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 Everett True

Song of the day – 589: Go Violets

Song of the day – 589: Go Violets

It’s a most welcome cliché, this sound. An always welcome cliché round these parts.

 Scott Creney

Veronica Falls – Waiting For Something To Happen (Slumberland/Bella Union)

best listened to three minutes at a time. Like a bag of decades-old Smarties, an entire 36 minutes of consumption is guaranteed to sicken.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 479: The Wolfhounds

I loved The Wolfhounds: a band the two words ‘awkward pop’ might have been welded together for.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 420: Trixie’s Big Red Motorbike

Trixie’s Big Red Motorbike were so twee they were beyond twee.

 Wallace Wylie

Moon Duo – Mazes (Sacred Bones)

Music culture doesn’t have any kind of forward momentum anymore so albums like Mazes are allowed to exist without much complaint.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 328: Crystal Stilts

You have to understand, these are my people. And it’s just nice folk are still talking about them.

 Everett True

a link to the greatest compilation ever

When I say ‘greatest’, I am of course talking from an entirely subjective viewpoint.

 Everett True

Song of the day – 268: The Notes (free download)

The echo is sullen. The harmonies are anything but. The guitar sound is very early Creation and pure Shop Assistants

 Everett True

Song of the day – 260: Talulah Gosh (the original interview)

“Each time we play live we always repeat the magic words ‘punk rock, punk rock’ to each other just to reminds ourselves why we’re here”

 Everett True

Song of the day – 173: Betty And The Werewolves

Initially, I’d dismissed their album Teatime Favourites as flimflam – thin, weedy-sounding, doing for female C86 what countless generations of boys have done for their male counterparts, like Talulah Gosh with all the punk removed – and I still can’t entirely get past quite how much the singer sounds like Amelia, or the drums clatter […]