Not Forgotten: Crowded House – Woodface
The career arc of Crowded House through their initial phase was really rather odd. Over four albums they recorded some of the finest pop songs of the era, the first…
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Album Review: The Wave Pictures – Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon
With a name like Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon, you would expect The Wave Pictures’ incredible 14th studio album to be quite exuberant. But really, Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon…
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Not Forgotten: 10CC – 10CC
Formed by a quartet of individually proven hit writers, multi-instrumentalists, singers and producers, 10CC boasted an enviable pedigree and with an opening salvo of top ten hits that included “Donna”,…
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Album Review: John Carpenter – Lost Themes
John Carpenter colored at least two generations’ dreams in burnt fall hues. Faded browns, oranges, yellows, and reds, topped with gray, overcast skies bled into our psyche and made us re-imagine…
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Not Forgotten: Fish – Internal Exile
Fish’s debut solo album, Vigil in the Wilderness of Mirrors, had sounded almost exactly like what you’d expect the debut solo album of the former Marillion frontman to sound like.…
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Not Forgotten: Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection
There are some who will always view Elton John with suspicion, or even disdain. With his stocky frame, his bad wigs and a reputation for over-reacting when things don’t go…
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Album review: Justin Townes Earle – Absent Fathers
‘Wish I could say I know you/’cause lord, I Wanna Understand/Need you to now there’s nothing I want more in this world as a man.’ If you kick off you…
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Album Review: The Primitives – Galore (expanded reissue)
One of the highlights of my student days in London was getting a ticket to a hot new band called The Primitives at the much missed Astoria. The NME (remember…
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Album Review: Meghan Trainor – ‘Title’
Let’s get this out of the way, regardless of the popularity generated by her debut single ‘All About That Bass’ and even though I’ll admit that it was a catchy…
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EP: Emmy The Great – S
Out yesterday was the new EP from singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss, aka Emmy the Great. Moving on from her two albums to date, First Love and Virtue which showed her to…
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