for a track no collection should be without. And after all, isn’t music the one thing that … Continue reading →

Weak – Paranoid & Sunburnt – Skunk Anansie.  Is it punk?  No.  The close-harmony singing from amazing front-being Skin isn’t punk, it’s classic hair-metal (though, of course, Skin doesn’t have any hair, and may in fact be from another planet).  … Continue reading →

Voyager – SWP. I’m fairly sure this song is in French. The vocoded vocal yarbles into the piano lead nicely, but be careful not to fall asleep for five hours like I did today. Mellow and absolutely precise, this song … Continue reading →

Pearly* (Running from Demons) – How Am I Driving – Radiohead.  Just for a moment, there, after OK Computer’s unbelievable awesomeness, but before the even more mindblowing transformation that was to come, it looked like, just maybe, Radiohead had shot … Continue reading →

More Life in a Tramp’s Vest – Word Gets Around – Stereophonics.  Back to my roots.  Kelly may be-  and, indeed, is-  a complete tool, but his voice is amazing and the rest of the band is sharp too.  Lyrics … Continue reading →

I never could get the hang of Tuesdays. Have something mellow. Seal – We Are The Night – Chemical Brothers. What language is that? The silky, muttering, intoxicated vocal mixes with a minimal beat and an insistent bassline to make … Continue reading →

Yet another monkey Monday, and more music joy for you. Toxygene – Orblivion – The Orb.  A long, slow intro bounces gradually into a bouncy, catchy downtempo beat that will get your couchlock shifted and your dancing feet back on.  … Continue reading →

Hey ho hi there pop fans. Nowthen nowthen. What’s Game Cat got for her kittlings? Two messed up songs for a messed up weekend. Dancing on a Thursday can only mean that Saturday’s the night. The Fruit – Sander Kleinenberg. … Continue reading →

Your humble correspondant is tired and aching today after a hot night of music; Matthew Dear comes highly recommended if you like that sort of thing (I do). Your pick today comes courtesy of the Madchester sound. Fool’s Gold – … Continue reading →

I Wanna Be Your Dog – Nude & Rude – Iggy Pop.  So messed up, I want you here.  Never before has a song about oral sex and bestiality been so compelling.  You really believe that Iggy knew what he … Continue reading →

Party In My Pants – Junky Trunk – Sexual Chocolate. Okay, okay. This isn’t my usual style, but Robot Head’s played it so many times that Heroic can’t get it out of her (somewhat confused, addled, but not robotic) head. … Continue reading →

Ahh, back at work after a mellow weekend, full of late brunches and later ambient sessions. Plus Tim & Nan’s wedding (yes, I did cry a little bit.) Hope your weekend was enlivened by my picks, and here we go … Continue reading →

Girl Boy Song – the Richard D. James Album – Aphex Twin. Solid proof, if any were needed, of the Twin’s amazing grasp of the interplay of rhythm and melody. The song manages to be subtly melodic while levering into … Continue reading →