Category Particular platters

ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH

August 16, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, e) Naughts [2000 - 2009], Particular platters · 28 Comments

You’ve lived the rock and roll lifestyle and it’s taken a toll.  Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and given three months to live, you decide to make an album, to soundtrack your own wake.  A last musical hurrah. Comrades heed the call. The last call.  August 2002 For Warren Zevon it is The Wind. Jorge […]

SOUTH OF REALITY

August 5, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, f) Tens [2010 - ], GENRE SPECIFIC, Particular platters, Progressive · 18 Comments

Fun! Eccentricity! Experimentation! Swooshy noises! Unapologetic eclecticism! We could be talking about the wonder years of UK psychedelic pop, but we are not. Those descriptors, and more, belong to twenty-first century outfit The Claypool Lennon Delirium whose second album—South of Reality—was released in February 2019. And let it be known that this record is a […]

EMBRYO—STEIG AUS

July 11, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], GENRE SPECIFIC, Jazz & Jazz-Rock, Particular platters, Progressive · 21 Comments

More a collective than a formal band, Embryo were formed in Munich in 1970 by keyboard player Christian Burchard. It is as impossible to define their music as it would be to list all of the hundreds of musicians who have contributed to the Embryo story over the decades. However it is the early albums […]

I NEED DIRECTION

July 6, 2019 · by · in A PERSONAL APPROACH, ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, e) Naughts [2000 - 2009], Memoir with Music, Particular platters · 13 Comments

A Catholic Education Bandwagonesque Thirteen Grand Prix Songs From Northern Britain Howdy! The millennial year was a challenging one. Having formed a strong and passionate connection with a new partner, I was dismayed to hear that she was decamping to her English homeland for an indeterminate period. This was not my fantasy of how the […]

IMMUNOLOGY REPORT

June 30, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, f) Tens [2010 - ], Particular platters · 13 Comments

Is a world of hardening national borders an expression of a global hardening of hearts? UK based multi-national group Vanishing Twin hope not, and on their 2019 album The Age of Immunology invite us to open our ears and minds to a vision of music sans frontières. Formed in Britain in 2015 around the talents […]

LAB REPORT

June 20, 2019 · by · in A PERSONAL APPROACH, ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, d) Nineties [1990 - 1999], Memoir with Music, Particular platters · 21 Comments

There are only so many times you can say g’day to a workplace acquaintance before you find yourself talking about music. This well known fact was supported by extensive laboratory research at the second-last university I worked for.  One morning, queuing at the best caffeine source on campus, I struck up a conversation with a […]

BRIGHT SKY BLUE

May 31, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, c) Eighties [1980 - 1989], Particular platters · 40 Comments

White Music Go 2 Drums and Wires Black Sea English Settlement Mummer What an amazing band XTC were. Few rock outfits have produced such an interesting and diverse catalogue of albums, nor shown the kind of growth and development the lads from Swindon demonstrated across fourteen albums between 1978 and 2000. From angular post-punk through […]

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