Sufjan Stevens is an internet phenomena similar to, and appearing at the same time as, the Arctic Monkeys. I’ve got no gripe against the Arctic Monkeys, I like them, but I think their promotion turned out to be pretty conventional in the end. What happened with Sufjan Stevens fifth album Illinoise, in 2005, was unprecedented. [...]
Right, let’s keep this short and straight to the point. I think there was too much waffle on the last post, especially when this should essentially be about the music. Feels like I should have written “man” at the end of that last sentence, but I’m waffling again. XTC are one of a handful of [...]
Bootlegs, ROIO’s (recordings of indeterminate origin), radio shows, unreleased songs, studio outtakes and demos. The world of music offers up more to your average obsessive compulsive collector than is healthy. I’m afflicted with the collector curse, but I manage, just about, to keep it under control. It permeates everything I enjoy and, where music is [...]
All right, enough messing about with B movies and scat singers who may or may not exist, it’s time to spread some musical quality around these parts and treat your abused lug holes to a bit of Akira Ifukube. This frighteningly prolific Japanese composer scored over two hundred and fifty films before he died, but [...]
I’ve had a bunch of Shooby Taylor mp3′s lurking on my hard drive for a long time and, truth be told, I didn’t really know what to do with them. They brought a smile to my face for sure, but never made it onto the podcast I used to put out and rarely had an [...]
