graffiti on the train – stereophonics

graffiti on the train – stereophonics

There once was a time, eons ago, when The Stereophonics represented the zenith of British music…for some. Their oddly popular mixture of insipid guitar work and lyrics that a machine could have more imaginatively assembled on a particularly uninspiring day at the Music and Lyrics Factory, proved to be an upsettingly integral part of music [...]
8 March 2013 3
YeahYeahYeahsSacrilege

sacrilege – yeah yeah yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs hail from the tail end of the “post millennial punk revival”, a period when the low-fi, stripped back under-production formula began to get copied over and over and over again like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, all the time reducing in quality until you were just left with a [...]
1 March 2013 0
painting

ocean colour scene – painting

If the music business has proved anything to us it is that inventive and competent musicianship simply does not fly anymore. As a listener, you are faced with two apparently diametrically opposed choices when shopping at your local music vendor/horsemeat retailor. You can either live in a dreamy pseudo past and flounder around like a [...]
14 February 2013 0
heartbreaksss

hand on heart – the heartbreaks

You probably don’t remember The Heartbreaks – I mean why would you? They proudly hail from Morecombe despite it being the second worst town in the world (after Crewe) rather than shrivelling from the intense shame like a desiccated snail. They flung themselves into the musical ether way back in 2009 and even then, in [...]
6 February 2013 0