I confess that Sharon Van Etten had kind of passed me by until she turned up both in an episode of Twin Peaks: The Return and on Lee Ranaldo’s 2016 album ‘Electric Trim’. With the release of the new album ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’ at the start of the year I made a connection initially through…
Month: February 2019
You Look Better, Closer Together – Low live
Low / Richard Youngs – The Tramway, Glasgow – Tuesday 26th January 2019 Glasgow. School night. These are not propitious omens given my history of missing Low shows since I started buying the records . Yet if anyone’s worth the hassle of a midweek show in Glasgow, then it has to be Low, particularly on the…
Song of the Week #7 (2019) – The Dream Syndicate
The Dream Syndicate‘s first new album in 30 years, ‘How Did I Find Myself Here?’ wasn’t just one of my favourite albums of 2017 but probably of the twenty first century to date. And I mean right up there as one of the very best. So since finding out that a follow-up was recorded last…
Song of the Week #4 (2019) – Martha Ffion
‘Sunday Best’ by Martha Ffion was one of the surprises of 2018, a terrific album which is right up there with Malcolm Middleton’s ‘Bananas’ in terms of song-writing and melody. I ranked it as my fourth favourite album of last year. Obviously not one to rest on her laurels, Martha has already released an excellent…
Song of the Week #3 (2019) – Wozniak
Even now I still seem to completing my 2018 listening. Which partly explains, not just the random nature of this series, but perhaps why excellent releases from the likes of Sharon van Etten, the Twilight Sad and, more recently, Bob Mould, haven’t yet quite gained the traction that they merit. Into that category I’d also…
Song of the Week #1 (2019) – Bodega
This feature never quite got up and running at the start of the year but I’m going to fast forward through it to the stage where I can genuinely post one song each week. So the first Song of the Week (of the week) comes from NYC’s Bodega. I usually end up buying quite a…
