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Review: Woodpigeon – Thumbtacks + Glue 1 Mar 2013 | 06:41 pm
Artist: Woodpigeon Title: Thumbtacks + Glue Label: Fierce Panda / Boompa Review @ PopMatters Score: 4/10 Thumbtacks + Glue arrives at the tail end of a period which for Hamilton and Woodpigeon have be...
Justice in the World: Dr. John Grabs Deserved Grammy 11 Feb 2013 | 04:47 pm
So the Grammy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles, and the main headline news is that Gotye and Kimbra won Record of the Year for their dreary and staggeringly successful ‘Somebody That I Used...
New Project: Manic Street Preachers – A Critical Discography 10 Feb 2013 | 08:55 pm
Ian MacDonald’s Revolution in the Head is probably one of the best books anyone has ever written on a musical subject. In it the late, great writer analyses every track The Beatles ever recorded in th...
Review: Bad Religion – True North 4 Feb 2013 | 06:01 pm
Artist: Bad Religion Title: True North Label: Epitaph Review @ PopMatters Score: 8/10 A succession of yet more confrontational, fiercely intelligent and memorable lyrics set to yet another 35 minutes ...
New Feature: Five Dark Parallels Between NIN’s ‘The Downward Spiral’ and the Manics’ ‘The Holy Bible’ 15 Nov 2012 | 07:39 pm
It’s been too long since I wrote a feature for PopMatters. Free of the vapid hype of most music sites, the broad-minded, serious site is my sole writing home for the time being. This piece is one that...
Review: Rebekka Karijord – We Become Ourselves 13 Oct 2012 | 12:49 am
Artist: Rebekka Karijord Title: We Become Ourselves Label: Control Freak Kitten Review @ TLOBF Score: 7.5/10 More wide-ranging thematically but also more consistent in tone than Karijord’s impressive ...
[Audio] Daughter – “Run” 8 Oct 2012 | 06:56 pm
London trio Daughter have been a fascinating prospect for a while now. I wrote a little something about Elena Tonra’s atmospheric folk project towards the end of last year, and now the word is that a ...
Review: Lucy Rose – Like I Used To 26 Sep 2012 | 12:56 am
Artist: Lucy Rose Title: Like I Used To Label: Columbia Review @ TLOBF Score: 7.5/10 Lucy Rose’s “haste to state that she is neither ‘just a girl with a guitar singing about how she feels’ nor reliant...
Stream – Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One 30 Apr 2012 | 07:14 am
First things first – Wordcore is still alive! Other things have taken precedence over music writing for a little while now, but relative normality is on its way. Back to the subject at hand, and in s...
2011′s Top Ten LPs (My Two Cents) 10 Jan 2012 | 09:12 am
I read an amusing tweet earlier – Any Decent Music, the Scottish music review aggregator site, announced that “those laggards at TLOBF have finally completed their best albums list, so the Best Of The...
