Added on December 4, 2014
Everett True
Crayola Lectern , Everett True , Julian Cope , La Mômo , Robert Wyatt , Song of the day , Worthing
I am way, way late here. (Note to self: mention where they can hear and/or buy album. Mention how fine the album is.) Somehow I manage to avoid writing about Chris every time the opportunity arises (perhaps out of a misguided inner sense of ethics – he is one of my closest friends and musical […]
Added on November 1, 2012
Scott Creney
A.R. Kane , Aphex Twin , Burial , Donna Summer , Jesus And Mary Chain , Love , Michael Jackson , Miles Davis , My Bloody Valentine , Primal Scream , Prince , Robert Wyatt , Scott Creney , Teddy Riley , The Kinks , The Orb , The Weeknd , Throbbing Gristle , TV On The Radio
The missing link between Robert Wyatt and Disco Inferno, A. R. Kane sounded equally at home in the club as in the bedroom, under the stars and in the studio.
Added on March 23, 2012
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Daniel Levitin , Elvis Costello , Goth , Guns N\' Roses , Howard Monk , Motley Crue , music , Robert Wyatt , Shipbuilding , Suede , The Beatles , This is your brain on music
So you’ll have these obscure bands being lauded, and mortals like us trying to figure out just what it was that XXXX found in their music.
Added on January 16, 2012
Scott Creney
Bob Dylan , Guided By Voices , John Berryman , Leonard Cohen , Let's Go Eat the Factory , Mark E Smith , Morrissey , Robert Pollard , Robert Wyatt , Scott Creney , Spin , Syd Barrett
Robert Pollard’s language is a universe that is both abstract and familiar, a poetry informed by gray skies and basements, used cars and starch.
Added on August 12, 2011
Tamsin
A Sense Of Belonging , Akala , Billy Bragg , Billy Childish , criticism , Find No Enemy , Ghost Town , indiepop , London riots , music , Robert Wyatt , Shipbuilding , Stop the riots , Tamsin Chapman , Television Personalities , Thatcher's children , The Redskins , The Specials , UK riots
Truth dies when news stories are reduced to binaries: good, evil, black, white, them, us. Difficult concepts are dumbed down into sound bites. We click ‘like’ and make a cup of tea.
Added on June 27, 2011
Lucy
album review , Cardiacs , Crayola Lectern , Jon Poole , prog , prog rock , punk , Robert Wyatt , Sea Song , See Emily Play , The Kinks , The Rising Of The Light , The Village Green Preservation Society , Tim Smith , William D Drake
There is no such thing as a casual Cardiacs fan.
Added on May 5, 2011
Everett True
Bohemian Suburb Rhapsody , Greg Wadley , Hey Dude , Hey Jude , Melbourne , New Waver , Robert Wyatt
I’m sometimes asked if I ever change my mind after a review has been published. Yes, I do. Here’s one example.
Added on March 24, 2011
Everett True
Arthur Russell , ATV , Commercial Zone , Debbie Harry , Family Fodder , New Age Steppers , Post Punk Progressive Party , post-punk , Robert Wyatt , Swell Maps , The Door And The Window , The Raincoats , The Red Crayola , The Slits , This Heat , Twelve Cubic Feet
You can hear elements of everyone that mattered … Swell Maps, New Age Steppers, This Heat, The Door And The Window, ATV, Twelve Cubic Feet, Robert Wyatt, The Raincoats, Arthur Russell, The Slits …
Added on August 11, 2009
Everett True
Clive Pig , Gablé , Katherine Williams , Lily Allen , Lone Pigeon , Monks , Ništa Nije Ništa , Odd Nostrum , Robert Wyatt , Syd Barrett , Themselves , Why?
Again, a case of accidental discovery via iTunes. I’m increasingly of the opinion this is a fine and noble way to discover music, if you can manage it. I’ve spent several fruitless afternoons in Rocking Horse Records, trying to think of an album to buy – discounted Death, cos I’d been promised that: discounted Monks, cos […]
